Apple Final Cut Server 1.5 - Manual (Page 69)

Customizing Advanced Searches
There are several areas in the Final Cut Server client where you can choose to configure
advanced search options to fine-tune your search results. By modifying selected metadata
groups, you can add and remove metadata fields as well as rearrange the order in which
they appear. For example, you might want to add the Required reviewers metadata field
to your asset searches.
The commonly modified advanced search metadata groups are:
• Asset Filter metadata group: This metadata group defines the advanced search options
available for the main window’s Assets pane. Additionally, it affects the fields that
appear in the Asset Filter pane when you configure an asset subscription and the Asset
Filter pane when configuring a permission set.
• Production Filter metadata group: This metadata group defines the advanced search
options available for the main window’s Productions pane. Additionally, it affects the
fields that appear in the Production Filter pane when you configure a production
subscription and the Production Filter pane when configuring a permission set.
• Job Filter metadata group: This metadata group defines the advanced search options
available for the Search All Jobs window that appears when you select Search All Jobs
from the server menu. Additionally, it affects the fields that appear in the Job Filter
pane when you configure a job subscription.
Customizing the Views
Metadata groups define the information that appears in the main window when you
choose the Thumbnails, Tile, or List view. It can be useful to customize these views so
that they display the information that is important to your situation. For example, you
may want to see an asset’s MIME type in the Thumbnails view.
It can be challenging to find the correct metadata groups to modify since there are many
groups with the same name. You must ensure that you are choosing the group with the
correct Metadata Group ID (listed below).
The commonly modified view metadata groups are:
• Thumbnails metadata group, ASSET_THUMBNAILS_VIEW group ID: This metadata group
defines what fields appear in the Thumbnails view of the main window’s Assets pane.
• Thumbnails metadata group, PROJECT_THUMBNAILS_VIEW group ID: This metadata
group defines what fields appear in the Thumbnails view of the main window’s
Productions pane.
• Thumbnails metadata group, ELEMENT_THUMBNAILS_VIEW group ID: This metadata
group defines what fields appear in the Thumbnails view of the info window that
appears when you double-click a Final Cut Pro project in the main window.
• Tiles metadata group, ASSET_INFO_VIEW group ID: This metadata group defines what
fields appear in the main window’s Information pane when viewing assets.
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