New eperson metadata field in register form

[Karol S]

Hi,

I need add a new field metadata to "register form" and eperson profile.

At the moment is:

First name *

Last name *

Contact telephone

language

I need additional field like a "faculty". In the internet i found something like this:

"You have to add this field to eperson-types.xml and add this field to eperson schema via web interface"

I do this but still does not see any additional fields. What i doing wrong? Cheers,

Karol

[Karol S]

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[Tim Donohue]

Hi Karol,

You will need to modify the code behind the Eperson registration form in order to enable this new field in the User Interface.  At this time, this registration form is hardcoded within DSpace, so simply updating the eperson-types.xml will not automatically update the registration form.

- Tim

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[Karol S]

Hi Tim,

thanks for your respond. I updated  "eperson-types,xml" and  "http://dspace.org/eperson" schema via dspace browser interface. 

I tried edit a profile-form.jsp and i added similarly:

<%

    Locale[] supportedLocales = I18nUtil.getSupportedLocales();

    EPerson epersonForm = (EPerson) request.getAttribute("eperson");

    String lastName = "";

    String firstName = "";

    String faculty = "";

    String phone = "";

    String language = "";

 // Get non-null values

        lastName = epersonForm.getLastName();

        if (lastName == null) lastName = "";

        firstName = epersonForm.getFirstName();

        if (firstName == null) firstName = "";

        faculty = epersonForm.getMetadata("faculty");

        if (faculty == null) faculty = "";

        phone = epersonForm.getMetadata("phone");

        if (phone == null) phone = "";

        language = epersonForm.getMetadata("language");

        if (language == null) language = "";

and

    <div class="form-group">

                <label class="col-md-offset-3 col-md-2 control-label" for="faculty"><fmt:message key="jsp.register.profile-form.fname.faculty"/></label>

        <div class="col-md-3"><input class="form-control" type="text" name="faculty" id="tfaculty" size="40" value="<%= Utils.addEntities(faculty) %>"/></div>

        </div>

and when i trying "edit profile" my administrator account in web interface  i see internal system error, in logs i see:

Caused by: org.apache.jasper.JasperException: An exception occurred processing JSP page /register/profile-form.jsp at line 53

50:         firstName = epersonForm.getFirstName();

51:         if (firstName == null) firstName = "";

52:         

53:         faculty = epersonForm.getMetadata("faculty");

54:         if (faculty == null) faculty = "";

55: 

56:         phone = epersonForm.getMetadata("phone");

When i commented out 53.54 line i see new field, but when i tried add something, there nothing happend, the field was empty. 

What file i have to change? I have to create new field in database? Maybe i did it something wrong in profile-form.jsp ?

Best wishes,

Karol

[Fury Jimmy]

Hi. I have the same problem. Have you finally found a solution ?

Best regards

[Mohd Suhair Embong]

Hi, I have the same problem. Any help even to edit and recompile .java source code?

Regards