Re: [Dspace-tech] URL Question

2008-11-26 Thread Allen Lam
There are no simple java variables containing the bitstream filenames in display-item.jsp. The bitstream list table you see is dynamically generated by ItemTag.java. You might need to customize this java file to add extra contents to the item display page. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub

Re: [Dspace-tech] Postgres won't work after violent shutdown

2008-11-26 Thread Allen Lam
and then uninstall postgres. Reinstall the SAME version of postgres again. When it starts happily, copy the data directory back to replace the default one. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk juuventud wrote: Thanks Mr Havercamp I've been trying to switch the service on by all

Re: [Dspace-tech] How change uri handle from http://hdl.handle.net/ to http://myip in all items

2008-11-27 Thread Allen Lam
://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech You can do it by changing the value of handle.prefix in dspace.cfg to yourip. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk - This SF.Net email is sponsored

Re: [Dspace-tech] mapfile error in itemimport

2008-11-28 Thread Allen Lam
) 233 79 08 Try to give the map file a full pathname, and make sure you have write access to that folder. Hope it helps. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk - This SF.Net email is sponsored

Re: [Dspace-tech] DOI to item

2008-11-29 Thread Allen Lam
some hints. I have never tried adding a row to METADATAFIELDREGISTRY table manually. Will dspace show up the new row of data in its admin interface? Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk - This SF.Net

Re: [Dspace-tech] Changing default url

2008-11-29 Thread Allen Lam
in config/dspace.cfg Edit this file BEFORE you compile or deploy dspace. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build

Re: [Dspace-tech] Search on a filename

2008-12-01 Thread Allen Lam
it by writing custom queries. Another way out is to include the filename in DC and include this field in indexing. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your

Re: [Dspace-tech] Tomcat 5.5.27

2008-12-03 Thread Allen Lam
in Messages.properties, add a back-slash: use \ to replace For safety, do some experiments before doing large-scale replacement. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Gary Browne wrote: Hi techies Following an upgrade from tomcat 5.5.26 to 5.5.27, we experienced exceptions

Re: [Dspace-tech] Tomcat 5.5.27

2008-12-03 Thread Allen Lam
in Messages.properties, add a back-slash: use \ to replace For safety, do some experiments before doing large-scale replacement. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Gary Browne wrote: Hi techies Following an upgrade from tomcat 5.5.26 to 5.5.27, we experienced exceptions

Re: [Dspace-tech] dspace migration

2008-12-03 Thread Allen Lam
installing your whole tomcat and webapps in your remote drive. Like what Kim suggested in a previous mail, you need to config postgres separately. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Rod Harris wrote: Hi all I'm migrating the repository in a dspace 1.4 instance

Re: [Dspace-tech] dspace migration

2008-12-03 Thread Allen Lam
An appendix for something missing... Other than redirecting them one-by-one to a remote drive, consider installing your whole dspace home, webapps, and perhaps your apache document dir in your remote drive. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.4.2 search - how the indices are built and what all the files represent?

2009-01-08 Thread Allen Lam
? Is there enough memory? Is the database too busy... In my case, I have about 30k of items. Index-all takes 1-2 hours to finish. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[NCI INFORMATION SYSTEMS] wrote: Hi, Could one of the developers

Re: [Dspace-tech] error on browse by date

2009-01-13 Thread Allen Lam
database was changed. How it was changed? The solution could be a simple fix on config files or a complicated re-coding of the source code. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Van Ly wrote: Hi Everyone, I've a DSpace unable to respond without error

Re: [Dspace-tech] Internal server error

2009-01-15 Thread Allen Lam
the document for the meaning of each option. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/runtime-config.html Find the document that fits the version you are using. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Miguel Pizarro wrote: Dear Dspace team: In the Dspace page I get

Re: [Dspace-tech] Creator name not showing on browse/search

2009-02-11 Thread Allen Lam
Shaun, The third column in the browse-title page is supposed to display the author names, which is recorded in dc.contributor.author. Changing the heading to Creator(s) is not enough. You need to modify some jsp and servlets to have dc.creator show up. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub

