Adding a single piece of metadata to a page
To add a single piece of metadata to a page, choose the Metadata (Metadata Plugin) macro in the Confluence macro browser: Simply add your chosen metadata name to the macro editor e.g. Owner. This metadata name will be case sensitive. Insert the macro to the page. Add the value of the metadata to the To see the page display, choose the placeholder Edit option. The added metadata value is now displayed in the macro editor Preview. The metadata macro body accepts both plain text and simple wiki markup for the value. The metadata is stored as un-rendered wiki markup, so in this case the value If you don't want the metadata value displayed on this page, simply check the Hidden option in the macro editor. This only hides the metadata value on the current page. It will not affect the visibility on any pages where the metadata is reused. When using the macro to set a metadata that is a date and time, Confluence search and CQL will return the value as a string value unless the metadata value is added in the following format for example, creating a metadata End Date with a value of 
metadata macro placeholder.
|Captain Comala| is stored for the Owner metadata. The wiki markup will create a cell in a table containing the text value of the metadata, Owner.
yyyyMMddHHmmssSSS.Dec 2023 or 08/09/2024 will be returned as a string value and is not recognized as a date format value
Adding multiple pieces of metadata to a page
To add multiple pieces of metadata to a page, choose the Metadata List macro in the Confluence macro browser: The macro editor allows you to configure the macro. The macro editor only includes the following options for the macro: display metadata as a vertical or horizontal list hide the metadata from being displayed on this page clear any existing metadata values of the page before setting the new metadata and values You must Insert the macro to add the metadata names and their values using the The metadata name and value can be plain text or include simple wiki markup. In the example above the metadata and their values are rendered in a table on the page: The macro is used for setting metadata values not for listing metadata values. When using the macro to set a metadata that is a date and time,Confluence search and CQL will return the value as a string value unless the metadata value is added in the following format for example, Inauguration Date with a value of 
metadata-list macro placeholder:
yyyyMMddHHmmssSSS.Feb 2019 or 08/09/2023 will be returned as a string value and is not recognized as a date format