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Re: [greenstone-users] Changing/adding text

From John R. McPherson
DateTue, 25 Apr 2006 12:42:09 +1200
Subject Re: [greenstone-users] Changing/adding text
In-Reply-To (EBE580F8EEAB9049BE5F982422C8461001DC59BC-dpes-mail-naa-org)
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 12:47:38PM -0400, Yachnes, Paul wrote:
> If I want to change the text on a collection's "About" page, where would
> I do that? Similarly if I wish to add text to the "Phind" page, where
> would I do that? In both cases, I want to add customized search
> instructions and am having trouble locating the correct files to edit.

This is done by a setting called "collectionextra" in the collection's
collect.cfg file.

For greenstone v2.62 and earlier, you would do something like

collectionmeta collectionextra "<p>html text describing collection</p>"
collectionmeta collectionextra [l=fr] "<p>text in French</p>"
etc.

For greenstone v2.63 and later, you can do that to set it as collection
metadata, or you can instead use the newer:

collectionmacro collectionextra "<p>html text describing collection</p>"
collectionmacro collectionextra [l=fr] "<p>text in French</p>"

The advantage of setting it as a macro instead of as metadata is that any
changes to the config file will be reflected immediately; with metadata,
it is only stored/updated when the collection is built.

John