Hello Chris, you got the possibility to add template items to a collection. The metadata of the template will be applied to the items during submission.
In the xmlui log in as admin -> choose collection -> edit collection -> first panel "edit metadata" at the bottom create/edit item template Hope that helps Claudia Jürgen Am 18.01.2011 15:02, schrieb Chris Charles: > Hi DSpace folks: > > I'd like to be able to force certain metadata values for all items in > certain collections, e.g., all items in our ETD collection should have > dc.type = "Thesis". This is something that I'd like to set during > submission and not batch-edit afterwards. > > I was thinking about setting a default value via input-forms.xml and > making it read-only, but I don't see any way to do that. It looks like the > read-only part should be done via the<visibility> tag (the use of which > isn't entirely clear), but I don't see anything about setting default > values. > > I don't mind whether the metadata values are shown during submission or > not. > > Any suggestions? > > I'm running DSpace 1.6.2 with XMLUI. > > Thanks, > ~Chris > -- > Chris Charles > Application Programmer/Analyst II > Research Enterprise and Scholarly Communication > University of Guelph Library > 519-824-4120 x52974 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks > Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand > malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you > can protect your company and customers by using code signing. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech -- Claudia Juergen Universitaetsbibliothek Dortmund Eldorado 0231/755-4043 https://eldorado.tu-dortmund.de/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
