Introduction to document types and metadata Metadata attached to documents can be used in different types of scenarios, for example to: • Search for documents in databases. • Write personalized texts in Composition Center. • Create business rules in Composition Center. • Sort and envelope documents. In Design Center, you can specify the metadata to add to invoices, orders, etc. To do this, you create document type resources that contain the metadata (one document type resource for each type of document), and connect the document type resources to the appropriate Design Center objects (Message or output connector in runtime configuration). Figure 1 Connecting metadata to a Message
