> From: Mark H. Wood [mailto:mw...@iupui.edu] > Sent: Friday, 27 February 2009 5:14 a.m. > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 04:31:28PM +0200, mikan.d.dspace listmail wrote: > > At the moment Dspace uses input-forms.xml to map different forms for > > each collection. Has any effort been made to allow administrators to > > do this via web UI? > > This would greatly reduce the need for system-admins to touch DSpace > > installation and should be added to future feature requests. > > This sounds like a good thing. It would automate a very tedious > process that uses information which is much more accessible to the > machine than to the human. It's possible to get the database out of > sync. with the form designs, but then it was always possible to get the > mapping element out of sync. with the actual form designs too, and > (either way) it's not too hard to build a periodic check if this > becomes a serious issue. > > Would you submit a feature-request tracker item on SourceForge? > > I think that this should be an ordinary editable attribute of the > collection, so that the collection's admin.s can do it without > bothering/waiting for the site admin.s.
+1! That sounds like a great idea to me, too.. at the moment, repository admins can edit their metadata registries, bitstream format registries, etc. but still have to wait for me when they want to map a collection to a new form in input-forms.xml (which in itself is tedious to maintain, as Mark points out). Even just getting the mapping in would be great, but I'd also love an 'Edit Input Forms' page with a similar layout and function to the Metadata Registry page, ie. Type the name of your form element, choose the input type (text,combo,checkbox, etc) from a dropdown list, set required yes/no, assign controlled vocabs if necessary.. Cheers, Kim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
