Unfortunately it is not possible to do what you want without changing
the Greenstone C++ code, as the table of collection icons does not use a
format statement. (This would be a good change for someone to make.)

As you say, you have to customise the home page macrofiles instead, and
duplicate the descriptions.

Regards,

Michael

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Vladimir Risojevic wrote:
> Giorgi,
>
> On the home page of Greenstone collections you normally have links to
> all the collections that are available. Those links contain only the
> names of the collections. What I want is to add the descriptions for
> each collection. I can manually insert the descriptions in that page,
> but the descriptions already exist in Greenstone. Those are the
> descriptions that are displayed on the About page. I want those
> descriptions on the home page. Is it possible?
>
> Regards,
>
> Vladimir
>
>
> Giorgi L. Varamishvili wrote:
>> hello vladimir, I didn't quite understood what do you mean but I'm
>> sure it's possible.. as I understood you want to you want to override
>> collection's default description and want to write something else,
>> yes? please explain exactly what are u trying to do and we'll do all
>> that we can to help you ...
>>
>>
>> --------------------
>> Best regards,
>> Giorgi L. Varamishvili
>> National Parliamentary Library of Georgia (NPLG)
>> Chief Programmer
>> Tel/Fax:(+99532) 505 707
>> Cell: (+99599) 535 899
>> Email: g_varamishvili@geo.net.ge
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: greenstone-users-bounces@list.scms.waikato.ac.nz
>> [mailto:greenstone-users-bounces@list.scms.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf
>> Of Vladimir R. Risojevic
>> Sent: 2007 ???? 20 12, ????????? 3:54
>> To: greenstone-users@list.scms.waikato.ac.nz
>> Subject: [greenstone-users] How to use collection description
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I would like to print the collection description that is entered
>> during the creation of the collection on the home page. That is,
>> instead of the simple list of available collections I would like to
>> include a short description of each. Is it possible?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Vladimir Risojevic
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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