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remove instruction and description fields from field based and metadata description exports

Open saracarl opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

Since the instruction and description field types don't require (or allow) input from users, it seems unnecessary for these to be exported (the label [and fieldname] can be an entire sentence or two). It's easy to just delete those columns, though, so it’s not that that important.

saracarl avatar Nov 05 '21 15:11 saracarl

To reproduce this for field-based transcription,

  • Create a collection
  • Change the transcription type to Field-Based
  • Add a field of each data type
  • Import a work
  • Transcribe a page of the work, filling in values for each field, and save
  • Click the Export tab
  • Export Tables/Fields
  • Inspect the spreadsheet created for the page; note that the fields of type Instruction and Description both have columns, even though they do not contain user-created data

To reproduce this for metadata projects,

  • Edit a collection
  • Enable Metadata Description
  • Edit metadata fields
  • Add a field of each data type
  • Click on a work
  • Press "create metadata"
  • Fill in values for each field and save
  • Click the Export tab
  • Export Work Metadata
  • Inspect the spreadsheet created for the page; note that the fields of type Instruction have columns, even though they do not contain user-created data

benwbrum avatar Feb 02 '22 15:02 benwbrum