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acaul at rand

Jul 17, 2008, 2:39 PM

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managing contributor roles in the GUI

OK, this is the opposite of something I asked a couple years ago. We
want to start adding roles to contributors when we associate them
with a story. However, when I add a contrib to a story, the little
drop-down box to choose the role does not appear. That box used to
appear all the time, but "Default" was the only value ever available.

I have looked at contributors and contributor types themselves, and I
do not see any place to add a role.

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lannings at who

Jul 18, 2008, 1:04 AM

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Re: managing contributor roles in the GUI [In reply to]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Ashlee Caul wrote:
> OK, this is the opposite of something I asked a couple years ago. We want to
> start adding roles to contributors when we associate them with a story.
> However, when I add a contrib to a story, the little drop-down box to choose
> the role does not appear. That box used to appear all the time, but "Default"
> was the only value ever available.
>
> I have looked at contributors and contributor types themselves, and I do not
> see any place to add a role.

The contributors are completely baffling and sucky to use,
though I admittedly haven't touched them much so I might
just not know how they work. I have almost zero motivation
to fix them, though.
(Note: I don't know if this is due to a corruption in our system
or if it occurs in a vanilla Bricolage install.)
I was playing with them yesterday to fix a problem,
and it seemed that you had to add a Field to the Contributor Type
first of all in order to get the 'New' link to appear in
the search for Contributors beside the ones of that type.
(The 'New' link apparently allows creating a new role,
though that's not at all obvious before you click the link.)
So for example, we have a 'Country Office' contrib type
which doesn't have any custom fields, so the 'New' link doesn't
show up. We have another 'Press Contact' contrib type
which does have custom fields and the 'New' link appears.
Then adding a custom field to 'Country Office' made the 'New' link
appear when searching the contribs.
I still haven't figured out how to change the "contact types"
that show up in the dropdown menus in the 'CONTACTS' section
of the contributor profile. Somehow we have a default set
('Primary Email', 'Home Phone', etc.) plus some custom ones;
I think they were just added by a script, not through the UI.

david at kineticode

Jul 18, 2008, 9:58 AM

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Re: managing contributor roles in the GUI [In reply to]

On Jul 18, 2008, at 01:04, Scott Lanning wrote:

> I was playing with them yesterday to fix a problem,
> and it seemed that you had to add a Field to the Contributor Type
> first of all in order to get the 'New' link to appear in
> the search for Contributors beside the ones of that type.

Correct, otherwise there's nothing in roles, and so no point.

> (The 'New' link apparently allows creating a new role,
> though that's not at all obvious before you click the link.)

Is it in the context-sensitive help?

> So for example, we have a 'Country Office' contrib type
> which doesn't have any custom fields, so the 'New' link doesn't
> show up. We have another 'Press Contact' contrib type
> which does have custom fields and the 'New' link appears.
> Then adding a custom field to 'Country Office' made the 'New' link
> appear when searching the contribs.
> I still haven't figured out how to change the "contact types"
> that show up in the dropdown menus in the 'CONTACTS' section
> of the contributor profile. Somehow we have a default set
> ('Primary Email', 'Home Phone', etc.) plus some custom ones;
> I think they were just added by a script, not through the UI.

IIRC, there's a table for those, but they might be hard-coded…yes,
they're in the database:

% rgrep 'Primary Email' sql
sql/mysql/Bric/Biz/Contact.val:VALUES ('1', 'Primary Email', 'Primary
Electronic Mail Address', '1', '1');
sql/Pg/Bric/Biz/Contact.val:VALUES ('1', 'Primary Email', 'Primary
Electronic Mail Address', '1', '1');

There is no interface for modifying those, so unless you want to
implement one, you'll just have to update them via psql.

Best,

Davdi

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