Mathias, Thanks for your comments. I would love to dig in and add the changes myself. I have written a few django based sites in the past. Right now I am in the midst of an Android project, so I don't have a lot of free time.
If you are interested in doing the work let me know how much it would cost. ;) Thanks again, Mark On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Mathias Behrle <[email protected]> wrote: > * 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 > > > > > > -- > > Mathias Behrle > PGP/GnuPG key availabable from any keyserver, ID: 0x8405BBF6 > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Mayan EDMS" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mayan EDMS" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
