Batch Import: Support import for custom fields in v3.6 to help GSD import 1200 studies.

[eaquigley]

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Author Name: Kevin Condon (@kcondon)
Original Redmine Issue: 3986, https://redmine.hmdc.harvard.edu/issues/3986
Original Date: 2014-05-15
Original Assignee: Leonid Andreev

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Requested by Janina from GSD. They're planning to import 1200 studies and want to use custom fields from their template.

Leonid took a quick look and thought it might be simple -we're currently ignoring the notes type="DVN:EXTENDED_METADATA" but wanted someone to tell him it was necessary to do.

[pdurbin]

What's the plan for "custom fields" in Dataverse 4.0? The Manage Network Study Templates section of the DVN 3.x User Guide at https://github.com/IQSS/dvn/blob/develop/doc/sphinx/source/dataverse-user-main.rst#manage-network-study-templates says "You may also add your own custom fields."

[posixeleni]

@pdurbin not sure about custom fields in general but for GSD we are building a custom block for them; see #268 since they are heavy users of Dataverse and have a very unique use case (using dataverse for student output(data) from their courses).

@scolapasta @eaquigley what's the plan for anyone else who wants to create just a small handful of custom fields? Would we have a "custom field block"?

[eaquigley]

I'm pretty sure we were planning that you have to get in touch with us about having a custom metadata block and we won't be supporting small handfuls of custom fields being created in the UI. @scolapasta agree or disagree?

[posixeleni]

Makes sense to me!

[pdurbin]

See also #833 about custom fields.

[eaquigley]

Moved to: IQSS/dvn#5