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[EP-tech] Antwort: Re: Problems with the Coversheets plugin

Hi,

Peter West and we had just finished a project in which we redesigned the functionality of the Coversheets plugin. Main features:

- Administration of the Coversheet templates is now in Admin > System Tools > Manage Coversheets
- The coversheet process is triggered either when the document is moved from review to archive, or upon the first download. We hope that with this, the load on the server is reduced a lot. The indexer is not engaged anymore.
- There is a button "Apply Coversheet" in Admin > System Tools that allows to trigger the coversheet process manually.
- The coversheeted document is a volatile document - the original document remains untouched (be prepared to have doubled diskspace for your documents).
- There is also a script that allows to apply coversheets in batch.
- Instead of OpenOffice, we use LaTeX. We decided to do so because of several reasons:
   . Especially in the Faculty of Science, we have many documents from high energy physics and mathematics with mathematical typesetting both in the titles and the abstract. These are rendered now correctly and also can be indexed by search engines.
   . Links can be rendered so that they are clickable
   . Images such as license batches from Creative Commons can be included dynamically and added with a clickable link

Example: http://www.zora.uzh.ch/121139/ 

Best regards,

Martin

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Dr. Martin Brändle
Zentrale Informatik
Universität Zürich
Stampfenbachstr. 73
CH-8006 Zürich

mail: martin.braendle@id.uzh.ch
phone: +41 44 63 56705
fax: +41 44 63 54505
http://www.zi.uzh.ch

Inactive hide details for John Salter ---11/05/2016 14:11:01---Hi Annette, I think "Admin > Manage Records > Coversheets " mighJohn Salter ---11/05/2016 14:11:01---Hi Annette, I think "Admin > Manage Records > Coversheets " might be slightly misleading.

Von: John Salter <J.Salter@leeds.ac.uk>
An: "eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk" <eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Datum: 11/05/2016 14:11
Betreff: Re: [EP-tech] Problems with the Coversheets plugin
Gesendet von: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk




Hi Annette,
I think “Admin > Manage Records > Coversheets “ might be slightly misleading.
For us, as an admin user, in the EPrints toolbar (with the ‘Logged in as xxx user’ message in it), there’s a link to ‘Manage records’. Can you see this?
If you can, the ‘Coversheets’ option should be in there.
 
You can create quite complex coversheets (the coversheet document itself), and complex rules to govern what they apply to.
The coversheets have a priority – so you can have e.g.
    1.       a transport studies working paper gets coversheet A
    2.       other working papers get coversheet B
    3.       other transport studies items get coversheet C
    4.       other items get coversheet D
 
For White Rose, we have different coversheets depending on which of the three institutions an item has been created by – using the institutional logo as well as the White Rose one.
 
When someone downloads an item that *could* be coversheeted, the plugin creates a coversheet event (make sure your indexer is running), and a coversheeted version of the document is created when that event is run.
Once the coversheeted document has been created, subsequent downloads will present that version.
 
One word of warning: PDF readers in browsers can be quite good at caching  PDFs (it can be tricky to reload a PDF once you get it!). As the coversheet plugin returns different content for the same URL (depending on the coversheeted version being available), you may need to trick the browswer/PDF viewer into reloading it. I’ve found appending a query-string to the filename to be the easiest:
Document URL: http://your.repo/123/1/document.pdf
To reload: http://your.repo/123/1/document.pdf?a 
If you need to reload again, change ?a to ?b; ?c…
 
Hope that makes some sense – I can provide some screenshots if that would be useful.
Cheers,
John
 
 
 
From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Annette Moore
Sent: 09 May 2016 19:27
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Subject: [EP-tech] Problems with the Coversheets plugin
 
Hi
We are currently trying to install the Coversheets plugin and following through on the Wiki guidelines for Coversheets at
http://wiki.eprints.org/w/Coversheets .   Despite installing OpenOffice and the various other dependencies, we are still not seeing the options under Admin > Manage Records > Coversheets to Create New Coversheet or to upload a template.  Has anyone else experienced problems installing Coversheets and getting them up and running?  Could anyone send me a screenshot from the Coversheet page or explain the options that should be available for adding coversheets.  Whilst our IT team are working on installing the plugin, in the Library we are customising the template but it would be very helpful to understand how much flexibility there is in choice of a template.  For example, if creating a template to be used with certain Item Types, is the coversheet added automatically at the point of uploading a document or does this happen on the fly when I pdf is downloaded?  Is there an option to override the default template associated with an Item Type and select a different template?
 
Thanks in advance,
 
Annette
 
 
Annette Moore
Technical Services Librarian
 
The Library
University of Sussex
Brighton
BN1 9QL
 
T:01273 877046
E:a.moore@sussex.ac.uk
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