203B001 Additional instructions for installing the Java Virtual Machine would be useful NCSI, Indian Institute of Science & University of Dakar Linux 2.1 Fixed Include more comments when installer/GLI detects incorrect JVM 203B002 Additional instructions about any differences in use of JSDK and JVM (JRE) could also be useful NCSI, Indian Institute of Science Linux 2.1 Fixed Should be no difference between JRE and JSDK, except when compiling, where-upon GLI compile script provides further information 203B003 Got several error (warning) messages related to a few classifiers (e.g. Phind) and plugins (e.g. ConvertToPlug) during new collection creation step (first time only) NCSI, Indian Institute of Science Win98, WinXP 3.1 Fixed Errors when parsing valid arguments for scripts metioned. Attempt to fix errors plus make parser/error detection more robust 203B004 It might be useful to say in the tutorial that the user has to enter the metadata content, either by opening the individual html pages or doing copy/paste using the metadata.xml file available in the import folder of dls collection on CD-ROM NCSI, Indian Institute of Science Linux, Win98, WinXP 3.2 Fixed (16-10-03) Metadata importing should have happened automatically. To investigate further.
Tracked down an error in ElementWrapper that was causing a NPE when attempting to import metadata with files - but only if you hadn't based your collection on a previous one. Its possible that is what was causing the problem/confusion here 203B005 Could not convert one Word Doc file (taken from WORDPDF collection) to HTML NCSI, Indian Institute of Science Linux 4a Nothing to do Get someone on the Greenstone side of things to search for newer version of word->pdf conversion library (word3.doc) 203B006 Collection built with warning on DC.Subject field (indexing fails). Search and browse on DC.Subject fails NCSI, Indian Institute of Science Linux, Win98, WinXP 4b & 4c Fixed 11-08-2003 Known bug. Ensure correct string being written to metadata.xml - "dc.Subject" rather than "dc.Subject and Keywords" 203B007 For a new collection for which the user does not use any existing collection as model, 'extracted Greenstone metadata' (extract.mds) can be shown as the default metadata NCSI, Indian Institute of Science Unknown 6 Fixed 11-08-2003 Extracted metadata set should be automatically included in all collections, with the user being given the ability to view/hide it. Warnings should be given to the user if hidden extracted metadata exists 203B008 Collection deletion: When a collection is deleted, its name continues to appear under 'Greenstone collections' until the Librarian Interface is closed and started again NCSI, Indian Institute of Science Unknown 6 Fixed 11-08-2003 Programatic refresh of 'Greenstone Collections' folder 203B009 Enrich step: Metadata: Support for defining subfields (e.g. 'first name, middle name, and last name' for creator, 'organization, place, country' for publisher), and adding data to these subfields will be required NCSI, Indian Institute of Science Unknown 6 Fixed 18-08-2003 Current metadata set schema easily extended to include subfields - complete. You can now add elements within other elements. A GUI representation more difficult - a Tree/Table hybrid is being considered. 203B010 Enrich step: Associate help instructions with each metadata element which can be viewed by content staff, if in doubt about format, etc. These help instructions can be added by the user in the metadata set edit facility NCSI, Indian Institute of Science Unknown 6 Fixed 11-08-2003 Show popup tooltips over appropriate row in metadata table 203B011 How do I import metadata of an existing collection, whose metadata files were created using Organizer or through some other means (e.g. by exporting from cds/isis database in the format required by Greenstone DTD) - batch mode support for processing 'metadata.xml', and associated '.txt' files will be very useful. This is particularly essential if I wish to add new records to such collections using GLI NCSI, Indian Institute of Science Unknown 6 Nothing to do Same as 203B004 - Import metadata error 203B012 Design step - 'indexes': The top help window 'index selection' instructions need more clarity. Functionality of the two columns 'Build index on' and 'Assigned indexes' is not made clear NCSI, Indian Institute of Science Unknown 6 Fixed 11-08-2003 The indexes design view has now be changed to be consistant with other views (including the index view for mgpp type indexes) 203B013 Design step: General: 'URL to about page icon' and 'URL to home page icon' - instructions as to what or how this URL should be constructed should be mentioned. No instructions are given now NCSI, Indian Institute of Science Unknown 6 Fixed Tooltips added over these fields 203B014 Design step. How do we handle 'phind' classifiers and 'acronym' indexes? NCSI, Indian Institute of Science Unknown 6 Fixed Phind works just like a normal plugin. Acronym metadata is extracted at build time (ie GLI doesn't know about it before then) so you can either type the name of the extracted metadata into the appropriate index/classifier before the build, or build the collection once whereapon the extracted metadata will subsequently be available where-ever metadata is applicable 203B015 Design step: How do we associate appropriate images with classify buttons? NCSI, Indian Institute of Science Unknown 6 Nothing to do Such detail is specified in the macro files, which GLI doesn't edit. 203B016 Design step: (Indexes, Plug-ins, Classifiers and Format features). These are the most important aspects of GSDL. I think it is very important that the online help should either point to relevant sections in the user/developer manual or better still has feature-specific help files in PDF format (e.g. 