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[EP-tech] Re: Default date values

Recommit and old values will be copied over.

Rory

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From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Andrew Beeken
Sent: 07 September 2015 15:44
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Subject: [EP-tech] Re: Default date values

I¹ll have a look - my only concern is losing any data we already have in our fields, unless there is a way to remap existing fields?

On 07/09/2015 15:30, "eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk on behalf of Timothy Miles-Board" <eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk on behalf of timothy.miles-board@ulcc.ac.uk> wrote:

>
>Have a look at https://github.com/eprintsug/datesdatesdates
>
>As well as allowing multiple dates to be entered, there is validation 
>in there to make sure that certain dates have the full YYYY-MM-DD entered.
>
>Tim
>
>Timothy Miles-Board
>Web & Repositories Development Specialist, University of London 
>Computer Centre
>020 7863 1342  |  07742 970 351  | timothy.miles-board@london.ac.uk | 
>@drtjmb The University of London is an exempt charity in England and 
>Wales
>
>________________________________________
>From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk
><eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk> on behalf of Andrew Beeken 
><anbeeken@lincoln.ac.uk>
>Sent: 07 September 2015 2:46 PM
>To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
>Subject: [EP-tech]  Default date values
>
>Hello!
>
>We¹ve got a number of different date fields in our repository and we¹re 
>trying to standardise the data we get out of them for new deposits so 
>that we can guarantee a DD/MM/YYYY value each time. At the moment 
>people do not have to specify values for Day and Month and they show up 
>in the dropdowns as ? And Unspecified respectively for blank options. 
>Is there a way to remove these so that we can encourage people to give 
>us somewhat more specific (or as close as possible) dates? I¹ve looked 
>through the files and I can¹t seem to see any other date fields which 
>have default values attached.
>
>Cheers!
>Andrew
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