My experience is the same as Dorothea's. It worked very well for our instance of DSpace.
Here's a possibly silly question... You're using the web submission process, right (in other words, not bulk import, or some other process)? Default values are only inserted if you're going through the web process. In the bulk import, standard metadata values need to be included in the dublin core xml file for all new items. ~Caryn -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Collection level "Item Template" to try to add a default metadata value to new items in a collection From: Dorothea Salo <dorothea.s...@gmail.com> To: Dspace Tech <DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net> Date: 3/15/2010 10:42 AM > I got nothin' here. I've done what you describe, and it worked the way > you want it to work. (This ended up annoying one of my content > providers, but that was purely MY fault.) > > One possibly-clueless suggestion: are you absolutely sure the value > isn't there? Have you checked the full item view and the database? If > the field in question isn't explicitly told to show up on the > short-display page in the theme's XSLT, it won't. > > Dorothea > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Sobieralski, Damian Michael > <dsobi...@indiana.edu> wrote: > >> No ideas? >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Sobieralski, Damian Michael >>> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 12:20 PM >>> To: 'dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net' >>> Subject: Collection level "Item Template" to try to add a default metadata >>> value to new items in a collection >>> >>> Hello group. >>> >>> I am trying to use the item template on a collection to insert an >>> automatic metadata value into any new item. I believe that I am doing it >>> correctly. But I am not getting the result that I would have hoped. >>> >>> When I go into a collection via the xmlui interface I select "Edit >>> Collection". After that resulting page loads I click on "Create" new "item >>> template" at the bottom of the page. On that resulting page I then click >>> on "Item Metadata". Once that page loads I select from the pulldown list >>> the metadata name I want and type in its intended default value. I then >>> click on "Add New Metadata". All seems to go well. >>> >>> I assumed that this would add a metadata value to any new record entered >>> into this collection. But it doesn't. Is this not how this is intended >>> to work? >>> >>> BTW - I am running DSpace 1.5.2 and xmlui. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> - Damian >>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval >> Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs >> proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. >> See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev >> _______________________________________________ >> DSpace-tech mailing list >> DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
