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[EP-tech] Re: Views

Hi John,
Yes I use filters in views, and I think by using the same syntax as you do, e.g. (real life example): 

                filters => [
{ meta_fields => [ "collections" ], value => "research", describe => 0 } 
                ],
Some repositories have completely separated certain topics (for example 'Archives' from the rest of the repository), see: 

http://usir.salford.ac.uk/view/archive_dates/

VS.

http://usir.salford.ac.uk/view/year/
^^ these work by setting the "filters" appropriately. Items appear to belong to separate repositories, but nope, it's all under the same roof! 

Seb.


On 22/10/12 14:54, John Salter wrote:

Hi,
I'm trying to get my head round views (again), and came across this:
http://trac.eprints.org/eprints/changeset/6037
  - which makes it sound like I should be able to do something like this:

$c->{browse_views} = [
   {
     id => "collection",
     filters => [
       { meta_fields => [ "collection" ], value => "something" }
     ],
     ...
   },
   ...
];

But this doesn't seem to work. Has anyone got this working?

Each eprint belongs to a 'collection'. Each collection might need a different view - e.g. one collection could be a set of periodical/articles (with nice date/volume numbers), whereas another collection could be images of historical lab instruments - not necessarily having a nice clean date etc.

How have people configured their views for items that don't share much in common?

Cheers,
John
			
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