Opened 13 years ago
Last modified 13 years ago
#1642 closed enhancement
Add support for column mapping that selects a project default item in batch item importers — at Version 1
Reported by: | Nicklas Nordborg | Owned by: | everyone |
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Priority: | minor | Milestone: | BASE 3.1 |
Component: | coreplugins | Version: | |
Keywords: | Cc: |
Description (last modified by )
If a property is not mapped to a column in the batch item importers and project default item exists for the property (eg. a sampling protocol) the core will automatically set that property when creating new items.
Note that this is a feature of the core and that the batch importers doesn't care about project default items at all.
But, we would like to change this so that a column mapping could, for example, be an expression that select a project default item. Since there is already support for the JEP parser in column mappings the functionality can be provided by defining a set of new JEP functions. For example:
=default() // Get the project default value =default('column') // Get the value from the 'column', // but use the project default item for empty values
This would allow the batch importers to use project defaults with both new and existing items.
For background information see: http://www.mail-archive.com/basedb-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg02048.html