Re: [Dspace-tech] Creator name not showing on browse/search

2009-02-11 Thread Allen Lam
to browsing. Search result listing is another story. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Shaun Burriss wrote: Hi Allen, Thanks for your reply. Which jsp's do we need to modify to have dc.creator show up on the browse/results page, rather than

Re: [Dspace-tech] Logout problem on Dspace 1.4.2

2009-02-19 Thread Allen Lam
We have similar problem in our dspace system. It is caused by browser's cache of session data. The only solution is asking users to close the browser completely after logoff. I am also interested to know any better way to kill the session. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http

Re: [Dspace-tech] Sfx link only on specific items

2009-02-20 Thread Allen Lam
? Let me know. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Yuyun Wirawati ISHAK (LIBRIS) wrote: Hi all I’ve enabled the sfx link and it works well. However, the link appears on every item record. I understand that some installations manage to display this link only

Re: [Dspace-tech] streaming vedios files

2009-02-22 Thread Allen Lam
/browse available resources. Our dspace system have streaming video resources here: http://hub.hku.hk/handle/123456789/2020/browse?type=titlesubmit_browse=Browse+by+Title Hope you find these information useful. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk shaji ayyappan wrote

Re: [Dspace-tech] Messages.properties

2009-02-22 Thread Allen Lam
, run mvn package and then ant update. See the install doc for these commands. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk divyang patel wrote: Dear All i am using dspace 1.5.1 in fedora 9. I am facing difficulties in modifying Messages.properties This is the default

Re: [Dspace-tech] reindexing question

2009-02-26 Thread Allen Lam
dspace unless you've made changes to the indexing rules or have edited the database directly. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Jewel wrote: I am in the process of determining what needs to be performed in terms of maintenance and scheduling for Dspace. One of my

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace 1.5.1 - enabling Statistics

2009-02-27 Thread Allen Lam
Jewel, On Linux and Unix machines perl is usually pre-installed. In Windows it is not the case. You need to install a thing called activeperl. Google for it. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Jewel wrote: I am trying to enable the statistics in Dspace but when I

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace 1.5.1 - enabling Statistics

2009-02-27 Thread Allen Lam
. Finding out your classpath string is a painful experience. type java -help and google a lot to see how to run a java program. You may need some java programmers to help. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Jewel Makda wrote: I already installed ActivePerl but it's when I

Re: [Dspace-tech] registering new user problem in DSpace 1.4

2009-03-05 Thread Allen Lam
in catalina.out. If not, look into other tomcat log files for the stack trace. If there is no logging of the error, there can be non-standard configuration in your tomcat that prevented it from recording exceptions. Fix your tomcat first. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http

Re: [Dspace-tech] Exporting/importing the PostgreSQL database?

2009-03-19 Thread Allen Lam
. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Stan Orlov wrote: Forgot to mention - I am running the latest versions of DSpace (1.5.1) and PostgreSQL (8.3) on both machines. And also the latest Apache and Tomcat 6. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Stan Orlov stan.or...@msvu.ca

Re: [Dspace-tech] Exporting/importing the PostgreSQL database?

2009-03-19 Thread Allen Lam
Anyway, you have already have the problem solved. You can try out these commands and options again for routine backup uses. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Stan Orlov wrote: Another crisis averted :) I tried to export the database via Navicat's MS Access format

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.4x and postgresql 8.3

2009-03-23 Thread Allen Lam
suggest doing the dspace upgrade if it happens that you want such an upgrade right at this moment. Otherwise, do the postgres downgrade for a simple, fast and secure solution. You can go for a dspace upgrade in a later time when you are ready for it. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator

