# Custom form metadata

**URL:** <https://forum.getodk.org/t/custom-form-metadata/9496>\
**Category:** Ideas\
**Tags:** odk-xforms, form-design, odk-collect\
**Created:** [August 22, 2017, 4:05pm UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/custom-form-metadata/9496 "2017-08-22T16:05:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![tomsmyth](https://getodk.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.getodk.org/tomsmyth/32/1726_2.png) [@tomsmyth](https://forum.getodk.org/u/tomsmyth)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 2:33pm UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/custom-form-metadata/9496/5 "2017-09-14T14:33:53Z")

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This all sounds grand to me. I think you've captured my request accurately.

We don't have an iron in the XLSForm fire, but another option might be to introduce a new question "type" like `metadata` and then have a new column called like "metadata::key" for specifying the key? You could then load both the existing metadata in that style or the new custom metadata ones.

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