Metadata Utilities: Other functionality

Prefixes

You can define prefixes in the addon settings under the "Prefixes" tab to further categorize your metadata types. These prefixes can then be filtered, sorted and changed in the Metadata Editor. The corresponding comboboxes will only appear, if you have at least one prefix defined.

If you want a whitespace between the prefix and the item name, you need to add it to the prefix. So if you for example have a tag like "[art style] realistic", you need to add "[art style] " as your prefix. In the Metadata editor the tag will then have this prefix and the name will be shown as "realistic".

Removing unwanted metadata

You can use Metadata Utilities to automatically remove unwanted metadata items after they are added to a game through a metadata update. Simply add them to the list in the "Auto removal" tab in the addon settings and tick the checkbox "Remove unwanted items on metadata update" to the right of the list. You can also manually remove those items by selecting one or more games and clicking the "Remove unwanted metadata" option in the context menu under Metadata Editor.

Adding default categories/tags

If you want to automatically add one or more default categories or tags to a newly added game, you can do so by adding them under the "Defaults" tab in the addon settings. For tags there's also an option to only add the defaults, if no other tags were added by the automatic metadata downloads when adding a game, so the game has at least this one tag. Categories don't have that option, since metadata addons usually don't update that field, so new games normally never should already have categories assigned.