Editing Views.pl (section)

== Options available for the views config ==
This link is an [http://wiki.eprints.org/w/Adding_new_views 'How to' about views] with examples.

The general form of views definition is

  $c->{browse_views} = [
    { <first view definition> },
    { <second view definition> },
    ...
    { <last view definition> },
  ];

(be careful about commas and semicolons). The order of the view definitions determines the order in which these will appear in the <nowiki>http://repoid/view/</nowiki> page.

Each view definition is a collection of attributes, given as

    attribute1 => value1,
    attribute2 => value2,
    ...

(again, the ''value'' should end by a comma). The ''value'' can be
*''integer''
*''string'' enclosed by quotation marks (") or by apostrophes (')
*''array'' which starts by a square bracket [ followed by the elements of the array (separated by commas) and closed by ] or 
*''hash'' which is a list of "attribute => value" pairs enclosed by curly brackets { and }.
Thus the browse_views definition is an array of hashes.

Attributes marked by <sup style="font-weight:bold; font-size:10px">(V)</sup> are ''view'' attributes and are in the view definition; attributes marked by <sup style="font-weight:bold; font-size:10px">(M)</sup> are ''menu'' attributes and should be used only in [[#Menu options|menu definitions]].