Collections page not displaying results

hdace

Our website here:
https://rchsdigitalcollections.epistrophypictures.com
...has been up for almost two months now and things have been going pretty well. There are some header/pages I added that were temporary that I want to update to the preferred method soon, but before that I decided it was time to add some collections.

I have a local test site on my computer and adding collections there works fine. Adding collections to the live web version is not working. Currently the page is not accessed traditionally via the Browse header, but by a new header called: Street View Archives. I don't think this caused the problem, but I could be wrong.

To try to trace the problem, I added "get included files" code to the site index page on both versions of the website. I am listing part of the readout from both versions of the website:

Online version:
home/r95bfzsa66n7voni/public_html/rchsdigitalcollections.epistrophypictures.com/vendor/ezyang/htmlpurifier/library/HTMLPurifier/Node.php
/home/r95bfzsa66n7voni/public_html/rchsdigitalcollections.epistrophypictures.com/vendor/ezyang/htmlpurifier/library/HTMLPurifier/Node/Text.php
/home/r95bfzsa66n7voni/public_html/rchsdigitalcollections.epistrophypictures.com/app/lib/Search/CollectionSearchResult.php
/home/r95bfzsa66n7voni/public_html/rchsdigitalcollections.epistrophypictures.com/app/lib/SearchResultsRepresentableTrait.php
/home/r95bfzsa66n7voni/public_html/rchsdigitalcollections.epistrophypictures.com/themes/default/views/Collections/index_html.php
/home/r95bfzsa66n7voni/public_html/rchsdigitalcollections.epistrophypictures.com/themes/RCHS/views/pageFormat/pageHeader.php
/home/r95bfzsa66n7voni/public_html/rchsdigitalcollections.epistrophypictures.com/themes/RCHS/views/pageFormat/browseMenu.php
/home/r95bfzsa66n7voni/public_html/rchsdigitalcollections.epistrophypictures.com/themes/RCHS/views/pageFormat/pageFooter.php
/home/r95bfzsa66n7voni/public_html/rchsdigitalcollections.epistrophypictures.com/themes/default/views/Cookies/banner_html.php
...end of readout

Local test version:
/opt/homebrew/var/www/ca/pawtucket/vendor/ezyang/htmlpurifier/library/HTMLPurifier/Node.php
/opt/homebrew/var/www/ca/pawtucket/vendor/ezyang/htmlpurifier/library/HTMLPurifier/Node/Text.php
/opt/homebrew/var/www/ca/pawtucket/app/lib/pawtucket/AjaxFooter.php
/opt/homebrew/var/www/ca/pawtucket/app/lib/Controller/AppController/AppControllerPlugin.php
/opt/homebrew/var/www/ca/pawtucket/app/lib/ContentCaching.php
/opt/homebrew/var/www/ca/pawtucket/app/controllers/BrowseController.php
/opt/homebrew/var/www/ca/pawtucket/app/models/ca_collections.php
/opt/homebrew/var/www/ca/pawtucket/app/lib/HistoryTrackingCurrentValueTrait.php
/opt/homebrew/var/www/ca/pawtucket/app/models/ca_history_tracking_current_values.php
/opt/homebrew/var/www/ca/pawtucket/app/models/ca_storage_locations.php
/opt/homebrew/var/www/ca/pawtucket/app/lib/DeaccessionTrait.php
/opt/homebrew/var/www/ca/pawtucket/app/controllers/FindController.php
/opt/homebrew/var/www/ca/pawtucket/app/models/ca_bundle_displays.php
...etcetera...

In the online version, after the html purifier lines, it skips to Collection search result. But in the test version that works correctly, the next line goes to Ajax Footer. Not being a coder, I have not been able to determine why the process for the online version is getting abbreviated.

Any clues how to fix this very much appreciated, thanks!

hdace

Studying the problem further, I've found that my editing of the pageHeader.php may indeed be part of the problem after all, but only part of it.

The default code seems to have two ways to get to a Collections page, via the Browse header, and via a dedicated Collections header. On my test website, if I use the default pageHeader.php code, clicking on Browse, and then clicking the sub-header Collections, goes to a page that does display the correct results, with my new collections.

Clicking on the dedicated Collections header goes to a page that uses the Collections index page but does not display results. I think this is the problem, so now I need to get the default code for the Browse header to get the working Collections page to load instead. I'll report back when I've got that working...

hdace

Okay, I had previously removed the collections code from browse.conf and have now put it back in. Now the collections correctly display when I go there via the Browse header.

What I don't understand is why there is a collections index file and what it is for. I have hijacked it to make a custom page, so it's kind of handy that it's there, but this is all quite confusing. Anyway, sorry for all the palaver!

monica

hdace browse/collections and search/collections are both for searching, filtering and Faceting of search results. Collection/index is for a simple list of collections with its description, this page doesn’t have a search function on it. The collection/index and the finding aid/hierarchical viewer on the collections detail pages is configured with collections.conf

The page you have used the collections page for (contributions), would be better created under About folder. You could also use a site template which you control the content inside providence content management menu ( requires a few more steps to activate this).

seth

The collections controller is an optional add-on for display collection-specific metadata, usually employed to do some version of "finding aids" for archival collections. You don't need to use it unless you know why you're using it.