[GeoNetwork-users] Change category icons; specify url target of download button; etc..

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Hi All,

I just recently set up a Geonetwork site for my organization, and it worked
well right out of the box. I customised a couple of things in the css and
the config.xml file as well as the string.xml. We imported 240 xml fgdc
metadata files from an old arcims data explorer. All is great, except for a
couple customizations I need to do.

here is the current website:
http://congo.iluci.org:8080/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home
http://congo.iluci.org:8080/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home

I checked the documentation and forum and found no answer to these issues
below:

1) change country list - I cannot find an xml file where the actual list of
countries in the dropdown is defined. Where is this?

2) "download" button for downloadable data associated with metadata files.
We imported 240 files. They have links to their downloadable resources, in a
web accessible folder. However the "download" button in geonetwork GUI only
works with the data that is uploaded to geonetwork itself and put in it's
folder structure. Is there a quick way to make the "download" button appear
and link to our own folder structure? Is the only quick solution to upload
manually one by one all the 240 data files into the geonetwork data
structure?

3) The FAO geonetwork installation has a three panel GUI. Is this something
achievable by modifying xml or xsl files, or does it involve changing the
source code?

4) ....and final....the Categories on the home GUI can be set to display
icons, how does one set what icon matches which category name? is this a
table in mckoi? if so, do i connect with druid? I could not find any good
documentation on connecting to the DB.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH

Giuseppe

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Hi Giuseppe

About your questions:

1) change country list - I cannot find an xml file where the actual list of
countries in the dropdown is defined. Where is this?

Countries are stored in regions/regisonsdes tables in database.

2) Is there a quick way to make the "download" button appear and link to our
own folder structure?

Not sure, I think you´ll need to use an xslt to change your metadata. But
possibly other people can give more feedback on this.

3) The FAO geonetwork installation has a three panel GUI. Is this something
achievable by modifying xml or xsl files, or does it involve changing the
source code?

You mean to put the recent changes in a right panel i think.

In GN 2.6.X the layout changed a bit, now we are using ExtJS. For sure
should be possible but you´ll need not only to change css, but to modify a
bit the ExtJS layout (see main-page.xsl).

4) ....and final....the Categories on the home GUI can be set to display
icons, how does one set what icon matches which category name?

Check in config-gui.xml file and uncomment in <category> the section

<display-in-search mode="db"/>

That should show the icons for categories. In the file there´s a description
about how works this section with different values

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Jose García

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 5:59 PM, g.molinario@anonymised.com <
g.molinario@anonymised.com> wrote:

Hi All,

I just recently set up a Geonetwork site for my organization, and it worked
well right out of the box. I customised a couple of things in the css and
the config.xml file as well as the string.xml. We imported 240 xml fgdc
metadata files from an old arcims data explorer. All is great, except for a
couple customizations I need to do.

here is the current website:
http://congo.iluci.org:8080/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home
http://congo.iluci.org:8080/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home

I checked the documentation and forum and found no answer to these issues
below:

1) change country list - I cannot find an xml file where the actual list of
countries in the dropdown is defined. Where is this?

2) "download" button for downloadable data associated with metadata files.
We imported 240 files. They have links to their downloadable resources, in
a
web accessible folder. However the "download" button in geonetwork GUI only
works with the data that is uploaded to geonetwork itself and put in it's
folder structure. Is there a quick way to make the "download" button appear
and link to our own folder structure? Is the only quick solution to upload
manually one by one all the 240 data files into the geonetwork data
structure?

3) The FAO geonetwork installation has a three panel GUI. Is this something
achievable by modifying xml or xsl files, or does it involve changing the
source code?

4) ....and final....the Categories on the home GUI can be set to display
icons, how does one set what icon matches which category name? is this a
table in mckoi? if so, do i connect with druid? I could not find any good
documentation on connecting to the DB.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH

Giuseppe

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Hi Jose,

Thanks for the tips!

I have a couple clarifications needed on the suggestions you gave me: see
below

2) Is there a quick way to make the "download" button appear and link to
our
own folder structure?

Not sure, I think you´ll need to use an xslt to change your metadata. But
possibly other people can give more feedback on this.

3) The FAO geonetwork installation has a three panel GUI. Is this
something
achievable by modifying xml or xsl files, or does it involve changing the
source code?

You mean to put the recent changes in a right panel i think.

In GN 2.6.X the layout changed a bit, now we are using ExtJS. For sure
should be possible but you´ll need not only to change css, but to modify a
bit the ExtJS layout (see main-page.xsl).

about 2) - I want to use the same "download" button that already exists
when you upload metadata and data into geonetwork - I just want to make it
go to the "online resource" link, where for my 200+ metadata forms I have
ftp links to where the respective data is. Does this help understand what I
am trying to do?

about 3) - I do want to put the recent changes on the right - I can change
the css, but how do i modify the extjs layout? Also - how do I give the
"recent changes" and "categories" panels a title?

Thanks you very much again,

Giuseppe

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