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+<#-- $This file is distributed under the terms of the license in /doc/license.txt$ -->
+
+<#-- Custom form for adding authors to information resources -->
+
+<#import "lib-vivo-form.ftl" as lf>
+
+<#assign title="<em>${infoResourceName}</em>" />
+<#assign requiredHint="<span class='requiredHint'> *</span>" />
+<#assign initialHint="<span class='hint'>(initial okay)</span>" />
+
+<@lf.unsupportedBrowser>
+
+<h2>${title}</h2>
+
+<ul id="authorships" ${ulClass}>
+
+<script type="text/javascript">
+    var authorshipData = [];
+</script>
+
+<#list authors as author>
+<li class="authorship">
+    <#-- span.author will be used in the next phase, when we display a message that the author has been
+    removed. That text will replace the a.authorName, which will be removed. -->    
+    <span class="author">
+        <#-- This span is here to assign a width to. We can't assign directly to the a.authorName,
+        for the case when it's followed by an em tag - we want the width to apply to the whole thing. -->
+        <span class="authorNameWrapper">
+            <#if author <#--<c:when test="${!empty author}">-->>
+                <#assign authorUri=author.URI />
+                <#assign authorName=author.name />
+                <#assign authorHref="/individual" />
+                <#-- I don't know how to "translate"" this in to freemarker <c:param name="uri" value="${authorUri}"/>-->
+                <span class="authorName">${authorName}</span>
+              <#else>      
+                <#assign authorUri="" />
+                <#assign authorName="" />
+                <#assign authorHref="/individual" />
+                <#-- I don't know how to "translate" this in to freemarker  <c:param name="uri" value="${authorshipUri}"/>-->
+                <span class="authorName">${authorshipName}</span><em> (no linked author)</em>
+            </#if>
+        </span>
+        
+        <#assign deleteAuthorshipHref="/edit/primitiveDelete" />
+        <a href="${deleteAuthorshipHref}" class="remove">Remove</a>
+    </span>
+</li>
+
+<script type="text/javascript">
+    authorshipData.push({
+        "authorshipUri": "${authorshipUri}",
+        "authorUri": "${authorUri}",
+        "authorName": "${authorName}"                
+    });
+</script>
+</#list>
+
+    <#--// A new author will be ranked last when added.
+    // This value is now inserted by JavaScript, but leave it here as a safety net in case page
+    // load reordering returns an error. 
+    request.setAttribute("newRank", maxRank + 1);
+    request.setAttribute("rankPredicate", rankPredicateUri);-->
+
+</ul>
+
+<section id="showAddForm" role="region">
+    <input type="hidden" name = "editKey" value="${editKey}" />
+    <input type="submit" id="showAddFormButton" value="${editConfiguration.submitLabel}" role="button" />
+
+    <span class="or"> or </span>
+    <a class="cancel" href="${editConfiguration.cancelUrl}" title="Cancel">Return to Publication</a>
+</section> 
+
+<form id="addAuthorForm" action ="${submitUrl}" class="customForm">
+    <h3>Add an Author</h3>
+        <label for="lastName">Last name <span class='requiredHint'> *</span></label>
+        <input class="acSelector" size="35"  type="text" id="lastName" name="lastName" value="" role="input" />
+
+        <label for="firstName">First name ${requiredHint} ${initialHint}</label>
+        <input  size="20"  type="text" id="firstName" name="firstName" value=""  role="input" />
+
+        <label for="middleName">Middle name <span class='hint'>(initial okay)</span></label>
+        <input  size="20"  type="text" id="middleName" name="middleName" value=""  role="input" />
+      
+        <input type="hidden" id="label" name="label" value=""  role="input" />  <!-- Field value populated by JavaScript -->
+
+        <div id="selectedAuthor" class="acSelection">
+            <label>Selected author: </label><span class="acSelectionInfo" id="selectedAuthorName"></span></p>
+            <input type="hidden" id="personUri" name="personUri" value=""  role="input" /> <!-- Field value populated by JavaScript -->
+        </div>
+
+        <input type="hidden" name="rank" id="rank" value="${newRank}" role="input" />
+    
+        <p class="submit">
+            <input type="hidden" name = "editKey" value="${keyValue}" role="input" />
+            <input type="submit" id="submit" value="${submitButtonText}" role="button" role="input" />
+            
+            <span class="or"> or </span>
+            
+            <a class="cancel" href="${editConfiguration.cancelUrl}" title="Cancel">Cancel</a>
+        </p>
+
+        <p id="requiredLegend" class="requiredHint">* required fields</p>
+</form>
+
+<script type="text/javascript">
+var customFormData = {
+    rankPredicate: ${rankPredicate},
+    acUrl: ${acUrl},
+    reorderUrl: '/edit/reorder'
+};
+</script>
+
+${stylesheets.add('<link rel="stylesheet" href="${urls.base}/edit/forms/css/customForm.css" />',
+                  '<link rel="stylesheet" href="${urls.base}/edit/forms/css/addAuthorsToInformationResource.css" />')}
+
+${scripts.add('<script type="text/javascript" src="${urls.base}/js/utils.js"></script>',
+              '<script type="text/javascript" src="${urls.base}/js/customFormUtils.js"></script>',
+              '<script type="text/javascript" src="${urls.base}/edit/forms/js/customFormWithAutocomplete.js"></script>',
+              '<script type="text/javascript" src="${urls.base}/edit/forms/js/addAuthorsToInformationResource.js"></script>')}
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