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# General Settings

### Creating and Configuring an On-Demand Project

This chapter describes how to create and configure an **On-Demand (Video on Demand) project** in the 3Q Platform. An On-Demand project is used to upload, encode, manage, and publish video content that can be accessed at any time by end users.

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### Creating an On-Demand Project

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1. Open **Projects** from the main navigation.
2. Select the **On-Demand** tab.
3. Click **Create Project**, or select an existing On-Demand project to edit its configuration.

Once a project is created, all settings are managed through the **Project Settings** panel.

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### Project Settings – General

Open the project and access **Project Settings → General**.

#### General Configuration

* **Title**\
  Defines the project name as shown in the platform.
* **Group**\
  Assigns the project to a project group (for example, *Default*).
* **Project Image (optional)**\
  A visual identifier used in the project overview.
* **Default Metadata Language**\
  Sets the default language for metadata fields.
* **Default Publication Status**\
  Defines the initial publication state of uploaded media:
  * *Unpublished* (recommended): content must be explicitly published.
  * *Published*: content becomes publicly available immediately after upload.

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### Limiting Available Categories

Navigate to **Project Settings → Advanced Settings**.

* **Limit Categories**\
  Allows restricting which categories are available within this project.\
  This is useful when a project should only support a predefined subset of categories.

Categories are fully configurable and project-specific.

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### Metadata Configuration

Open **Metadata Settings** for the project.

#### 8.1 Metadata Rules

Metadata rules define which fields are mandatory or visible.

Common mandatory or visible fields include:

* Title
* Description
* Categories
* Types
* Tags

#### 8.2 Additional Metadata Fields

Under **Additional Metadata**, custom fields can be added:

* Input Field
* Numeric Input
* Selection
* Multiple Selection
* Checkbox
* URL
* Email

Typical use cases:

* Editorial flags
* Rights information
* Source identifiers
* Platform-specific control flags

Both **Categories** and **Types** are fully configurable and can be defined according to editorial or organizational requirements.

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### Tag Management

The **Tag Management** view allows maintaining a list of reusable tags.\
Tags can later be assigned to media items for search and filtering purposes.


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