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A metadata cascade policy describes how applied to a folder should be applied to any item
within that folder. For example, a user might assign the same invoiceData
metadata template to a project folder allowing it to automatically apply to all
the files and folders within that project folder.
Every policy specifies exactly one metadata template instance and one folder.
Activation and permissions
To use metadata cascade policies, an enterprise admin needs to enable them for
the entire enterprise. In the Admin Console, select Enterprise Settings,
Content & Sharing, Cascading Folder Level Metadata. Click the Edit
configuration button and pick who can apply cascade policies to folders.
Any user with edit permissions on a folder and the ability to create cascade
policies can create metadata cascade policies for that given folder.
Limitations
There is some delay from file upload to the metadata being applied. This very
much depends on the number of items in a folder. Metadata cascade operations
are performed asynchronously and there is currently no way to check when all
metadata has been cascaded to all files.
