Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Error when saving records in 2.2.2

2018-01-02 Thread Custer, Mark
Hi, Trevor: I don’t think that we’ve seen this particular issue, but we did have another issue when upgrading from 1.5.x to 2.x which I’ll mention here in case it’s of any use in your circumstance. For us, the issue was simply a plugin. In our case, whenever we saved a record after upgrading,

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Collections Browse Error in Public Interface, v2.2.1

2017-12-11 Thread Custer, Mark
Leilani, Could you attach an example EAD file? I'm curious what happens when Unicode characters are used in place of the character entities. I'm wondering if the issue might simply be that the font used doesn't include italic characters for the character entities that are tagged as italic (a

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Offsite boxes and ASpace

2017-11-17 Thread Custer, Mark
Hi Olivia, Hear, hear!!! 😊 Just a quick note to say that this is something that we’ve discussed at Yale, as well, and I think that we might start to address it via a plugin at some point (it would be a nice feature to go directly into the core code, but in order for that to happen, I’d think t

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] batch delete dates saga continues

2017-11-10 Thread Custer, Mark
Lydia, In the EAD files that you attached, both have invalid XML characters in them (Unicode: 0x14). Those are easy to remove before re-importing in an XML editor like oXygen, but I'm curious how they got into ASpace in the first place? In any event, it's possible that that's what's blocking

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Components not displaying in one of our repositories

2017-11-06 Thread Custer, Mark
Hi Lisa, I’ve no clue what could be causing this, but others have reported the issue as well. Hopefully the root cause of the issue can be identified with enough eyes on the problem. So far, I haven’t seen this happen in Yale’s TEST PUI instance (on 2.1.2) or on our DEV instance (on version 2

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] PUI & Digital Objects links

2017-11-03 Thread Custer, Mark
Annie, The PUI still has a way to go with integrating digital objects, but the gist is that right now to get the red Digital Record icon badge, you’ll need to use that URI as a File URI subrecord, rather than (or in addition to) the Digital Record identifier. Here’s a bit more info: https://

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Customizing the Public Interface PDF

2017-11-01 Thread Custer, Mark
[mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Custer, Mark Sent: Wednesday, 01 November, 2017 3:38 PM To: Archivesspace Users Group Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Customizing the Public Interface PDF Stephen, It looks like you’re using HTML elements there

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Customizing the Public Interface PDF

2017-11-01 Thread Custer, Mark
Stephen, It looks like you’re using HTML elements there (e.g. span and q), and although the new PUI PDF process converts the ASpace JSON to HTML which is in turn converted to PDF, I don’t think that it expects to find HTML tags. Given that this process is converting to HTML anyway, though, I’d

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] I should have been more clear in my question

2017-10-16 Thread Custer, Mark
could become part of the core code? From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Custer, Mark Sent: Monday, 16 October, 2017 3:07 PM To: Archivesspace Users Group Subject: Re

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] I should have been more clear in my question

2017-10-16 Thread Custer, Mark
Hi, Joan. In the PUI, yes, you can do this. In the Staff Interface, you can also do this, but the approach isn’t as obvious. But you can return every record that’s part of a specific resource by searching for its URI fragment. For example, in http://test.archivesspace.org, there’s a Reposito

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Help With PDF and EAD Export

2017-09-25 Thread Custer, Mark
Tara, Just a wild guess, but since the EAD file seems to fail while trying to export information about the Repository, can you edit your Repository record and make sure that everything looks okay there? You can edit your Repository in the staff interface by going to System --> Manage Repositor

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] ampersand issue with PDF button in 2.1.2 public interface

2017-09-22 Thread Custer, Mark
Trevor, That would be fantastic! Benn, For your PDF error, I think that might be caused by a slightly different issue. The new PUI “Print to PDF” process converts that ArchivesSpace JSON record to HTML and then converts that HTML into a PDF file. So, it doesn’t use the same JSON --> EAD

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] ampersand issue with PDF button in 2.1.2 public interface

