<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Aha! I see that they redefined render_aspace_partial and the external id template, instead of what I did, which was to change the line where render_aspace_partial was called in 10 different files — which was why I didn’t want to maintain those changes in a plugin. ( I don’t think I understood the ASpace code base or Rails well enough back then to dare to do that. ;-) </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">However, I would now propose that external ids are generally useful and ought to be enabled for creation, view and edit by default.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">— Steve Majewski</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 21, 2018, at 2:53 PM, Joshua D. Shaw <<a href="mailto:Joshua.D.Shaw@dartmouth.edu" class="">Joshua.D.Shaw@dartmouth.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">There's actually a plugin that we had HM develop that does allow users to create and edit external ids:<a href="https://github.com/hudmol/editable_external_ids" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk451023" previewremoved="true">https://github.com/hudmol/editable_external_ids</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I've tested against the 2.3 release, but not anything newer.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Joshua<br class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><br class=""><div style="" class=""><hr tabindex="-1" style="display: inline-block; width: 838.875px;" class=""><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org" class="">archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org</a> <<a href="mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org" class="">archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org</a>> on behalf of Majewski, Steven Dennis (sdm7g) <<a href="mailto:sdm7g@virginia.edu" class="">sdm7g@virginia.edu</a>><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, September 21, 2018 2:45 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Archivesspace Users Group<br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] External ID</font><div class=""> </div></div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We’ve used this config feature for so long (since v1.4.*) that I had forgotten it was necessary to turn it on to see external_ids. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My advice, in earlier threads, to use the EAD mapping between multiple unitids and external_ids for some issues must have seemed somewhat confusing if anyone tried it without also having that feature enabled. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">— Steve Majewski</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 21, 2018, at 2:23 PM, Majewski, Steven Dennis (sdm7g) <<a href="mailto:sdm7g@virginia.edu" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk471060" previewremoved="true">sdm7g@virginia.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="x_Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">AppConfig[:show_external_ids] = true </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">will allow you to view and edit existing external ids in staff interface, but it doesn’t allow you to create them.</div><div class="">Ours are added either from EAD import or via backend API. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I had once forked changes in an older version to allow creating them from the staff webapp.</div><div class="">If I’m remembering correctly, the required changes touched too many modules and were not localized, so it didn’t seem practical to maintain them in a plugin.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If there is interest in adding this feature to the core code, I could review that branch and see if it could be merged into current code base. That code still followed that config setting, so edit option was not visible unless set to true. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">— Steve Majewski</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 21, 2018, at 1:14 PM, Kennedy, Nancy <<a href="mailto:KennedyN@si.edu" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk265983" previewremoved="true">KennedyN@si.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="x_Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="x_WordSection1" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Has anyone tried to set up the external id field so that a user can create (or edit) an external_id via the staff UI? Is that possible?</div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Nancy Kennedy</div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Smithsonian Institution</div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:kennedyn@si.edu" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk287722" previewremoved="true" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;">kennedyn@si.edu</a></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </div></div><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; 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