OtherMeta

The OtherMeta object is retrieved from the Metadata.other property. It provides access to miscellaneous information about the file or folder.

 

Property Name

Return Type

Description

autodesc

string

An automatically generated description string for the item. This is the same string that is shown in the Description column in a Lister. Opus automatically generates the description for various types of files using the other metadata in ways that make the most sense.

dircount

int

For a folder, the size of which has been calculated via GetSizes or similar, this provides the number of sub-folders directly underneath the folder.

dircounttotal

int

Similar to dircount, this provides the total number of sub-folders underneath the folder (this is a recursive count - it includes sub-sub-folders, sub-sub-sub-folders, etc.)

filecount

int

For a folder, the size of which has been calculated via GetSizes or similar, this provides the number of files directly located in that folder.

filecounttotal

int

Similar to filecount, this provides the total number of files in the folder and all it's sub-folders, sub-sub-folders, etc.

foldercontents

string

For a folder, the size of which has been calculated via GetSizes or similar, this returns a string giving a summary of the contents of the folder.

nsdesc

string

A description automatically generated for the item by its parent virtual file system.

rating

int

Returns the user-assigned rating for this file or folder.

target

object:Path 

Returns a Path object representing the target path of shortcuts and links.

target_type

string

Returns a string indicating the type of the link (unknown, linkfile, dosfile, url, junction, softlink).

usercomment

string

Returns the user-assigned description for the file or folder.