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VuFind® has a lot of optional features which are not immediately visible. This section of the page provides quick steps for turning on optional features so that you can test and evaluate them. This is intended to be used in combination with VuFind®' | VuFind® has a lot of optional features which are not immediately visible. This section of the page provides quick steps for turning on optional features so that you can test and evaluate them. This is intended to be used in combination with VuFind®' | ||
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+ | ==== Hierarchical Facets ==== | ||
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+ | VuFind® supports indexing data in a specially-formatted way to enable facets to be displayed as a hierarchical tree. The test suite sample data includes a hierarchical facet field which is disabled by default but can be turned on for testing by following these steps: | ||
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+ | - In facets.ini, at the top of the [Results] section, add '' | ||
+ | - Also in facets.ini, in the [SpecialFacets] section, add '' | ||
+ | - Now, in the user interface, you should see the facet tree displayed at the top of the sidebar facets in search results | ||
+ | - To test " | ||
+ | - To test "OR facets" | ||
+ | - To test a hierarchical facet on the home screen, add '' | ||
==== Library Cards ==== | ==== Library Cards ==== | ||
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- Now if you go to the " | - Now if you go to the " | ||
- All other features related to the ILS (holds, fines, etc., etc.) should also display the library card selection control. | - All other features related to the ILS (holds, fines, etc., etc.) should also display the library card selection control. | ||
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+ | ==== Merging Record Data When IDs Change ==== | ||
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+ | VuFind® includes a feature to merge locally-stored data like tags and comments when a service reports that a record' | ||
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+ | When a changed ID is found, an automatic process of reconciling and deduplicating saved data occurs. These steps, combined with data in the default test data, can allow you to confirm that this process works correctly. | ||
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+ | Here are step-by-step instructions (examples assume you are running your test environment at http:// | ||
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+ | - Go to ''< | ||
+ | - Log in to your database on the server and run '' | ||
+ | - Now refresh ''< | ||
+ | - In searches.ini, | ||
+ | - Now go to ''< | ||
+ | - Now you can check that everything merged together correctly -- all of the tags, favorites, comments and notes you created in steps 1 and 3 should be combined together in the record view. | ||
==== Transaction History ==== | ==== Transaction History ==== |
development/testing/manual_testing.txt · Last modified: 2024/04/08 17:27 by demiankatz