Hi Joel,

I will have a look at the intro message you get when you join the list to make it clear that the address you receive the "sign up success" email is not the email address you should use to send to the mailing list.

On you actual issue, you just need to make a small change to your XML:

<data href="">
Needs to be:

<url>file:///opt/eprints3/foo.png</url>

Here is the wiki page that gives an example:

https://wiki.eprints.org/w/Import_Files

However, it does say that this page is "out of date".  I think that is more to to with it not having been reviewed recently and it could do with being improved to have more of a tutorial style as it is a bit of a stub at the moment.

Regards

David Newman

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3. The upload issue:
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Thanks,

Joel

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Hi Joel,

I think you need to set (to 1) the enable_file_imports option:

https://wiki.eprints.org/w/Miscellaneous_Config_Options#E

I did spend some back in July this year going through the codebase to make sure all configuration options that were not set in the configuration files included in a default installation were documented, (as well as any of those that are defined in configuration files [1]).  As after quite a few years, I was still discovering configuration options I did not know existed and in some cases had created very similar functionality and configuration to solve the same problem.

Regards

David Newman
[1] https://wiki.eprints.org/w/Config_Options_by_File

On 20/12/2024 6:57 pm, Joel Brown wrote:

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Hey all,

We're in the process of setting up a new repository and are preparing to bulk import ~1300 articles to get it started. We are using XML to bulk import the entries (and this works fine). However, it has been tricky to find how to import a PDF along with each entry. I imagine the workflow would look something like this:

1. Upload PDFs to an accessible location on the server.
2. Include a URL reference to each individual PDF in the XML upload.
3. During the upload eprints will pull the PDF from the specified location and add it to the eprints3/archives/<archive>/documents folder 

I'm following the instructions here: https://eprints-tech.ecs.soton.ac.narkive.com/FtTwEjf7/ep-tech-bulk-import-into-new-eprints-3-repository#post10

I've performed a simple test to do an XML upload that includes "foo.png". Here's what I've done:

• Include foo.png in the /opt/eprints3 folder.
• Include /opt/eprints3/foo.png in the document heading of the XML file:

<documents>

<document>

<docid>1</docid>

<rev_number>1</rev_number>

<pos>1</pos>

<format>image/png</format>

<language>en</language>

<security>public</security>

<main>foo.png</main>

<files>

<file>

<filename>foo.png</filename>

<data href="">

</file>

</files>

</document>

</documents>

• Run the following command:

./bin/import --user 6 --enable-file-imports crsq eprint XML eprint.xml

Results: The upload works (the entry is created), but the foo.png doesn't actually link to anything. What am I missing?

Thanks,

Joel