Re: [Dspace-tech] Postgresq 8.3x error

2009-03-25 Thread Allen Lam
dspace 1.4.x does not work with postgres 8.3. Your workaround options are upgrading to dspace 1.5.x or downgrading postgres to 8.2. If you want to fix it in a hurry, changing postgres version is easier. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Jeffrey Trimble wrote: I've

Re: [Dspace-tech] Half-OT: Tomcat won't start

2009-03-30 Thread Allen Lam
First check: do you have servlet-api.jar in common/lib? If not, try placing a copy to there. If it does not help, it could involve some harder classpath issues. Perhaps reinstalling a new version of Tomcat is easier than fixing it. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk

Re: [Dspace-tech] Half-OT: Tomcat won't start

2009-03-30 Thread Allen Lam
/lib or var/lib/tomcat5/common/lib/ When you see similar error when you are running a webapp, place the jar in your application's WEB-INF/lib Hope it helps. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Sergio Belkin wrote: Hi, I reinstalled tomcat and problem persists

Re: [Dspace-tech] how to adding static page

2009-05-10 Thread Allen Lam
Hi, Zoloo, You can put html or jsp files, and their associated files, under webapp, or under subdirectories of webapp. Put them into your source directory so that they will not be overwritten after re-packaging. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Zaya Kh wrote: Hi

Re: [Dspace-tech] how to adding static page

2009-05-11 Thread Allen Lam
to change my main body. what do I do? Cheers, Zoloo On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Allen Lam allen.dsp...@gmail.com mailto:allen.dsp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Zoloo, You can put html or jsp files, and their associated files, under webapp, or under subdirectories

Re: [Dspace-tech] i can't Login and register on dspace i installed

2009-05-12 Thread Allen Lam
If you do not have LDAP server, you should not use this feature. In your dspace.cfg, set ldap.enable = false Restart and try again. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Ruth Anjo wrote: Good Day all, Please, i can't Login and register on dspace i installed. when i

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] Dspace-FCKeditor

2009-05-15 Thread Allen Lam
Hi, Antonio, That editor will add html tags to the output text. For most situations it seems it is not good to include html tags in metadatavalues. I'm just curious to ask what is the purpose of using this editor in dspace web interface? Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk

Re: [Dspace-tech] UI batch import

2009-06-02 Thread Allen Lam
There is no problem without the bundle remark. The file will be treated as belonging to the default original bundle, to be listed in the web UI. Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Van Ly wrote: [ ## in DSpaceBatchImportFormat.pdf: The contents file is a tab‐delimited text

Re: [Dspace-tech] community collections export

2009-06-08 Thread Allen Lam
If you are using postgres, the best set of db migration tool is postgres's own tools. Documentation is here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/backup.html Allen HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Mark Ludwig wrote: I am replicating my dspace repository on another system and

Re: [Dspace-tech] Statistics in Dspace 1.5.2 xmlui version

2009-06-17 Thread Allen Lam
In your dspace.cfg, find a line: webui.strengths.show = false Change it into true. The item count will be displayed. Allen. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Morupisi, Maitumelo wrote: Dear group I need some help in calculating the number of articles in each collection and

Re: [Dspace-tech] UIUtil month -1

2009-06-22 Thread Allen Lam
Hi, I am not the author of the related codes but I am interesting in reading source codes. According to my understanding, the reason behind the -1 design was defined in org.dspace.content.DCDate, where -1 means undefined value for year, month, day, hours, minutes and seconds. DCDate is based

Re: [Dspace-tech] how to move an item from one collection to another

2009-06-29 Thread Allen Lam
Hi Janice, In the edit item page there is a Move Item button to serve this purpose. Allen. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Janice de Oliveira E Silva Silveira wrote: Hello everyone, We are running DSpace 1.5.2 (xmlui). I have accidentally added an item to the wrong collection,

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] show HTML data

2009-07-12 Thread Allen Lam
Hi, Antonio, I would suggest a better approach is to remove html tags from dc values, as far as possible. If there are documents that needs to have html or other formatting codes included, attach these documents as bitstream files. Allen. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Antonio Cuomo

