eprints_tech messages

From: Christopher Gutteridge <cjg AT ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 19:30:50 +0100

1. I did not pick the current citation styles and I'm not sure I
want to change this unless some more people agree. It's easy to
configure - just edit the top of perl_lib/EPrintsSite/SiteRoutines.pm
all the citation style templates are there for you to tweak to your
own ends.

2. The new version will fix all the annoyances with passwords
- I really hate the email sign up, it's the worst single feature

The default username will be your email, and you will be able to change
the password.

A "set password" cgi script for version 1.whatever is possible if ↵
there
is enough of a need. Actually I think you should be able to get it to
work by editing perl_lib/EPrints/User.pm as follows:

Near the top of the file is the line:
	"password:text::Password:1:0:0", 

change it to:
	"password:text::Password:1:1:0", 

the three 1/0's are: ↵
"required","editable","visible" so what we just
did was make it "editable", which should mean that it appears as an
option on the "edit user record" form. I HAVE NOT TESTED THIS, so if
someone tries this please let the list know (hey, I'm answering on a
Sunday, what do you people want, blood? <grin>)



On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 01:08:32PM -0400, Christopher D. Green wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I'm new to this list. I'm a psychology professor at York Univeristy
> (Toronto) who is in the process of setting up an Eprints archive for the
> History & Theory of Psychology (HTP Prints). It is not ↵
"official" as
> yet, but if you'd to have a look at the "beta" version, you can ↵
find it
> at http://htpprints.yorku.ca/.
> 
> Even though I've only had a few people testing the site for me, I've run
> across a couple things that have "agitated" more than one user. ↵
Perhaps
> they can be altered in the next version of Eprints (or better yet, a
> "patch" could be made for the current version).
> 
> (1) Conference papers and posters are automatically referenced as
> "Proceedings <name of conference>". Often, however, there ↵
are no
> "proceedings" volumes for conferences. Indeed, the very reason ↵
one might
> wish to post one's conference paper or poster on an Eprints archive is
> that no such volume exists. Could this default be changed to "Paper
> presented at <name of conference>" and "Poster presented ↵
at <name of
> conference>"?
> 
> (2) A number of users have already asked me if they can change their
> passwords to something more memorable than the password generated for
> them by the software. As far as I can tell, there is no way to do this.
> Could a changeable field be included in, say, the "View/Change Your ↵
User
> Record" page to allow people to do this?
> 
> Again, I'm new to the list, and apologize if these things have come up
> before.
> 
> Best regards,
> --
> Christopher D. Green
> Department of Psychology
> York University
> Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3
> 
> e-mail: christo AT yorku.ca
> phone:  416-736-5115 ext. 66164
> fax:    416-736-5814
> http://www.yorku.ca/christo/
> 

-- 
Christopher Gutteridge -- cjg AT ecs.soton.ac.uk -- +44 (0)23 8059 4833
Anyone who thinks they know what's going on is probably full of bullshit.