Id field

EPrints 3 Reference: Directory Structure - Metadata Fields - Repository Configuration - XML Config Files - XML Export Format - EPrints data structure - Core API - Data Objects

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Metadata Fields: Arclanguage - Base64 - Bigint - Boolean - Compound - Counter - Dataobjref - Date - Decimal - Email - Fields - Float - Id - Idci - Image - Int - Itemref - Keywords - Langid - Longtext - Longtext_counter - Multilang - Multipart - Name - Namedset - Pagerange - Recaptcha - Recaptcha3 - Relation - Search - Secret - Set - Storable - Subject - Subobject - Text - Time - Timestamp - Url - Uuid

Description

This metadata field is very similar to a Text field, the main difference is for search where the whole value is indexed rather than in individual parts. In particular this is useful for things like ISBN or ISSN numbers which contain hyphens (-). For a text field the parts either side of the hyphen would be indexed separately but for a Id field this will be indexed as a single value. Therefore, allowing search to find only those items that match exactly.

Inheritance

• Metadata
  • Text field
    • Id field

Additional Properties

As for Text fields.

Required Phrases

No additional phrases beyond those required for Text fields.

Database

Id fields are stored in the database as

fieldname VARCHAR(255)

API

See API page.

Examples

Most basic example.

{
    name => 'isbn',
    type => 'id',
},

Use a bespoke value renderer to add links to DOIs where appropriate.

{
    name => 'id_number',
    type => 'id',
    render_value => 'EPrints::Extras::render_possible_doi',
},