[Dspace-general] Custom Submission Screens

[Katherine Kilduff]

Has any progress been made on the patch (to customize user submission 
screens) that is mentioned below?  Is this patch contained in the latest 
beta version of dspace1.2.1beta3?  If it is contained in the latest beta 
version, is there any documentation on the new feature?

Thanks in advance for any information you can provide.

Katherine Kilduff
Washington Research Library Consortium
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Upper Marlboro, Maryland  20774
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William Reilly wrote:

> On Oct 25, 2004, at 11:13 AM, courtois at ksu.edu wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to create custom user submission screens for specific
>> Communities or Collections?
>> ...
>> One change, for
>> example, would be to remove the "Series/Report" field from the 2nd
>> "Describe" screen.  Another change would be to add a pull-down menu of
>> UMI subject categories to the 3rd "Describe" screen.  We'd like for
>> these changes to apply only to an ETD Community/Collection and may have
>> different changes to apply to other Communities/Collections.
>>
>> ...I just need to get a
>> general idea if this sort of thing is possible or if the submission
>> screens need to be consistent across all Communities and Collections.
>>
>
> Hi Marty,
>
> (I don't know if there's been any response on dspace-theses)
>
> You're looking for something many have requested before.  To date, 
> yes, out-of-the-box, the submission screens have had to be consistent 
> across all Communities and Collections. The good news is that a 
> configurable solution is nearing readiness as a test patch.
>
> When the patch is applied to the current DSpace release, you will find 
> you may edit an XML configuration file (input-forms.xml) to define 
> collection-specific custom submission screens.  Your changes take 
> effect on restart of Tomcat.
>
> We are looking to expedite testing with some adopters of an earlier 
> variant on this, and to provide the lists more information on the 
> patch's release before long.
>
> Best,
> William Reilly
> Technical Analyst
> Digital Library Research Group
> MIT Libraries
> Project Manager, CWSpace: http://cwspace.mit.edu
> Archiving MIT's OpenCourseWare in DSpace
>
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