Description

Card originally written to update drop down for the Place of Origin component, so that corresponding codes are displayed in the drop down, and allow the cataloger to input a code for selecting a value.

A number of other components have similar requirements, so this card is being repurposed to apply a general rule for any such drop down.

INSTANCE

Immediate source of acquisition

Purpose:

The purpose of this story is to enhance the Place of Origin of the Work functionality, to provide an additional option for catalogers to complete their work.

Currently, the component displays a drop down list of countries based on a controlled list maintained by the Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/countries.html

Catalogers can either type in the name of the country, or select the value from the drop down.

This card adds a third option: selecting a value by typing the code associated with the country. MARVA supports this functionality today. The country code is appended in parenthesis alongside the country name. Doing so preserves displaying countries alphabetically by country name, while allowing the end user to type the country code as another way to select a value from the list.

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A JSON file (conveniently) associates country codes with display names: https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/countries.json

To update and construct a new drop down table for the editor, the code will need to be extracted from the end of each value pointing to id.loc.gov, and appended within parenthesis to the corresponding country name.

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Once constructed, the end user will have the ability to type any either a country name, or a country code and the drop down list will narrow accordingly.