2017-09-22 Thread Custer, Mark
Dave, Benn: Another important point here is that the ASpace staff interface attempts to handle both “ & “ and “ & “. Those spaces are (quite unfortunately) important here. & is a special HTML and XML entity reference for the ampersand character. A nice, short overview is provided here: htt

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] [EXT] Re: can't view collections on the backend

2017-09-22 Thread Custer, Mark
Does this error happen in the PUI view? Based on this error: INFO: F, [2017-09-20T16:39:38.043402 #18373] FATAL -- : [7f48c48b-7c0a-4a31-9625-d88b32bb353e] 1: <% if @result && @result.respond_to?(:metadata) %> [7f48c48b-7c0a-4a31-9625-d88b32bb353e] 2: [7f48c48b-7c0a-4a31-9625-d88b32bb3

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] "We're sorry, something went wrong" after requesting material via ArchivesSpace

2017-09-21 Thread Custer, Mark
All, I wish that I could offer technical advice on how to get things set up, but unfortunately I'm of no use in this case. I do know that this feature used to be configured on our Test Corpus site, though, and that it functioned as expected at that time. Here's what a message would look l

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Top Containers Not Showing

2017-09-18 Thread Custer, Mark
Megan, I was just looking in the listserv archives, http://lyralists.lyrasis.org/mailman/listinfo/archivesspace_users_group, for this, because I swear that someone else provided a fantastic answer to a similar question a while ago. Anyhow, I can’t find it right now, so here’s my stab at answe

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Deleting Empty Top Containers

2017-09-17 Thread Custer, Mark
Hi, Suzanne. Yep, that's exactly the way to do it, and exactly why the "unassociated" option was added. Since top containers are scoped to repositories, though, if you have multiple repositories in your installation, then you'll need to perform this action within each repository. We've assi

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Pointer to choices for formatting the title of an archival object, such as an article title

2017-09-07 Thread Custer, Mark
Kari, all: I’d also add that even though the ArchivesSpace note fields look like they can support EAD markup (and proclaim to be “Mixed Content Enabled”), it’s not really full-blown support like you’d get with an XML editor or a WYSIWYG interface. For example, if I use the current tag-suggesti

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] locations and/or barcodes in EAD?

2017-09-07 Thread Custer, Mark
Ben, Barcodes are included in EAD exports, but locations are not included. If you need to use EAD for requesting workflows, I’d probably suggest just adding the top container URI to the EAD exports via a local plugin. That way, you could get much more than the name of a location if you ever ne

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Finding aid status

2017-09-01 Thread Custer, Mark
Beth, Just a guess, since I haven’t tested this out yet, but my hunch is that your new value is missing in the Staff Interface because there’s no translation value in the YML (Yet another Markup Language) file. The PUI is actually using the database value for this particular element (though th

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Customizing the Public Interface PDF

2017-08-30 Thread Custer, Mark
_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org on behalf of Custer, Mark Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2017 1:51:42 PM To: archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Customizing the Public Interface PDF Alice, all: The new PUI PDF process does *not*

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Customizing the Public Interface PDF

2017-08-30 Thread Custer, Mark
Alice, all: The new PUI PDF process does *not* use EAD or the as-ead.html.xsl file. Instead, it takes the data directly from ArchivesSpace, converts it to HTML, and then converts that HTML to PDF. For the ASpace PUI workshop I created a small plugin to illustrate how you can change the imag

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Customizing the Public Interface PDF

2017-08-30 Thread Custer, Mark
Steve, Thanks so much for including information about the Java libraries that this new process that the PUI uses, as well as that link to that flying saucer user's guide (it looks like that could be helpful in figuring out how much of CSS3, etc., is supported for creating the PDFs!). Mark

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Customizing the Public Interface PDF

2017-08-30 Thread Custer, Mark
Alice, all: The new PUI PDF process does *not* use EAD or any XSL that's still used on the staff side. Instead, it takes the data directly from ArchivesSpace, converts it to HTML, and then converts that HTML to PDF. For the ASpace PUI workshop I created a small plugin to illustrate how you

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Personalize public interface

