Exporting ArcGIS Metadata to HTML with thumbnail?

How do I export metadata from ArcGIS?

Exporting metadata from the Metadata toolbar

1. In the ArcCatalog Contents tab, press the CTRL key while clicking the ArcGIS items whose metadata you want to export.
2. Click the Export Metadata button.
3. Provide a location and file name, if appropriate, for the stand-alone metadata XML files that will be created.
4. Click OK.

How do I change the thumbnail on metadata?

You can import a thumbnail to an item’s metadata.

1. Edit an item’s metadata.
2. In the Contents pane, under the Overview heading, click Item Description to open the Item Description page.
3. Under the thumbnail, click Update .
4. Browse to and select the image file you want to import as the item’s thumbnail, and click Open.

How do I create a thumbnail in ArcMap?

Creating a thumbnail for maps, globes, and scenes

1. Open the map, globe, or scene document for which you want to create a thumbnail.
2. Open the document’s Properties dialog box. In ArcMap, click File > Map Document Properties.
3. Click the Make Thumbnail button.
4. Click OK.

How do I save metadata as XML?

Save an item’s metadata as an XML file

1. Open a catalog view.
2. Browse to and select the item in the contents list.
3. On the Catalog tab on the ribbon, in the Metadata group, click Save As.
4. Point to the Save As XML menu and click one of the available options.

How do I export custom metadata?

Custom Metadata Object Import/Export

1. Select Administration > Site Development > Import/Export.
2. In the Import/Export page, in the Meta Data section, click Import.
3. Select the file to import.
4. Check the Delete existing attribute definitions and attribute groups not contained in the import file box to use this feature.

How do I export metadata?

Export metadata to a standard format

1. On the Catalog tab on the ribbon, in the Metadata group, click Export .
2. Click The metadata content to export drop-down list and click the amount of content to filter out of the item’s metadata during the export process.

How do I export attribute data from ArcGIS to excel?

On the top ribbon, click the Analysis tab > Tools. In the Geoprocessing pane, search for Table To Excel (Conversion Tools), and click it.



In the Field section of the attribute table, click Copy to copy all the records.

1. Open a new Microsoft Excel file.
2. In the Microsoft Excel file, right-click the A1 cell.
3. Save the file.

How do I access metadata in ArcGIS?

Right-click the item whose metadata you want to see. Click Item Description. The Item Description dialog box opens. The item’s metadata is displayed in the Description tab.

How do I find metadata in ArcGIS?

You can view an ArcGIS item’s metadata in the Description tab. What you see is an HTML page that you can interact with as you would any HTML page in a web browser. After viewing an item’s metadata, you can start editing it if you have permission to do so—you’ll see the Edit button in the Description tab.