Idci field

EPrints 3 Reference: Directory Structure - Metadata Fields - Repository Configuration - XML Config Files - XML Export Format - EPrints data structure - Core API - Data Objects

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Metadata Fields: Arclanguage - Base64 - Bigint - Boolean - Compound - Counter - Dataobjref - Date - Decimal - Email - Fields - Float - Id - Idci - Image - Int - Itemref - Keywords - Langid - Longtext - Longtext_counter - Multilang - Multipart - Name - Namedset - Pagerange - Recaptcha - Relation - Search - Secret - Set - Storable - Subject - Subobject - Text - Time - Timestamp - Url - Uuid

Description

This metadata field is very similar to a Id field. The main difference is that indexes the ID in a case-insensitive way, which is useful for things lik usernames and email addresses (which have their own sub-type) that often get capitalised and will work with or without capitalisation in most situations.

Inheritance

• Metadata
  • Text field
    • Id field
      • Idci field

Properties

Same as Id field (and Text field).

Required Phrases

No additional phrases.

Database

Idci fields are stored in the database as

fieldname VARCHAR(255)

API

See API page.

Examples

Most basic example.

{
    name => 'username',
    type => 'idci',
},