submission-forms.xml

[Stevenson Gossage]

Hello,

I was wondering about the integration between the JSON language files and the item submission form. When viewing the create new item submission form, some elements on the form dynamically get updated to the new language when you switch to another language.  The section headings and warnings are all updated but the contents, each field within a section remain in English - or whatever language is hard coded in the submission-form.xml. There is one exception, in the upload file section, when you are editing the bitstream the fist 2 fields are not updated but the rest are updated to the currently selected language. Ideally, if the each field can be mapped to an element in the JSON  language  files then the  fields should dynamically update  when the language changes.

I was wondering if this is supported or is it a new feature?

thanks,

Stevenson

[Tim Donohue]

Hi Stevenson,

Currently, there's a known issue that the submission-forms.xml doesn't support dynamic translations (at least not well).  See this bug ticket  https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/646 and specifically this comment: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/646#issuecomment-1275048447 

So, this isn't yet fully supported, but there's a workaround of duplicating your submission-forms.xml for each language (see the comment above)

Tim