Submission fields with open vocabularies do not behave correctly

[mjtecka]

(ukrepo)

Subject Keywords do not work when creating new Items

1) there is just one row in the interface, I am not sure if I can input more keywords and how to separate them

2) if I Edit record that was not yet Deposited, previously filled Subject Keywords are gone

3) I cant find Subject Keywords in metadata after depositing the item There is nothing in dc.subject, or anywhere else.

(side note: I can add dc.subject manually in Edit Item -> Metadata and it works - keywords are displayed with the record and in search interface)

-> Subject Keywords should work (=should be stored in metadata record) & allow input of multiple keywords

[kosarko]

To explain what's happening in more detail. Currently we have dc.subject with a vocabulary https://github.com/dataquest-dev/DSpace/blob/5968c7b705b51999c418fab35509eea5999e3288/dspace/config/submission-forms.xml#L271

• [x] If I remove the vocabulary you can add any keywords; if you separate them with ; it will split them, e.g. key1;key2 will become key1, key2
• [x] If you use only keywords from the vocabulary (type theo for example and a list with suggestions should appear); these seem to be saved as expeted too

• [x] the only issue seems to be the current setup; where the behavior should be

  The vocabulary element has an optional boolean attribute closed that can be used to force input only with the Javascript of controlled-vocabulary add-on. The default behaviour (i.e. without this attribute) is as set closed="false". This allow the user also to enter the value in free way.

  It lets you add a custom keyword, but eventually this is not saved. So it looks like closed="false" but behaves like closed="true"