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From: Alfons Wittmann <alfons.wittmann AT ku-eichstaett.de>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:39:42 +0200

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EPrints 3.1.1

Hi all,

I have to modify the type of an existing meta field in a live archive:
I want to have the field "pages" with type "text" instead ↵
of "int".

What I've done so far (on a test server):
- ALTER TABLE `archiveid`.`eprint` MODIFY COLUMN `pages` TEXT ...
- UPDATE archiveid.mf SET type = "text" WHERE metafieldid = ↵
"eprint.pages"
- modify "/archiveid/cfg/cfg.d/eprints.pl"
            'name' => 'pages',
            'type' => 'text',
- run "epadmin reorder archiveid metafield"
- restart Apache

Now it's possible to enter entries like "VI, 234" in pages, and they ↵
are
saved in database, but there are still errors in Apache error_log:

Argument "IV, 123" isn't numeric in sprintf at
/opt/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/MetaField/Int.pm line 96.
at /opt/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/MetaField/Int.pm line 96
EPrints::MetaField::Int::ordervalue_basic('EPrints::MetaField::Int=HASH(0xb9212c2c)',
'IV, 123'

Any hints? Or isn't it possible to change the type of an existing field?

Apologies if this has already been answered before but I couldn't find
anything on it.

Cheers, Alfons



Alfons Wittmann
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