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.
Greenstone3
Grouping in Greenstone 3 is controlled by the groupConfig.xml file, found in a site folder alongside the siteConfig.xml file. For example, in /home/user/greenstone3/web/sites/localsite/groupConfig.xml.
By default, there are no groups.
Add hierarchy and groupDescriptions elements to add groups to your library.
Describe your structure inside a hierarchy tag as shown in the examples below.
Hierarchies can contain groups and/or collections. Groups can contain other groups and/or collections. The order they are listed is the order they will appear on the home page.
Describe your groups in groupDescriptions element as shown in the example below. Without a matching group element in groupDescriptions, a group will display its name.
If a collection is not mentioned in the hierarchy or as part of a group it will be listed on the main home page after the specified groups and collections.
Example 1: this example puts a few Greenstone demo collections into some groups. The home page will display the demo group plus any unlisted collections. The demo group home page will display its two subgroups; their home pages will display their list of collections.
<groupConfig> <hierarchy> <group name="demo"> <group name="standard"> <collection name="solr-jdbm-demo" /> <collection name="lucene-jdbm-demo" /> </group> <group name="dec"> <collection name="bibtex-e"/> <collection name="dls-e"/> <collection name="garish-e"/> <collection name="isis-e"/> </group> </group> </hierarchy> <groupDescriptions> <group name="demo"> <title>Demo Collections</title> <description>Collections for demonstration purposes, provided by the Greenstone project.</description> <shortDescription>Greenstone demonstration collections</shortDescription> <backgroundImage>/images/Group3.jpg</backgroundImage> </group> <group name="standard"> <title>Standard Demos</title> <description>These collections are the standard demonstration collections that come with a Greenstone binary release.</description> <shortDescription>Demonstration collections that come with the Greenstone binary.</shortDescription> </group> <group name="dec"> <title>Documented Example Collections</title> <description>These documented example collections describe how they are constructed on their about page. Useful for learning about different Greenstone features.</description> <shortDescription>Collections that describe how they were built.</shortDescription> </group> </groupDescriptions> </groupConfig>
Example 2: If you want to put your collections into a specific order, you can list them in the hierarchy. Any unmentioned collections will be listed at the end. This example has no groups, but is a way of specifying which order you want the collections to appear on the home page.
<groupConfig> <hierarchy> <collection name="solr-jdbm-demo"/> <collection name="lucene-jdbm-demo"/> <collection name="paradise-gardens"/> </hierarchy> </groupConfig>
Greenstone2
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.
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.
creator [email protected] maintainer [email protected] public true collectgroup true collectionmeta collectionname "groupA" collectionmeta iconcollection "" collectionmeta collectionextra "This is a group of special collections"