ArcGIS Pro Metadata Toolkit 3.3.0.52636

These release notes describe details of the ArcGIS Pro Metadata Toolkit 3.3.0.52636 release. Here you will find information about available functionality as well as known issues and limitations.

What’s new

This release of the ArcGIS Pro Metadata Toolkit is not significantly different from the previous release.

Edited topic in the wiki

The create a custom page has had steps added to reflect changes in ArcGIS Pro 3.3.0.53636.

Bug fixes

The metadata toolkit was also updated to include bug fixes for the following items:

• Update xaml source for GenericAddGreen16 & GenericDeleteRed16 images to their respective DynamicResource.
• Update to Editor Rich Textboxes so they no longer include the URI port in their tooltips.
• Update metadata save value for Scale State Label from 625000 to 5000000.
• A crash scenario when switching the localized langauge to Czech when editing metadata.
• Support deletion for metadata geoprocessing history page for all or individual entries.

Leverage administrator settings

When you develop a custom metadata editor for your organization, you can work with the GIS administrator to manage ArcGIS Pro application settings. People in the organization who use ArcGIS Pro can be required to use the custom metadata editor add-in by setting the MetadataStyle setting to the same value as the displayName property specified in your editor’s Config.daml file.

Known limitations

There are no changes to the existing list of known limitations at ArcGIS Pro version 3.3.

• When a custom metadata style is used, the importers and exporters defined for the custom style are not automatically selected when the Import Metadata and Export Metadata dialog boxes are opened. All of the importers and exporters provided with ArcGIS Pro are listed. If a custom importer and exporter are defined they will also be included in the list. The appropriate importer or exporter must be selected manually.
• The ArcGIS Pro metadata editor doesn't yet have a central location in which to display guidance for the content that should be provided in a metadata element.
• The capability to validate an item's metadata using an XML schema is not yet available in ArcGIS Pro.

ArcGIS Pro Metadata Toolkit 3.0.0.36056

These release notes describe details of the ArcGIS Pro Metadata Toolkit 3.0.0.36056 release. Here you will find information about available functionality as well as known issues and limitations.

What’s new

This release of the ArcGIS Pro Metadata Toolkit is not significantly different from the previous release.

New topic in the wiki

A new page was added to the wiki that describes how to customize validation rules for pages in the metadata editor.

Bug fixes

The metadata toolkit was also updated to include bug fixes for the following items:

• A crash scenario when switching the localized langauge to Czech when editing metadata.
• Saving thumbnail images for multiple toolbox models now save the appropriate thumbnail image for their corresponding toolbox model.
• The namespace MetadataTookKit was updated to MetadataToolkit for naming consistency.

Leverage administrator settings

When you develop a custom metadata editor for your organization, you can work with the GIS administrator to manage ArcGIS Pro application settings. People in the organization who use ArcGIS Pro can be required to use the custom metadata editor add-in by setting the MetadataStyle setting to the same value as the displayName property specified in your editor’s Config.daml file.

Known limitations

There are no changes to the existing list of known limitations at ArcGIS Pro version 3.0.

• When a custom metadata style is used, the importers and exporters defined for the custom style are not automatically selected when the Import Metadata and Export Metadata dialog boxes are opened. All of the importers and exporters provided with ArcGIS Pro are listed. If a custom importer and exporter are defined they will also be included in the list. The appropriate importer or exporter must be selected manually.
• The ArcGIS Pro metadata editor doesn't yet have a central location in which to display guidance for the content that should be provided in a metadata element.
• The capability to validate an item's metadata using an XML schema is not yet available in ArcGIS Pro.

ArcGIS Pro Metadata Toolkit 2.9.0.32739

These release notes describe details of the ArcGIS Pro Metadata Toolkit 2.9.0.32739 release. Here you will find information about available functionality as well as known issues and limitations.

What’s new

This release of the ArcGIS Pro Metadata Toolkit is not significantly different from the previous release.

Improved support for INSPIRE

In this release, you can create an ArcGIS Pro Metadata Toolkit add-in that is based on the INSPIRE Metadata Directive version 2.0.1.

New INSPIRE-specific controls available

When you create a new Visual Studio project using the ArcGIS Pro Metadata Toolkit project template two new references, Newtonsoft.Json and System.Net.Http, must be added to support a new INSPIRE-specific metadata control. (No change to the system requirements for consumers of the add-in.) A Lookup button on the Overview > Topics & Keywords page opens a dialog box. The dialog box accesses the INSPIRE GEMET thesaurus on the internet and provides a list of keywords for your language. The code associated with this dialog box is provided on the new MD_ThemeKeywords.xaml page.

