Re: [EP-underground] Ordering the subject table

Thank you Chris,

with a more careful analysis of the logical structure of the Eprints 
database, I am able to formulate
more exactly the problem.
As the format of the import text file  is
KEY:TITLE:PARENTS_KEY(S):CANADD?
I want the browse by subject view to appear ordered by KEY and not by TITLE.
Obviously I mean the order calculated on the whole content of the KEY 
field in a standard manner,
the issue is not on different ways of sorting one field, but simply on 
sorting one field instead of another.

For example:

   Use and impact of information.
   Bibliometric methods.
   Information in society.
   Information society.
   Information economics.
   Information policy.
   Information dissemination and diffusion.
   Information needs and information requirements analysis.
   User interfaces, usability.

These are the TITLES of the children of the B section of our JITA 
classification for LIS.
To preserve the order decided by us, without being compelled to make 
TITLEs begin with ad
hoc alphanumerical strings, we could resort to the KEY field, which is 
internal and not visible by user.
We don't want to display such initial strings because this is a hinders 
future enlargment of the
schema and could be misleading for the user.
These subjects are intended altogether to be an explanation of the 
content of the B section an not as
single depositable subjects.
About this point we are interested to know whether not depositable 
subjects which are children of depositable
subjects appear to the user in the pop-down list displayed in the 
e-prints submission process.
If this is not the case, how can we do to make they visible to user?

Thank you for you support
Antonella De Robbio
E-LIS General Manager





ePrints Support wrote:

>Each field has a key which is used for ordering it.
>
>There is a default way of generating it for each field type.
>
>Subjects and sets, for example, use the id by default.
>
>You can change it to use the name with a short subroutine
>linked from order_value in the metadata config (see the docs)
>
>There is not an (easy) way to make more than one way of sorting
>one field. It would be possible, I'll explain if you *really*
>want...
>
>On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 05:18:48 +0100, Antonella De Robbio (Casa) wrote:
>
>>Dear Chris,
>>
>>I am involved in different applications of the Eprints software.
>>One is a test phase at the University of Padua (institutional 
>>repository), the other one is working progress
>>for a data provider on LIS e-papers within rclis service.
>>In both applications we met with the same necessity of ordering the 
>>subject table by TITLE and
>>not by KEY, as is in the current implementation.
>>Is it possible to have the option of ordering by KEY available with 
>>config maneuvres?
>>Or is it other way to obtain a not alphabetical order, but an order 
>>provided by us.
>>
>>Thank you
>>Antonella De Robbio
>>E-LIS General Manager
>>
>