_JavaScriptBeginMacro_(ExtractCommNames) 
\'_httpquery_;[cgisafe:sibling(All:\\' | 
\\'):agr.CommodityName];[sibling(All:\\'_\\'):agr.CommodityName]\'_JavaScriptEndMacro_

Sorry for that!
However there are a number of question marks in the source code you copied and pasted (at least in the mail). I guess those question
marks are placeholders for your metadata values. I am not sure whether these might become a problem or not. All I know from my experience, the metadata values in my collection, which contain Unicode characters (I think Greenstone handles them in UTF8 encoding, but I am not sure) do not cause problems. But before discussing this issue, lets go step by step. What is the behavior of the collection after you applied the above mentioned correction to the format string?

Greetings,

Axel

Hi Axel,
    I tried out the solution u suggested for Mozilla and other browsers.(I
haven't tested it on Mozilla since most of us use IE, here in our lab).  
The Javascript debugger on IE (the yellow ballon like thing that appears
on the left corner of the browser:)...I'm not sure if that can be called a
debugger :)) shows an "unterminated string constant" error at the
following lines in the source of the page:

        <script type="text/javascript"> ExtractCommNames ( 
'/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.exe?e=d-000-00---0cropsample--00-0-0--0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00031-001-1-0utfZz-8-00&a=q;%e0%a4%a6%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b0%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b7;???????
        ); </script></a> <br><br>??? :?????????????<br></td></td>  

Could the error occur 'coz of the unicode chararcters that are passed as
is without any encoding? Or is the "unterminated string"error a serious
one? It'll be great if I can get this running!

Thanks and regards,
Chaitra 

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Axel schild wrote:

  

Hi Chaitra,

have you tried the solution I posted and got it to work yet?

Reagrds,

Axel

Chaitra Rao schrieb:

    

Hi Axel,
 Thanks for the quick response. I use webserver version of GS. I use 
Apache.  

Regards,
Chaitra 

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, schild wrote:

 

      

Hi Chaitra

okay you are using MSIE... Are you running a local library installation 
or a server based installation? When I changed from local to server 
setup, I remember I experienced similar problems that you seem to have, 
that is why I adapted the scripts the first place.

Chaitra Rao wrote:

   

        

I use IE...Do I need to do the same for IE too? Does this solution work 
for all browsers?


     

          

I won't claim that it works for all browsers. All I know is, that it 
works for mozilla, IE and opera (at least from a colleague that uses 
it). As I do not have my old files with the first solution that you 
quoted available, It would be easier for the debugging, if you apply the 
changes that I mentioned in the last mail. You may want to save the 
corresponding files though before applying the changes just for backup.
I do not know whether, there exists something like the javascript 
console for MSIE. Especially for debugging javascript code it would be 
handy, to have some more information where exactly the error occurs when 
you open the html page with the links...

regards,

Axel Schild

   

        

Regards,
Chaitra 

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, schild wrote:



     

          

Hi Chaitra,

       

            

>from the html source code, you can see that the javascript has not been 
     

          

executed at all. If you are using mozilla browser, it helps to open the 
javascript console in the "web development menu" under tools. Then you 
can check whether an error occurred in the execution of a javascript. 
Try that before you apply the changes I suggest below and see what the 
error message is.
Anyway I think Jens comment is correct, that is you are not using MSIE 
but another browser. As mentioned before in the posting to the list, I 
changed the scripts a little to now work with mozilla (in my case I must 
say, it is still an ad hoc solution...)

Try the following:

Instead of using

  <label name=CommName 
id=CommName>_httpquery_;[cgisafe:sibling(All:\\' ; 
\\'):agr.CommodityName];[sibling(All:\\'_\\'):agr.CommodityName]</label>

in your format statement of the cfg file use

  _JavaScriptBeginMacro_(ExtractCommNames) 
\'_httpquery_;[cgisafe:sibling(All:\\' | 
\\'):agr.CommodityName];[sibling(All:\\'_\\'):agr.CommodityName]_JavaScriptEndMacro_.

In your extra.dm file add the two macros under package style:

  package Style

  _JavaScriptBeginMacro_ [c=hyconexa] {
      <script type="text/javascript"> _1_ (}

