Client fields schema

The Submit point and Checkpoint tools pickup metadata fields entered by the SwitchClient user when submitting or moving along a job.

Specifically, when a user submits a job and the list of field definitions in the Submit point's "Metadata fields" property is nonempty, the Submit point:

• Creates a metadata dataset containing the contents of the metadata fields entered by the user.

• Associates this dataset with the job ticket for the submitted job under the dataset name specified in the "Dataset name" property.

Similarly, when a user moves along a job residing in a Checkpoint and the list of editable field definitions in the Checkpoint's "Metadata fields" property is nonempty, the Checkpoint creates a metadata dataset and associates it with the job's job ticket under the specified dataset name.

Note that a Checkpoint always creates a completely new dataset, i.e. it does not update or modify an existing dataset (even if the job was previously moved through the same or another Checkpoint). If the job already has dataset association with the same name, the reference to the old dataset is removed and replaced by the new one.

Data model and schema

The client fields dataset uses the XML data model with a simple schema without namespaces.

The XML document element name is "field-list". It contains a "field" element for each item in the list of editable metadata field definitions associated with the Submit point or Checkpoint under consideration. The "field" elements occur in the same order as in the list of field definitions, and a "field" element is present even if the corresponding field's value is empty.

Each "field" element in turn contains zero or one occurrence of each element listed in the table below. Within the contents of those child elements leading and trailing white space is removed.