{"id":5881,"date":"2015-08-28T12:44:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T11:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/dashboard-builder-desktop\/desktop-user-guide\/the-instantatlas-excel-data-manager\/the-metadata-worksheet\/"},"modified":"2019-09-17T11:46:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T10:46:48","slug":"the-metadata-worksheet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/en\/welcome\/desktop-user-guide\/the-instantatlas-excel-data-manager\/the-metadata-worksheet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Metadata Worksheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Including metadata in your data files is optional (unless you are creating data file for InstantAtlas Server). However, there are two reasons why you might include metadata:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Metatext \u2013 this metadata will be shown within the \u2018metatext\u2019 text box in your InstantAtlas dynamic reports. This is a useful way of displaying theme, indicator, or time period specific notes or tips on the report page itself.<\/li>\n<li>Indicator display metadata \u2013 this metadata will define how an indicator is displayed in your reports.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can have multiple Metadata worksheets which might be helpful if you want to structure your metadata into logical groups. A metadata worksheet becomes active when its name starts with \u2018Metadata\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Further in this section:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<!-- Page-list plugin v.5.4 wordpress.org\/plugins\/page-list\/ -->\n<ul class=\"page-list subpages-page-list \">\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-16421\"><a href=\"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/en\/welcome\/desktop-user-guide\/the-instantatlas-excel-data-manager\/the-metadata-worksheet\/adding-metatext\/\">Adding Metatext<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-16431\"><a href=\"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/en\/welcome\/desktop-user-guide\/the-instantatlas-excel-data-manager\/the-metadata-worksheet\/adding-indicator-display-metadata\/\">Adding Indicator Display Metadata<\/a><\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Including metadata in your data files is optional (unless you are creating data file for InstantAtlas Server). However, there are two reasons why you might include metadata: Metatext \u2013 this metadata will be shown within the \u2018metatext\u2019 text box in your InstantAtlas dynamic reports. This is a useful way of displaying theme, indicator, or time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/en\/welcome\/desktop-user-guide\/the-instantatlas-excel-data-manager\/the-metadata-worksheet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Metadata Worksheet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"parent":5071,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5881","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5881\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}