As a metadata configurator, I want to display values of a controlled vocabulary as images

[doigl]

In a metadata block for software basing on CodeMeta (see thread in user mailinglist) we tried to get Dataverse to display the values of a controlled variable as images linking to pages with more information about the values (see repostatus.org for examples)

The corresponding value for displayFormat in tsv is
<a href='https://www.repostatus.org/##VALUE'><img src='https://www.repostatus.org/badges/latest/#VALUE.svg' alt='ProjectStatus: #VALUE '/>

The whole tsv-file is attached (codemeta.tsv.txt), the line concerned is about codeMetaDevelopmentStatus (line 5) with the vocabulary in line 28.

As there is an example with an image in the documentation for display formats., the image itself doesn't seem to be the problem. Dataverse is ignoring everything I put into the displayFormat field, even something like (#VALUE).

Is this because of the controlled vocabulary? Are there any other possibilities to change the appearance of the metadata fields?

Other wishes would be to combine the values of a compound field, like <a href="#VALUE_OF_SUBFIELD_URL">#VALUE_OF_SUBFIELD_TITLE</a>.

[djbrooke]

@jggautier, let's discuss next week!

[pdurbin]

Thanks to @donsizemore it's now possible to spin up instances of Dataverse with custom metadata blocks using dataverse-ansible. Here's the issue I just tested and closed: IQSS/dataverse-ansible#133

Since I tested with the metadata block in this issue, here are some screenshots of how it looks:

full "Metadata for Research Software" metadata block

the repo status field (edit)

the repo status field (view)

[poikilotherm]

@doigl controlled vocabularies are retrieved as localized values but not formated with displayFormat.

dataverse/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/DatasetField.java

Lines 303 to 317 in 5c040de

	public List<String> getValues() {
	List<String> returnList = new ArrayList<>();
	if (!datasetFieldValues.isEmpty()) {
	for (DatasetFieldValue dsfv : datasetFieldValues) {
	returnList.add(dsfv.getDisplayValue());
	}
	} else {
	for (ControlledVocabularyValue cvv : controlledVocabularyValues) {
	if (cvv != null && cvv.getLocaleStrValue() != null) {
	returnList.add(cvv.getLocaleStrValue());
	}
	}
	}
	return returnList;
	}

(DatasetFieldValue.getDisplayValue() is doing the format work)

[poikilotherm]

@doigl As we now created #7856, I'm gonna remove the "other wishes" from the issue title.

[cmbz]

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