Hi Tim

The Metadata fields are stored in the Repository Database and are readible but not easily as the information to get to it is distributed across multiple tables and needs to be pulled together to be meaningful. I typically create a View in my Repository DB where I can I pull this information together.

SELECT        dbo.propdef.prop_id, dbo.propval.tocid, dbo.propval.str_val, dbo.propdef.prop_name
FROM            dbo.propdef INNER JOIN
                         dbo.propval ON dbo.propdef.prop_id = dbo.propval.prop_id

The View looks like this

prop_id = the Metadata Field unique ID

tocid = The entry ID of the document

prop_Name is the Metadata Field Name

str_val = the value of the Metadata Field