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[EP-tech] Re: About compounds

On 08/07/14 15:54, Gilles Fournié wrote:

Hi,

The library staff wants us to describe authors with many fields
(internal id number, department, unit, ...).

So we wonder if we can add subfields to existing compounds like creators
or editors.
Obviously, we would keep existing subfields unchanged and just add new
subfields.
Is it safe to do so ? Or are there risks to break something ?

Yes, adding extra fields is easy..... but only 1 level deep!



And, as a side question, I fear that a too big compound will be unusable
: in the input form, we will get a table with many columns, which will
probably be larger than the screen width. Is there a way to have the
subfields use several rows ?
I've not seen one.... not without writing your own rendering routines (which are eminently doable..) 

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