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Alphabetical Heading Browse
IMPORTANT: This page refers to features that were added in VuFind 1.1. If you are using an earlier version, you will have to upgrade.
Introduction
The AlphaBrowse module provides a traditional alphabetical heading browse which allows users to see all of the authors, subjects and titles in your collection, including cross-references extracted from authority data.
In order to take advantage of this functionality, you need to add an extra step to your indexing process so that the databases used for heading lookup are correctly generated.
Generating Heading Databases
To build the databases used for heading lookup, you need to run a simple command-line tool.
IMPORTANT: You need to rebuild your headings every time your index is updated in order to keep things in sync.
In Linux
Go to your VuFind directory and run:
./index-alphabetic-browse.sh
If you encounter problems after running the script, you may need to restart VuFind to see the headings. However, in most versions of VuFind, a restart is not necessary.
In Windows
Go to your VuFind directory and run:
index-alphabetic-browse.bat
If you encounter problems after running the script, you may need to restart VuFind to see the headings. However, in most versions of VuFind, a restart is not necessary.
More Information
For more information on this feature, including full documentation and source code for the Solr plug-in that drives it, see the nla-browse-handler project.
