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Add a Field to Digitool Repository Search

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You may wish to add or remove fields from the search options in the drop down menu of the Management user interface.

In this article we shall add the Partition B field which is currently unavailable:

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Here we see that PartitionA is available as a search option, but not PartitionB.

The available fields are those included for indexing in repository_indexing_schema.xml

To add a field:

In the terminal type alias:

>j_conf

Will change to the correct directory (usually /exlibris/dtl/j3_1/digitool/home/system/conf)

 

We need to edit file repository_indexing_schema.xml

Lines for PartitionA:

<field index_enabled="true" search_enabled="true" ui_code="106" ui_default_text="PartitionA" index_code="1006" normalizing_profiles_ref="generic">

      <location type="digital_entity" path="control/partition_a"/>

    </field>

 

Add the PartitionB field:

We must add the new ui_code & index_code.

The code numbers chosen can be any number not currently used. I found that the numbers below were not duplicated:

<field index_enabled="true" search_enabled="true" ui_code="116" ui_default_text="PartitionB" index_code="1016" normalizing_profiles_ref="generic">

      <location type="digital_entity" path="control/partition_b"/>

    </field>

 

Important: Now we need to run the Reload Repository Configuration job from the Management > Maintenance interface in order to activate the change

 

The field will now be available for search:

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Note:

New objects with a value in PartitionB will appear in search results, but in order to include existing objects it will be necessary to run a re-index job from Management > Maintenance which includes those items (Remember - A search against PartitionB will not yield the desired existing objects until after re-index!).

 

To re-index the entire repository run the re-index job without selecting any search terms, this will cause the job to include the entire repository.

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    Language
    English
    Product
    DigiTool
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    1. DigiTool
    2. Repository
    3. search
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