<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Lieven<DIV>I think you have to set up in input-forms.xml to show a box to enter date.created.</DIV><DIV>this way DSpace will use the date.issued automatically ( the date it has been published in DSpace) and if it has been published before you check the box and you can enter the date it was published. in any case you would always have the date.created box.</DIV><DIV>I hope it helps you</DIV><DIV>Paulo Jobim<BR><DIV><DIV>On 31/05/2006, at 15:44, Lieven Droogmans wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">If the box "The item has been published or publicly distributed before" is checked, you will see a "date:issued" field in the next page and not a "date:created" field. The difference is in the DublinCore qualifier (see <A href="http://dspace.org/technology/metadata.html">http://dspace.org/technology/metadata.html</A> for the DSpace standard DC metadata).<BR><BR>If you want to know how to show a creation date in the submission workflow (even if the box "The item has been published or publicly distributed before" is not ticked) you can take a look at <A href="http://www.dspace.org/technology/system-docs/submission.html">http://www.dspace.org/technology/system-docs/submission.html</A>, which explains how to customize the forms of the submission workflow<BR><BR>Hope this helps, <BR>Lieven<BR><BR><BR><BR><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 5/31/06, <B class="gmail_sendername">Branislav Kovacevic</B> <<A href="mailto:Kovacev@ceu.hu">Kovacev@ceu.hu</A>> wrote:</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi All,<BR><BR>Could anybody enlighten me with the answer to the following question.<BR><BR>At the beginning of the submission process there is a checkbox:<BR>"The item has been published or publicly distributed before" <BR>If I don't check it out, in the following steps I don't see the field<BR>where I could<BR>enter creation date for a document which was not published before.<BR>But I'd like to records it somewhere.<BR><BR>Many thanks in advance. <BR><BR>Branko Kovacevic<BR><BR><BR><BR>Records Coordinator<BR>Open Society Archives<BR>Arany Janos u. 32<BR>1051 Budapest, Hungary<BR>phone: (36-1) 327-3266 or 327-2029<BR>e-mail: <A href="mailto:kovacev@ceu.hu">kovacev@ceu.hu </A><BR>website: <A href="http://www.osa.ceu.hu">www.osa.ceu.hu</A><BR>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Dspace-general mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Dspace-general@mit.edu"> Dspace-general@mit.edu</A><BR><A href="http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general">http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR clear="all"><BR>-- <BR>Lieven<DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dspace-general mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:Dspace-general@mit.edu">Dspace-general@mit.edu</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general">http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>