2017-08-30 Thread Custer, Mark
Jesse, Eventually, I’d love to have all of these options documented with examples on this site: https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ADC/pages/66355303/Release+Phase Right now, though, a lot of these common configuration options haven’t been added there yet. Here’s how to mak

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Finding Aids not showing contents in 2.1.1

2017-08-30 Thread Custer, Mark
Jesse, Could you send me a copy of the EAD file? On the "Container Inventory" page, there may or may not be facets depending on the data. On the actual top-container page in the PUI (i.e. the second screenshot), though, there should be listing of every archival object, resource, and/or access

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Error when searching in archivesspace v2.1.1

2017-08-23 Thread Custer, Mark
lse %> -- Steve Majewski / UVA Alderman Library From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org<mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org> mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org>> on behalf of Custer, Mark mailto:

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Error when searching in archivesspace v2.1.1

2017-08-23 Thread Custer, Mark
Neal, Lance: thanks for diagnosing this issue! The PUI search results should definitely still work in this case. We had archival objects in our test corpus with missing titles, so I'm pretty sure that this worked at some point, but it's definitely not working now, as you've noticed. I think t

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] external_ids from AT migration included in EAD export

2017-08-22 Thread Custer, Mark
Wow. Yeah, it looks like this change wipes out unitids from the EAD export if you migrated from the AT, like us, since ASpace stores those AT database values as external IDs, and the exporter now won’t export the “internal” IDs if you have any external ones: https://github.com/archivesspace/ar

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] help requested with an error message - missing attribute

2017-08-19 Thread Custer, Mark
Kari, This error happens when the EAD to PDF process is trying to create a link, but there's no link to include in the PDF output. The line number that's mentioned in the error is in the XSL-FO XML file, not the EAD file (nor the as-eas-pdf.xsl file, which luckily isn't that big of a file :)

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] PUI search results

2017-08-07 Thread Custer, Mark
...@lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Custer, Mark Sent: Monday, August 07, 2017 11:44 AM To: Archivesspace Users Group Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] PUI search results Rachel, >From your example that includes 5 searc

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] PUI search results

2017-08-07 Thread Custer, Mark
Rachel, >From your example that includes 5 search results, I can say that the first 4 >results with the out-of-the-box PUI are intentional, since those first 4 >results occur within the Rockenback papers. That last search result for >component 6, though, is not intentional! I'm afraid that we

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Container Profiles and the Extent/Space Calculators

2017-08-07 Thread Custer, Mark
Dan, That feature should be configurable. At least, I know for sure that it was configurable when this feature was in a plugin, but since our hosted is still reporting linear feet, not inches (which I believe is the default, as you’ve noted), I’m quite sure this option still exists (I just hav

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] "share" boxes / group boxes

2017-07-11 Thread Custer, Mark
_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org> [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Custer, Mark Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 12:44 PM To: Archivesspace Users Group mailto:archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org>> Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] "

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] "share" boxes / group boxes

2017-07-11 Thread Custer, Mark
Kate, When linking a top container in this way, you just need to go to "Browse" instead of Create. On the Browse list, just find the top container that you want to link to from whatever context and then link to it (it's often easiest to search for the other collection's finding aid title, for

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] resource-specific edit privileges and project management in ASpace?

2017-05-26 Thread Custer, Mark
Lydia, Regarding your first question: One low barrier way to do this, I think, would be to create a separate repository for everyone who would be doing basic data entry tasks, like container listings. You could then make sure that they only have editing rights to those container lists, and no

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] FW: "Resource has no components" ...except it does

2017-03-01 Thread Custer, Mark
egards, Zach From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org<mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org> [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Custer, Mark Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 1:50 PM To: Archivesspace Users Grou

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] FW: "Resource has no components" ...except it does

2017-03-01 Thread Custer, Mark
Hi, Zach. Just to check and make sure, could this be because you have unpublished components? Here's an example in the sandbox of what a resource record with a single unpublished component will look like: http://public.archivesspace.org/repositories/2/resources/7 That particular unpublished ch

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] copyright/licensing statements in finding aids

2017-02-16 Thread Custer, Mark
Just a quick message to note that this has also been discussed for EAD3 and will eventually be added to the schema: https://github.com/SAA-SDT/EAD3/issues/506 So, it seems like a change request to ArchivesSpace would be pretty natural once (and, better yet, even before) it’s available in DACS

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Sorting files alphabetically?

