Many optional sections in the metadata are marked with *

[MattBlissett]

The * implies they are required, but they are not.

e.g.

Geographic Coverage → Descriptoin

Associated Parties → Position, Organization

Project Data → Title

Sampling Methods → Study Extent, Sampling Description, Step Description

Citations → Resource Citation

I think in several of these cases the fields are required once part of the section is filled in, e.g. the project must have a title. Can this be expressed in Javascript or with the HTML form validation that didn't exist when these forms were originally designed?

[mike-podolskiy90]

Thanks Matt. We can just remove those asterisk if we want to. IPT EML validation will be working fine as before

[peterdesmet]

We are getting error messages if Geographic description is not filled out. Is it required?

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