Hi Darryl, We are currently at the same stage as you are regarding custom theming. I have opted for now to take a copy of the custom theme and use it as the basis for our institutional theme (to make updates a bit easier going forward I've removed all of those customisations from the custom theme that we do not use for now). But like you, do not know whether this is the best approach. I found the documentation pages really good: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/User+Interface+Customization and in particular the comments at the end answer your question about customising components such as the "untyped item". I have successfully done that in our test instance and happy to share with you if you don't get it working based on the info in the docs pages.
It would be great if someone could comment on best ways forward for customising in ways that make future upgrades simpler. I am really knew to angular so just slowly finding our ways! Agustina On Tuesday, 3 May 2022 at 21:02:24 UTC+1 [email protected] wrote: > > How are people theming DSpace 7.x? Is it better to create a new theme from > a copy of "custom" (and deal with integrating any future changes made to > "custom" manually), or just create a local branch of the dspace-angular > repo and modify the "custom" theme directly (and then pull in changes to > "custom" via a merge request from the main branch)? > > Also, can anyone point me in the right direction to make changes to the > simple item view? It seems the default for items in DSpace is "untyped > item" (I haven't enabled any of the entity stuff). I've modified > src/app/item-page/simple/item-types/untyped-item/untyped-item.component.html > to get the results I want, but it seems like a bad idea to modify the > global code rather than something in my theme. > > The "custom" theme contains simple page templates for Publication items, > -- src/themes/limestone/app/item-page/simple/item-types/publication -- but > not untyped items. Simply copying the "untyped-item" folder from the > global code into that "item-types" folder didn't seem to work. I assume > there some additional changes required in a .ts file somewhere I also need > to update, but I'm, not quite sure which ones. Or do I need to copy the > entire src/app/item-page directory tree into my theme? > > Unless there's some other (easier) way to add additional metadata fields > to the simple display that I've not discovered?? > > Thanks, > > - Darryl > > > > ---------- > *Darryl Friesen, BSc* > Programmer/Analyst > *University of Saskatchewan* > *ICT / University Library* > > > -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://www.lyrasis.org/about/Pages/Code-of-Conduct.aspx --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/bcdf63ee-ff06-4ba7-a8e5-3f2ca29da1e7n%40googlegroups.com.
