eprints_tech messages

From: Guy Knights <g.knights AT qut.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 09:56:46 +1000

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Hi John,

Thanks for your reply, but what I'm actually after is updating the name in the ↵
'user' table - that is, the list of people who are registered to deposit in ↵
EPrints. If I try and use Tim's suggestion of $dataobj->set_value( ↵
"fieldname", $value ) and $dataobj->commit(), it doesn't seem to ↵
work for the fields 'name_given' and 'name_family' in table 'users'.

Cheers,
Guy

Guy Knights
Computer Systems Officer
Library Systems, QUT
Phone: (07) 3138 3910
Email: g.knights AT qut.edu.au


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ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of John Salter
Sent: Tuesday, 4 November 2008 7:37 PM
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Subject: [EP-tech] Re: Updating user details

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Guy,
I had all sorts of fun trying to get an automatic author-name into an
eprint.
This is the code I ended with - it may help you? (although this is
pulling the name from the user and putting it in the creator)

if( $user->is_set("name"))
{
	my $name = $user->get_value( "name" );
	my $email = $user->get_value( "email" );

	my  AT creator = {};
	push  AT creator, { name => { family => $name->{family}, given =>
$name->{given} }, id => $email };

	$eprint->set_value( "creators", \ AT creator );
}


Cheers,
John

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Subject: [EP-tech] Re: Updating user details


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Thanks Tim, I tried that and for the most part it worked ('org' and
'email' update ok). However, if I try and update the user's first name
(name_given) and surname (name_family), for some reason it won't update.

Any thoughts?

Thanks again,
Guy

Guy Knights
Computer Systems Officer
Library Systems, QUT
Phone: (07) 3138 3910
Email: g.knights AT qut.edu.au

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[mailto:eprints-tech-bounces AT ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tim Brody
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Subject: [EP-tech] Re: Updating user details

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Guy Knights wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> Can anyone tell me how to update user details in the database via the
> User object? I can add a user to the database using 
> create_from_data(), but I'm not sure how to go about updating the 
> user's details after their account has been created.
>
As with all EPrint objects,

$dataobj->set_value( "fieldname", $value );

When you've changed everything you want to,

$dataobj->commit();


What $value looks like will depend on the field - whether it's multiple,

compound etc.

All the best,
Tim.