Document extra fields

Hi Dam,
I am using some document extra fields and modified the XML file root > administrator > components > com_edocman > model > forms > document.xml. This works very nice, but when I updated edocman from 1.9.7 to 1.9.8 today, the changed file was overwritten and the extra fields were not usable any more. Is there a safe way to update without the need to again modify document.xml after updating?
Regards
Ralf

Problem solved through Ticket system
Thanks
Dam

Hi Dam,

Is there any chance you can explain how this is done? I'm trying to do the same thing and have tried a view override which re-loads the custom .xml form - but this hasn't worked. I also tried just overriding the form under the admin template, but this hasn't worked either.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Ben

Hi Ben,
What did you do?
Thanks
Dam

Apologies for the late reply, but thanks for getting back to me.

I copied the view 'default.php' from here: to
and copied (and edited) the XML from here: to
Then I added the following lines to default.php, at the top, after 'defined('_JEXEC') or die;'
The override works as far as adding the additional fields - but it doesn't load any of the field data when editing, in the form.

Hi Dam,

Sorry for hassling you, but is there another line I should add to the reset code to load the document data properly? Or perhaps do it a different way?

Hi,
We don't have option to override file: document.xml
Actually, in previous Edocman version, we added new field for Documents, so that, we can't make override function for file: document.xml, but i will add option to override file: document.xml in next Edocman version
Thanks
Dam