More DSpace 7 questions!

[Chris Clawson]

Say, this is a fairly steep learning curve for a non-IT layman!

My Dspace 6 install is finally running pretty well and it is time to struggle with template customization and site personalization. This may take me months to learn and manage properly. In the mean time, DSpace 7 is going to be out this year and I certainly will want to upgrade my site.

My question is: Is all the customization effort going to become obsolete as soon as version 7 becomes production ready? I don't wish to wait until October or November, before going public, but I also don't wish to spend many hours developing skills which will become obsolete in the near future. Comments?

[Tim Donohue]

Hi Chris,

As DSpace 7 introduces and entirely new User Interface, built on Angular.io, any old customizations to the DSpace 6 XMLUI or JSPUI will not be possible to directly move over into DSpace 7. 

So, the simple answer here is that you'd have to re-customize the DSpace 7 user interface, as it's entirely different and there's no migration path from the old UIs.

That said, I will note that in customizing the DSpace 7 UI, it may be possible to perhaps "borrow" some styles/concepts from old UIs. In the DSpace 7 UI, we are still using Bootstrap (now v4, but XMLUI/JSPUI used v3) and CSS/SASS (SASS is also supported in XMLUI's Mirage2 theme).  So, borrowing individual styles might be possible, but again there will be no way to copy an entire theme (or stylesheet) from DSpace 6 into DSpace 7.

More general info on DSpace 7, including links to talks, can be found at https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+7.0+Status

Tim

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Say, this is a fairly steep learning curve for a non-IT layman!

My Dspace 6 install is finally running pretty well and it is time to struggle with template customization and site personalization. This may take me months to learn and manage properly. In the mean time, DSpace 7 is going to be out this year and I certainly will want to upgrade my site.

My question is: Is all the customization effort going to become obsolete as soon as version 7 becomes production ready? I don't wish to wait until October or November, before going public, but I also don't wish to spend many hours developing skills which will become obsolete in the near future. Comments?

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