Versioning and identifier step results in new identifiers minted

[Claudia Jürgen]

Hi all,

we found an inconsistent behavior while combining versioning (enabled by
default) and displaying the identifier during submission.

New instead of versioned identifiers were created.

We reproduced it with a Vanilla Instance of DSpace 7.6.1 with no
customizations

Following the documentation at:
https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/Submission+User+Interface#SubmissionUserInterface-Configuringthe%22Identifiers%22step

So, just enabling the identifier step in the tradional form
and setting
identifiers.submission.register = true

Now, when versioning an item, the version gets a new identifier not an
identifer.2.

Disabling identifiers.submission.register = true, results in versioned
identifiers. But only up to version 3, then the versioning is disabled.

Is this a documentation issue, missing additional config parameters or a
bug, then I will fill an issue at github.


sunny greetings

Claudia


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[DSpace Technical Support]

Hi Claudia,

That does sound like unexpected behavior.  However, before reporting a bug ticket, I'd highly recommend testing it again in a later version of DSpace 7.6.x.  The latest is DSpace 7.6.5 and there's been a large number of bug fixes between 7.6.1 and 7.6.5...so, it's possible this has already been fixed.  (I did a quick search around and couldn't find whether this was specifically fixed, but there were general fixes to item versioning that could have fixed this bug)

Tim

[Claudia Jürgen]

Hi Tim & all,

I did search the issues as well, but did not find anything really relating.

Just set up two 9.1 instances for our upgrade. Will try to reproduce it
on a vanilla 9.1 instance and report back.

Sunny greetings

Claudia

Am 14.11.2025 um 18:22 schrieb DSpace Technical Support:
> Hi Claudia,
>
> That does sound like unexpected behavior.  However, before reporting a
> bug ticket, I'd highly recommend testing it again in a later version of
> DSpace 7.6.x.  The latest is DSpace 7.6.5 and there's been a large
> number of bug fixes between 7.6.1 and 7.6.5...so, it's possible this has
> already been fixed.  (I did a quick search around and couldn't find
> whether this was specifically fixed, but there were general fixes to
> item versioning that could have fixed this bug)
>
> Tim
>
> On Wednesday, October 15, 2025 at 5:14:32 AM UTC-5 Claudia Jürgen wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> we found an inconsistent behavior while combining versioning
> (enabled by
> default) and displaying the identifier during submission.
>
> New instead of versioned identifiers were created.
>
> We reproduced it with a Vanilla Instance of DSpace 7.6.1 with no
> customizations
>
> Following the documentation at:
> https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/
> Submission+User+Interface#SubmissionUserInterface-

> Configuringthe%22Identifiers%22step <https://wiki.lyrasis.org/
> display/DSDOC7x/Submission+User+Interface#SubmissionUserInterface-
> Configuringthe%22Identifiers%22step>

>
> So, just enabling the identifier step in the tradional form
> and setting
> identifiers.submission.register = true
>
> Now, when versioning an item, the version gets a new identifier not an
> identifer.2.
>
> Disabling identifiers.submission.register = true, results in versioned
> identifiers. But only up to version 3, then the versioning is disabled.
>
> Is this a documentation issue, missing additional config parameters
> or a
> bug, then I will fill an issue at github.
>
>
> sunny greetings
>
> Claudia
>
>
> --
> Claudia Juergen
>
> Technische Universität Dortmund
> Universitätsbibliothek
> Bibliotheks-IT
> Sebrathweg 9
> 44149 Dortmund
>

> Tel.: +49 231-755 40 43 <tel:+49%20231%207554043>
> Fax: +49 231-755 40 32 <tel:+49%20231%207554032>
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