Enable taxonomies for the fields

1. From the Tools menu (cogwheel icon), go to Site Configuration > Metadata > Metadata Setup.
2. Select the Taxonomy checkbox for all the above fields and enter a Plural Name for each field. The plural name will be used as the taxonomy's header in the user interface.
3. 

Enable taxonomy navigation in the archive

• Open the archive properties and go to the Metadata tab
• Enable the Taxonomy navigation checkbox and choose the fields you want to expose in the archive - all five above fields.

Create taxonomy content

Now, log in to Fotoware Veloz and access the Car collection archive to create content for the taxonomies. The logged-in user must have Manage taxonomy privileges to be able to edit taxonomy content.

The taxonomies show to the left of the thumbnail grid, and all are currently empty.

Select + Add term to start adding the following terms to the taxonomies:

All of the above taxonomies have only one level.

You also need to create a taxonomy for the Make and model field, an example of a multi-level taxonomy. At the top level, it contains the manufacturer, with model names at the second level, as such:

• Audi
  • A1
  • A3
  • A4
  • A5
  • A6
  • A7
  • A8
• Mercedes-Benz
  • A-class
  • C-class
  • E-class
  • S-class
• BMW
  • 1-series
  • 3-series
  • 5-series
  • 7-series

Since the Make and model field can only store one value, we will store only model information in that field. Selecting the manufacturer node (Audi, for example) at the higher level will display the content of all child nodes inside that node (i.e. model names: A1, A3, A4, and so on) even though the term Audi is not written in the files' metadata. In reality, the taxonomy contains the information that Audi is a parent of A1, A2, A3, and so on, even though Audi, BMW, and Mercedes don't exist in the actual XMP metadata in the file.

First level:

Second level (selecting > in the navigation):

Customizing the Make and model taxonomy

The values in the taxonomy will also be used when tagging the files in the archive. By default, new entries in a taxonomy will be exposed in metadata editors that incorporate the field in question. Since we don't want users to be able to set Audi, BMW, or Mercedes in the Make and model field (rather, we want them to set the model: A1, C-class, 3-series), we need to edit the properties of the Audi, Mercedes, and BMW nodes:

• Select the Pen icon next to the Audi node.

This brings up the taxonomy item editor, where you can set the ACL for the item.

You can remove the Set permission (as shown below) to prevent users from selecting this node when inputting metadata in a field. Do this for the Audi, BMW, and Mercedes nodes and any other nodes that you add for car makes at this level of the hierarchy.

The nodes will still have the Query permission to allow users to click on the node and display assets from all the child nodes. For example, when a user select Audi, FotoWeb displays all Audi models.

Tagging the files in the archive

Now that the taxonomy has been created, it's time to think about tagging the files in the archive.

Before doing that, you need to create a metadata set containing the fields you want to expose to archive users. The metadata set is also used for controlling how the different fields behave. For example, you can create a metadata set with the same fields you have in the taxonomy and dictate that users may only pick metadata tags from the ones you have predefined in the taxonomy you just made.

The result