[Dspace-general] Week 5: Submission process

[Graham Triggs]

Dorothea Salo wrote:
> I think Manakin may have fixed this, but the metadata-input screens in
> 1.4.x JSPUI do not indicate which fields are required. Should be an
> easy fix, no? Without this, the depositor leaves something out, gets
> slapped for it, and then justifiably feels annoyed that DSpace didn't
> tell him he had to put it in in the first place!

You are right, it is an easy fix - it took me minutes alter the metadata 
entry JSP to add little red stars next to any field marked as <required> 
in input-forms.xml.

I'll quite happily put it into the main codebase, but obviously it's 
missed 1.5.1, so it may be some time ;)

> In the workflow process, the "Take Task" and then "Accept Task"
> interaction is unnecessarily redundant. Epersons who "take task"
> should be taken directly to the "perform task" page; if they decide
> they don't want to do it, they can "return task to pool." This
> refinement would save me personally hundreds of clicks and
> page-refreshes a year (and a lot of grumbly annoyance).

This is a tricky one - the information in the pool listing isn't 
necessarily enough for someone to decide if they are going to do the 
task. So if they take it, they have to return it to the pool or nobody 
else can work on it.

I really wouldn't be surprised if this was a 'damned if you do, damned 
if you don't' scenario, and either way will cause irritation / problems 
for an equal number of deployments.

G

 
 
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