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====== Collection Grouping ======

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.

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.

<TABAREA tabs="Greenstone3,Greenstone2">
<TAB>
Actually I think greenstone 3 version is completely different??? **TODO**
</TAB>
<TAB>
<code>
creator       me@mywork.com
maintainer    me@mywork.com
public        true
collectgroup  true


collectionmeta collectionname    "groupA"
collectionmeta iconcollection    ""
collectionmeta collectionextra   "This is a group of special collections"

</code>
</TAB>
</TABAREA>