Non-textual item types should be able to be deposited w/o being a supp file #85
Description
WHY: An author cannot deposit anything other than a PDF or Word doc as a main file in the UCPMS. This creates an issue if the author is depositing, say, a TIFF image of their Poster -- something eScholarship/subi would allow as a non-textual item. This creates user confusion and may result in abandoned deposits.
WHAT: Update RT2 and eScholarship API, as needed, so that authors may deposit a media or presentation into eScholarship as what via subi would be an other item -- i.e. without being required to also deposit a Word/PDF file as a primary file.
For prior work on this project, see: https://trello.com/c/WcgQHskD
Program traces:
subiGuts.rb 255 self.downloadContentFile() --> 206 (convertToPDF) contains the code for identifying files and converting them to PDF
connectRT2 912 POST conatins a function at 954 that checks for pdf or doc and throws a userErrorHalt() if it get anything else.