Ooohhh, once again, John has spotted the issue.

I wonder if you can set the can_clone property on the fly by subclassing the UseAsTemplate class:

package EPrints::Plugin::Screen::EPrint::TemplateWithContactEmail;

use strict;

use warnings;

use EPrints::Plugin::Screen::EPrint::UseAsTemplate;

sub action_use_as_template

{

my ($self) = @_;

my $field = $self->repository->dataset('eprint')->metafield('contact_email);

my $p = field->get_property('can_clone');

$metafield->set_property('can_clone', 1);

$self::SUPER->action_use_as_template;

$metafield->set_property('can_clone', $p);

}

...then use the settings in plugins.pl to disable the default plugin and mask the new one as that.

I've no idea if this will work, or even if it's a good idea.

--
Adam Field
Business Relationship Manager and Community Lead
EPrints Services

On 15 Oct 2015, at 14:58, John Salter <J.Salter@leeds.ac.uk> wrote:

Hi,
In addition to Adams email, you need to look at this:
https://github.com/eprints/eprints/blob/3.3/perl_lib/EPrints/DataObj/EPrint.pm#L174
- the 'contact_email' is set not to clone.

This means you have to do a bit more work - copying the core field definition, and changing that flag.
I *think* this might work - but there may be a better way to adjust that one value of the field definition...

$c->add_dataset_field( "eprint", {
   name=>"contact_email",
   type=>"email",
   required=>0,
   can_clone=>1, #now allows copying of field in 'clone'
   replace_core=>1 #this flag must be used with EXTREME caution, it makes is very easy to break things
},
 reuse => 1 #if field exists, reuse it
);

Cheers,
John


-----Original Message-----
From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Field A.N.
Sent: 15 October 2015 14:43
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Subject: [EP-tech] Re: Use as Template

The code that runs is here:

https://github.com/eprints/eprints/blob/3.3/perl_lib/EPrints/Plugin/Screen/EPrint/UseAsTemplate.pm#L44

..which calls the clone function here:

https://github.com/eprints/eprints/blob/3.3/perl_lib/EPrints/DataObj/EPrint.pm#L640

I see no reason why contact email wouldn't come across...  Or have I misread the code?

--
Adam Field
Business Relationship Manager and Community Lead
EPrints Services
+44 (0)23 8059 8814





On 15 Oct 2015, at 13:50, Andrew Beeken wrote:

Hello all,

Regarding the Use As Template option on records, we’ve noticed that this doesn’t populate the Contact Email Address field on a copy. I don’t know if this is a field that we’ve added to our particular EPrints repository; either way, is it possible/easy to have the Use As Template include this content when it copies the record?

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