As I showed in the original email, I need to emulate the description of the 
collections like in http://arXiv.org/archive/astro-ph.

Would portalboxes work for those descriptions?  Exactly right under the 
collections?


Peter

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On Sep 13, 2011, at 5:54 PM, "Tibor Simko" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Sep 2011, Peter J. Halliday wrote:
>> Is there a place in the DB where text can be associated with a
>> collection.  Here's the example: http:// arxiv.org/archive/astro-ph.
>> I have things like astro-ph.CO be a collection, and I'ld like that
>> description brought over, but not sure exactly where to put it.
> 
> The best fit for this would probably be the portalbox concept.  A
> portalbox can contain any HTML formatted text, it can be associated with
> one or more collections, and it is displayed at some wanted position on
> the collection splash page.  See tables collection, portalbox,
> collection_portalbox.
> 
> Depending on the wanted usage, this facility may be extended by new
> types/positions of portalboxes.
> 
> Best regards
> -- 
> Tibor Simko

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