Hi Joel, On 19/11/10 05:25, Joel Rosental R. wrote: > I'm new to Dspace and was wondering if this is possible: When an user > starts a new submission and has to put the Authors name of the document > that is being uploaded, instead of having to write it could be possible > to select the names of the Authors from a predefined list of Authors? > (imagine a research institute where all the authors are going to be > internal employees).
There are two ways to achieve this. One is easier; it doesn't even require you to edit any code. The other one is a bit more difficult but in the long run may give you more benefits. You can just customise your input-forms.xml file. There is some documentation on the wiki how to do this: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Alter+submission+input+forms You could change the type of the field that populates dc.contributor.author from "name" to "dropdown". Then you need to define your list of authors in the form and link it up to the dropdown-box for authors. Have a look at the standard input-forms.xml and how it does this for dc.type. See also https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Change+a+form+value Or you can set up choice control for your author field. There is some information in the DSpace manual http://www.dspace.org/1_6_2Documentation/ch02.html#N105E6 and also some documentation on the wiki for this: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Authority+Control+of+Metadata+Values but I'm not sure how helpful this will be for someone just starting out with DSpace. I hope this helps you get started. cheers, Andrea -- Andrea Schweer IRR Technical Specialist, ITS Information Systems The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today http://p.sf.net/sfu/msIE9-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general
