Hi Stuart Thanks for your response.
The use case is the work-around for their not being a date range control. We would like to use Time Period (temporal coverage) to record when a dataset was being collected, or what dates it covers historically. The DCMI recommendation is that this be done as a date range rather than a single date. In the absence of a date range, we would like to have a repeatable date field, so that depositors can either record a start and end date for data collection, or (in the instance of survey day) a series of years in which the field work was done (e.g. Household Survey, 2004, 2006, 2008). Regards George Stuart Lewis wrote: > Hi George, > > >> In the submission process a repeatable input-type of "date" doesn't >> work. The initial value is over-written by the second value input. >> Looking in org.dspace.submit.step.DescribeStep.doProcessing I can see >> that the call to readDate is not using the repeatable value of the >> input, as it does for the other types. Is this deliberate, or is there >> some missing functionality? I'm using 1.5.0 but see that this is the >> same in 1.5.1. >> > > I don't know if it is deliberate or is just missing functionality. > > I could see the case for dates not being repeatable - generally a date > represents when something happened (e.g. the item was published), and an > event like that tends to happen only once. But there has to be some proper > use cases otherwise you wouldn't have asked. > > Unless anyone knows any differently, it might just be a bit of missing > functionality. > > Thanks, > > > Stuart > _________________________________________________________________ > > Gwasanaethau Gwybodaeth Information Services > Prifysgol Aberystwyth Aberystwyth University > > E-bost / E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ffon / Tel: (01970) 622860 > _________________________________________________________________ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > > -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
