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Re: [EP-tech] Document field title/help-text using a phrase in workflow

Hi John,


I found a similar issue in EPrints 3.4 (which will almost certainly also be a problem in 3.3) with reusing the same pin twice within a phrase and I fixed this in 3.4 a couple of years back:


https://github.com/eprints/eprints3.4/issues/109


This looks to be a similar issue for titles and help texts of fields so the place to fix this is on the following two lines:


https://github.com/eprints/eprints3.4/blob/master/perl_lib/EPrints/MetaField.pm#L423

https://github.com/eprints/eprints3.4/blob/master/perl_lib/EPrints/MetaField.pm#L477


I propose changing these respectively to:


return EPrints::XML::clone_node( $self->{title_xhtml}, 1 );

return EPrints::XML::clone_node( $self->{help_xhtml}, 1 );


What are you thoughts on such a change.  It is quite uncommon to use the <help> and <title> tags for fields within a workflow, (especially document sub-fields), so cloning the node should not normally be expensive either memory or processing time wise.  Therefore, although there may be a more efficient solution, this feels like the most straightforward resolution whilst not excessively expensive.


Regards


David Newman


On 04/10/2022 10:43 am, John Salter via Eprints-tech wrote:
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Hi,
I've just observed some curious behaviour in EPrints 3.3.16, and wondered whether it also impacts 3.4.x (don't have a test system at hand to try it out at the moment).

In the default eprint workflow, in the 'files' stage, if you define a document field title or help-text using a phrase, it doesn't get rendered for the second (or more) document.
To re-create: 
  1. upload two documents to an eprint.
  2. In the workflow, change the default field spec:
    1. <field ref="license"/>
  3. to use a phrase for the help-text: 
    1. <field ref="license">
    2.   <help><epc:phrase ref="archive_name"/></help>
    3. </field>
  1. re-load the 'Upload' workflow - the 'show help' icon is not rendered for the licence field for the second document (see screenshot below)
If you embed text directly into the workflow (bad practice!)
  <help>This is some help text</help>
it appears to work OK.

I think the issue is with the caching of the html_xhtml field property in EPrint::MetaField.

and I suspect the issue may lie with this 'clone':

Cheers,
John





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