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Our example describes a simple IT landscape consisting of several servers on which applications run. Find or create a Confluence Space for your IT documentation. For each server and each application, we create a wiki page — these have properties and relationships that are maintained via metadata.
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1. Create Content Categories
In space administrationConfluence general administration, Content Categories entry: Let's create content categories with metadata fields for each property. The metadata can have different field types: Text gives you the opportunity to let the user fill in the metadata field with a simple text string. Multi select gives the user the option to select several values from several elements coming from a dropdown menu. Single select gives the user the option to select one value from several elements coming from a dropdown menu. With Page link fields you can draw connections, for example, to existing pages.
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To use our metadata fields, they have to be included in content categories. For this case, we create a content category for each Server and Application.
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Now we can add the required fields easily. Click on "Add Metadata field" and choose the fields we've listed in the table above:
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With the use of the “Display Metadata” macro, we can display all properties metadata of Server or Application. Interesting here is the macro "Metadata Report" - you can use it to list applications that are hosted on that server. The corresponding filter for that we'll add after creating a server page.
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