To follow that up, for plugins, you can put things that you want active across all archives in

~/lib/plugins/EPrints/Plugins/…

If you had some 3^rd party perl modules, you can put them in e.g. ~/lib/plugins/MyLovelyPerlModule/ (if you can’t add them via CPAN).

Very generally, I stay away from doing anything in ~/perl_lib/.

These may be of use:

http://wiki.eprints.org/w/Tips_to_write_plugins

http://wiki.eprints.org/w/Instructions_for_local_plugins

Cheers,
John

If you do things in ~/perl_lib/… it affects all archives running from that install of EPrints.

If you do it in ~/archives/[ID]/ it’s easier to keep track when upgrading EPrints too.

Did it create anything in the error log when you tried it my way?

Cheers,
John

Sorry to come back to this, but I was just thinking about something that I
did slightly differently to what you've suggested John, I copied my
login.pm file to /perl_lib/EPrints/Plugin/Screen/ rather than
/archives/{my archive}/cfg/plugins/Eprints/Plugin/Screen/

When I put the file where you suggested Eprints doesn't see it and just
errors out.

Is there an advantage to doing it that way (ie restricted to that
repository) and am I doing it wrong or badly, by putting it under the
perl_lib folder?

If I am doing it wrong then why doesn't it work when I try it under
archives/myrepository


Thanks
Derek



On 11/6/13 5:38 PM, "John Salter" <J.Salter@leeds.ac.uk> wrote:

>I was close to figuring it out before.
>Once you've followed the stuff below, and made a new template to use
>(e.g. ~/archived/ARCHIVEID/cfg/templates/login.xml) try:
>
>sub render
>{
> my( $self ) = @_;
>
> my $processor = $self->{processor};
> my $repo = $self->{repository};
> my $xml = $repo->xml;
> my $r = $repo->get_request;
>
>#Add this:
> $processor->{template} = "login"; #the template name (without the
>.xml)
>...
>
>Might have to document that in the wiki - if it's the *best* way of
>achieving this (anyone got other ideas how to do this)?
>For future development, it might be nice to be able to do:
>$c->{plugins}->{"Screen::Login"}->{template} = "login";
>(if you can't already!)
>
>Cheers,
>John
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk
>[mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of John Salter
>Sent: 06 November 2013 16:51
>To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
>Subject: [EP-tech] Re: editing default pins
>
>Look at ~/perl_lib/EPrints/Plugin/Screen/Login.pm
>
>If what you want to change is contained solely within the phrases it
>uses, copy those phrases from ~/lib/lang/en/phrases/system.xml (or
>wherever they may be) to
>~/archives/ARCHIVEID/cfg/lang/en/phrases/system_overrides.xml (or any
>sensible XML file in there).
>
>If you need to change things bit more radically:
>Copy ~/perl_lib/EPrints/Plugin/Screen/Login.pm to
>~/archives/ARCHIVEID/cfg/plugins/EPrints/Plugin/Screen/... Use a filename
>like ArchiveIDLogin.pm
>
>Change the package name in that file to reflect the new name you've just
>given it.
>
>In ~/archives/ARCHIVEID/cfg/cfg.d/plugins.pl (or some other file in that
>directory), define:
>
>$c->{plugin_alias_map}->{"Screen::Login"} = "Screen::AcrchiveIDLogin";
>#or whatever you've called your new copy
>$c->{plugin_alias_map}->{"Screen::Login"} = undef;
>
>Once you get this working OK (maybe add an extra class to something
>that's being rendered so you can check that the copy is being used to
>generate the login page), start hacking your ArchiveIDLogin.pm to do what
>you want it to.
>
>I thought there was some easy way to set a template for this, but
>currently I haven't been able to work out how :o\
>I was expecting to do something like:
>$self->{template} = 'login';
> - but this doesn't seem to work.
>
>Maybe someone else can offer guidance on how to achieve this?
>
>Cheers,
>John
>
>
>________________________________________
>From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk
>[eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Derek Lawrie
>[d.lawrie@nua.ac.uk]
>Sent: 05 November 2013 14:59
>To: Eprints
>Subject: [EP-tech] editing default pins
>
>I'd like to edit the output of the default login form, I presume the
>output is generated from the epc:pin "page"?
>I don't know if I should be editing that or if I could apply a template to
>only apply to the login?
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Thanks
>Derek
>
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