email address field

[mar]

Good morning,
is it possibile to make the email address field as NOT required ?

thank you

[JasonNugent]

Hi mar,

On which form? For submissions, this can be accomplished by editing the templates to remove any client-side validation from the fields, and then also editing the Form PHP classes which process them in order to remove any Validators that have been added to certain fields for server-side validation and requirement. You might have problems later on for things like exporting records with the NativeImportExportPlugin and there may be locations where email addresses are assumed to have been provided when emails to authors are sent during the review process. So, it can be done, but it isn't entirely trivial or without consequence.

Regards,
Jason

[mar]

Thank you Jason,
I'd need it in Import/Export Data/QuickSubmit form becuase when I uplod 'old' items, sometimes, the email address is unknown.

Regards,

Mark

[springday]

Hi Mar,

if you import XML data of older articles and don't have e-mail addresses of the authors, the easiest trick is to add dummy email-addresses. I usually go with

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<email> </email>

(i.e. using a space character as a replacement for the missing email address)

This way you don't have to modify OJS code but get your article data submitted nevertheless. (I don't know if this trick works on quick submit forms, too. Probably it isn't working, because the form validator might require an email address to have at least an "@"-sign.)

How are you generating your XML input files that you are uploading? If you are using XSLT somewhere in the process, you could add a processing rule like this:

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<email>
    <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="not({CHECK_FOR_EMAIL_ADDRESS_IN_SOURCE_DATA})"><xsl:text> </xsl:text></xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of select="{SELECT_EMAIL_ADDRESS_FROM_SOURCE_DATA}"/></xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
</email>

Best regards,
Kai Weber