Hi Adam, Thank you once again for your very helpful input.
The documentation was very helpful in explaining how to create our own customized authority files using a text editor but I have just a couple more questions on loading our own customized files. Do you place the customized authority files in the custom database, currently called 'my-hip-app' and then run the following command to load them: $ python manage.py packages -o load_concept_scheme -s 'path to authority files directory' We will only be using a very few authority files for the first phase of our project. Will Arches work with just a few authority files, or do we need to load 'dummy' ones? So far we have been using the full set of sample files so haven't tried this out. Thank you very much, Lucy Lucy Fletcher-Jones Egypt Database Project TMP Room 2181, HUSS Building AUC New Campus Tel: 02 2615 1760 Mobile: 010 1633 8367 On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 1:43 AM, Adam Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Lucy, hopefully this information will address your questions. > > 1. The authority files are actually only used during the package install > process. Once you have installed the package, any changes you make in the > RDM are not reflected in the files themselves, but are contained in your > database. You can export the schema that you've created to a skos file, > but I don't know of a way to retro-actively create authority files (i.e. > based on changes that have been made through the RDM. As I mentioned in > this considerations document > <http://archesproject.org/implementation-considerations/>, personally I > recommend making all of the changes to the authority files before the > package install, because then you can reinstall without any trouble. > > 2. You'll need to modify the forms themselves, which has come up here > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/archesproject/forms/archesproject/_YyRG8wFUGs/EhXHFmB6w28J>and > here > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/archesproject/hannes/archesproject/aQEYrTFaJsA/qV1IfKzsobkJ>(and > perhaps elsewhere) on the forum already. It's a bit of an involved > process, so it would be best to get help from someone with good javascript > and html skills. > > Adam > > On Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 7:40:46 AM UTC-5, Lucy FJ wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> I have two unrelated questions: >> >> 1. I have modified several authority files through the Reference Data >> Manager and would like to see these modified versions in the database but >> we cannot find them. Where do they reside? >> >> 2. There are many input fields (boxes) on the input forms that we do not >> need but they appear to be mandatory. We have loaded up the sample >> reference data. Is there a simple way to makes these fields optional >> without needing to change the program? i.e. I am looking for a user method >> of being able to ignore these fields. >> >> Thank you very much for any help, >> >> Lucy >> >> >> >> > -- > -- To post, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe, > send email to [email protected]. For more > information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Arches Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/archesproject/QOUoumJpLHc/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- To post, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
