Proposal Edit A Set Of Records

Date	2015-08-27	Contacts	Arnaud De Groof, François Prunayre, Vincent Bombaerts
Status	On going	Release	3.1
Resources	Available	Ticket #
Source code
Funding	Metawal

Overview

Batch editor provides the capability to update a set of records at once.

Proposal

Editor, Reviewers and Administrator can edit a set of records using the batch editing menu.

First, the user select a set of records to update by running searches and selecting the records to be edited.

Step 1

User can restrict to his records only, can use facets for filtering or can run full text search. Select records by clicking the checkbox or use the selection menu to select all, all in page or clear selection. Click the view selection only to display the current selection only.

Search is restricted to:

editable records for current user and
template and metadata (ie. no directory entry).

The set of records could also be a predefined search (See https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/wiki/Proposal-Save-Your-Search - this is not part of this proposal).

Step 1

After selection, user can define the changes to be applied to the set of records.

Step 2

The fields that can be updated are:

title
resource language
resource contact
parent identifier
keyword
geographic extent
constraint
metadata language
metadata contact
TODO

Updates are made using the following rule:

If the field is mandatory, then the value replace the current one in the metadata record
If the field allows multiple element, then the new value is added in the metadata record

The configuration is define per standard. It defines for each field: