VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension 3.1

3.1 3.0
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Add Tags and Metadata to an Object

To improve the categorization of objects in
VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension
, bucket owners can optionally add tags to individual objects. As a bucket owner, you can also add properties to objects by adding user-defined metadata. Both the object tags and the object metadata represent a key-value pair.
  • Verify that you have the required set of rights to add tags to an object.
    • If you are an
      organization administrator
      , you can add tags to objects that users in your organization own.
    • If you are an
      organization user
      , you can add tags to objects, if you are the owner of the bucket that stores the object.
  • Verify that you have the required set of rights to edit the metadata of an object.
    • If you are an
      organization administrator
      , to add metadata to an object, make sure that the object owner has
      Write of Bucket
       permissions on the bucket that stores the object.
    • If you are an
      organization user
      , to add metadata to an object, you must be the object owner and your user account must have
      Write of Bucket
       permissions.
If a bucket owner adds tags to an object owned by another user, and the object owner does not have
FULL_CONTROL
 privileges for the bucket, the object owner cannot edit the metadata of the object anymore.
If you use the
Cloudian HyperStore
 storage platform, you can add tags to your objects. The
ECS
 storage platform does not support tagging.
Adding metadata to an object overwrites the original object and resets permissions and other associations for the object.
You cannot edit the metadata of bucket log objects owned by the System Logger account.
  1. Log in to the
    VMware Cloud Director tenant portal
    .
  2. In the primary left navigation panel, under
    More
    , select
    Object Storage
    .
  3. In the
    Buckets
     pane, navigate to the bucket or folder that stores the object that you want to edit.
  4. Click the name of the object that you want to edit.
  5. Add a tag to the object
    1. Click the link in the
      Tags
       section.
    2. Enter a key-value for the tag.
    3. Click
      Save
      .
  6. Add metadata to the object.
    1. Click the link in the
      Metadata
       section.
    2. Enter a key-value for the metadata entry.
    3. To indicate that you understand the effect of adding metadata to an object, select the check box.
    4. Click
      Save
      .

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