On the Resource > Constraints page, two additional INSPIRE-specific controls were added to set values for new INSPIRE-specific codelists.
The INSPIRE-specific controls mentioned above will appear in your custom metadata editor if you set the ArcGISProfile property in the Config.daml file to "INSPIRE". Any style-specific controls provided in the default metadata editor pages will not appear in your custom metadata editor if you use a different profile keyword unless you change the condition for those controls to be associated with your profile keyword instead.

INSPIRE-required text can be added by default

On the Overview > Topics & Keywords page, the installed INSPIRE metadata style adds a default title automatically to define the GEMET thesaurus. This helps produce metadata that passes INSPIRE’s content validation process, which is particular about exact strings being present. The default text will not appear in your custom metadata editor even when the ArcGISProfile is set to "INSPIRE". Update the MD_Keywords.xaml.cs file to set the default thesaurus title and URL you want to use in the MD_Keywords_Loaded method. The INSPIRE validator expects the title "GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0" and the URL "http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/inspire_themes".

On the Resource > Quality page, for INSPIRE you are required to provide a domain consistency report, which must have a conformance result with a specification that correctly identifies the INSPIRE Metadata Directive in the language of the metadata. A drop-down list is available that can be used to select the appropriate title from a list. To show this drop-down list, change the UseDropdown setting from false to true in the CI_Citation.xaml.cs file in the SetDefaults method.

This framework can be adapted to support custom thesauri or dictionaries of data quality specifications, for example.

Resources updated

The ArcGIS Metadata XML format was updated—two new elements were added to capture these values. The Excel worksheet and the XML DTD that together define the ArcGIS Metadata format and are provided as resources in this repository were updated. Additional housekeeping was performed to correct issues and bring files up to date.

The INSPIRE metadata style’s validation rules were updated in the metadata editor to reflect the current regulations defined in the 2.0.1 version of the metadata directive. The resource file that provides an example of the default metadata editor configuration for the INSPIRE Metadata Directive style was updated to reflect these changes.

The sample metadata documents provided as resources were also updated. The changes reflect the presence of the two new ArcGIS Metadata elements. Other sample documents represent how the ArcGIS Metadata format is converted to other standard formats. Those documents were also updated to reflect updates to the ArcGIS metadata exporters.

New topic in the wiki

A new page was added to the wiki that describes how to customize validation rules for pages in the metadata editor.

Bug fixes

The metadata toolkit was also updated to include bug fixes related for saving thumbnails that were also included in the released version of the ArcGIS metadata editor. If you upload a new thumbnail on the Overview > Item Description page and switch to a different page before pressing Save, the thumbnail should now be saved in the item’s metadata.

Leverage administrator settings

When you develop a custom metadata editor for your organization, you can work with the GIS administrator to manage ArcGIS Pro application settings. People in the organization who use ArcGIS Pro can be required to use the custom metadata editor add-in by setting the MetadataStyle setting to the same value as the displayName property specified in your editor’s Config.daml file.

Known limitations

There are no changes to the existing list of known limitations at ArcGIS Pro version 2.9.

• When a custom metadata style is used, the importers and exporters defined for the custom style are not automatically selected when the Import Metadata and Export Metadata dialog boxes are opened. All of the importers and exporters provided with ArcGIS Pro are listed. If a custom importer and exporter are defined they will also be included in the list. The appropriate importer or exporter must be selected manually.
• The ArcGIS Pro metadata editor doesn't yet have a central location in which to display guidance for the content that should be provided in a metadata element.
• The capability to validate an item's metadata using an XML schema is not yet available in ArcGIS Pro.

ArcGIS Pro Metadata Toolkit 2.6.0.24783

These release notes describe details of the ArcGIS Pro Metadata Toolkit 2.6.0.24783 release. Here you will find information about available functionality as well as known issues and limitations.

What's new
This release of the ArcGIS Pro Metadata Toolkit is not significantly different from the previous release. However, in this release, you are able to create an ArcGIS Pro Metadata Toolkit add-in that is based on the ISO 19115-1 and ISO 19115-3 metadata standards.

Resources have been added that document the ArcGIS metadata format and its relationship to the metadata standards supported by ArcGIS Pro, including the new ISO metadata standards. Other resources show examples of how the metadata editor is configured for the metadata styles provided with ArcGIS Pro, including the validation rules that are defined for each page.

Known limitations

• When a custom metadata style is used, the importers and exporters defined for the custom style are not automatically selected when the Import Metadata and Export Metadata dialog boxes are opened. All of the importers and exporters provided with ArcGIS Pro are listed. If a custom importer and exporter are defined they will also be included in the list. The appropriate importer or exporter must be selected manually.
• The ArcGIS Pro metadata editor doesn't yet have a central location in which to display guidance for the content that should be provided in a metadata element.
• The capability to validate an item's metadata using an XML schema is not yet available in ArcGIS Pro.

