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en:user:collection_grouping [2016/11/22 01:36] – created kjdonen:user:collection_grouping [2019/02/04 22:04] kjdon
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 By default, the Greenstone home page will display a grid of all valid collections. This can get quite crowded if there are a number of collections. "Collection groups" enables collections to be grouped into a subset with only one icon/link on the home page. Clicking the Group icon takes you to a group 'about page', which displays all the collections in that group. By default, the Greenstone home page will display a grid of all valid collections. This can get quite crowded if there are a number of collections. "Collection groups" enables collections to be grouped into a subset with only one icon/link on the home page. Clicking the Group icon takes you to a group 'about page', which displays all the collections in that group.
  
-This is accomplished by putting a group folder inside the collect folder (greenstone2/collect, or greenstone3/web/sites/localsite/collect). All collections belonging to that group need to be moved into the group subfolder. 
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-Then a configuration file is needed for the group. This lives in an etc folder inside the group, and is collect.cfg for greenstone2, collectionConfig.xml for greenstone3. The format is a very cut down version of a standard collection's config file. The key item is the collectgroup specifier. 
  
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 +This is accomplished by putting a group folder inside the collect folder (greenstone2/collect). All collections belonging to that group need to be moved into the group subfolder.
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 +Then a collect.cfg configuration file is needed for the group. This lives in an etc folder inside the group. The format is a very cut down version of a standard collection's config file. The key item is the collectgroup specifier.
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