[Dspace-general] Change the item preview

[Stuart Lewis]

Hi Héctor,

> I want to change the full metadata view of an item. Looking into the
> files the org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.HandleServlet servlet calls
> /display-item.jsp file to show an item.
> Looking this file I think that the command that shows the full  
> metadata
> view is:
>
>    <dspace:item-preview item="<%= item %>" />
>    <dspace:item item="<%= item %>" collections="<%= collections %>"
> style="<%= displayStyle %>" />
>
> In the full view there are three columns: the first one is the dc  
> field,
> the second is the value and the third is the language. I want to  
> remove
> this third column, but I don't know how remove it. I think it could be
> related with those previous <dspace> directives, but I don't know  
> how it
> works. Can anybody help me to remove the language column?

When tags begin with '<dspace:' it means that they are part of the  
DSpace tag library. You can match up the name (e.g. 'item') with the  
relevant class by looking in [dspace-src]/dspace-jpui/dspace-jspui- 
webapp/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/dspace-tags.tld

You should see this:

   <tag>
     <name>item</name>
     <tagclass>org.dspace.app.webui.jsptag.ItemTag</tagclass>
     <info>
       Tag for displaying an item.  "item" must always be an
       org.dspace.content.Item.  "style" should be "default" or  
"full", or can
       be omitted to use "default".  "collections" should be the array  
of
       collections the item is in, worked out beforehand to avoid the  
chance
       of an error occurring during display.  If collections is null,  
the
       collections the item is in aren't listed.
     </info>
     <attribute>
       <name>item</name>
       <required>true</required>
       <rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
     </attribute>
     <attribute>
       <name>style</name>
       <required>false</required>
       <rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
     </attribute>
     <attribute>
       <name>collections</name>
       <required>false</required>
       <rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
     </attribute>
   </tag>

So you'll need to look in the Java class [dspace-src]/dspace-jspui/ 
dspace-jspui-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/webui/jsptag/ItemTag.java

Look for the renderFull() method, and edit as required.

I hope this helps,


Stuart Lewis
IT Innovations Analyst and Developer
Te Tumu Herenga The University of Auckland Library
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Ph: 64 9 373-7599 x81928
http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/


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