  _JavaScriptEndMacro_ [c=hyconexa] {
      ); </script>}

Then change your old javascript function

  function ExtractCommNames() \{

        var res;
        a = CommName.outerText.split(";");
        resolver = a[0]+ "&q=";
        b = a[1].split("+%3b+");
        c = a[2].split("_");
        res = "";
        for (i = 0; i < b.length ;i++)
        \{
             res = res + "<a href=" + resolver + b[i]+ "&h=daa&t=1>" + 
c[i] + "&w=utf-8" +"</a><br/>";
        \}
        CommName.outerHTML = res;
       \}

to this new definition

function ExtractCommNames(CommNamesString) \{
       
        if (CommNamesString != "") \{
        stringArray = CommNamesString.split(";");
        resolver_PlainQueryField = stringArray[0]+ "&q=";
        linkString = stringArray[1].split(" | ");
        textString = stringArray[2].split("_");
        hrefString = \'<ul>\';
        for (i = 0; i < linkString.length ;i++) \{
              linkString_without_highlight = 
linkString[i].split('<span style="background: #FFFF77">').join('');
              linkString_without_highlight = 
linkString_without_highlight.split('</span>').join('');
              hrefString = hrefString + "<li><a href=" + 
resolver_PlainQueryField + linkString_without_highlight + "&h=daa&t=1>" 
+  textString[i] + "&w=utf-8" + "</a><br/>";
            \}
        hrefString = hrefString + "</ul>";
        document.write(hrefString);
        \}
     \}

This should do it,  at least I hope (if not let me know). Take out the 
second javascript function for the beginning such that you can be sure 
that now error is int he syntax of the javascript functions themselves.

regards,

axel

Chaitra Rao wrote:

  

       

            

Hi Axel,
Thanks for the quick response. I've attached the collect.cfg,
extra.dm, main.cfg and the html source files (.zip)  along with this
e-mail.  The hyperlink text seems to be okay. I think javascript is not
able to process the html variables or may be something is missing 
somewhere. Thanks once again :-)  

Regards,
Chaitra 

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, schild wrote:



    

         

              

Hi Chaitra,

for making this debugging effort a little easier, can you please send me 
your collect.cfg file (predominantely the format statement) the main.cfg 
file, the extra.dm file, as well as the source code of the html page 
which includes the hyperlink addresses.

Thanks,
Axel


Chaitra Rao wrote:

 

      

           

                

Hi Axel,
I tried out your solution. It doesn't seem to be working fine for me. I
think there's something I've missed out.
First, I used the format stattement options wit the relevant metadata 
names (I've created my own metadata set). Next, I edited the  document.dm 
file and inserted the following lines("cropsample" is the coll name):

_textheader_ [c=cropsample] {_cgihead_
_htmlhead_(onLoad="ExtractCommNames();")
<center>
<table width=_pagewidth_><tr><td align=right>
_icontab__javalinks_</td></tr></table>
</center>
}

After that I placed the above lines in extra.dm and also the 
foll javascript:
### Self-made Javascript functions
_pagescriptextra_{
function ExtractCommNames() \{
var res;
a = CommName.outerText.split(";");
resolver = a[0]+ "&q=";
b = a[1].split("+%3b+");
c = a[2].split("_");
res = "";
for (i = 0; i < b.length ;i++)
\{
   res = res + "<a href=" + resolver + b[i]+ "&h=daa&t=1>" + c[i] + 
"&w=utf-8" +"</a><br/>";
\}
CommName.outerHTML = res;
\}

After I built the collection, I can see the long url but no hyperlink, 
which I guess the javascript is supposed to generate. I think there's some 
mistake somewhere. It'll be nice if you can help me :) Let me know if you 
want more details about the collection.

Thanks and Regards,
Chaitra 

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, schild wrote:



   

        

             

                  

Hi everyone again,

I figured out a way how to solve the problem myself by now. It is maybe 
a quick and dirty solution, but it works by using simple Javascript 
functions. For the ones that are interested and want to do the same 
thing as me: here is how I did it:

The inital problem first again: Instead of displaying an html version of 
the documents of my collection, I display a bibliographical record of 
all the assigned metadata elements. The values of these metadata 
elements are hyperlinked, such that clicking on a string starts a search 
query for this value in the corresponding index across the whole 
collection. An example to clarify the problem: all of my documetns have 
authors assigned as metadata. When clicking on the display document 
button the mentioned bibliographic record for that specific document 
appears. Imagine this document has two authors, "A" and "B". Clicking on 
the hyperlinked "A" string of the bib. record will execute a search 
across the whole document collection for "A" in the "author" index. The 
produced and displayed search results include all other documents 
created by "A".
The problem with multiple assigned metadata values (e.g. multiple 
authors) is that you can either access the complete string (all values) 
or just the first one. If you use the statement [siblings(All"; 
")dc.creator], it will return a string off all values, with each value 
separated by a semicolon (in the example this produces the string "A; 
B"). On the contrary [dc.creator] only displays the first value (which 
is "A"). For a hyperlink connect to each value individually you can do 
the following (this is how I did it)

Use the format string below in the collect.cfg file (for my collection I 
put this string in "format DocumentText" statement)

{If}{[dc.Creator],
<tr>
<td align=right valign=top><b>Authors:</b></td>
<td align=left valign=bottom><label name=AuthorField id=AuthorField> 
_httpquery_;[cgisafe:sibling(All:\' ; 
\'):dc.Creator];[sibling(All:\'_\'):dc.Creator]</label></td>
</tr>}

Notice, that statement includes a label definition with the name 
"AuthorField". "_httpquery_" is a macro which resolves into the 
http-address of query page of the collection. "[cgisafe:sibling(All:\' ; 
\'):dc.Creator]" will be evaluated to the string as mentioned above with 
the exception, that cgisafe is a cgiscript, which will replace all 
special characters with UTF-8 encoding, such that it can be used  within 
a web address. [sibling(All:\'_\'):dc.Creator] produces a similar string 
without replaced special characters. Notice the different separation 
symbols, these are needed later on.

