#246: WebSubmit: add report number validation to Get_Report_Number function
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Reporter: jcaffaro | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: v1.0
Component: WebSubmit | Version:
Keywords: |
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Submissions that perform modifications on existing records must usually
check that they are processing records that are valid for their workflow.
This is usually achieved with an additional, customized WebSubmit function
at the beginning of the workflow that check the format of the specified
report number. It would be desirable to plug some basic checking
capabilities right in the Get_Report_Number function.
A possibility would be to add a new parameter {{{rn_format}}} that would
describe the accepted format for report numbers. The syntax of this format
could be similar to the one used in {{{Report_Number_Generation}}}
function (eg. {{{DEMO-PICTURE-<PA>categ</PA>-<PA>yy</PA>}}}) or simply a
regular expression for better expressiveness. In any case both of the
suggested solutions would have to be adapted to support for eg. any
character matching (.*) and validation against the context, in particular
the currently selected category (it is important that someone allowed to
modify the category "Article" of the DEMOART submission cannot select the
"Article" category and then input report number matching a "Preprint"
one.)
For eg. the MBI action of the DEMOPOE submission could specify
{{{rn_format=DEMO-POETRY-\d{4}-\d{3} }}} or {{{rn_format=DEMO-
POETRY-%(category)s-\d{4}-\d{3} }}} in the case of a category based
submission (the "category" parameters must match the value in
{{{curdir/comboDEMOPOE}}})
This improvement would only provide basic check on the report number
format, but would cover many needs. More advanced checks would still have
to be performed using customized WebSubmit functions.
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