Manual

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Introduction

• Introduction
• How to Get Help/Support
• History

Installing EPrints & Getting Started

• Required software
• Installing EPrints
  • Recommended Platforms
  • Installing Eprints 3 on Fedora Core 6
  • Installing EPrints 3 on RedHat Enterprise 4
  • Installing EPrints 3 on OS X
  • other platforms
• Upgrading EPrints 3 versions
• Migrating from EPrints 2.3
• Getting Started
• Backups
• Troubleshooting
• Advanced Installation
  • HTTPS
• Installing EPrints on various platforms.

How-to Guides

What is a how-to?

• Orientation (Start here)
  • New to EPrints 3? - before diving into the how-tos, take some time to read through this brief orientation guide and familiarise yourself with the EPrints configuration landscape...
  • Migrated from EPrints 2? - this orientation guide is intended to help you re-orient yourselves in your new EPrints 3 set up...
• Branding with confidence - one of the most common EPrints customisations is to add your own institution's branding and "look and feel" to the interface...
  • Branding, the next level - how to completely change the interface to your own design
• Adding new views
• Deposit Types and Metadata
• Organisation Hierarchy
• Searches
• Autocompletion and Authority Files (Romeo Autocomplete) - add autocomplete functionality to the Publication Title input field based on an authority file downloaded from EPrints Romeo...
• Create Export Plugins - create a Perl Module that will export your data...
• Login-Only Repository - require a username and password to access all pages (including search, browse, and the front page)...
• Change Deposit Statuses in Bulk - move a large number of deposits from inbox to archive
• more

Misc

• Preservation Support in GNU EPrints 3
• I18n
• How to contribute
  • Extension Packages

Technical Reference

• EPrints Directory Structure - will be linked somewhere better, later.

• Metadata - configuring metadata fields.
• Repository Configuration
• XML Configuration Files
  • EPScript - documentation for the EP3 Scripting language (for use in citations and workflow files).
  • EPrints Control Format - the structure used to embed EPScript in an XML configuration file.
  • Citation Format
  • Workflow Format - the structure of the EP3 workflow files
  • Phrase Format
  • Template Format
  • XPAGE Format
• XML Export Format
• EPrints data structure
  • of the software
  • of the database (relating the dataobjects to each other using eprints fields)
• Data Objects and data sets
  • The EPrint Object
  • The User Object
  • The Document Object
  • The Subject Object
  • The Saved Search Object
  • The History Object
  • The Access Object
  • The Request Object
• Plugins
  • Import
  • Export Plugins
  • Components
  • Screen
  • Convert
• Autocompletion
  • Understanding IDs in Workflow Forms
• API