Additional changes have to be made in order to make this whole thing 
work. You further need to change the _header_ or _textheader_ macro in 
the package of the page, the format string will be displayed in (in my 
case the document package). The change is that _htmlhead has to be 
parametrized with

_htmlhead_(onload="ExtractAuthors();"), where ExtractAuthors(); is a 
Javascipt function, which is called on loading the corresponding page 
(the document display page). Since you do not want to mess in the 
standard macro files, create your one extra.dm file and override the 
chosen macro with a collection specific macro. In my example this is 
done by the code sequence

package document

###document display

###HTML-Page Header
_textheader_ [c=exacol] {_cgihead_
_htmlhead_(onload="ExtractSubjects();ExtractAuthors();")
<center>
<table width=_pagewidth_><tr><td align=right>
_icontab__javalinks_</td></tr></table>
</center>
}

Now all that is missing is the Javascript function which has to be 
included into the _pagescriptextra_ macro of the same package. Copy this 
macro out of the corresponding standard macro file and paste it into 
your extra.dm file. Make the neccessary modification which is in my case

### Self-made Javascript functions
_pagescriptextra_{
function ExtractAuthors() \{
var res;
a = AuthorField.outerText.split(";");
resolver = a[0]+"&q=";
b = a[1].split("+%3b+");
c = a[2].split("_");
res = "";
for (i = 0; i < b.length ;i++)
\{
    res = res + "<a href=" + resolver + b[i]+ "&h=dd0&t=0>" + c[i] + 
"</a><br/>";
\}
AuthorField.outerHTML = res;
\}

You see the included Javascript function, which evaluates the string of 
the defined label, splits it into serveral strings and composes a string 
out of thoses values, which is then set to the "outerHTML" element of 
the label. This will actually work (believe it or not!). As I said, it 
is probably not the most efficient and the cleanest way of achieve this 
functionality, but who cares.

Well, time to leave

Axel Schild


schild schrieb:



     

          

               

                    

Hi everyone,

I am fairly new to the Greenstone community, so I do not know whether 
this question has been asked before... (although I did some extensive 
research on the postings in the mailing list). I am in the process of 
constructing my first Greenstone demo collection. At the moment I am 
trying to figure out some customizing features of the software and ran 
across the following problem:

I assigned multiple values to various metadata fields, as for instance 
"dc.creator". Now I found out from the FAQ section that it is possible 
to display the first entry using just [dc.creator] or all of them 
using [(sibling(All):dc.creator]. I wonder whether it is possible to 
display all of them individually. The reason for me wanting to do this 
is the following:

In my collection I would like to display a bibliographical record of 
each document first, in which metadata elements hyperlinked.
It should be possible to initiate a search for other documents of a 
specific author, by just clicking on the authors name, that is 
displayed in the bibliographical record. An example is for this is 
given below

*Creator:*     E. Kerrigan
A. Bemporad
D. Mignone
M. Morari
J. Maciejowski 
<gsdl?e=d-0-00-hyconexa--00-0-0--0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00031-001-1-0utfZz-8-00&a=q&q=E%2e+KerriganA%2e+BemporadD%2e+MignoneM%2e+MorariJ%2e+Maciejowski&h=dd0&t=1> 

*Rights:*     Public


Does anyone know a solution to my problem (basically how to access 
metadata field individually)?

Thanks in advance and keep up the outstanding development of 
Greenstone :-),

Axel Schild


  

       

            

                 

                      

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Automatisierungstechnik und Prozessinformatik
Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum IC-3/140
D-44780 Bochum, Germany

Tel: +49 234 32 25203
Fax: +49 234 32 14101
E-mail: schild@atp.rub.de

  

       

            

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Automatisierungstechnik und Prozessinformatik
Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum IC-3/140
D-44780 Bochum, Germany

Tel: +49 234 32 25203
Fax: +49 234 32 14101
E-mail: schild@atp.rub.de


   

        

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Automatisierungstechnik und Prozessinformatik
Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum IC-3/140
D-44780 Bochum, Germany

Tel: +49 234 32 25203
Fax: +49 234 32 14101
E-mail: schild@atp.rub.de


    

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Automatisierungstechnik und Prozessinformatik
Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum IC-3/140
D-44780 Bochum, Germany

Tel: +49 234 32 25203
Fax: +49 234 32 14101
E-mail: schild@atp.rub.de

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