[silva-dev] Creating acquirable metadata item

[Samuel Schluep]

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

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Center for Organizational and Occupational Sciences (ZOA)
Unit Man-Machine Interaction
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