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title: 'Metadata'
description: 'Metadata'
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category: 'Product'
menuTitle: 'Metadata'
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To go to the Meta Management Portal, click ``Project Metadata`` under ``Settings`` on the leftmost menu.
## 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
Import won't work with zip files exported from the older version of apps (< 0.11.6).
Import / Export will only transfer metadata and files related to the project and not any table data in the project.
## Migration example
### Export metadata
Source project : Under ``Meta Management`` tab, select ``Export zip``, click ``Submit``. This step extracts project metadata and stores it in compressed (zip) format
### Import metadata
Destination project : Under ``Meta Management`` tab, select ``Import zip``, select ``meta.zip`` file stored in previous step. This step imports project metadata from compressed file (zip) selected and restarts project.
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## Database Metadata
Under ``DB Metadata``, You can manage your models. For example, if you do not want to expose some APIs, you can untick those under APIs here.
The relations of all tables are listed under ``Relations``.
## UI Access Control
You can control the access to each table and relation by roles.
