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[EP-tech] Re: Browse pages

Further to this - here is the original message from 2011 - don't worry about a lot of the extra fields details in the messages themselves - the views_render_menu.txt attachment at the end is the significant code
http://www.eprints.org/tech.php/15588.html


-----Original Message-----
From: Alan.Stiles [mailto:alan.stiles@open.ac.uk] 
Sent: 11 June 2014 13:58
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Subject: [EP-tech] Re: Browse pages

Hi Andrew,

In our authors browse view configuration we have the following significant differences
       ...
       group_range_function => "EPrints::Update::Views::cluster_ranges_30",
       grouping_function => "group_by_author",
       group_sorting_function => "alpha_first", }

And in another .pl file in cfg.d we have the 2 non-standard functions defined to 1/. group them alphabetically by author family name initial and sort them by our desired alpha pattern and 2/. Define the ordering of the groupings (A-Z followed by 0-9 then other characters), which I wouldn't worry about at the moment..
If you like, I could try and explain what the group_by_author function is doing, but the actual code is specific to some custom fields so wouldn't necessarily be all that useful to the world, although I think my predecessor did share it in 2011.

Alan

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Beeken [mailto:anbeeken@lincoln.ac.uk]
Sent: 11 June 2014 11:19
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Subject: [EP-tech] Re: Browse pages

Thanks all for the help on this. I think it’s started to get in there!
I’ve managed to make the changes I needed to the screen, but I’m still struggling with the view. I get what needs to be done, however when I change up the requisite view function in views.pl I get nothing.

For some reason the output of our creators is not in alphabetical order.
The function in views.pl is:

{
                id => "creators",
                allow_null => 0,
                hideempty => 1,
                menus => [
                        {
                                fields => [ "creators_browse_id" ],
                                new_column_at => [1, 1],
                                mode => "sections",
                                open_first_section => 1,
                                group_range_function => "EPrints::Update::Views::cluster_ranges_30",
                                grouping_function => "EPrints::Update::Views::group_by_a_to_z",
                        },
                ],
                order => "-date/title",
                variations => [
                        "type",
                        "DEFAULT",
                ],
        },


And you can see an output from that here:
http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/view/creators/index.M.html

I have looked here: http://wiki.eprints.org/w/Views.pl and implemented some of the different parameters into the function, but the view does not change. I’m restarting the server and setting “Regenerate views” in admin (all done on a local copy which is a replica of the live copy)

I’m wondering if I’m missing something?



On 10/06/2014 12:41, "Jan Ploski" <jpl@plosquare.com> wrote:

>The "browse by" pages are called "views".
>
>The module EPrints::Update::Views, traditionally invoked by the 
>generate_views script and in newer versions of EPrints also triggered 
>by requesting a stale view page, generates a separate HTML file for 
>each view and for the summaries (how this occurs and which views are 
>generated is driven by specifications in cfg.d/views.pl of your archive).
>
>In general, EPrints creates the XHTML document structure in memory 
>first (by calling "appendChild" for each node) and in a final step it 
>converts the content of this structure into a string, which is written 
>either straight to browser or to a file.
>
>Strings that appear in the GUI are not found directly in the source 
>code, instead they reside in phrases XML files. So typically you search 
>the phrases files first to locate a piece of GUI (watching out for line 
>breaks etc.), and in the next step you search for the phrase id in the 
>source. However, with views it may not be the best approach because 
>they mostly consist of data from the database, with few fixed phrases 
>on which to base your search.
>
>You should just put some print STDERR "debug\n"; statements (goes to 
>Apache rror log) or alter EPrint::Update::Views code and then observe 
>what effect this has on the output of bin/generate_views.pl
>
>"Manage deposits" is quite a different story, it's a "screen"
>(implemented in EPrints::Plugin::Screen::EPrint::Deposit), as are most 
>pages you see while navigating through EPrints. However, the output is 
>done pretty much the same way, XHTML document structure constructed by 
>the screen module, then output centrally. Note that the module 
>Repository.pm (formerly Session.pm) contains quite a few functions that 
>add more complex content to the XHTML document (they are called 
>render_xxx there).
>
>On 06/10/2014 11:50 AM, Andrew Beeken wrote:
>> Any thoughts? I find the method that EPrints uses to put pages 
>>together  rather impenetrable so any assistance would be great. I¹m 
>>now also looking  at the Manage Deposits page and trying to make some 
>>adjustments to the  form there, however gripping for specific phrases 
>>from the form turns up  nothing.
>>
>> On 06/06/2014 14:42, "Andrew Beeken" <anbeeken@lincoln.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Afternoon!
>>>
>>> I¹m trying to understand how the ³Browse² pages are put together, 
>>> specifically the ³Browse by creator² pages. I¹ve tracked down the 
>>> functions that seem to pull the content from the database but I¹m 
>>> not sure how this is then translated into a displayable page. Any pointers?
>>>
>>> Andrew
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