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https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/GSOC/GSoC+2011+-+DSpace+Submission+Enhancements#
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/GSOC/UI+Mockup-Submission+enhancements
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/GSOC/submission+screenshots
The corresponding JIRA ticket for the work related to this project is at --
https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-962
Code link --https://github.com/gauravkl/dspace
Overview--
This work was meant to giving the administrator the control over modifying the submission-process and moving the configuration from XML file to database and modelling parallel analogies for the nodes which are present ni the item-submission.xml.
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The code of the old submission system pertaining to the submission steps like Describe Step,LiceneStep etc. were ported to Actions in the new system and the XMLUI Action classes were also created.
Future Work
The major work remaining in this project is to devise a way to ensure backwards compatibility for the users who are currently using the old-workflow and will be switching to the new-workflow so that they don't loose any data from their ongoing submission-process .
Some sanity checks need to be done .For ex-if a user is in a particular step of workflow and the admin modifies that workflow by deleting a step ,appropriate handling should be done.
User Selection actions need to be decided.
The roles need to related to the existing "Groups" in Dspace.
The UI needs to be cleaned up and the message.properties for each field need to be defined properly.