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] Customization Dspace

2009-07-28 Thread Allen Lam
Hi Hardik, You can copy your new jsp and associated files to your dspace deployed directory dspace/webapps/jspui/ You will see the editing effect immediately by refreshing your browser. Sometimes it may need restarting tomcat to take effect. No packaging is needed. This is good for fast testing

Re: [Dspace-tech] Customising Dspace Interface

2009-09-16 Thread Allen Lam
To rapidly change the look of dspace, you should first go through these files: - login as admin and edit the News text - jspui/css/*.css - jspui/layout/*.jsp - new images to replace the banner, etc. Allen. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Lewatle Phaladi wrote: Hi All I am in the

Re: [Dspace-tech] reindexing question

2009-09-17 Thread Allen Lam
Hi, You are using Windoze so that the script cannot be run. As a replacement, run these two commands: dsrun org.dspace.browse.IndexBrowse -f -r dsrun org.dspace.browse.ItemCounter Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk http://hub.hku.hk/ Lucy Wang wrote: Hi Allen, I did run

Re: [Dspace-tech] reindexing question

2009-09-17 Thread Allen Lam
fix There should be three commands to run: dsrun org.dspace.browse.IndexBrowse -f -r dsrun org.dspace.browse.ItemCounter dsrun org.dspace.browse.DSIndexer -b /fix Allen. Allen Lam wrote: Hi, You are using Windoze so that the script cannot be run. As a replacement, run these two commands

Re: [Dspace-tech] reindexing question

2009-09-17 Thread Allen Lam
Lucy, you cannot run linux/unix scripts in windows. Instead, you can write the 3 command lines into a plain text file, save it as index-init.bat into the same place of dsrun.bat. Then, in that directory you type index-init to execute. Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Lucy

Re: [Dspace-tech] reindexing question

2009-09-17 Thread Allen Lam
Oh, yeah... Chuck just pointed out that the third command line should be dsrun org.dspace.search.DSIndexer -b Allen. Allen Lam wrote: Lucy, you cannot run linux/unix scripts in windows. Instead, you can write the 3 command lines into a plain text file, save it as index-init.bat

Re: [Dspace-tech] Help in Google Analytics

2009-09-23 Thread Allen Lam
Hi, If you want Google to track your web site, as least you should enable Google to see it. No one other than yourself could see your localhost web sites. You should give it a proper domain name or IP and let the world access it. Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Hardik

Re: [Dspace-tech] reindexing question

2009-09-23 Thread Allen Lam
html sitemaps - and other tips you could find in the dspace wiki page Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Lucy Wang wrote: Hi Allen, Thanks for your help again and again. There are still someting I feel confused. I am on DSpace 1.5.1 on Window server 2003. My understanding

Re: [Dspace-tech] html enties (html symbols)

2009-10-07 Thread Allen Lam
as the circle-c char. Save it again. Cheers, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Terrance Davis wrote: Hi, My users of DSpace want to insert special symbols by editing metadata of approved submissions. Inserting as an html entity doesn't work, because the is re-interpreted

Re: [Dspace-tech] html enties (html symbols)

2009-10-08 Thread Allen Lam
by double-decoding. This does not happen in the jspui. I am not using the xmlui (partly due to the complexity and error-prone results of multiple layer translation of codes and data). Perhaps some other experienced dspace-xml/cocoon users could give some advices? Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator

Re: [Dspace-tech] Unable to compile class for JSP

2009-10-14 Thread Allen Lam
Hi Francis, Yes, the problem is on your java. Your java version is 1.3 which is not supporting generics and the modern for-loop syntax. Upgrade it to version 1.6 then there will be no problem. Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Brouns, Francis wrote: Hi all, We are trying

Re: [Dspace-tech] Reindex question

2009-10-14 Thread Allen Lam
dspace home, i.e. dspace/bin Hope this helps. Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Edmir Carvalho Cavalcante wrote: Hi, [dspace]$ ls assetstore config exports handle-server log reports search upload My questions: How to run the shell script ./index-all? Do i need

