Training Video:Add A Field

Introduction

Walkthrough of adding a metadata field to a repository.

What You Will Learn

• How to add a field to the database
• How to add new phrases and to include the new field in the Workflow
• How to add the field to the Abstract page and to run regenerate_abstracts

What You Should Already Know

• be familiar with the structure of EPrints and the relationships between configuration, phrase and workflow files
• how to login as administrator and to edit text files on the server
• how to restart apache

Resources

Video

The Video can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B5_dHStUTQ.

Index

• 00:00 Introduction
• 00:18 Command line intro and basic set-up
• 00:45 Look over the file: eprint_fields.pl
• 01.39 Add new field to new file: z_local_eprints_fields.pl
• 02.33 Use the add_dataset_field function to add the field
• 03.39 Creating field of type ‘set’
• 04.28 Commit the new field by using ‘epadmin update repoid’
• 05.28 Add the new field to the eprint Workflow
• 06.34 Add the phrases, set names and help text for the new field using the web UI
• 08.35 Add the new field to the eprint Abstract page
• 09.15 Overview of ‘eprint_render.pl’ file
• 10.45 Run regenerate_abstracts to request and update to the Abstract page
• 11.35 Move the phrases created using the web UI from zz_phrases.xml to z_local_fields.xml

Notes, Errata and Additional Information

• EPrints 3.3.14
• Ubuntu 15.04

Test Yourself

Exercises as appropriate to allow the learner to practice the subject of the page.

More Reading

• Wiki page 1
• Wiki page 2
• Wiki page 3