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--- en:user:rss [2025/07/31 01:35] – [Greenstone3] kjdon
+++ en:user:rss [2025/08/04 02:06] (current) – [Configuring RSS feed info] kjdon
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 Note, plugouts are the opposite to plugins. Plugins handle converting document formats to Greenstone's internal representation. Plugouts take the internal representation and write them out to file. By default, the import process uses the GreenstoneXMLPlugout, which writes out documents as GreenstoneXML archive files. If you export a collection to another format e.g. MARCXML, then a different plugout will be used.
-These plugout options cannot currently be set using GLI. To change them, you will need to edit the collection's configuration file by hand. Make sure the collection is not open in GLI before you start editing the file. Once you have edited the file, save it, and rebuild the collection to regenerate the rss file. Unfortunately, as of Greenstone 3.12, if the collection is opened in GLI, these lines will be removed.
+Plugout options can be set by specifying a plugout in the collection's configuration file, along with its options. Unfortunately, there was a bug in Greenstone 3.12 which means that this element is removed from the config file when you open the collection in GLI.
+Alternatively you can use the import options //-saveas// and //-saveas_options//.
+  * **-saveas** specifies what type of output format to use (default: GreenstoneXML) and therefore which plugout (default GerenstoneXMLPlugout)
+  * **-saveas_options** specifies any options to pass to the plugout.
+You can set these in the import options pane of the Create Pane in GLI - if you do that here, they will only be applied when building the collection through GLI. \\
+You can also set import options directly into the config file using GLI's //Edit->Edit collectionConfig.xml//. If you use this method,  the options will be available for use in GLI and for command line building.
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-There are two ways to specify plugout options.
+The three ways to specify plugout option, for example, setting the -rss_title option:
-  - using import option //-saveas_options//. The options specified here get passed to the plugout.
+   *  1. Create Pane, import option //-saveas_options//.
-In GLI, this is on the Create pane.
+<code>
+  -saveas_options -rss_title dc.Title,Title
+</code>
+   * 2. Add importOptions directly into the collectionConfig.xml file.
+In GLI, Edit->Edit collectionConfig.xml. Or open up the file //%%greenstone3/web/sites/localsite/collect/<collname>/etc/collectionConfig.xml%%// in an editor. Add the following as a child node of the top level CollectionConfig element:
+<code>
+  <importOption name="saveas_options" value="-rss_title dc.Title,Title"/>
+</code>
-  - Add a plugout element into the collectionConfig.xml file.
+   * 3. Add a plugout element directly into the collectionConfig.xml file.
-Open up the file //%%greenstone3/web/sites/localsite/collect/<collname>/etc/collectionConfig.xml%%//.
+In GLI, Edit->Edit collectionConfig.xml. Or open up the file //%%greenstone3/web/sites/localsite/collect/<collname>/etc/collectionConfig.xml%%// in an editor.
 Inside the //%%<import>%%// node, add code like the following:
 <code>
 <plugout name="GreenstoneXMLPlugout">
-   <option name="-rss_title" value="dc.Title, Title"/>
+   <option name="-rss_title" value="dc.Title,Title"/>
 </plugout>
 </code>