We have a metadata schema that has 3 fields in it – 2 text

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Asked: June 4, 20262026-06-04T08:35:20+00:00 2026-06-04T08:35:20+00:00

We have a metadata schema that has 3 fields in it – 2 text

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We have a metadata schema that has 3 fields in it – 2 text fields (title & summary), one component link field.
Its being used by our keywords and the taxonomy published to the broker.

However when we assign values and publish, in the broker’s [CUSTOM_META] table for the keyword, we only see the 2 rows for the two text field entries and nothing for the component link field. I was hoping to see a third row for the component link showing a TCM ID or something to represent the component linked to.

In fact, when you look at the database table design for [CUSTOM_META], it only seems to support KEY_DATE_VALUE, KEY_STRING_VALUE & KEY_FLOAT_VALUE.

Does this mean that the value in a component link field can’t be published to the broker?

We where going to use this TCM to generate a link to a published page, so I guess we can change the field type to text and just ask editors to type url in or use Bart’s Item Selector to pick the page itself.

This is in a Tridion 2011 SP1 env. – everything configured to be published to the broker by default, (apart from binaries and a couple of specific page types).