Hi Karolayne,
questions about collection templates seem to be a trend at the moment.
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Karol Braun <[email protected]> wrote:
> I need to create a specific metadata template for all collections of a
> community, does anyone know how I can do?
>
You can't do that from the DSpace interface. DSpace can create one
collection template for each collection for you.
However, I see no reason why you couldn't do this using SQL, because the
template is just a normal item, so you could create it once and then just
add a reference to it for each collection where you want to use it.
Look at the "template_item_id" column of the "collection" table. This
should point to the "item_id" of a template item for that collection. That
template item would have the metadata values you need pre-filled. Please,
bear in mind that I never actually tried it and don't try it without doing
a full database backup first.
> I've tried to edit the item template in the web interface, but the
> metadata fields remain the same when I do a new submission.
>
All I can say is that I tried it and it works. When you log in as admin, go
to the collection, and create (or edit) the template, you can make a list
of fields and their values that will be prefilled. Then, when you submit to
that collection, you should see the fields pre-filled in th submission
forms.
In case it doesn't work, try also looking at the log to see if there are
any errors at that time.
Regards,
~~helix84
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