Sybase Search supports four types of metadata fields:
TEXT
DATE
FLOAT
INT
Each of these types supports a number of different parsers, which format or modify the metadata in different ways. (See “Processing metadata values”.) For example, different DATE parsers parse the date value differently depending on the date format specified.
Each metadata field is configured to be one of these four types and use one of the valid parsers.
Sybase Search cannot automatically extract new metadata fields from documents, because the metadata type and parser must be specified by the Sybase Search administrator in advance.
