Working with Collections

From ResourceSpace Documentation Wiki

Work in progress (to copy from Getting Started PDF).

E-mail collections to external users

It is possible to e-mail resources to recipients without a log-in account by entering the recipients e-mail adress into the "E-mail to users..." field.

The key given out is actually against resources, not collections, so if you e-mail a collection then add resources you will need to e-mail the collection again if any new resources have been added. This is for security reasons, i.e. so an external user isn't suddenly being granted access to new resources, even though they haven't been e-mailed them.

Collection Snapshot (Contact Sheet)

In Manage My Collections, you can make a contact sheet of any collection by clicking "contact sheet". This will lay out the thumbnails in a PDF, with the resource ref numbers above each resource. Clicking on any image in the PDF will bring you back to the resource on the website. (requires login)

By default, the PDF is 8.5" x 11" with five thumbnail rows and four columns. In contactsheet.php, you can experiment with customizing the layout by changing the columns, pagewidth and pageheight variables. The script was written to accomodate layout adjustments pretty well. However, by default, all "cells" are square.

Also, by switching the variable contact_sheet_resource to true in config.default.php, the contact sheet will be loaded as a new resource with relations of all the resources in the collection. This is intended to provide a new kind of collection which preserves a particular state of the collection permanently.