2017-02-03 Thread Custer, Mark
Annie, This probably isn’t very helpful, but so far I’ve only done this type of sorting outside of ArchivesSpace (with regular EAD-to-EAD XSLT transformations, which was helpful when I needed to ignore initial articles in the unit titles, as well as converting an EAD file to an Excel file, sort

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Agent Records Associated with Archival Objects

2017-02-03 Thread Custer, Mark
Dear Annie and Gregory, You're correct that this is how the current PUI works. The redesign is still under way, but it's due for its beta / candidate release at the end of March, with a production-ready release planned for the end of June. With the new PUI, any record that's linked to an Agent

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] importing ead with location data?

2016-12-15 Thread Custer, Mark
Brian, There's no mapping to import that data from an EAD file. I think your best bet there would be to use the API to make those updates. I don't have any examples of how to do that with top containers and locations, but maybe Bria, Noah, or someone else out there has already done something

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Importing Barcode Field Through EAD

2016-12-15 Thread Custer, Mark
Yep, you can certainly do this, but just be careful, since the following two containers will be imported as two different top containers (and there's no way to merge top containers in the staff interface): 1 ... 1 But as long as the barcodes are added to every instance of "box 1" in the EAD, y

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Deleting in Bulk From the Staff Interface

2016-12-15 Thread Custer, Mark
Suzanne, Here's one workaround for that: * Add a child-level component to the resource, and name it something like "delete-me", and give it any level whatever (since those two fields are required to create a new archival object). * Select all of the archival components that yo

[Archivesspace_Users_Group] ArchivesSpace Public User Interface updated roadmap (delaying the candidate release until March, 2017)

2016-12-14 Thread Custer, Mark
Dear Colleagues, I'm writing to provide an updated timeline for the release of the new ArchivesSpace Public User Interface. As many of you are aware, we have been aiming to have a candidate release ready for December 16th, with the official, production-ready release to follow in March 2017.

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Need help Interpreting an EAD ingest error message

2016-11-22 Thread Custer, Mark
8 From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org<mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org> [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Custer, Mark Sent: Tuesday

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Need help Interpreting an EAD ingest error message

2016-11-22 Thread Custer, Mark
Kate, Dave: Can you attach the EAD file? I wonder if this is being caused by an empty container element in the source file, or something else related to a container attribute? Mark From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyral

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] DACS 7.1.6 equivalent in ArchivesSpace

2016-11-16 Thread Custer, Mark
Christine, Cheri: I’ve been meaning to make a few changes to the XSL-FO Stylesheet that ASpace uses to create PDFs, and it seems like this should feature request should be in the core code. I doubt I’ll get around to this work until late December / early January, but I’d be happy to submit a p

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Check out the test site of the new ArchivesSpace PUI

2016-11-11 Thread Custer, Mark
boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Custer, Mark Sent: Friday, 11 November, 2016 9:48 AM To: Archivesspace Users Group (archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org) Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Check out the test site of the

[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Check out the test site of the new ArchivesSpace PUI

2016-11-11 Thread Custer, Mark
Dear ArchivesSpace colleagues: I am writing to provide an update about the development of the new ArchivesSpace Public Interface. As a reminder, here is the release timeline that we drafted and shared earlier in the year: * candidate release, 12/16/2016 * official testing per

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Data migration problem ATK - ArchivesSpace only specific Resource records not transferred

2016-10-22 Thread Custer, Mark
h96Z0r-hkqodUzf7hdQ&s=740yfwjw57gZhC04Vk5w8GWaCFjTpYbv21AnaIKmWzg&e=> From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Custer, Mark Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 3:59 PM To: Archivesspace U

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Data migration problem ATK - ArchivesSpace only specific Resource records not transferred

