Customize your own set of metadata
for your organization or for your template to provide descriptive
properties about a document. These document properties can be created
by you or inherited from an embedded Microsoft Word document.
Restriction: 
The document property element is available only
in version 2 templates.
About this task
Document
properties appear in the generated output and are assigned as static
content, variables, JavaScript,
or data values.
Microsoft Word
includes a list of predefined document properties which you can use,
or you can also create your own custom document properties in the Microsoft Word document. The Microsoft Word predefined document
properties are:
- tags
- status
- comments
- manager
- hyperlink base
- categories
- author
- title
- subject
Tip: When you first add a document property
element to the template content editor, the name and the value display:

- The name for the document property is entered in the Specific tab
in the Properties view. The name property in
the General tab is different from the name in the Specific tab. The
name in the General tab is the metadata name for the element, which
can be used when you are configuring regions, for example.
- The value for the document property is entered in the Content tab
in the Properties view. You can also double-click the element to enter
the values and view your entries from the Content tab.
Procedure
To create a static document property:
- In the Palette view, select the
Document property element
and drag it into the template content editor.
- Select the Document property element.
- In the Properties view, select the Specific tab.
- Enter a name for the Document property. Document
property elements that do not have a name are ignored at run time. Example: tags The Microsoft Word document property tags maps
to keywords for Rational® Publishing Engine Microsoft Word and PDF outputs.
- For the Append property, select True or False.
- True: The document property is included
in the generated output.
- False: The document property is ignored
during document generation.
- Double-click the Document property element.
- Enter a value for the Document property. Separate
multiple values with a comma. Example for the tags document
property: Q4, budget
- Save the changes.
Results
When you generate the document, the document properties are
detected and automatically be inserted into the document output. If
two document properties have the same name, the value is applied from
the last document property in the template.
What to do next
You can use these document properties to read who created
a document, for example, or you can use them to filter or search for
documents with specific metadata in your content management system.