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Databricks Docs removed/hidden File Metadata documentation?

BS_THE_ANALYST
Honored Contributor III

Hey everyone, 

Hopefully this is a quick one to resolve (and it's probably me being behind-the-times or slightly stupid ๐Ÿ˜…). 

I've been looking at getting metadata into my SQL query (when I'm ingesting files). This article is fantastic for solving this very problem: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/ingestion/file-metadata-column?language=Python 

Why is this documentation so hard to search for? It's like it's been removed from the documentation indexing somehow. If you look at the picture below, it's just in its own, separate category.

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It's really hard to find when searching the docs or google!? Does anyone else have this problem when searching up this article? I feel like I'm missing something really obvious ๐Ÿ˜‚.

Eagerly waiting for someone to just search the docs using "File Metadata Column" and it just somehow pops up for you & not me ๐Ÿ˜‚.

All the best,
BS

 

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Advika
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

Thanks for bringing this up, @BS_THE_ANALYST! Youโ€™re right, that page shouldnโ€™t be orphaned and belongs in a relevant section, so itโ€™s easier to locate.
Also, good catch @WiliamRosa!

Iโ€™ve flagged this internally, and it should be updated soon.

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WiliamRosa
New Contributor II

Hi Bro!

Yes โ€” this page doesnโ€™t show up in search because itโ€™s marked Unlisted, so itโ€™s only available to people with the direct link (or via a few internal links). You can confirm this by viewing the page source and searching for โ€œnoindexโ€, as shown in the screenshot below.

WiliamRosa_0-1756162419796.png

All the best!

Wiliam Rosa
Data Engineer | Machine Learning Engineer
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/wiliamrosa

Advika
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

Thanks for bringing this up, @BS_THE_ANALYST! Youโ€™re right, that page shouldnโ€™t be orphaned and belongs in a relevant section, so itโ€™s easier to locate.
Also, good catch @WiliamRosa!

Iโ€™ve flagged this internally, and it should be updated soon.

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