Patent ID: 7346838

Claim:
A method for displaying metadata placed on a document, comprising: accepting a command to load a document file that corresponds to the document into a memory of a computing device, wherein the document contains drawings and metadata elements and wherein the metadata elements comprise at least one of a person's name, a revision identifier, and a document title, but do not include the drawings or dimensions; a computer-aided design application accepting, by way of a command line interface, a command to assign a label to each of a plurality of metadata elements in the document file; displaying only at least one of the plurality of metadata elements in response to a command to display the label assigned to the at least one of the plurality of metadata elements, thereby allowing a user to verify a value of the at least one of the plurality of metadata elements, wherein only metadata elements that are located in predefined locations of the document file are displayed; determining that at least a portion of one of the plurality of metadata elements is incorrect, wherein when the document is specified as being in a non-released state, the revision identifier is not identified as being incorrect and wherein when the document is specified as being in a released state, the revision identifier is identified as being incorrect; and automatically bulk correcting only the incorrect metadata elements located in the predefined locations by globally repeating the corrections in multiple locations of the document at one time with a batch process, wherein change notes and extraneous notes are removed and revision blocks are truncated automatically during bulk correcting when the document is specified as being in the released state.