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title: 'Metadata'
description: 'NocoDB Project Metadata'
position: 600
category: 'Product'
menuTitle: 'Metadata'
---
Project Metadata includes Database Metadata, UI Access Control and Miscellaneous.
To access it, click the down arrow button next to Project Name on the top left side, then select `Team & Settings` .
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and clicking `Project Metadata` .
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<!-- ## Project Metadata
The metadata is stored in meta directory in project level, database level, and API level.
Under ``Project Metadata``, you can perform the following operations.
- Export all metadata from the meta tables to meta directory
- Import all metadata from the meta directory to meta tables
- Export project meta to zip file and download
- Import project meta zip file and restart
- Clear all metadata from meta tables
< alert >
Import won't work with zip files exported from the older version of apps (< 0.11.6 ) . < br >
Import / Export will only transfer metadata and files related to the project and not any table data in the project.
< / alert >
## Migration Example
### Export Metadata
From the source project, go to `Project Metadata` . Under ``Export / Import Metadata`` tab, select ``Export zip``, click ``Submit``. This step extracts project metadata and stores it in compressed (zip) format.
### Import Metadata
From the destination project, go to `Project Metadata` . Under ``Export / Import Metadata`` tab, select ``Import zip``, select ``meta.zip`` file stored in previous step. This step imports project metadata from compressed file (zip) selected and restarts the project.
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## Database Metadata
Go to `Project Metadata` , under ``Metadata``, you can see your metadata sync status. If it is out of sync, you can sync the schema. See < a href = "./sync-schema" > Sync Schema</ a > for more.
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## UI Access Control
Go to `Project Metadata` , under ``UI Access Control``, you can control the access to each table by roles.
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## ERD
Go to `Project Metadata` , under ``ERD View``, you can see the ERD of your database.
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## Miscellaneous
Currently only `Show M2M Tables` can be configurated under Miscellaneous.
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