CustomFields - want to enhance

Module: CustomFields

I want to prefix this comment by I am new to Gallery2 and looking for additional information.

I am working on Gallery2 and want to enhance its features to add custom fields to items
upon uploading a new item. I basically want to ad a custom field value.
I am looking at CustomFieldHelper class as well as CustomFieldItemAdminController, CustomFieldItemEdit

Any additional information on this module would be helpful.

Thanks

SYSTEM INFO
Gallery URL = http://lantern.unavco.org/main.php
Gallery version = 2.3.2 core 1.3.0.2
API = Core 7.54, Module 3.9, Theme 2.6, Embed 1.5
PHP version = 5.2.5 apache2handler
Webserver = Apache/2.2.8 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.8g PHP/5.2.5
Database = postgres7 8.2.5 3 9.0.4, lock.system=flock
Toolkits = ArchiveUpload, Exif, Getid3, LinkItemToolkit, Gd, Thumbnail
Acceleration = none, none
Operating system = SunOS lantern 5.10 Generic_120012-14 i86pc
Default theme = matrix
gettext = enabled
Locale = en_US
Browser = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/24.0.1312.57 Safari/537.17
Rows in GalleryAccessMap table = 40
Rows in GalleryAccessSubscriberMap table = 46
Rows in GalleryUser table = 3
Rows in GalleryItem table = 44
Rows in GalleryAlbumItem table = 15
Rows in GalleryCacheMap table = 0

PHP INFO
http://lantern.unavco.org/jerry.php

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Thank you. This is helpfule.. I will take a look.

I am looking at CustomField still at lower levels (Database) just to see whats going on.
First I only see one database table for custom field called gs_CustomFieldMap.
When I create a new field for an album, I don't see an entry in the table. However, once I give it a value , then its written into table.
Is there another table being leveraged when I create the field?

Correct. I am trying to learn whats going on with the system. Thanks...

loadTemplate is for UI - if we need one
isAppropriate -- Just return "true"?
/**
* Is this option appropriate at this time?
*
* @param GalleryItem $item
* @param GalleryDerivative $thumbnail
* @return array GalleryStatus a status code
* boolean true or false
*/
function isAppropriate($item, $thumbnail) {
return array(null, false);
}

Did you make onUpload an option in admin? if so is the option set to true?

    function isAppropriate() {
        list($ret, $onUpload) = GalleryCoreApi::getPluginParameter('module', 'customfield', 'onUpload');
        if ($ret) {
            return array($ret, false);
        }
        return array(null, $onUpload > 0);
    }

if not, just return array(null, true);

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