Am 23.10.2018 um 12:00 schrieb John Salter via Eprints-tech <eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>:

Hi Avi,

I haven't had to do this.

Your approach should work, but I think it can be done in a different (better) way - without altering core files in perl_lib/EPrints.

In the eprints configuration file, you can override the default field lengths (e.g. for a name):

{

    name => 'creators',

    type => 'compound',

    multiple => 1,

    fields => [

        {

            sub_name => 'name',

            type => 'name',

            hide_honourific => 1,

            hide_lineage => 1,

            family_first => 1,

            # duplicated from Metafield::Name, and altered to suit

            fields => [

                { sub_name => "family", type => "text", maxlength => 64, input_cols => 25, },

                { sub_name => "given", type => "text", maxlength => 100, input_cols => 25, },

                { sub_name => "lineage", type => "text", maxlength => 10, },

                { sub_name => "honourific", type => "text", maxlength => 10, },

            ],

        },

        {

            sub_name => 'id',

            type => 'text',

            input_cols => 20,

            allow_null => 1,

        }

    ],

    input_boxes => 4,

},

 

If you add this for a new field, it will be created with the correct length fields.

If you add this for an existing field, it will not alter the existing table configuration - so you will still need to run the 'alter table' SQL.

 

Hope that helps!

 

Cheers,

John

 

 

From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Stenger, Avischai via Eprints-tech
Sent: 16 October 2018 12:40
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Subject: [EP-tech] resize name-Field

 

Hi, 

 

i need to resized the eprint_creators_name.creators_name_given because we really have a creator with 9(!) given names…

 

 

did someone „out there“ did that?   do i need to do something else but:

 

1. DB-change: ALTER Table eprint_creators_name Modify  COLUMN creators_name_given varchar(100) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT NULL;

2. change the maxlength  in EPrints/MetaField/Name.pm   for sub_name „given“:     { sub_name => „given“, type => „text", maxlength => 100, input_cols => 25, },

Tanks & Regards

 

 

Avi 

  

 

 

 

 

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