RE: [EP-underground] How to add a new format?

Thanks Mike. It worked, and I found it in the documentation, but I never
know, when do I have to run generate_abstracts? What are the changes
require running generate_abstracts, generate_static, or restarting the
apache server?


Peter



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Gardner [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 4:10 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: Peter Tass
> Subject: Re: [EP-underground] How to add a new format?
> 
> >I need to add a new format to the default HTML,ASCII,PDF,.... Can
anyone
> >tell me what the procedure is?
> 
> This is covered in the eprints documentation chapter 8.6:
> 
> 8.6 HOW TO: Add a new document type
> Add it to metadata-types.xml. This does not need any fields.
> Add the name of the document type to the phrase file.
> Add a citation for this document to the citations file.
> If you want this to be one of the must-have-one-of document types then
add
> it's id to the list in ArchiveConfig.pm
> If you want to do something "clever" on the abstract page then edit
the
> ArchiveRenderConfig.pm file. If you don't then it will use the
citiation
> you
> created to render it in the list, as with PDF, HTML etc.
> 
> This is also explained in my eprints blog which describes the
> configuration of eprints at Nottingham:
> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~uazmjg/eprints/archives/000041.html
> 
> regards,
> mike
> 
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