"Initial Questions" step in DSpace 7

[David P. Steelman]

All,

Is the "Initial Questions" step functionality from DSpace 6 available in DSpace 7?

There is a brief mention of it on the "Metadata Recommendations" Confluence page (https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/Metadata+Recommendations), but I suspect that is just an oversight.

We are particularly interested in any DSpace 7 mechanism to add and remove individual steps/sections from the submissions page dynamically, based on user input.

Thanks,

David

[Tim Donohue]

Hi David,

No, the "Initial Questions" step doesn't exist in DSpace 7.  We dropped it because the submission form has moved to a single page (all fields/sections are on one webpage).  In DSpace 6, this "Initial Questions" step essentially loaded the next page of the form based on the answers provided.  In DSpace 7, that's not easy to achieve because the entire form loads at once & users can begin interacting with any step/section they want (there's no guarrantee they'd start with the "initial questions" step if it appeared).

It is​ possible to dynamically add/remove individual metadata fields (see "Item Type Based Metadata Collection" at https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/Submission+User+Interface#SubmissionUserInterface-ItemtypeBasedMetadataCollection

It is also possible to create optional​ (mandatory=false) steps/sections which do not appear by default, but can be added to the form using the "Add more +" button.  But, this requires the user to click on the "Add more +" button to access those optional steps.

However, at least at this time, there's no way to dynamically insert entirely new steps/sections based on the metadata entered in other steps/sections.  Instead, we'd recommend looking at using "Item Type Based Metadata Collection" to dynamically insert one (or many) fields based on the value of "dc.type".

If this doesn't align with your needs or use cases, then you are welcome to submit a new feature request ticket to our ticketing system at https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues   I'd ask that you describe your use case better (perhaps based on how you used this feature in 6.x) and why DSpace 7 doesn't align well with this use case.   We can then ask around and see if others have a similar need (which would increase the priority) and/or find a volunteer to investigate possible solutions for v7.

Tim

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[David P. Steelman]

Tim,

Thanks for the response.

In DSpace 6 we were using a checkbox on the "Initial Questions" page to determine whether or not to show the "Creative Commons License" step as part of the submission process. This was part of the default workflow, and not tied to any collection.

Given that this functionality is no longer available in DSpace 7, our stakeholders have decided that always displaying the CC License step is sufficient for our purposes.

Thanks again,

David