Re: [Dspace-tech] Unable to compile class for JSP

2009-10-14 Thread Allen Lam
. IBM's java may not be 100% compatible with Sun's. Hope it helps. Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Brouns, Francis wrote: Hi all, We are trying to install Dspace 1.5.2 on a Linux SLES server, using Oracle as database. After some initial problem with database setup, I now

Re: [Dspace-tech] for help

2009-10-21 Thread Allen Lam
Hi Parvez, Would you specify you are going to use the xmlui or jspui? They are very different in UI customization aspect. Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Parvez Ahmad wrote: Dear Group members!! I have just installed DSpace on my PC, Now I want to customized

Re: [Dspace-tech] possible to search for records with/without bitstream?

2009-10-28 Thread Allen Lam
-text or abstract-only or TOC-only. A little changes to the config file is needed if you wish your advanced search options to include your custom metadata tags. Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Platt, Alice wrote: Hello all, DSpace 1.5.2: Does anyone know

Re: [Dspace-tech] FW: help windows installation

2009-11-10 Thread Allen Lam
that you discover. Best, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Kantargis, Susan wrote: Hello, I’ve been relocation dspace to a new windows server and must have missed a step along the line. This message comes up when I bring \jspui up with tomcat: WARN org.dspace.jsp

Re: [Dspace-tech] MINIMUM HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS FOR DSPACE INSTALLATION

2009-11-11 Thread Allen Lam
. If there are lots of data files to store, you need lots of harddisk space. If you have plenty of public users, you need fast CPU, much more rams and fast Internet connection. All depends on your budget and needs. Best, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk olufunmilayo favour wrote: Hi all

Re: [Dspace-tech] About reset user password

2009-11-11 Thread Allen Lam
, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Agusmen wrote: Hi, Today I try to login to my DSpace site using my user whose as an admin status, but I forgot my password. when I try to use the link Have you forgotten your password? then type my email anddress, and pressed the button I

Re: [Dspace-tech] Display abstract field as hyperlink

2009-11-17 Thread Allen Lam
Hi, Ngamsritragul, You need not adding and showing the abstract metadata field at all, if you don't want to. Add it as a bitstream file. An example in our IR: http://hub.hku.hk/handle/123456789/55221 Is this a solution good for your case? Best, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http

Re: [Dspace-tech] Display abstract field as hyperlink

2009-11-18 Thread Allen Lam
in a speed you do not want to see. - When people download a file by a link in metadata, it is difficult to make a statistics count. - some more localized issues that only you know... Hope it helps. Best, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Panyarak Ngamsritragul wrote: Dear

Re: [Dspace-tech] How to run dsrun command

2010-01-06 Thread Allen Lam
command is copied from the file stat-initial (open it by notepad or any text editor). Follow the same rule to execute other dsrun commands. Best, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Vinsenso wrote: hi all need some help... i get confused about 'run the dsrun command'... how

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace Import Issues

2010-02-18 Thread Allen Lam
and NOT saved in unicode or UTF-8 encoding. UTF-8 encoded text files have 3 extra bytes at the head and this could cause problem for the import program to process correctly. Best, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Caryn Neiswender wrote: Hello, All~ I'm encountering a strange import

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace Import Issues

2010-02-19 Thread Allen Lam
run this command through all sub-dirs. Then all contents files creation can be finished in a second. What editor you are using to edit the contents files? IMHO, file encoding is still the main suspect in the issue. Best, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Caryn Neiswender wrote

Re: [Dspace-tech] Items in more than one collection

2010-03-04 Thread Allen Lam
re versions of dspace. What do you think? Best, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Claudia Jrgen wrote: Hello Alan, there is the functionality to map items to other than their owning collections via the web UI. Log in as admin (collection admin). Navigate t

