* Mark Phillips: " Re: [Mayan EDMS: 1117] Question about Metadata" (Thu, 8 Oct
  2015 12:07:35 -0700):

> I can't tell from the link you gave me or the release notes for the 2.0
> Beta if this enhancement has been implemented yet. Do you know if it has?

No, not yet implemented.
 
> I thought of the People1, People2, etc. option (I assume you mean one name
> per People1, People2, etc.), but I have at last count 15 people, and that
> set could grow as the project grows. Adding the new names to the single
> People list is easy, but adding more a more meta data fields is a little
> cumbersome.

Of course my suggestion won't scale, but initially you talked about:
"I would like to be able to select one, two, or three of the names..."
which would mean three fields.

> Also, I can make the People metadata mandatory, but not
> People1, People2, etc.

Yes, I only proposed a workaround.

Cheers,
Mathias

PS:
It is always possible to help realize features by contributing, be it with code
or by paying a developer.


> On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 2:58 AM, Mathias Behrle <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > * Mark Phillips: " [Mayan EDMS: 1103] Question about Metadata" (Fri, 2 Oct
> > 2015
> >   21:40:10 -0700):
> >
> > > Is there a way to allow multiple selections from a metadata field?
> > >
> > > For example, say there is a metadata field called People defined as
> > > {"Peter", "Paul", "Mary"}. When I try to add the People metadata to a
> > > document, I can only select one name from the list. I would like to be
> > able
> > > to select one, two, or three of the names and add these as metadata to
> > the
> > > document. Think of a collection of photographs or people. One would like
> > to
> > > have the names of all the people in the photograph associated with that
> > > photograph.
> > >
> > > If I cannot make multiple selections from the People metadata, how would
> > I
> > > achieve my goal using what Mayan has to offer?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > Mark
> >
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > this question was already discussed here:
> > https://github.com/mayan-edms/mayan-edms/issues/177#issuecomment-90167288
> >
> > As long as we don't have the multi-metadata type you can workaround by
> > defining
> > several fields like People1, People2, etc.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mathias
> >


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