'classifier-help.pdf') which can be linked from within the related online help screens. These PDF help files can contain greater details, including examples NCSI, Indian Institute of Science Unknown 6 Fixed References to Greenstone manuals added to online help content 203B017 Format changes (Design step) and Preview. Effects of changes made in format strings cannot be viewed immediately in Preview step, even after 'Reload' NCSI, Indian Institute of Science Unknown 6 Fixed 21-08-2003 bug#1 Format commands not always updated after change. Redesign format view to be like other views. bug#2 if local library server used, format commands only processed once when server.exe run. Actions added to allow external callers to force collection refresh/reload 203F018 Default 'vlist' format. This should be shown in the 'edit format string' box. This will help in modifying it as per user requirement NCSI, Indian Institute of Science Unknown 6 Fixed - 22-10-03 Default strings for all features to be added by way of a combobox containing currently/commonly used format strings
Turns out that one multipurpose default format string can be used. Added 'Use Default Format' button to format manager which becomes active when a part is selected that has a default format string available 203F019 Create step - import and build options - is the user expected to fill all these boxes (e.g. archivedir) or does the system take default values (and what are these) - this is not made clear. Best if these boxes are shown with default values NCSI, Indian Institute of Science Unknown 6 Pending Such options to be hidden from normal 'Librarian'-level users 203B020 Create/collection building. If a metadata field has data with "" (double quotes), we get the error message like "gimport\metadata.xml is not a well formed metadata.xml file ( import.pl> not well-formed at line 11, column 135, byte 788 at C:/Program Files/gsdl/bin/windows/perl/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 168", and collection building aborts. After removing these characters from the input collection, collection building went through alright. Earlier I had faced (with previous beta version) similar problem with single quote character NCSI, Indian Institute of Science Unknown 6 Fixed 21-08-2003 Ensure UNICode compliance. Replace " with " where necessary 203B021 Can we delete specific records from a collection, after it is built, without rebuilding the entire collection? It appears this is not possible. An additional step 'Modify' or 'maintain' in support of this feature will be very useful NCSI, Indian Institute of Science Unknown 6 Nothing to do Currently not possible with Greenstone. 203B022 Metadata set: If I modify a metadata set (e.g. DC - by dropping an element or adding a new element) while working on a collection, does the modified metadata set gets associated to only this collection or will be applicable to all future collections that use this set? NCSI, Indian Institute of Science Unknown 6 Fixed Issue clarified in online help: imported sets are specific to a collection. Other collections can import these edited sets, causing a merging process. 203B023 Metadata set: How do attributes of a metadata field work? Do they serve the purpose of subfields? NCSI, Indian Institute of Science Unknown 6 Nothing to do Only one attribute, namespace, is widely used. Other attributes are used during set merging. They are not subfields. 203B024 Can I add into a metadata set values associated with a field, ahead of collection building, and use this during metadata assignment? For example, hierarchical classification or a set of keywords? It appears this has to be built on the fly in GLI, during metadata addition in 'enrich' step NCSI, Indian Institute of Science Unknown 6 Fixed Values can be predefined in Metadata Set Editor. Preferred method for building hierarchies. Clarify in online help 203B025 If I modify a metadata set (e.g. DC) and adopt it for a new collection, how does this affect previous collections built using earlier version of the metadata set? Is the collection builder expected to save modified metadata sets as new metadata sets, specific to the collection? This is fine (and probably should be so), but GLI documentation needs to make this clear NCSI, Indian Institute of Science Unknown 6 Fixed Online help clarified: each collection gets its own copy of the sets. Same as 203B022 - Editing metadata sets. 203B026 Functionality of top menu options (file, edit, metadata sets) and bottom right icons may be briefly explained in the 'Introduction' section. Mouse over tip help will be useful for the bottom right icons NCSI, Indian Institute of Science Unknown 5 Fixed Adding suggested information to help. Tooltips also being added