ArcGIS Pro Metadata Toolkit 2.4.0.19948

These release notes describe details of the ArcGIS Pro Metadata Toolkit 2.4.0.19948 release. Here you will find information about available functionality as well as known issues and limitations.

What's new

This release of the ArcGIS Pro Metadata Toolkit is not significantly different from the previous release.

In the previous release, one of the XAML files that defines a page in the metadata editor had a spelling error in its name; it was named MD_ConverageDescriptionBase.xaml. The spelling error has been corrected in the Visual Studio project, and the XAML page is now named MD_CoverageDescriptionBase.xaml. All references to this page throughout the Visual Studio project have also been corrected so the page can function properly when used in an ArcGIS Pro Metadata Toolkit add-in.

Additional bugs were fixed in ArcGIS Pro 2.4 that now allow custom elements contained by a "custom" element at the root of the metadata document to be successfully saved to another item's metadata. This way, you can copy customized ArcGIS metadata content from one item to another using ArcGIS Pro. This fix did not require any changes to the ArcGIS Pro Metadata Toolkit.

Also, a bug was fixed in ArcGIS Pro 2.4 that allows an installer to save a custom metadata importer XSLT and a custom metadata exporter XSLT to the core ArcGIS Pro install location, and have a custom metadata style successfully reference the translators that are available in the install location using a relative path. This fix did not require any changes to the ArcGIS Pro Metadata Toolkit.

Known limitations

• The ArcGIS Pro metadata toolkit can be used to customize the metadata editor and the metadata display for ArcGIS Pro 2.2. However, while ArcGIS Pro 2.2 supports importing and exporting metadata, any custom importers or exporters defined in a metadata toolkit add-in compiled for this release will not be recognized and included in the Pro 2.2 Import Metadata and Export Metadata dialog boxes. They will appear in a metadata toolkit add-in compiled for ArcGIS Pro 2.3.
• The ArcGIS Pro metadata editor doesn't yet have a central location in which to display guidance for the content that should be provided in a metadata element.
• The capability to validate an item's metadata using an XML schema is not yet available in ArcGIS Pro.

Previous releases

• ArcGIS Pro 2.3 Metadata Toolkit

ArcGIS Pro 2.3 Metadata Toolkit

ArcGIS Pro Metadata Toolkit 2.3.0.15769

These release notes describe details of the ArcGIS Pro Metadata Toolkit 2.3.0.15769 release. Here you will find information about available functionality as well as known issues and limitations.

What's new

The ArcGIS Pro Metadata Toolkit 1.0 release is similar to the ArcGIS Metadata Toolkit for ArcMap that continues to be available as a download from the Esri Support site. The pages in the ArcGIS Pro metadata editor are very similar, and in general, the same customizations can be made in ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro.

However, the code associated with the ArcGIS Pro Metadata Toolkit is available as a Visual Studio project template instead of as an archived solution. Also, customizations created with the ArcGIS Pro Metadata Toolkit are delivered as an add-in to ArcGIS Pro. Your customizations become available in the ArcGIS Pro Options dialog box on the Metadata tab once the add-in has been installed. Add-ins can be created for ArcGIS Pro 2.3. Add-ins with some limitations can also be created for ArcGIS Pro 2.2.

Known limitations

• There is a spelling error for one of the pages in the Metadata Toolkit repo. One of the XAML pages is named for the MD_CoverageDescription class defined in the ISO 19115 metadata standard, however, the file name has this class name incorrectly spelled. The file name is spelled MD_ConverageDescriptionBase.xaml instead of MD_CoverageDescriptionBase.xaml. The page works correctly, and is correctly referenced by the rest of the application. The spelling error is only visible to those who develop customizations with the toolkit.
• The ArcGIS Pro metadata toolkit can be used to customize the metadata editor and the metadata display for ArcGIS Pro 2.2. However, while ArcGIS Pro 2.2 supports importing and exporting metadata, any custom importers or exporters defined in a metadata toolkit add-in compiled for this release will not be recognized and included in the Pro 2.2 Import Metadata and Export Metadata dialog boxes. They will appear in a metadata toolkit add-in compiled for ArcGIS Pro 2.3.
• It is possible to add custom metadata elements in ArcGIS metadata, and to create a custom metadata importer for Pro 2.3 that handles those custom elements. However, if the custom metadata elements are in a separate custom section at the root of the metadata document, these elements will not be saved successfully in the item's ArcGIS metadata. Custom elements should be placed in a "custom" section at the root of the metadata document. A future update will correct the problem and ensure the "custom" section of the metadata is successfully saved to the item's metadata.
• The ArcGIS Pro metadata editor doesn't yet have a central location in which to display guidance for the content that should be provided in a metadata element.
• The capability to validate an item's metadata using an XML schema is not yet available in ArcGIS Pro.