DSpace 7.2.1 - Item Mapping GUI Misbehaving

[Mike Schouten]

Salutations!

We're in the middle of implementing a brand new DSpace 7 instance and I've run into an issue in the web interface I have run out of ideas on how to fix.  When attempting to map an item to multiple collections, the GUI is misbehaving.  We've set up multiple instances of DSpace across two servers, some customized and some completely default and the behavior is the same:

1) Open an item, select "edit" and navigate to the "Collection Mapper" tag.  The UI seems to load correctly.

2) Switch to "Map new collections" tab below.  The search box appears as expected.  The URL is in the format: https://dspace.server.com/items/[uuid]/edit/mapper

3) Enter a search term and either press "enter" or click the "Search" button.  In either case, the page does not start an Ajax query as the demo site seems to, but instead reloads the entire page.  The URL is now: https://dspace.server.com/items/[uuid]/edit/mapper?query=term and the "Browse mapped collections" tab is selected.

4) Try switching back to the "Map new collection" tab and the page reloads again, taking us back to: https://dspace.server.com/items/[uuid]/edit/mapper "Browse mapped collections" still selected.

5) You can go back to step 2 and repeat from there with the same effect.

I can find no DSpace or AngularJS errors in the server logs, nor any failed AJAX calls from the browser.  The only thing that might be relevant is a non-fatal console message that states "[Violation] 'load' handler took 308ms" where the exact number of milliseconds is marginally different each time.  This console message appears immediately after searching and also when trying to navigate back to the "Map new collections" tab after a search.

Has anyone else encountered a problem like this?  Any clues how to fix it?

Michael Schouten

Library IT

MacEwan University

[DSpace Technical Support]

Hi Michael,

I'm noticing this isn't working locally or on demo7.dspace.org either.  However, I can use the mapper from the *Collection* page successfully:

1. Edit a Collection

2. Go to Item Mapper

3. Map new items tab... search for an Item and map it.

So, at least in the latest code, the Edit Collection -> Item Mapper side works fine... but the Edit Item -> Collection Mapper side is not working properly.

(Time passes)

I've figured out a fix for "Edit Item -> Collection Mapper", at least based on the latest code (pre-7.3).  Here's the PR https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/1676/

That said, I'm not sure if this fix would also work in 7.2.1, as there have been some performance & bug fixes applied to pre-7.3 which fixed the reload issue you were seeing.  I recall that being an issue which was a side effect of another bug... but I'm not recalling exactly which fix in pre-7.3 changed that behavior.

In any case, long story short, this should be fixed in 7.3... which is due to be released in late June.

Tim

[Mike Schouten]

Greetings, Tim!  Thank you very much for looking in to this for us.

 

Unfortunately, the Item Mapper functionality at the Collection level is having the identical problem that I described for the Item level edit… still reloading the page rather than conducting an AJAX call.  So we’re still not able to map items successfully.  Still, the next version is upcoming and we’ve kept track of all the items that are supposed to be mapped to multiple collections, so here’s hoping that 7.3 fixes the issue and we’re able to proceed from there.

 

If it doesn’t, you’re sure to hear from me again!

 

Michael Schouten

Library Information Technology

MacEwan University

scho...@macewan.ca

 

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