How can I change email template parameters? DSpace 7.6

[Soukaïna Mahboub Mehboub]

Hello community,

I’ve set up a collection for entities of type “Person”, but I noticed it doesn’t include the dc.title metadata. 

Since dc.title is used to populate params[0] in the email template during item submission, the title field in the email currently appears as “params[0]” with no actual title, as the attached image shows. 

Could you please advise a workaround to ensure the email template displays the correct title?

Thank you for your assistance.

Best regards,

[DSpace Technical Support]

Hello,

That behavior sounds like a possible bug to me.  The email templates obviously shouldn't assume that all objects have a `dc.title` because Person entities do *not* have a `dc.title` by default.

I'd recommend reporting this as a bug in our ticketing system at https://github.com/DSpace/dspace/issues   Please add details about how you've reproduced this behavior, so that developers can better understand what may be going on.

Thanks,

Tim

[Soukaïna Mahboub Mehboub]

Hi Tim, 

Thanks for the reply. i managed to fix the issue by modifying the source files of DSpace 7.6. 

I chnaged Item.java file, I replaced: 

@Override

    public String getName() {

        return getItemService().getMetadataFirstValue(this, MetadataSchemaEnum.DC.getName(), "title", null, Item.ANY);

    }

  

By : 

 @Override

    public String getName() {

        String title = getItemService().getMetadataFirstValue(

            this, MetadataSchemaEnum.DC.getName(), "title", null, Item.ANY

        );

        // person.givenName + person.familyName

        if (title == null || title.trim().isEmpty()) {

            String givenName = getItemService().getMetadataFirstValue(

                this, MetadataSchemaEnum.PERSON.getName(), "givenName", null, Item.ANY

            );

            String familyName = getItemService().getMetadataFirstValue(

                this, MetadataSchemaEnum.PERSON.getName(), "familyName", null, Item.ANY

            );

            if (givenName == null) {

                givenName = "";

            }

            if (familyName == null) {

                familyName = "";

            }

            title = (givenName + " " + familyName).trim();

        }

        return title.isEmpty() ? "Untitled Submission" : title;

    }

Regards, 

El dia divendres, 4 d’abril del 2025 a les 23:51:55 UTC+2, DSpace Technical Support va escriure:

[Walk, Martin]

Hi,

I have added a few of those null checks too over the time. It might be a good idea to fix this for all possible metadata fields. I opened an issue: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/10581

Best regards,
Martin

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