Place should be required in document field "Provision activity"

[pronguen]

How it works

Currently, it is not required to enter a country of publication in a document

How it should works

• If provisionActivity.type="bf:Publication", place is required.
• Inside of place, country is always required.

[zannkukai]

@pronguen
There are two 'place' field for a provision activity :

• the first one is a direct child of 'provision_activity' field and contains a select with the country
• the second one is a child of 'statement' field, itself a child of 'provision' activity. This is a free text (probably for 'city' information ?).

Assuming of you want that the first one is required, this field is only display if a 'statement' exists.
So do you need also that "statement" is required for provisionActivity.type="bf:Publication" and for this statement that a bf:Place is required too ?

[pronguen]

@zannkukai It is clearly about the first one (provisionActivity.place): the country must be required if type="bf:Publication".

Assuming of you want that the first one is required, this field is only display if a 'statement' exists.

I don't understand. I am able to enter a provisionActivity with a country but without statement. The country is never displayed (for now).

[zannkukai]

@pronguen OK for me, the PR was already ready for this implementation. It sounds just strange (for me and myself) to have some data (country, start_date) for a provision_activity but theses data are never shown if you don't enter any statement for the same provision_activity.

So you can have

"provisionActivity": [{
    "place": [{
        "country": "be",
        "type": "bf:Place"
    }],
    "startDate": 2001,
    "type": "bf:Publication"
}]

These infirmation never appears nor in pro, nor in public interface.
But if you add a simple statement :

"provisionActivity": [{
    "place": [{
        "country": "be",
        "type": "bf:Place"
    }],
    "startDate": 2001, 
    "type": "bf:Publication"
    "statement": [{
        "label": [{
            "value": "Louvain"
        }],
       "type": "bf:Place"
    }],
}]

You will only see "Publication : Louvain" into GUI interface

[pronguen]

@zannkukai Yes, indeed. This might be improved in the future.

• startDate is entered only for the facet and sort options, but the date we want to display is entered in the statement.
• country is entered because it is part of the standard, but it is not of high importance for the user (it could be displayed in the "Description" tab).

These data are hidden also no in our RERO Explore portal, and I think in the majority of the library catalogues.