Dear Fillipos that is awesome! I figured it out thanks to your suggestion. There was indeed a DC field missing.
thank you!!! Maike (I'm not a Sir though, but a woman :) ) On 2-Jan-08, at 11:58 PM, Filippos Kolovos wrote: > - > Dear Sir, > > We may have a solution for your problem: > > First of all, if you look into "initial-questions.jsp" in the > definition of > the appearence (or not) > of one of the questions, say "The multiple titles", you will see > that is > determined by the boolean function > "inputSet.isDefinedMultTitles()". This inputSet method and the others > (isDefinedMultTitles(), isDefinedPubBefore(), etc) are defined in the > DCInputSet.java > file in the <dspace-dir>/src/org/dspace/app/webui/util directory. > > On their turn, these methods look into the "input-forms.xml" file, > located > in the <dspace-dir>/config directory to see whether for "that" > collection > the > admin has specified that its input form will contain a certain > dublin core > element field. For example, for the "multiple titles" question, the > function > returns > "true", if the admin for that collection has associated a > "title.alternative" DC element form to go into the submission form > for that > collection. > > If you do not wish this check to occur for certain questions, then you > either have to comment-it out in the DCInputSet.java file, or to > define it > in the input-forms.xml > for the collection(s) you are interested in. > > The "input-forms.xml" file, very briefly, is a way to associate > different > input forms (i.e. with different metadata fields) to different > collections. > However, in the same file, there is a way to just associate every > collection > with a "default" input form, in case there is no need to > differentiate. > > In either case, especially if you change the "DCInputSet.java" file, > you > will have to re-compile for the changes to take effect. > > I hope that we have helped. > > P.S. > We are also running Dspace 1.4.2 > > Kind Regards, > > -Fk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
