Making the Reason field optional
When creating a suggestion in either Review Space or Draft Space, the Reason field is by default required. You can, however, configure Collective Spaces so that the field is optional.
To make the Reason field optional, complete both of the following tasks:
- Ensure that the
annotationsuggestionreasonelement is present in the Collective Spaces properties with therequiredattribute set tono, as illustrated in the following example:<commonsettings> <annotationsuggestionreason required ="no"/> </commonsettings>By default, the property is not included in the configuration, so you will need to add it.
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- Ensure that the
CHECKANNOTATIONTEXTONSUGGESTIONplug-in is either commented out or deleted from theIWriteMetadataPlugin.If you do only first task and leave the plug-in active, the Reason field will appear to be optional; however, the user will receive an error if they try to save a suggestion without entering a reason.
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