Interesting, I didn't realize that. I just took a look in the metadatavalue table and realized that there is a row for every metadata field for every item, where text_value is just blank where that item has no data for that field. I suppose that would by my fault for creating the dublin_core.xml the wrong way. I guess I just assumed that if the xml value was empty then the batch import would skip over it.
I should be good to just delete all the metadatavalue rows where the text_value field is blank and alter my script for creating dublin_core.xml files for the future. Thanks for the info, Stuart! -Sarah Ryder Web Development Hampshire College 413.559.5477 On Wed, 13 May 2009, Stuart Lewis wrote: > Hi Sarah, > > Only showing metadata fields that have a value for a given item is the > default behaviour for DSpace. > > Could you share with us a screenshot showing an example of you have / > what you want? > > Thanks, > > > Stuart Lewis > Digital Services Programmer > Te Tumu Herenga The University of Auckland Library > Auckland Mail Centre, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand > Ph: 64 9 373-7599 x81928 > http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/ > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sarah Ryder [mailto:sry...@hampshire.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, 13 May 2009 8:05 a.m. > To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Dspace-tech] item record customization > > > Hello > > We're using the jsp interface and our librarians would like to > de-clutter > the simple and full item record pages by only showing metadata fields > that have a value for that item. As far as I can tell this is not an > option that can be set in the configuration. Is that the case or can > this be configured somewhere? Has anybody else run across the want/need > > for this and put the change into place? > > Thanks > > -Sarah Ryder > Web Development > Hampshire College > 413.559.5477 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ > The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your > production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks > to > Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK > i700 > Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image > processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
