From: Alfons Wittmann <alfons.wittmann AT ku-eichstaett.de>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:55:43 +0200
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Yuri wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>
> did you tell to eprints it is a text field?
How to do that? I modified
"/archiveid/cfg/cfg.d/eprint-fields.pl" (error in my previous ↵
posting!)
'name' => 'pages',
'type' => 'text',
what else?
Thanks!
Alfons Wittmann
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