Satya, Dorothea Salo wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Satya Ranjan Sahu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I am trying to remove some fields in input-forum.xml of a DSpace >> 1.4.2 installation. But when I am trying to remove 'citation' field, it is >> showing internal error. >> >> And it should be checked by default the option "The item has been published >> or publicly distributed before" in the first 'Submit: Describe this Item' > > Short answer: In 1.4.2, you are stuck. You CANNOT have the "published > before" box checked and *not* have the Citation field. I can't think > of a way to hide the field with CSS, because there's no way to put a > class or ID attribute on it, is there? > > Longer answer: > > The "published before" checkbox adds dc.date.issued, dc.citation, and > dc.publisher to the next form page when it is checked. This creates a > lot of bad and opaque interactions, the one you cite among them. Even > worse, if you add a default value to the collection for one of those > three fields, but the hapless depositor doesn't check the "published > before" checkbox, DSpace pitches a (completely incomprehensible) blue > fit at the depositor.
Dorothea's right...DSpace 1.4.2 does require the "citation" field if you check that "The item has been published ..." option on the first page. > > (This got me in trouble with a custom thesis form, which does need > dc.date.issued despite unpublished status. That's when *I* pitched a > blue fit.) > > Tim, do you want to comment on how you've gotten around this issue in 1.5? I actually cannot claim to ever have gotten around this issue in DSpace 1.5. DSpace 1.5 does have the configurable submission, which will allow you to remove that first "initial questions step" (which asks whether an item has been published before). However, I believe in 1.5 if you want to have that "initial questions step", you are still required to have that "citation" field whenever that "The item has been published..." option is checked. Someone should definitely correct me if I'm wrong. The route we've gone is to remove that "initial questions step" altogether (and create a custom initialization step to default all the answers to being checked all the time). However, we still include that "citation" field on our later metadata step. I admittedly haven't tried to remove that "citation" field altogether...so, I don't know if that in itself could still cause issues in 1.5? - Tim > Dorothea > -- Tim Donohue Research Programmer, Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (217) 333-4648 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
