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EADitor is an XForms framework for the creation and editing of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) finding aids using Orbeon, an enterprise-level XForms Java application, which runs in Apache Tomcat.

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Save function

jenpalmentiero opened this issue · comments

It would be helpful to have a way to save a guide as you are working on it. Right now you can only save once every required field is populated. So you can't save before moving from the EAD Header tab to the Archival Description tab (the message that all required fields must be filled in before saving can be confusing to new users at this stage).

It is possible to move to other tabs before saving. The issue seems to be that a required field doesn't have a warning label, so it's difficult to figure out which element in the form that needs to be filled in hasn't been yet.

I know I can move to another tab before saving. What I'm suggesting is the ability to click "Save" once the two fields in the EAD Header are filled-in before I move to the Archival Description Tab. Right now I can't do that.

This can't be supported. The system doesn't accept documents that are invalid to the EAD 2002 XSD.

OK. We'll include info about this in the instructions/training materials. If there are required fields that don't currently have the warning label, I assume that's an easy fix? Thanks!

I'll have to track them down and try to make the warning message more visible.

Hopefully, we have eliminated most of these outstanding issues. It will help to have documentation of which fields don't seem to save correctly.