>From the technical point there is no obstacle to do this. The problem is the UI/UX. It is constrained by the widgets available. I've added issue #337 and assigned to milestone 2.2 to see if this can be solved by the next release.
https://gitlab.com/mayan-edms/mayan-edms/issues/337 On Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 6:00:13 PM UTC-4, kyle graves wrote: > > I'm running into a predicament where I have many documents in Mayan > already, and have a mix of optional and required metadata for different > document types I've defined. > Now a requirement has come up to switch some of the optional metadata to > required metadata. This seems easy, but has presented a problem: there is > no way (in the UI) to *switch* metadata from optional to required. > What one has to do is remove the optional metadata from a document type, > which removes all values already setup, and then re-add a required metadata > to that same document type. > > This is a big problem for those who have hundred or thousands of documents > with metadata that's setup over the course of months, because it'll be > wiped away. > Luckily I decided to test the switch on a development deployment. > > I feel like there should be a way to toggle between optional and required > settings for metadata, rather than having to delete and re-add. > > I see that for now I can manually flip the 'required' column on > 'metadata_documenttypemetadatatype' table, although I haven't tried that > yet. > > > Any suggestions? Anyone run into this issue? Is this being worked on for a > future release? > -- --- 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.
