dropdown input-type can't be made a required field?

[Mariya M]

Hi. 

I'm on JSPUI 5.9 and I'm trying to make dc.type a required field in input-forms.xml. 

dc.type uses a dropdown input-type with value-pairs. It looks like <required>You must fill this out.</required> does not work with the dropdown input-type. I can make other fields required this way, but not the dc.type field.

This limitation not mentioned in the documentation https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC5x/Submission+User+Interface#SubmissionUserInterface-TheStructureofinput-forms.xml. Could anyone confirm that this is the case?

Thank you,

Mariya Maistrovskaya

Digital Publishing Librarian

University of Toronto Libraries

[Claudia Jürgen]

Hello Mariya,

we work with 5.4+ and JSPUI and it works fine.

In the form you are actually using for the collection (you may have
configured multiple forms) do you got a field like this?
<field>
<dc-schema>dc</dc-schema>
<dc-element>type</dc-element>
<dc-qualifier></dc-qualifier>
<repeatable>false</repeatable>
<label>Type (DCMI Type)</label>
<input-type value-pairs-name="dcmi_types">dropdown</input-type>
<hint>Select the type(s) of content of the item. To select
more than one value in the list, you may have to hold down the "CTRL" or
"Shift" key.</hint>
<required>Please select a DCMI type.</required>
</field>

How exactly did you perform this customization? Do you have more than
the default form?

Hope this helps

Claudia Jürgen

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[Mariya M]

Thank you, Claudia, for responding. Our form looks similar to yours and we use a default as well as customized forms.

However we were able to resolve the issue thanks to a tip from Kim Shepherd. The issue was with value-pairs used to populate this dropdown.

Copying his tip here in case anyone else runs into a similar problem. We added the N/A value pair and after that the dc.type mandatory status kicked in.

Kim: "... i suspect what might be happening is that even though it is required, the first value in the dropdown essentially becomes the default so it is not considered to have been skipped

5:37 PM

the language value-pairs gets around this with a top value-pair that has no stored value:

5:37 PM

<pair>
       <displayed-value>N/A</displayed-value>
       <stored-value></stored-value>
     </pair>

Thank you,

Mariya

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