Thanks Terry (and Hilton who contacted me off list), Your contributions both confirmed that I was at least taking the right approach and that what I'd done should have worked (all things being equal), thus suggesting I was just missing something simple . . .
> I'm obviously doing something wrong or have missed something trying to create > this sidebar facet Well, it is amazing what a good night’s sleep and a fresh cup of coffee can do – I had, indeed done something wrong/stupid that I just couldn’t see yesterday, but which jumped off the page and slapped me in the face as soon as I looked at it again this morning - I had spurious white space at the end of the metadata field name in the line: <value>dc.contributor.other </value> [OMG! Face palm! Etc, etc!] Once I'd removed this, restarted Tomcat and rebuilt the Discovery index, it all worked as hoped and the new Funder Facet appeared on my Homepage :-). As an aside (and for the archives), Hilton's notes pointed me to the following useful utility which can be used to display how the Discovery system thinks it is configured (might be a useful addition to the Discovery documentation page?): [dspace]/bin/dspace dsrun org.dspace.discovery.configuration.DiscoveryConfigurationService - which in my case suggested that the config was (generally!) OK, which was helpful to know: 80 default Facets: author dc.contributor.author dc.creator subject dc.subject.* funder dc.contributor.other Search filters dc.title dc.contributor.author dc.creator dc.subject.* dc.contributor.other Recent submissions configuration: Metadata sort field: dc.date.accessioned Max recent submissions: 20 site Facets: author dc.contributor.author dc.creator subject dc.subject.* funder dc.contributor.other Search filters dc.title dc.contributor.author dc.creator dc.subject.* dc.contributor.other Recent submissions configuration: Metadata sort field: dc.date.accessioned Max recent submissions: 5 Regards, Mike Michael White eLearning Developer Information Services T: (01786) 466877 E: michael.wh...@stir.ac.uk A: S8, Library, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA From: Terry Brady [mailto:terry.br...@georgetown.edu] Sent: 28 July 2015 18:03 To: Michael White <michael.wh...@stir.ac.uk> Cc: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Replacing Date Issued sidebar Facet with Funder Mike, It sounds like you are following all of the right steps. I find it trickier than I would expect to successfully make changes to the facets. If it is helpful, I have posted a copy of our discovery.xml file: https://gist.github.com/terrywbrady/d31fc1bcb9567204470f We have created a number of collection-specific sidebar facets. I have found it necessary to define a search filter each time that I need to add a new sidebar facet. I have also found it tricky to apply different custom facets at different levels of the hierarchy (collection vs sub-community). Terry -- Terry Brady Applications Programmer Analyst Georgetown University Library Information Technology https://www.library.georgetown.edu/lit/code 425-298-5498 (Seattle, WA) -- The University is ranked in the QS World Rankings of the top 5% of universities in the world (QS World University Rankings, 2014) The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette