Public Search - Making Object Lot Id's Linkable?

lou-h

I've been trying to tweak this ca_object_lots_search_subview_html.php file that I created in order to make the object lot number (ca_object_lots.idno_stub) linkable to the detail page, but nothing is working. It seems to be an issue with one of the parent functions in the SearchResult.php file, and the fact that our lot IDs are numeric, and these functions turn everything into arrays? If anyone has any experience, I'd love to know!

More context: I'm trying to remove the lot titles from public view, as they contain the donor's name (eg John Doe 2021), and we are trying to remove all public-facing instances of PII. For lots, we ideally just display the id number and description. And as we mostly catalog just on the lot level now, having the description searchable is very important!

Thanks!

monica

You will need to share what you have tried so far.

darrigan

Hi lou-h,
Do you want 1) to display a detailed page for lots, related to objects?
or 2) just some metadata concerning a lot in the detailed page of an object related to this lot?

The second option seems quite simple to me. You have to insert this code somewhere in ca_objects_default_html.php:

<!-- Display related lots -->
{{{<ifcount code="ca_object_lots" min="1"><h6>Related lot:</h6> </ifcount>}}}
{{{<unit relativeTo="ca_object_lots">^ca_object_lots.idno_stub <br/> ^ca_object_lots.description</unit>}}}

The "title" of the lot can be inserted in same way with: ^ca_object_lots.preferred_labels (but I understood you don't want it).
Don't forget to set the access to "public" for lots you want to display.
Flush the cache (tmp files) and try.

Regards,
Clovis.

darrigan

Hi again,
Sorry, I read again and I understand you want lots to be searchable...

Could you share your ca_object_lots_search_subview_html.php file?

Did you modify also the themes/your_theme/conf/search.conf file? You should have a block like:

	object_lots = {
		displayName = _(Lots),
		table = ca_object_lots,
		restrictToTypes = [],
		view = Search/ca_object_lots_search_subview_html.php,
		itemsPerPage = 10,
		# --- sortControlType = dropdown or list
		sortControlType = list,
		sortBy = {
			ID = ca_object_lots.idno_stub,
		},
		sortDirection = {
			ID = asc,
		}
	},

And if you want to display a detailed page for lots, you must have (or create) also a themes/your_theme/views/Details/ca_object_lots_default_html.php file containing how to display the metadata you want.

I made an example. Visit my web site: https://collections.univ-pau.fr (it is in french...) --> in the search box (top right) search for "2022". You will have a list of results (objects, lots, peoples, places, events). In "Lots", there is only 1 lot called "2022 SET". (I made it public just for this example.)
If you click on "2022 SET", you will see the detailed page for this lot: title, description, and related collections, objects, places... If you click on an object, you'll have its detailed page and, at the bottom, a link to related lots ("Lot en relation :")