[Dspace-general] Displaying forms according to content type.

[Paulo Jobim]

Hi Yuri
I am writing you in english so the list can understand us but we can  
talk in the phone or email directly is you wish.
At Instituto Antonio Carlos Jobim the whole repository was organised  
by the kind of document i.e Text, Audio, Video, Pictures, Photos etc.
this makes it very easy, specially using Manakin to have different  
forms for different types of things.
But we are going to host the archive of the Architect and Urbanist  
Lucio Costa where they had a totally different approach:
They have collections for each of his projects and inside these  
collections all kinds of items related to it.
This makes it harder to handle those types individually but: To  
display the item using Manakin you can check the type of item and then  
display it differently for each type. I dont know very well the  
submission code but I believe you can do this if you ask for the type  
of the item in the first step. (there is something similar for  
published or not published items).
Please feell free to call me at (21) 25120303 in the afternoon or email
abraço
Paulo
On Feb 13, 2009, at 10:20 AM, Yuri wrote:

> Hi everyone.
>
> Let me introduce my self, once I'm new here and I don't know how  
> much formal people are here. ;-)
>
> My name is Yuri Gomes Cardenas, I'm brazilian and study in a public  
> university (<www.ufsc.br>) which is located in the south,  
> Florianópolis, Santa Catarina state. I work in a informatics  
> laboratory (where we use, develop and promote free software) of the  
> university and the project I'm engaged now has to do with a digital  
> library with which we aim to give support to teachers of public high  
> schools, of philosophy and sociology disciplines. After some search  
> and attempts, we found DSpace and started learning how this software  
> works.
>
> The question is:
>
> Does anyone know if DSpace has some native mechanism for displaying  
> the submission forms according to the content type? That is, once I  
> choose a "audio" content type, the next steps should display some  
> set of field (obviously, related to this content type) and if I  
> choose an "article", another set of fields (not necessarily  
> completely different) are displayed. We already know that it's  
> possible to change forms' fields according to Collections, but we do  
> not think this would be the best way of doing that.
>
> And I hope my bad written english do not interfere my threads'  
> understanding. =)
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Yuri Gomes Cardenas
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