2016-10-12 Thread Custer, Mark
Just a quick reply to say that we chose option 1, too, here at Yale. We tested the migration process many times before we performed the official migration. Maureen Callahan provided a window into the fun in the following blog post: http://campuspress.yale.edu/yalearchivesspace/2015/04/23/read

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Preferred Citation edits sometimes fail to save

2016-09-29 Thread Custer, Mark
Jane, Is it possible that what you've noticed is related to this ticket?: https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/AR-1521 This bug affects editing of any note type, and it's particularly problematic. I believe that we've just alerted staff not to use the "Delete" key because of this when e

[Archivesspace_Users_Group] ArchivesSpace PUI Development call, September 20th

2016-09-20 Thread Custer, Mark
All, The ArchivesSpace Public Interface Development group will be holding its next conference call tonight, Tuesday, September 20th, 6 p.m. EDT. Anyone with an interest in contributing to the development of the new ArchivesSpace Public Interface is welcome to join the call to listen in, althou

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Question: where to change text from the PDF finding aids

2016-09-06 Thread Custer, Mark
Kari, That text is added to the profiledesc section of the EAD file by ArchivesSpace whenever the EAD output is created. If you want to edit how that appears (or if it appears at all), one option is to edit the XSL transformation. Here's where the profiledesc is called in the transformation

[Archivesspace_Users_Group] ArchivesSpace PUI Development meeting, September 6th

2016-09-06 Thread Custer, Mark
All, The ArchivesSpace Public Interface Development group will be holding its next conference call tonight, Tuesday, September 6th, 6 p.m. EDT. Anyone with an interest in contributing to the development of the new ArchivesSpace Public Interface is welcome to join the call to listen in, althoug

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Missing text from between HMTL tags in Public Interface

2016-09-02 Thread Custer, Mark
oup-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org> [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Custer, Mark Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2016 8:16 AM To: Archivesspace Users Group Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Missing text from between HMTL tags in Public Interf

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Missing text from between HMTL tags in Public Interface

2016-09-01 Thread Custer, Mark
EwQd5RW52bC9xguJuB5p6a8gH8m40Xi-iylWf5k&e=>), but instead it's a solid block of unformatted text. Is this also on the radar or is this a separate issue? / Lara Friedman-Shedlov On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Custer, Mark mailto:mark.cus...@yale.edu>> wrote: Kari, Alth

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Multiple collections with same title

2016-08-31 Thread Custer, Mark
Dear Jesse, With the current public interface, I believe that this would be something that you'd need to modify on your end. With the new public interface, which is scheduled for release next year (with a candidate release this December), the search results are going to include more informatio

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Missing text from between HMTL tags in Public Interface

2016-08-31 Thread Custer, Mark
Kari, Although I know that this doesn’t help right now, I can assure you that this sort of behavior has been fixed in the new public interface, which is due out next year (this year if you count the candidate release that’s scheduled to come out in early December)… assuming that you’re talking

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Can't add Top Container from Instances

2016-08-23 Thread Custer, Mark
All, I haven’t had a chance to test this yet, but just a thought: is it possible that your user account doesn’t have permissions to create/update new top containers? Surely the option shouldn’t display if you don’t have those permissions, but perhaps it always displays. In any event, I’d giv

[Archivesspace_Users_Group] ArchivesSpace PUI Development meeting, August 23rd (today)

2016-08-23 Thread Custer, Mark
All, The ArchivesSpace Public Interface Development group will be holding its next conference call tonight, Tuesday, August 23rd, 6 p.m. EDT. Anyone with an interest in contributing to the development of the new ArchivesSpace Public Interface is welcome to join the call to listen in, although

[Archivesspace_Users_Group] ArchivesSpace PUI Development meeting, August 9th

2016-08-09 Thread Custer, Mark
All, The ArchivesSpace Public Interface Development group will be holding its next conference call tonight, Tuesday, August 9th, 6 p.m. EDT. Anyone with an interest in contributing to the development of the new ArchivesSpace Public Interface is welcome to join the call to listen in, although w

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