Overriding media metadata

Arc XP Composer lets you override metadata field values on images, videos, and galleries. When you are drafting a story in Composer, you can customize media metadata values that apply only to the media in your story and do not modify the content’s original metadata.

Prerequisites

Administrators must configure available metadata fields for users to override. See Editing media metadata in Managing Composer settings for more details.

Scenario

You’re working on a story about a local river cleanup and you reuse an image from Arc XP Photo Center originally labeled “Volunteers cleaning up trash in a city park.” While the image isn’t from the river cleanup itself, it still illustrates community volunteerism. To fit the context of the story, you update the alt text to say “Volunteers removing litter as part of a community cleanup effort,” keeping it accurate to the image while aligning it more closely with the story’s theme. You don’t want this change to affect the alt text on the original image.

Procedures

Overriding media metadata in Composer

To override media metadata, complete the following:

1. Navigate to Composer.
2. Open a story that contains media (images, galleries, or videos). Alternatively, create a story and insert any media.
3. Click the media. A pencil icon appears in the upper-right corner of the media.
4. Click the pencil icon . The Edit Metadata window opens and shows available fields to override.
5. Update any of the fields with the relevant metadata.
6. Click Confirm.
7. Click Save on the story.

Editing media metadata

The Media metadata section lets you select the fields users can view and override when adding images, videos, and galleries to their stories. When users override these fields, it affects only the metadata of the media in the story, not the metadata of the original media. See Overriding media metadata in Composer for more details.

To edit media metadata fields, complete the following:

1. Navigate to Composer > Settings.

2. In the Media metadata section, select the checkbox for each field you want users to see and override:

   • Images

     • Caption - Lets users define an image caption.
     • Subtitle - Lets users define an image subtitle.
     • Link URL - Lets users link an image.
     • Photographer - Lets users overwrite the photographer name.
     • Credit - Lets users overwrite the image credit.
     • Alt-text - Lets users overwrite the image alt-text.

   • Videos

     • Title - Lets users define a video title.
     • Blurb - Lets users define a video description.
     • Tease - Lets users enter a statement that persuades a user to watch the video.

   • Galleries

     • Title - Lets users define a gallery title.
     • Description - Lets users define a gallery description.

3. Click Save.