Improve functionality of the Areas of Interest to allow labelled headings and locking of specific serctions
Esploro has ability to add multiple sections in the field for Area of Interest. However, when the profile is edited in the public view (Researcher portal) all the separate segments are merged into one.
We would like the ability to further control the look and access option for the Area of Interest sections.
For example: We currently use HTML to include headers for different sections of Researchers’ biographies, e.g. Biography, Research, Teaching.
Ideally, we'd be able to have separate fields, with customisable labels, in the Area of Interest so that we could control which fields to display and have greater control exporting their fields in an API.
If the Area of Interest had a Title and Description for each Area of Interest, we could then choose only specific Areas of Interest that could be updated by a researcher and what required updating in the back end. These would then be displayed profile. As distinct fields, these could also be selected to be called by an API. A Researcher could then edit the description field in via their researcher profile page. With each area of interest having its own edit box.
The business case here is that our Marketing department would like to call the Biography from Esploro to use on our website. However, as the information entered in to the Area of Interest field is entirely open for the researcher to edit, they would like us to lock the editing of this whole field so we can ensure all Biography statements are edited.
Ideally we would like to be able to lock the first Area of Interest, which we would label Biography, so that this can be the polished statement from Marketing which we could then call via an API to display on our website. But subsequent Area of Interests (e.g. Research, Teaching) could be edited by the researcher to provide more detailed information.
This enhancement would have a major impact, significantly improving our ability to re-use and embed Esploro data into other areas of our website.
maureen.bezanson
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Kylie Sadler
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Hi there,
We submitted the problem about the merging of data within Areas of Interest mid-2021 (Case #00894190). We would expect the portal editing functionality to work the same as if it were edited in the 'back office'.We also support this idea to lock editing of the field so that our data can be re-used and embedded into other areas of our corporate website. Alternatively, a staged approval process for editing certain profile fields would be great, so researchers could submit changes that would be approved by administrative staff.
Thanks for sharing this great idea Maureen!
Kylie