Metadata in word

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cfrancisco

Hi,

I want to create a new word document in Alfresco.
When I create it, I ask the user to put some metadata to assign the document.

What I want to do, is to put some of that metadata in the document using word fields

Anyone can help me to do this?
Is there an easy way?

Thank in advance

cfrancisco

pmonks

So kind of like the reverse of a metadata extractor (http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Metadata_Extraction)?  I guess it'd be called a "metadata injector".   

Out of the box Alfresco doesn't provide facilities for injecting metadata into a file, although implementing that as an extension probably wouldn't be too much effort - it could be implemented as a custom action for example.  I suspect the biggest challenge would be the raw file format handling logic, and for that I'd look for an established library to do it for me - perhaps the OpenOffice API (http://api.openoffice.org/) or Apache POI HWPF (http://poi.apache.org/hwpf/) (although HWPF appears to be in a holding pattern at the moment).