Department Metadata Override

This is a page meta data not template. Templates don not have any metadata.

1. Go to Settings -> Content -> Metadata (don't remember where it was in 7). There: there is a Page title format property. If you uncheck inheritance in your page properties, it makes page title according to the macro in there : by default it is {%prefix%} - {%pagetitle_orelse_name%} .You might have something else there like {%CurrentDocument.DocumentName|(identity)GlobalAdministrator%}

2. If this is not 1. then you might have document global event handler where on update you do change .DocumentPageTitle property. I would search in the code for 'DocumentPageTitle'

If you're using workflow it could be causing this problem. It could also be a bug in v7 which was resolved with a hot fix or an upgrade.

Does it do this for nodes outside of the departments node?

@Peter - This is a department template, not a page template.

@Brenden - No, other document types elsewhere in the tree are not similarly affected. I'm leaning towards bug and looking into the source code and/or going to create a separate field for these meta data fields as this Kentico version of this site is not long for this world and I don't want to spend too much time on it. Thanks.

This a page template for department. I've checked on default installations for 9 and 11 on Dancing Goat and E-Commerce sites. It is not happening there. I guess you may try to install default 7 with one of examples like E-commerce and see if it happens there. If it does not happen then this is a custom code.