Metavus supports 17 distinct types of metadata fields:

Text – A short (usually one line) text value.

Paragraph – A longer (possibly multi-line) text value.  Paragraph fields may be configured to include HTML and be edited via a WYSIWYG interface.

Number – An integer or floating point value.

Date –

Timestamp –

Flag –

Tree –

Controlled Name –

Option –

User –

Image –

File –

URL –

Point –

Reference –

Email –

Search Parameter Set –