Integrating Entity Fields into Traditional Item Submission Forms in DSpace 8.0

[Barunes Padhy]

Hi,

In my current setup, I have the default entities initialized by using the following command:

[dspace]/bin/dspace initialize-entities -f [dspace]/config/entities/relationship-types.xml

I would like to integrate entity fields into traditional item submission forms. Specifically, replace the default "Author" field in submission forms and use all fields from the "Person" entity instead.

My questions:

1. What would be the best way to approach this?
2. Possibility to use the "Person" schema for Person entities creation, then map them to dc fields? 
   • Ex. "person.familyName" and "person.givenName" mapped to "dc.contributor.author" in the format "familyname, givenname".
     
3. Is it possible for me to have these "set" of entity fields repeatable?

Regards,

Barunes Padhy