Re: [Dspace-tech] FW: How to limit user selection ONLY to choice drop down

2012-01-30 Thread Scott Thurston
Matt, our proof-of-concept repository is running DSpace v1.7.2. I just set our controlled vocabulary field choices.closed.dc.subject=true and restarted DSpace, then tried to submit an item. Just as you're seeing, I was able to type a bogus value for the subject field and DSpace allowed me to add

[Dspace-tech] FW: How to limit user selection ONLY to choice drop down

2012-01-27 Thread Henry, Matt - OPS District Computer Technician
Hello, I work for a city school district. My objective is to implement Dspace as a repository for teacher lesson plans. The meta data has been modified to reflect the current standards that are in use. We have created several controlled vocabularies for this purpose. I am currently having a

Re: [Dspace-tech] FW: How to limit user selection ONLY to choice drop down

2012-01-27 Thread Tim Donohue
Hi Matt, If you just want to have a dropdown of values available, then you might find it easier to just configure a dropdown (and its possible values) via the [dspace]/config/input-forms.xml' configuration file. Documentation is available at:

Re: [Dspace-tech] FW: How to limit user selection ONLY to choice drop down

2012-01-27 Thread Henry, Matt - OPS District Computer Technician
Tim, Thank you for your response. I greatly appreciate any assistance on this. Unfortunately the data structure that we have is much more complex than a drop down menu. At the end of this e-mail is a partial example of one of the kentucky core content standards. An end user needs to be able

Re: [Dspace-tech] FW: How to limit user selection ONLY to choice drop down

2012-01-27 Thread Scott Thurston
Hello Matt, I can't answer your question about changing already added values, but if you set choices.closed.dc.* to true in dspace.cfg, it should prevent users from adding values that are not in the controlled vocabulary. For example, if the metadata field in question is subject, the config

Re: [Dspace-tech] FW: How to limit user selection ONLY to choice drop down

2012-01-27 Thread Henry, Matt - OPS District Computer Technician
...@duraspace.orgmailto:tdono...@duraspace.org, dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] FW: How to limit user selection ONLY to choice drop down Hello Matt, I can't answer