[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Questions Concerning Line Breaks

Tue Nov 26 12:51:43 EST 2019

Hi Jessica,

Sorry, I didn’t realize that you were trying to format text in the Content Description field in an accession record. As Blake mentioned in another response in this thread, certain fields in ArchivesSpace do not like HTML tags (I guess the accession record’s content description field is one of these). I think that some of the fields under the “Basic Information” and “Finding Aid Data” sections of resource records similarly have trouble with HTML display elements. I’m not sure if these fields were developed without HTML formatting intentionally, but I remember noticing these incompatibilities--at least with some of the resource record’s “Basic Information” fields--in past versions of ArchivesSpace as well.

That said, the paragraph and list tags (along with other presentation-driven tags, such as title italics) will format correctly in most of the other types of resource and archival object record fields.

Please let us know if you find a workaround (or reason behind) the accession fields’ HTML issues.

Best,
Bo

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From: Jessica Turner <jturner at co.davis.ut.us>
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 7:09 AM
To: Bolton Kelly Doub <bdoub at usc.edu>
Cc: Archivesspace Users Group <archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org>; Kevin Krantz <kkrantz at co.davis.ut.us>
Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Questions Concerning Line Breaks

Good Morning,

Bolton, I tried what you suggested (I'm the cataloger needing the answer) and unfortunately it still didn't work for me. I did even follow the link for the EAD tag and tried the tags suggested there and it still didn't work. Do you have an example that worked that you could screenshot so I can see if I entered something wrong?

Or possibly, the manual is wrong and I can't modify anything but the notes fields? I'm trying to put the line breaks in the content description field, which according to the manual, I should be able to do...

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 3:44 PM Bolton Kelly Doub <bdoub at usc.edu<mailto:bdoub at usc.edu>> wrote:
Hi Austin and Mary,

You can use paragraph tags to format the line breaks for the public interface (see below):
<p>Item A on Row1</p>
<p>Item B on Row2</p>
<p>Item C on Row3</p>
<p>Item D on Row4</p>

You could also use <list> elements to format different types of lists (e.g., ordered numerically, bulleted, etc.):
https://www.loc.gov/ead/tglib/elements/list.html<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.loc.gov_ead_tglib_elements_list.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=yTNCzHurGGFljOhQgNjtyA&m=kfpBEu0KWsb-wZLF_qAO1_QYXzWFBTPXgVOdCXx2Ans&s=mjs4kB7yOIF6bqWOhXQqZ0QfEk-5sga5dwM3ch8tlJc&e=>

Bo Doub
Archival Projects Librarian
USC Libraries Special Collections
Doheny Memorial Library, Room B22
tel:213-740-8180

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Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Questions Concerning Line Breaks

I'd love to know the workaround for this, too! Even in the staff interface when you are outside of edit mode, the contents all appear on a single line.

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 6:14 AM Austin Cronnelly <acronnelly at co.davis.ut.us<mailto:acronnelly at co.davis.ut.us>> wrote:
  Hello,

We are trying to get line breaks in the Content Description field in the Accession record.

For example,

Item A on Row1
Item B on Row2
Item C on Row3
Item D on Row4

But it ends up like
Item A on Row1 Item B on Row2 Item C on Row3 Item D on Row4

8:55 AM<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__daviscounty.slack.com_archives_D6Z7TA2DA_p1574178913007400&d=DwMFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=yTNCzHurGGFljOhQgNjtyA&m=X_6g5KC-e2E-aTGakJkywXuO4IPwrUbFtMo_j4zu2aY&s=7Egk6-TW8xD8pI_rTLk6oY9_EOeYC0xi9_yMkH-6oIU&e=>low us to enter a line break at the end of each line, but we haven't been able to figure out how to do that.

Here are 2 screenshots. The first image is of the staff interface and the other is the public interface. You will notice that even though I have put in line breaks in the staff interface, they do not carry over into the public interface.

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Any advice is appreciated!
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