Metadata template scopes
Metadata template scopes
Metadata templates are grouped into two distinct groups, or scopes.
global
: a group of templates that is available to everyone using Box, regardless of the enterprise they are in. An example is theglobal.properties
template that serves as a place to put free-form key/valuestring
pairs without any additional schema associated with it.enterprise
orenterprise_*
: a group of templates defined by a user within an enterprise. These templates are either created by admin's in the web application, or by applications using the API. When accessing or creating templates within the authenticated user's enterprise a short-hand ofenterprise
can be used. When accessing templates that belong to another enterprise - for example when accessing metadata on files belonging to other enterprises - the scopeenterprise_*
is used where*
is the ID of the enterprise the template belongs to.