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<div>Could you write them to a file and use simple autocompletion? It wouldn't force the user to select a value, but it would suggest the values.</div>
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<div>See<b> </b><a href="http://wiki.eprints.org/w/Training_Video:Autocompletion">http://wiki.eprints.org/w/Training_Video:Autocompletion</a></div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span><<a href="mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk">eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>> on behalf of Enio Carboni <<a href="mailto:enio.carboni@gmail.com">enio.carboni@gmail.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>"<a href="mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk">eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>" <<a href="mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk">eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Friday, 13 May 2016 11:24<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk">eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>" <<a href="mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk">eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [EP-tech] Simple meta data select list populated by file?<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Andrew,<br>
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i use the options "render_input" and "fromform" to populate my dynamic field (from Oracle database).<br>
<span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">you should</span> <span class="">
write some</span> <span>perl</span> <span>code</span> <span class="">but once you do</span><span class="">you'll get</span>
<span class="">satisfaction<br>
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Yo can check this options in eprints wiki <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.eprints.org/w/Category:EPrints_Metadata_Fields">
http://wiki.eprints.org/w/Category:EPrints_Metadata_Fields</a><br>
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Enio<br>
</span></span>Il 12/05/2016 13:31, Andrew Collington ha scritto:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Is it possible to have a simple, multi-select list as a new metadata field but have the values populated by a files? What I’ve got is a list of research units that may dynamically change (they’re stored in an Oracle database). The simplest
thing I thought would be possible is to just generate an alphabetical list of those units into a file and use that file as the options in the select list.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What I thought I could try first was a namedset, so I added to eprints_fields.pl the following:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> {<br>
allow_null => 1,<br>
multiple => 1,<br>
name => 'research_units',<br>
required => 0,<br>
set_name => 'research_units',<br>
type => 'namedset',<br>
},</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And added the namedsets/research_units file with the list of units (one per line). Naturally that didn’t work – clearly I misunderstood the namedsets a bit as it still required a phrase set up for each entry.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I could possibly use the ‘subjects’ file and set up a new group within that. Ideally, though, I’d like to avoid touching that file altogether as the units may change over time and I’d like to automate the process of getting the new list
into eprints.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If it’s not possible to populate from a simple file, then are there any other options? Would it come down to writing my own dataset object (or something like that?), or could the result be taken from a remote web service or something like
that?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Many thanks for any hints in the right direction!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Andy<o:p></o:p></p>
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