booleans in custom metadata

[fooba...@gmail.com]

I've been tailoring custom metadataBlocks for my organization. Reading this, I was wondering why there's no boolean fieldType. We have a lot of true / false metadata that I would like to capture -- is there a standard way to do this? Should I use the strings "TRUE" and "FALSE"? 

Thanks,

Aaron Curtis

[Paul Boon]

Hi Aaron,

 

The first thing that comes to my mind is using a dropdown with only Yes or No in it.

So allowControlledVocabulary=TRUE and allowmultiples

=FALSE. Then have the controlledVocabulary, with the values Yes and No.

 

Maybe others have a better solution, somehow resulting in a radio (toggle) UI component.

 

Kind Regards,

Paul Boon

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[Philipp at UiT]

I'm also implementing a metadata schema where several fields use boolean values, and I also think there should be a boolean field type. So far, I have implemented this as a controlled vocabulary; see Paul's suggestion. The attached image shows what this looks like in my Google spreadsheet (I haven't tested any of this yet).

Best,

Philipp

[gwenaël doux]

Hi all,

From a UX point of view, the dropdown solution seems to be the most adapted solution to replace a boolean field type.

As Paul said earlier, you can filter the answer from the user and limit the answer to one choice.

Best Regards,

Gwenaël Doux

[fooba...@gmail.com]

Thanks, these workarounds are OK, but not quite ideal. I created issue https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/7961 .

[Philip Durbin]

There is a new draft pull request by Jérôme Roucou that adds a boolean field type: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/pull/10480

We're also discussing it here: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/379673-dev/topic/The.20boolean

How should it look and work? Please feel free to join in the discussion!

Thanks,

Phil

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