DSpace 7 Browse Indexing
Ben Parkes
Hello,
I am trying to customise the browse indexing on my instance of DSpace 7.6 being run locally using Docker and Yarn. I have followed the documentation (https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/Configuration+Reference#ConfigurationReference-DefiningSortOptions, https://wiki.lyrasis.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=32474035#:~:text=DSpace%20offers%20two%20options%20to,DSpace%20Discovery)%20%2D%20disabled%20by%20default) but still cannot change the browse indexing.
I want the date issued browse option to be indexed in descending order, so the most recent submissions appear first. Despite updating dspace.cfg so that the webui.browse.index for dateissued includes the desc argument and reindexing with ‘index-discovery -b’ the indexing does not change.
Below is my configuration:
webui.browse.index.1 = dateissued:item:dateissued:desc
From my understanding after reading the docs this should update the indexing of the date issued browse display, but it has no effect. The second wiki link details that to update browse indexing you should run ‘index-init’ or ‘index-update’, but it seems these commands are deprecated in DSpace 7?
Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Ben
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Ben Parkes
Digital Library Software Developer
Digital Library, Library & University Collections, University of Edinburgh
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I think you are hitting this bug. Browse pages are currently not taking into account the *sort* configuration : https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/8651
So, while those browse settings should work overall, the sort option specifically is not working as expected. There are some (early) PRs for fixing this behavior, but they are still under review.