Re: [Dspace-tech] Browse by Author/Subject in Chinese

2010-03-18 Thread Allen Lam
can re-define the ordering by providing information of stroke, binary or phonetic for each string of text you want to order in dspace. It means defining extra dc tags and supplying extra metadatavalues when you submit each item. Best, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Mr

Re: [Dspace-tech] Browse by Author/Subject in Chinese

2010-03-22 Thread Allen Lam
the chinese block there is 李. Our IR is open to the public. You are welcome to click into each section and page to see how the rows are listed. Best, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Mr Havercamp wrote: Thanks Allen. If HKU is satisfied with natural ordering then it should

Re: [Dspace-tech] dspace help

2010-03-29 Thread Allen Lam
Hi Kumara, Please check your firewall setting: is port 8080 blocked? Cheers, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Kumara SS wrote: Hi all, Dspace is working successfully from http://localhost:8080 and i have created the administrator account. But when i give

Re: [Dspace-tech] Help

2010-04-12 Thread Allen Lam
in details about your (unsuccessful) customization procedure: - what files (directories and names) you have edited and - what actions are done afterward - and your dspace version, OS, webapp container, etc. Cheers, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Daniel Francis wrote

Re: [Dspace-tech] Help

2010-04-12 Thread Allen Lam
you edit the top news? If yes, write-privilege is the problem. Cheers, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Daniel Francis wrote: Dear Allen, Thank you for the prompt reply, i posted my proplem in the mailing list but there was no reply. I have installed Dspace 1.5.2

Re: [Dspace-tech] FW: Field names in DSpace

2010-04-19 Thread Allen Lam
carries all sample codes you need to do the label translation. Look at somewhere around... label = I18nUtil.getMessage(metadata. + ); Get a java programmer. He should be able to implement it in the renderFull() method without much difficulty. Hope this helps. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub

Re: [Dspace-tech] One Bitstream in Multiple DSpace Items?

2010-04-27 Thread Allen Lam
Hi Stacy, Yes, it is perfectly possible. You have to work directly on the database. You need to insert a row in item2bundle table, marking down the bundle_id (containing the bitstream) and the item_id (of the extra item that you want to have the same bitstream). Cheers, Allen Lam. HKU Hub

Re: [Dspace-tech] Batch import metadata help needed

2010-05-24 Thread Allen Lam
to be put in suitable folders in a rigidly defined structure. Consult the dspace manual about this requirement. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk On 2010-05-25 8:24 AM, Renata Dyer wrote: Dear dspace-tech list; I am new to the dspace world and need some basic help

Re: [Dspace-tech] want to add new menu in nav-bar in Dspace

2010-06-09 Thread Allen Lam
Hi Shashidhar, In jspui, the default left menu is written in this file: jspui/layout/navbar-default.jsp Modify this file to customize the menu. Extra hints: banner, footers, etc are also defined in some other files in that directory and are customizable. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub

Re: [Dspace-tech] (no subject)

2010-06-14 Thread Allen Lam
No, the design of dspace allows no sub-collection. It allows communities to have sub-communities, and communities/sub-communities to have collections. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk On 2010-06-14 7:58 PM, Augustine Gitonga wrote: Colleagues, Is it possible

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] Storage of documents

2010-07-14 Thread Allen Lam
Hi Amjad, Dspace is working in the application layer, while RAID is much close to layers about hardware and OS. There is no much relationship between them. In short, if your OS supports RAID, dspace can benefit from this feature. Cheers, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk

Re: [Dspace-tech] Error

2010-07-14 Thread Allen Lam
A user typed in an incorrect URL and brought about this error. You can do nothing as long as users can access dspace services normally. If you hate getting this kind of exception reports causing by incorrect URLs, you may wish to find a programmer to fix your source code. Best, Allen Lam

Re: [Dspace-tech] Need ur help regarding browse by type

2010-07-16 Thread Allen Lam
is supposed to help your users. 5. That's it. Our Browse by Type is actually a result of Search by Type. We predefined the search and users will get a list by clicking into a link. Simple, easy way to introduce additional aspects to classify and display items. Hope you find it useful. Best, Allen Lam

Re: [Dspace-tech] how to change jspui text plz reply....