Tooltips complete. Section on basic functionality removed from help documents due to translation constraints 203F027 It will be helpful if provision is given to enlarge the font size of text in online help screens - we cannot control this as of now. Also support for printing the help pages will be useful NCSI, Indian Institute of Science Unknown 5 Nothing To Do Not supported by current HTML renderer. Investigating other renderers 203B028 Pointers to relevant sections in user manuals will be useful NCSI, Indian Institute of Science Unknown 5 Fixed Online help has been simplified, shortened and now has references to other Greenstone manuals. 203B029 Have home folder available in workspace tree NZDL Linux, Win98, WinXP NA Fixed 22-08-2003 OK 203F030 Have separate GLI configs for each user, possibly stored in home folder NZDL Linux, Win98, WinXP NA Pending -- High priority OK
Unix systems (Linux, Mac) are done. Windows systems are a bit harder as user.home isn't always set to something reasonable. 203B031 After importing documents which should have extracted metadata, no new metadata is available NZDL Linux, Win98, WinXP NA Fixed Error in archive parser 203B032 When importing files, despite available handwritten metadata.xml files, no metadata is being imported. These files are not part of a collection NZDL Linux, Win98, WinXP NA Fixed Error in metadata.xml parser meant that only files from collections had their metadata imported 203F033 I use GLI to open an existing collection (which I made using buildcol.pl, etc). It gives me a really nice error message with clear instructions on what to do ... start a new collection based on this collection, then import .... Unfortunately when I follow those instructions I get a menu of collections to base my collection on, and the collection I want doesn't appear in that menu! Only a few of my collections appear there, I think just the ones that have been built with GLI. NZDL Linux, Win98, WinXP NA Fixed -- legacy collection support implemented Proper support for legacy collections planned. Interim solution only works for dls and demo collection. Message now changed to say that legacy support is on its way 203B034 When I click the Build button in the Create panel, there's a long wait (a few seconds on my machine) before anything happens in the "Import Progress" bar. You should colour in a little bit of the bar right away, to give the impression that something's going on NZDL Linux, Win98, WinXP NA Fixed Suggested solution implemented: a small amount of the bar is filled in immediately. 203B035 I tested the Gatherer with the patch in place. It worked great using 10, 100 and 1000 docs, but when I tested it using 5300 docs the build froze and the error message "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError" came up SADL Linux, Win98, WinXP NA Fixed 'Memory Hog' document model replaced with file based version 203B036 Having Created my collection, I now realize i should have imported extracted.mds, so I do so. But I have to create the collection all over again to see the extracted metadata. Could you make it so that it appears *immediately*, rather than me having to create the same collection again? NZDL Linux, Win98, WinXP NA Fixed Viewing extracted metadata is now controlled by a checkbox in the Preferences panel. See also 203B007 - Extracted metadata should be available by default. 203F037 I'm looking at a file selection box where the directory has only a few files -- e.g. import metadata, only four files -- and the bottom of the file selection box (where the fifth filename would go, if there were one) is *white*. Wouldn't it look better if it were light green instead? NZDL Mac NA Pending Research GUI differences between MacOS and other systems 203B038 GLI installer says I need JVM 1.4 or better, but I can't install it on my computer NZDL Win95 NA Nothing to do Java 1.4 not supported for Win95 203B039 We keep having problems with stray lock files. GLI crapped out entirely when we try to steal the lock, it just exited without leaving a message or a trace SADL Linux, Win98, WinXP NA Fixed 16-10-2003 Error checking increased. Also make the area for the warning message a little larger (made it a textarea rather than a label). Tried several combinations of things (ie missing col file, corrupt lock file) and it didn't 'crap out completely' 203F040 The "extracted" metadata set shouldn't default to the four elements Encoding, Language, Source, Title, but just to Source which all plugins should provide NZDL Linux, Win98, WinXP NA Nothing to do Many of the default greenstone settings depend on Encoding, Language, Source and Title metadata elements, so it makes sense for them to be available during the design stage before the first build. Other extracted metadata becomes apparent after that 203F041 Including the HTML as part of the metadata value (i.e. srclink, /srclink, srcicon, thumbicon), which is cool for simplifying format statements, is uncool for anyone looking at metadata values. You can't scroll horizontally to find out the real values. NZDL Linux, Win98, WinXP NA Fixed 22-10-03 Include 'expand text' button for extracted metadata. Investigate other methods for displaying HTML based information
