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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Hi All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">I thought this would be a simple experiment… change the default value for a user record when it gets created from ‘user’ to ‘editor’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Altering the local file …/archive/xxxxx/cfg/cfg.d/user_fields_default.pl file to include the line
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">$</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A000F0">data</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#B22200">->{</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">type</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#B22200">}
= </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">"editor"</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#B22200">;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#B22200"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Doesn’t appear to work as expected…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Even altering a default (that I didn’t know existed, until I tried to figure out what was going wrong!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Within …/perl_lib/EPrints/DataObj/User.pm, there is a sub ‘get_system_field_info’, that contains a default setting as well…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#B22200">{
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">name</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#B22200">=></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">"usertype"</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#B22200">,
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">type</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#B22200">=></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">"namedset"</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#B22200">,
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">required</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#B22200">=></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A02000">1</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#B22200">,
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#B22200">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">set_name</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#B22200">=></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">"user"</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#B22200">,
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">input_style</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#B22200">=></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">"medium"</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#B22200">,
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">default_value</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#B22200">=></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">"user"
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#B22200">},<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Anyone got any ideas ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Matt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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