[EP-tech] Re: Views

[sf2 at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastien Francois)]

Hi John,

Yes I use filters in views, and I think by using the same syntax as you 
do, e.g. (real life example):

                 filters => [
                         { meta_fields => [ "collections" ], value => 
"research", describe => 0 }
                 ],

Some repositories have completely separated certain topics (for example 
'Archives' from the rest of the repository), see:

http://usir.salford.ac.uk/view/archive_dates/

VS.

http://usir.salford.ac.uk/view/year/

^^ these work by setting the "filters" appropriately. Items appear to 
belong to separate repositories, but nope, it's all under the same roof!

Seb.


On 22/10/12 14:54, John Salter wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to get my head round views (again), and came across this:
> http://trac.eprints.org/eprints/changeset/6037
>   - which makes it sound like I should be able to do something like this:
>
> $c->{browse_views} = [
>    {
>      id => "collection",
>      filters => [
>        { meta_fields => [ "collection" ], value => "something" }
>      ],
>      ...
>    },
>    ...
> ];
>
> But this doesn't seem to work. Has anyone got this working?
>
> Each eprint belongs to a 'collection'. Each collection might need a different view - e.g. one collection could be a set of periodical/articles (with nice date/volume numbers), whereas another collection could be images of historical lab instruments - not necessarily having a nice clean date etc.
>
> How have people configured their views for items that don't share much in common?
>
> Cheers,
> John
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