I'd like to add an item count and description for my collections to the collection tree page (http://icfa.doaks.org/collections/artamonoff/collection-tree). Is anyone familiar with the plugin and could you let me know how to go about this?
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This can probably be done by modifying the code in the linkToCollectionShow() method in CollectionTreePlugin.php
Changing what's there to this (or something similar) might do the trick -- haven't tried it myself yet.
// Require the helpers libraries. This is necessary when calling this // method before the libraries are loaded. require_once HELPERS; $collection = get_db()->getTable('Collection')->find($collectionId); set_current_collection($collection); $html = link_to_collection(); $html .= "<p>Description: " . collection('description') . "</p>"; $html .= "<p>Total Items: " . total_items_in_collection() . "</p>"; return $html; -
Patrick - could you point out what line the code needing this change is?
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The original code is something like this, starting about line 334 in CollectionTreePlugin.php
public static function linkToCollectionShow($collectionId) { // Require the helpers libraries. This is necessary when calling this // method before the libraries are loaded. require_once HELPERS; return link_to_collection(null, array(), 'show', get_db()->getTable('Collection')->find($collectionId)); }What it returns is a little bit of HTML with a link to the collection.
My suggestion above builds up a little more HTML before returning it.
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Thanks Patrick!
That worked pretty well - I made a few edits but still have a few issues. There is extra padding being added on top for the second level (children) collections. I suspect that is a issue somewhere in my css? But I can't find it.And is there anyway to only show 'Description: _____" for those collections that do have text in their descriptions?
See the page here: http://icfa.doaks.org/collections/artamonoff/collection-tree
Code edits:
// Require the helpers libraries. This is necessary when calling this // method before the libraries are loaded. require_once HELPERS; $collection = get_db()->getTable('Collection')->find($collectionId); set_current_collection($collection); $html = link_to_collection(); $html .= "<li><h5>Description: " . collection('description') . "</h5></li>"; $html .= "<li><h5>" . multicollections_total_items_in_collection() . " photograph(s).</h5></li>"; return $html; -
I _think_ this will work to check for whether there is a description, replacing the line that adds the description above.
$description = collection('description'); if($description != '') { $html .= "<li><h5>Description: $description</h5></li>"; } -
Again, big thanks Patrick! One last thing (this is probably easy, but is escaping me) - is their any way to make only the parent collections bold?
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my guess would be to pick and choose which <h#> elements you want, and set a font-weight:bold CSS value on it. Not sure if there are better CSS approaches to that, though
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I wonder what could we do to make this work in version 2.0.1. Is this code valid for the new version of CollectionTreePlugin.php?
I ask this because in my SERVER/collection-tree page I get Collections and sub-collections in proper order but there is no bullets indentation between them, as it happens in the admin panel .../collections/show/xx (number) page.
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Following up, this is what I've had before version 2.0:
http://www.weebly.com/uploads/7/6/8/3/7683554/problem_collection_tree.jpg
Now, I have to get back the sums as well as the unordered list (bullets).
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Ok, unordered list problem had to do with the style.css. Once I used the 2.0.1 file, Collection Tree worked... But I would still like some help with the code above.
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The various functions for displaying metadata for items, collections, etc. are now consolidated into one function called metadata().
Something like this should get the description:
$description = metadata('collection', array('Dublin Core', 'Description')); -
Thanks Patrick but my problem is the item count. How can I get the item count back in the Tree? (check screenshot above).
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You can get the item count with
metadatatoo:metadata('collection', 'total items'); -
Could you possibly direct me to the exact line of code to be changed? The two versions of CollectionTreePlugin.php (old and new) seem completely different into my eyes so I can hardly understand now what affects what in the new code. In the previous version, I added the following code:
require_once HELPERS;
$collection = get_db()->getTable('Collection')->find($collectionId);
set_current_collection($collection);
$html = link_to_collection();
$html .= " (" . total_items_in_collection() . ")";
return $html;to get this effect:
http://www.weebly.com/uploads/7/6/8/3/7683554/problem_collection_tree.jpg
Where should I look in the new version to achieve the same result?
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