Absolutely — if the documentation mentions that metadata can be applied to multiple documents, it typically means there’s a mechanism to assign shared metadata across documents either programmatically or via configuration.
To help more specifically, could you clarify:
What system, tool, or platform is the documentation for? (e.g., SharePoint, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, a custom API, etc.)
Do you have a snippet or example from the documentation that's confusing?
Are you trying to do this through a UI, an API, or code?
In general though, here are common ways systems handle shared metadata: