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Welcome to the qgis-metadatafunctionality wiki!

Installation of metadatafunctionality-plugin:

The plugin is currently not available from QGIS official repository, hence the bit more complicated installation:

1. Save the plugin in the QGIS-plugin folder, on windows-machines often in C:\Users\USERNAME.qgis2\python\plugins
2. Install the plugin with QGIS respository, search for metadatafunctionality

The metadata-plugin is now added to the Plugins-'faneblad' and a button is added. The metadata plugin consists of two dialogue boxes - the dialogue box to enter the metadata information and a dialogue box to specificy the database where the table in which metadata is stored and the required connection information to the database.

To get started - the first time:

1. Create a table to store metadata in a postgresdatabase (the table needs to follow the specified structure)
2. Connect to table in database where metadata will be stored.

Purpose:

A tool to ease the handling of metadatainformation of new tables and existing tables without metadata. The plugin allows changing the metadata afterwards.

How does it work?

The dialogbox which allows entering metadatainformation is automatically launched when a new file is added with DB Manager. Metadata information to existing tables can be added or modified with the tool.