Metadata Perspective
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Keyboard shortcut: CTRL-Shift-M
Description
The Metadata perspective is where you manage the different metadata types available in your Hop projects.
Usage
The types tree
This perspective has a tree on the left-hand side where the metadata types are shown as top level with elements below it:
![The left-hand tree of the data orchestration perspective](../_images/hop-gui/perspective-data-orchestration-left-hand-tree.png)
Managing elements
You can right-click on any element to edit, rename, duplicate or delete an element. You can also use this menu to create new elements. To create a new element you can also double-click on the element type itself. You can also use the toolbar icons in the toolbar located right above the metadata tree.