[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Advice on new upgrade

[Andrew Morrison]

Here are some, at least partial, answers to your questions:

 1. You can boost collection-level records relative to everything else
    by setting /AppConfig[:solr_params]/ in your config.rb file to
    something like /{ "bq" => "level:collection^1.25" }/ or add that in
    if you're already setting other Solr parameters. After a restart
    (re-indexing should not be required) it should have some effect, in
    both the staff and public interfaces. Increasing the number after
    the ^ symbol increases the boost. But take it too far and, for a
    query that returns lots of collections, you may find a lot of
    not-very-relevant collections crowding everything else out from the
    first several pages.
 2. Do you mean you would like the "Citation" button in the public user
    interface to display the contents of preferred citation notes you've
    added in the staff interface (or have been imported from EAD
    containing prefercite)? That can be done, via a plug-in, but it is
    too complicated (at least the way we did it, with different rules
    for different levels, and overriding the standard JavaScript) to
    explain in an email. I've been meaning to split up our
    customizations into separate plug-ins, and put them on GitHub, but
    haven't got round to it yet. Maybe someone else has something you
    can use off-the-shelf?
 3. Log in to your staff interface (you need to be an admin to do the
    following), click the drop-down arrow next to your username in the
    top-right corner, and select /Repository Preferences/. Enable
    /Pre-populate Records/ and save. Then go to /Browse > Resources/,
    and there should be a button labelled /Edit Default Values/. Click
    on that and select /Resource/. Here you can set the language to
    English, and anything else you don't want to fill in every time you
    create a new collection. Save, then repeat for /Resource Component/.
    If you have multiple repositories I think you have to repeat this
    entire process for every one, as I do not think it works globally.

Andrew.



On 13/08/2020 23:36, Nigel Bond wrote:
>
> Kia ora all,
>
> Looking for some advice.  We are testing a new AS upgrade (2.7.x) and 
> running into a couple of issues in our test environment.
>
>  1. Search results.  Is there any way to reorder the way Search
>     results are returned. In our previous version (2.5.x) search
>     results were returned with COLLECION level being given priority.
>     The new version returns it by ‘relevance’ which means there is no
>     structure to the search results (could be file name, item, or
>     series level, intermixed). For us, ideally we want search results
>     at the Collection level first. I know we can then apply filters,
>     but this seems to be an additional step, we have never needed before.
>  2. Is there any way to modify the way AS draws the ‘preferred
>     citation’ field. It seems to be pulling text from various fields,
>     and returning a result  that does not make sense (despite us
>     entering in a preferred citation in the appropriate field, for
>     each (at the collection level). If working at the series or item
>     level we are getting very mixed results.  Are you now required to
>     enter a citation note, at every level?
>  3. IS there a way to have the “Language of Finding aid” default to
>     English,.  It seems for some reason it is defaulting to “language
>     undetermined” despite the Language field being set to English for
>     each collection item.  We do not want to have to alter this
>     manually for every record.
>
> Any advice greatly received.
>
> Nga mihi nui.
>
> *Dr. Nigel Bond*, Team Leader, Cultural Collections (Special Collections)
>
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