Example Record Templates

The Record Template XML for our first example is:

<template>

<tuple>

<atom name="DetProductType">Product Type</atom>

<atom name="DetProductStatus">Status</atom>

<atom name="DetReceiptText"><input cols="50">

<prompt>Enter the Receipt Text:</prompt>

<help>Enter the text that will display on the receipt.</help>

</input></atom>

</tuple>

</template>

The Template is used to create new product records in the Products module. A suitable title would be Products Template. The following values are set in the records created:

  • Product Type in the DetProductType field.
  • Status in the DetProductStatus field.
  • Asks for text to display on the Product receipt and sets the DetReceiptText field to the value entered.

The Input Values screen used to request details looks like:

Notice how the input prompt and help use the text specified in the Template XML.

In this example we set up a Record Template for the Multimedia module that copies a selection of fields and asks the user for the Title, Creator and Description. The input fields do not have to have a value, but are initialised with the value from the source record. The maximum number of records to be created will be set to 10 and a starting IRN cannot be specified. The following Record Template XML is suitable:

<template maxrecords="10" setIRN="no">

<tuple>

<table name="DetSubject_tab"><source name="DetSubject_tab"/></table>

<table name="DetContributor_tab"><source name="DetContributor_tab"/></table>

<table name="DetLanguage_tab"><source name="DetLanguage_tab"/></table>

<table name="DetRelation_tab"><source name="DetRelation_tab"/></table>

<table name="DetDate0"><source name="DetDate0"/></table>

<atom name="DetResourceType"><source name="DetResourceType"/></atom>

<atom name="DetPublisher"><source name="DetPublisher"/></atom>

<atom name="DetCoverage"><source name="DetCoverage"/></atom>

<atom name="DetSource"><source name="DetSource"/></atom>

<atom name="DetRights"><source name="DetRights"/></atom>

<atom name="MulTitle"><input cols="30" mandatory="no">

<prompt>Enter the Media Title:</prompt>

<help>Enter the title of the media.</help>

<value><source name="MulTitle"/></value>

</input></atom>

<table name="MulCreator_tab">

<tuple>

<atom><input cols="30" mandatory="no">

<prompt>Enter the Media Creator:</prompt>

<help>Enter a description of the media.</help>

<value><source name="MulCreator_tab" rows="1"/></value>

</input></atom>

</tuple>

</table>

<atom name="MulDescription"><input rows="3" cols="40" mandatory="no">

<prompt>Enter the Media Description:</prompt>

<help>Enter a description of the media.</help>

<value><source name="MulDescription"/></value>

</input></atom>

</tuple>

</template>

Notice how the first value of the MulCreator_tab table is extracted as the default value for the media creator. The picture below shows the Input Values screen for media description: