Hi Richard,
This seems to me to be a very reasonable request. I'll keep this in mind
while working on the new client.
Bill
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Richard Green <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all
>
>
>
> Following recent talks with Thorny Staples and Ross Wayland (among others)
> please can I flag up a problem with the admin client in 3.1 in the hope that
> the "new" admin client being built can improve on the situation?
>
>
>
> In the 2.x client, building and editing a RELS-EXT datastream was like any
> other XML datastream – basically an editor over a blank "sheet of paper".
> In 3.1, the RELS-EXT editor has been specialised to make the construction of
> relationships easy and relatively foolproof. In principle this is great –
> EXCEPT that it prevents you doing other things. Unless I'm missing
> something you can't use the editor to insert anything that isn't a
> relationship, for instance an oai:itemID as required by PROAI:
>
>
>
> <oai:itemID>oai:hull.ac.uk:hull:999</oai:itemID>
>
>
>
> Further, the client seems to enforce a limited set of relationships. You
> can over-type the relationship field, but when you attempt to save the
> changes, it enforces relationship validation against a fixed set of
> "allowed" relationships that just includes:
>
>
>
> hasService
>
> hasModel
>
> isDeploymentOf
>
> isContractor
>
> isMemberOf
>
>
>
> …not isPartOf, isMemberOfCollection etc.
>
>
>
> Please can the "new" editor allow straight text editing on RELS-EXT, even
> if it has a nifty tool for building relationships, so that it can easily be
> used in conjunction with things other than just collection membership and
> content model oriented relationships..
>
>
>
> Best
>
>
>
> Richard
>
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