Re: additional fields in Citeline

From: MacKenzie Smith <kenzie_at_MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 13:35:59 -0400

Hi Brendan,
> Is there any way to include additional fields in the main view in
> Citeline? For example show the 'annote' field in addition to the
> abstract?

Short answer: technically yes, the list views can be changed, but since
they're centrally hosted and maintained at MIT for all Citeline users,
we won't change them since that could cause problems for other users.
However if you wanted to do some lightweight programming, you could
create a new template that does exactly what you want then give it to us
to add to Citeline (or run Citeline yourself).

Background: a Citeline list view is determined by a special "template"
HTML file that we store in the Citeline code repository. The template
specifies which bibtext fields will display in what order, etc. These
HTML files have special instructions for Exhibit (part of Citeline) so
creating and editing them requires knowing how Exhibit works. The
template for the "classic" style is publically available in the code
repository here
http://simile.mit.edu/repository/playground/trunk/modules/playground/templates/bibtex-classic/layout.html
and basic doc on them is here
http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Citeline_Developer%27s_Guide#Description_of_a_Citeline_Template

In the distant future we'd like to make a feature that lets users design
their own templates interactively, without knowing Exhibit instructions,
but that's not an option today...

MacKenzie
Received on Mon Oct 05 2009 - 13:35:59 EDT

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