Re: Creating acquirable metadata item
Samuel Schluep <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.zope.silva.devel |
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Hi JW This did help - thank you for your quick reply. Just did not think of making sure that the element is not set to 'required'. Best regards Sam > Samuel Schluep wrote: > >> Hello together >> >> Trying to add a new metadata item to the Silva Extra metadata set (a >> StringField) I wanted to make the metadata item acquirable. After >> selecting 'Yes' for 'Enable Acquisition' and pressing 'edit metadata >> element' the following error is displayed: >> >> Error Type: ConfigurationError >> Error Value: Required Values may not be Acquired >> >> Any suggestions what is happening? > > > This confusion is caused by a bad UI for the metadata system: setting > the field to acquired is done in the 'Settings' tab of a metadata > element. However, initially the underlying Formulator field is set to > 'required' - and this can be changed in the 'Field' tab of the > metadata element. > > So, first set the element to not required in the 'Field' tab and then > set it to acquired in the 'Settings' tab. > > Hope this helps. > > kind regards, > jw -- Samuel Schluep | ETH Zürich Center for Organizational and Occupational Sciences (ZOA) Unit Man-Machine Interaction +41 1 632 74 24 | [email protected] | http://www.zoa.ethz.ch