The purpose of this chapter is to introduce the client side meta-data files and their contents, and discuss the different patterns that can be employed.
Generally speaking, the client side meta data is used to describe the layout of the screens that should be generated, as well as specifying how to choose values for case participant fields, and when to create new role types for those participants.
For a full description of the meta-data format, and possible values please see the appendix Client Meta Data.