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'''document_fields_automatic.pl''' contains the '''set_document_fields_automatic''' function. You use this function to perform a set of actions which you want to happen automatically before the [[API:EPrints/DataObj/Document|Document]] as part of the [[API:EPrints/DataObj/Document|Document]] commit() step, in which the document is written to the database.

* $doc is the [[API:EPrints/DataObj/Document|Document]] object

==Example==
<pre>
$c->{set_document_automatic_fields} = sub
{
        my( $doc ) = @_;
        if($doc->value("description") eq ""){
                 $doc->value("description", "the default description"); #if the documents description is empty set it to a holding value
        }
};
</pre>