Training Video:Browse View configuration

Introduction

This video explains what the browse views are, how they are defined and how to define new views. It shows best practice ways to modify the default configuration and how to use the command line administration tools to optimise the performance of your server in creating and updating views.

What You Will Learn

• What a browse view is
• What are 'menu' and 'list' views
• How to create a new view
• How to change the way menu and lists views are rendered
• How to amend the default configuration without changing the existing config files
• How to regenerate the views via the admin interface, the command line and via scheduled tasks

What You Should Already Know

• Familiarity with the EPrints admin interface
• A basic understanding of PERL and how EPrints uses it
• Basic idea of how eprints uses configuration files

Resources

Each resource on this page (video, document, block of wiki text) should have a similar format to the Video section below.

Video

The Video can be found at http://youtu.be/Ap_u7_MCnhI.

Index

• 0:00 - What is a browse view
• 0:50 - .include files (unbranded lists)
• 1:20 - columns and pages on browse menus
• 1:50 - configuration file overview (from front end)
• 2:50 - multiple-menu views
• 3:30 - value ranges on menus
• 4:24 - variations on lists
• 4:47 - hideempty
• 5:43 - regenerating browse views
• 8:08 - reloading the configuration
• 9:11 - create new browse view (on the command line)
• 13:27 - controlling columns on menus
• 13:48 - reloading the configuration and refreshing the views (on the command line)
• 15:59 - change rendering of browse list
• 16:20 - creating render function
• 18:30 - creating a DOM object
• 19:42 - rendering an eprint with a custom citation style
• 20:30 - generating just one view
• 21:35 - running epadmin test
• 22:55 - example of custom rendered browse view
• 24:13 - set citation style on a view list
• 24:44 - creating a citation style
• 26:50 - optimising browse view generation
• 27:37 - increasing the browse view timeout
• 28:08 - max items parameter
• 28:40 - finding documentation on the EPrints wiki
• 30:05 - setting max_list_age and max_menu_age (witout modifying default configuration files)
• 32:10 - modifying existing configuration with a loop
• 35:38 - confirming properties are set
• 37:35 - nightly generation of single browse views

Notes, Errata and Additional Information

Any notes, version information, errata, etc concerned with this video

• EPrints 3.3.14

Test Yourself

• Create a new view to show items by publication in 2 columns
• Modify this view to show 3 columns
• Create a render function to add some simple text to the list items
• Modify the function to add the eprintid field to the list items

More Reading

• Adding New Views
• The default views configuration