2010-07-28 Thread Allen Lam
Hi Shashidhar, To change text or links in the navbar, for jspui you have to edit the files webapp/layout/navbar*.jsp Hope this helps. Best, Allen Lam. HKU Scholars Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk On 2010-07-28 12:52 PM, shashidhar chaturvedi wrote: Dear Sir, I am customizing DSpace

Re: [Dspace-tech] how and where to add or edit metadata for jspui interface.. plz reply..

2010-07-29 Thread Allen Lam
Find the tool to edit your schema: [your dspace host]/dspace-admin/metadata-schema-registry Best, Allen Lam. HKU Scholars Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk On 2010-07-29 2:00 PM, shashidhar chaturvedi wrote: Dear Sir, Thanks for your help. Sir, I have one more doubt that how can i add

Re: [Dspace-tech] Metadata appearing twice

2010-07-29 Thread Allen Lam
. But remember that any changes to indexing config need a re-indexing afterward to see the effect. Best, Allen Lam. HKU Scholars Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk On 2010-07-30 1:19 AM, Koushik Banerjee wrote: The same thing happens in both JSPUI and XMLUI. I guess that means the problem

Re: [Dspace-tech] Metadata appearing twice

2010-07-29 Thread Allen Lam
it in the database level, do some SQL queries and write some programs to automate the de-dup and delete process. Luckily you only have to deal with one db table named 'metadatavalue'. Hope this rough guide could kick start your rescue process. Best, Allen Lam. HKU Scholars Hub Administrator

Re: [Dspace-tech] Publishers' policies in dspace

2010-07-30 Thread Allen Lam
repackage dspace src, the custom webapp is packaged and deployed with dspace together. Best, Allen Lam. HKU Scholars Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk On 2010-07-30 12:11 PM, Nabonita Guha wrote: Dear Mr Lam, Customization of your dspace repository is quite interesting, particularly

Re: [Dspace-tech] Metadata appearing twice

2010-08-04 Thread Allen Lam
. It is not tested in the field. Someone can improve it to prevent duplicate outputs. You may like to fully check the list before executing delete, to assure you are not killing something that deserve to stay. Best, Allen Lam. HKU Scholars Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk On 2010-08-04 1:14 AM, Koushik

Re: [Dspace-tech] Limiting Searches

2010-09-29 Thread Allen Lam
, or borrowing of idea. Best, Allen Lam. HKU Scholars Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk On 2010-09-30 2:37 AM, George Stanley Kozak wrote: I was recently asked to add type to the fields that can be searched in the Advance Search. I did do that. However, the problem is that users don't

Re: [Dspace-tech] Question about replacement of special characters in XML

2010-12-30 Thread Allen Lam
this mailing list retain the appended file) Best, Allen Lam. HKU Scholars Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk On 2010-12-30 10:22 AM, Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[LITES] wrote: Hi, We are working on an interface between a legacy system and DSpace 1.5.1 and I keep running into problems

Re: [Dspace-tech] Assistance request: Dspace batch import

2011-05-23 Thread Allen Lam
Hi Saqib, Sorry for late reply. Try writing the xml like that: dcvalue element=title qualifier=noneThis is title/dcvalue Hope this helps. Regards, Allen. On 2011-05-18 1:28 PM, Saqib Ilyas wrote: Dear Allen I was referred by a friend to you for the following scenario. I am new to library

Re: [Dspace-tech] Getting started with DSpace

2012-02-05 Thread Allen Lam
Under Current Release, DSpace 1.8.1 can be downloaded from the files area in SourceForge (Zip) http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/files/DSpace%20Stable/1.8.0/ or via SVN http://scm.dspace.org/svn/repo/dspace/tags/dspace-1.8.0/. DSpace is a regular java webapp that can run on a notebook PC