A little bit of investigation shows that you might do this by creating a new
theme and modifying xmlui.xconf by setting the handle attribute in the
<theme> tag to select a theme for a particular collection. I hope that I am
on the right track. I'll go ahead and play with this and report my findings
later.

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Saqib Ilyas <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks Brian. The document 
> here<http://www.google.com.pk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCkQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dspace.cam.ac.uk%2Fbitstream%2F1810%2F213741%2F1%2FPhillips.ppt&ei=Na_tTc3TCMes8gPJ0rCXBw&usg=AFQjCNGx-acAJcoT_l3GTmRHinw52ITGjQ>says
>  that XMLUI "Enables
> communities and collections to customize their interface." I need to go read
> the documentation but the way you've suggested, is that exactly how XMLUI
> does it or perhaps based on the claim of the document I cited, there is
> perhaps another way, too?
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Brian Freels-Stendel <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> My understanding is that you are correct, XMLUI does not allow different
>> displays on a collection level.
>>
>> However, we just went through this same situation, and came up with a
>> nasty hack.
>>
>> In our theme's copy of template.xsl, we tested for the existence of the
>> new schema, which we named "data":
>>
>>    <!-- Generate the info about the item from the metadata section -->
>>    <xsl:template match="dim:dim" mode="itemSummaryView-DIM">
>>        <table class="ds-includeSet-table">
>>            <xsl:choose>
>>                <xsl:when test="dim:field[@mdschema='data']">
>>                    <xsl:call-template
>> name="itemSummaryView-DIM-fields-DATA-mdschema">
>>                    </xsl:call-template>
>>                </xsl:when>
>>                <xsl:otherwise>
>>                    <xsl:call-template name="itemSummaryView-DIM-fields">
>>                    </xsl:call-template>
>>                </xsl:otherwise>
>>            </xsl:choose>
>>        </table>
>>    </xsl:template>
>>
>> Then, we created a copy of the "itemSummaryView-DIM-fields" template and
>> modified it to display the alternate view.
>>
>> B--
>>
>> >>> On 6/5/2011 at 11:32 PM, in message
>> <[email protected]>, Saqib Ilyas
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hello
>> > For one of the collections on our library's DSpace installation, we need
>> a
>> > customized schema. For all other collections, Dublin Core is just fine.
>> I
>> > have created a new schema and bulk imported items. Is it possible to
>> have a
>> > different item layout displayed when a user clicks on an item in this
>> > collection (while the default is followed for items in other
>> collections)?
>> > For instance, a different set of fields is displayed.
>> >>From what I could gather through web searched, it seems that whatever I
>> > change in the CSS, would be global. Am I right?
>> > Thanks and best regards
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Muhammad Saqib Ilyas
> PhD Student, Computer Science and Engineering
> Lahore University of Management Sciences
>



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PhD Student, Computer Science and Engineering
Lahore University of Management Sciences
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