missing feature editing properties with alternate data type

[Matthias Ronge]

Goobi.Production provides a feature to define fancy properties in propertyTemplates.xml. The frontend doesn't provide for these; it always shows nothing but a line input box.

[Ralf Claussnitzer (ralf-claussnitzer-deactivatedaccount)]

1- can you provide an example propertyTemplates.xml file so that an editable property appears in the dialog?
2- can you provide a screenshot of the dialog in question?

Thx!

[Matthias Ronge (matthias-ronge)]

There are various entries of that kind in propertyTemplate.xml already. You only need to create a step named “Scannen” in any process and five step properties will automatically be added, that of “Farbtiefe”, “Öffnungswinkel” and “Scangerät” are of type “list”.

It seems to work the way that, in propertyTemplate.xml, the <tns:entity type="project|process|step" name="foo" /> work like filters, where tags without ‘name’ attribute mean ‘any’. I didn’t check the code for other valid attributes yet, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were more.

BTW, the code is re-imported from http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~intranda/goobi-production/intranda1.7/view/head:/newpages/inc_Prozessverwaltung/schritt_box_Eigenschaften.jsp

[Gerrit Gragert (gerrit-gragert)]

Another Problem with the propertyTemplates.xml: you can define a property as required with the attribute required=true. Editing the Propterties under "Task details" in the Process details always works, even if a required Properties is empty. When I open the same task under "My tasks", Goobi shows only the properties with a value (required or not). When I try to finish the task, an error message says f.e. "Farbtiefe is required" but I don't have a chance to edit this value here.

[Ralf Claussnitzer (ralf-claussnitzer-deactivatedaccount)]

@gerrit-gragert
I created a new bug for this here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/goobi-production/+bug/1046809