Laura Huis in 't Veld (Aug 19 2025 at 08:59): Laura Huis in 't Veld (Aug 19 2025 at 08:59):Dear all,
I have a question about the variable information that gets extracted from the files when the Tabular File Ingest is enabled. A colleague of mine has been testing with these kind of files, and found the following.
If a restricted Excel file, with variable information is uploaded, these variables are saved in the file metadata.
When you search for this variable, it pops up in the search result. We think this should not be happening, because access to the file is restricted. Is this assumption correct?
Or is it intended behaviour, because metadata is always searchable?
My colleague also found out that in the DDI-export, variables for restricted files are not in the export. This is what we would expect. However, in the Croissant export, these variables are present. Should I report this a a bug?
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Aug 19 2025 at 11:56):@Laura Huis in 't Veld yes, two bugs, please!
Laura Huis in 't Veld (Aug 19 2025 at 13:14):Alright, here they are:
Variable metadata for restricted files visible in search results: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/11751
Variable metadata for restricted files in Croissant export:
https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/11752
Laura Huis in 't Veld (Aug 19 2025 at 13:15):I was able to reproduce the problem on demo.dataverse.org as well. We are at version 6.5.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Aug 19 2025 at 13:28):Thanks! The issues look great. 
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