To flesh that out a bit more. There's a bit of code I wrote that lets you get a single property from a "compound" field. This lets you loop over a field like creator and set how it renders each item in the loop. However, this only changes how it renders on the summary (or citation). The solution with DOM hacking in perl is required to change the way it renders throughout the system.

example for the citations/eprints/summary_page.xml file;

     <epc:foreach expr="$item{dates}" iterator="date">
       <div class='uos-eprints-dv'><span 
class='uos-eprints-dv-label'><epc:print 
expr="$date.subproperty('date_type')" /> date:</span> <epc:print 
expr="$date.subproperty('date')" /></div>
     </epc:foreach>

(you'd have to tweak this to loop over creators and render the subproperties how you like)
 
Add this Code to eprint_render.pl:

sub EPrints::Script::Compiled::run_subproperty
{
         my( $self, $state, $objvar, $value ) = @_;

         if( !defined $objvar->[0] )
         {
                 $self->runtime_error( "can't get a property 
{".$value->[0]."} from undefined value" );
         }
         my $ref = ref($objvar->[1]);

         if( $ref !~ m/::/ || ! $objvar->[1]->isa( 
"EPrints::MetaField::Compound" ) )
         {
                 $self->runtime_error( "can't get a subproperty from 
anything except a compound field value, when trying to get 
".$value->[0]." from a $ref" );
         }
         my $field = $objvar->[1];
         if( $field->get_property( "multiple" ) )
         {
                 $self->runtime_error( "can't get a subproperty from a 
multiple field." );
         }

         my $fc = $field->get_property( "fields_cache" );
         my $sub_field;
         my @ok = ();
         foreach my $a_sub_field ( @{$fc} )
         {
                 push @ok, $a_sub_field->{sub_name};
                 if( $a_sub_field->{sub_name} eq $value->[0] )
                 {
                         $sub_field = $a_sub_field;
                 }
         }
         if( !defined $sub_field ) {
                 $self->runtime_error( "unknown sub-field of a compound: 
".$value->[0].". OK values: ".join( ", ", @ok )."." );
         }
         $sub_field->set_property( "multiple", 0 );

         return [
                 $objvar->[0]->{ $value->[0] },
                 $sub_field ];
};

See my recent post about adding a subproperty method... It means you can style creators display in the summary page file... If I've understood correctly. 

On 12 Jul 2017 10:28 am, Andrew Beeken <anbeeken@lincoln.ac.uk> wrote:

Hello all,

 

I’m trying to alter the output on the “Creators” section on the EPrints workflow however I’m not sure how to go about doing this. I’ve added, to my new installation, a field for Internal ID to handle a lookup for the new LDAP based user management. This appears at the end of the available fields in the Creator View which is comprised of:

 

Family Name

Given Name

Unique ID (I think that this a field added by some previous system alterations)

Role (Dropdown)

Internal ID (New field)

 

 

What I’d like to do is get rid of the Unique ID field and move the Internal ID field so that it looks like:

 

Family Name

Given Name

Internal ID

Role

 

 

Any thoughts?

 

Andrew

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