Thanks Terry (and Hilton who contacted me off list),
Your contributions both confirmed that I was at least taking the right approach
and that what I'd done should have worked (all things being equal), thus
suggesting I was just missing something simple . . .
> I'm obviously doing something wrong or have missed something trying to create
> this sidebar facet
Well, it is amazing what a good night’s sleep and a fresh cup of coffee can do
– I had, indeed done something wrong/stupid that I just couldn’t see yesterday,
but which jumped off the page and slapped me in the face as soon as I looked at
it again this morning - I had spurious white space at the end of the metadata
field name in the line:
<value>dc.contributor.other </value>
[OMG! Face palm! Etc, etc!]
Once I'd removed this, restarted Tomcat and rebuilt the Discovery index, it all
worked as hoped and the new Funder Facet appeared on my Homepage :-).
As an aside (and for the archives), Hilton's notes pointed me to the following
useful utility which can be used to display how the Discovery system thinks it
is configured (might be a useful addition to the Discovery documentation page?):
[dspace]/bin/dspace dsrun
org.dspace.discovery.configuration.DiscoveryConfigurationService
- which in my case suggested that the config was (generally!) OK, which was
helpful to know:
80
default
Facets:
author
dc.contributor.author
dc.creator
subject
dc.subject.*
funder
dc.contributor.other
Search filters
dc.title
dc.contributor.author
dc.creator
dc.subject.*
dc.contributor.other
Recent submissions configuration:
Metadata sort field: dc.date.accessioned
Max recent submissions: 20
site
Facets:
author
dc.contributor.author
dc.creator
subject
dc.subject.*
funder
dc.contributor.other
Search filters
dc.title
dc.contributor.author
dc.creator
dc.subject.*
dc.contributor.other
Recent submissions configuration:
Metadata sort field: dc.date.accessioned
Max recent submissions: 5
Regards,
Mike
Michael White
eLearning Developer
Information Services
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E: [email protected]
A: S8, Library, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA
From: Terry Brady [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 28 July 2015 18:03
To: Michael White <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Replacing Date Issued sidebar Facet with Funder
Mike,
It sounds like you are following all of the right steps. I find it trickier
than I would expect to successfully make changes to the facets.
If it is helpful, I have posted a copy of our discovery.xml file:
https://gist.github.com/terrywbrady/d31fc1bcb9567204470f
We have created a number of collection-specific sidebar facets.
I have found it necessary to define a search filter each time that I need to
add a new sidebar facet.
I have also found it tricky to apply different custom facets at different
levels of the hierarchy (collection vs sub-community).
Terry
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