Expand text button in place 203B042 PDF documents are not looking so good ITProvision Win98 4a Nothing to do See 203B005 - Error converting word documents 203F043 More options on right-click (such as copy, cut, paste etc.) would be very useful ITProvision Win98, Win2000 6 Pending OK
Added expand and collapse to menu 203F044 When in Enrich or Gather panel, the up and down arrow buttons have no function ITProvision Linux, Win98, Win2000 6 Pending Keyboard support being added for trees and tables (including the ability to tab in and out of tables) 203F045 When filtering to show only xml files, the "metadata.xml" file does not appear ITProvision Win98, Win2000 6 Nothing to do Hidden on purpose. 203F046 A StatusBar would be very useful. It could show the number of files selected, the total number of documents in the collection etc ITProvision Win98, Win2000 6 Pending Restore status bar to file status area 203B047 When erasing a collection, the text "**title**" appears between other collections and not at the beginning as it should be ITProvision Linux, Win98, Win2000 6 Fixed Model collection shouldn't be available for deletion. Now hidden. 203B048 When creating a collection from "Development Library Subset (DLS)" collection, the section:dls.Title index is written in Spanish (titulos de las secciones) ITProvision Win98, Win2000 6 Fixed 16-10-2003 Fixed during the recoding of the languages part of the design manager 203B049 Gather: when you try to access the floppy-drive without having a floppy disk inserted, and then modify the "show files" option, the program tries to access the floppy-drive ITProvision Win98, Win2000 6 Nothing to do Quirk of Java interacting with Windows file system 203B050 Gather: when importing documents with previously assigned metadata (ex: Subject, Organization and AZList) the program creates only dc.Subject.txt and not also dc.Organization.txt dc.AZList.txt. These ones must be created manually or with Organizer, otherwise hierarchical classification doesn't work ITProvision Win98, Win2000 6 Fixed - 22-10-03 Ensure GLI correctly detects when it needs to produce hfiles
Elements in metadata sets can now be told if they are to generate hfiles as necessary, however of the three mentioned above only AZList was a bug. Organization has a flat structure so doesn't really need a Hierarchy classifier (a AZCompactList would do) 203F051 Gather: elements from "Select element" list from "Imported Metadata" popup should be sorted ITProvision Win98, Win2000 6 Fixed 22-10-2003 Will show elements in standard ordering according to metadata set (as for metadata table) 203B052 Enrich: there seems to be a problem with the refreshing of information. Sometimes the files that has been erased still appears as a part of the collection ITProvision Win98 6 Fixed Implement more error checking, and ensure all files, including metadata.xml, deleted properly (difficult under Windows where file locks can exist). 203B053 Enrich: there is a problem with Dublin Core metadata set: the Subject element appears like dc.Subject in Enrich panel, but when editing the set it appears "dc.Subjects and Keywords" which caused the classifiers based on this metadata element not to build ITProvision Win98, Win2000 6 Fixed Same as 203B006 - Collection failing to build on dc.Subject 203B054 Design: when trying to insert a format for DocumentArrowsButtons, and previously inserted a format for VList, then the format will be "format DocumentArrowsButtonsVList """ ITProvision Win98, Win2000 6 Fixed (16-10-03) Ensure that selecting a fixed feature clears component selection and adjusts output state appropriately
It was, the problem lay in trying to change the gui from within the EventThread again - SwingUtilities to the rescue. 203B055 Design: when specifying the indexes, there should be a warning, something like "Please specify a default index" ITProvision Win98, Win2000 6 Fixed (16-10-03) First index should be the default if none other is selected.
Fixed as part of the redesign of the indexes page 203B056 Design: using -default_encoding on HTMLPlug cause an error on import ITProvision Win98, Win2000 6 Nothing to do Outside the scope of the GLI. Added to GSDL "to do" list, for further investigation. 203B057 Design: when specifying the -h_file for Hierarchy classifier it should be best to be able to select it from a list ITProvision Win98, Win2000 6 Nothing to do Desired hfile may not exist yet (created on save), so unsure as to how combobox/list would help as GLI only knows one possible filename: .txt 203B058 Create: the Build/Import bar progresses incorrectly ITProvision Win98, Win2000 6 Fixed 27-08-2003 GLI now splits the progress bar on the number of documents in the collection, rather than the number of folders in the collection. This results in more accurate progress measurement. 203B059 Preview: if a book has no content, then when pressing "Expand contents" button instead of contents (in this case nothing) the classifiers as links will appear ITProvision Win98, Win2000 6 Nothing to do Bug in Greenstone 203B060 Preview: highlighting doesn't work ITProvision Win98, Win2000 6 Nothing to do Nor will copy and paste. Limitation of current HTML renderer; see also 203B027 - Change font size
Preview tab disabled 203B061 Preview: documents encoded Utf-8 displays incorrectly (see for example Russian documents), even at preferences I set Utf-8 ITProvision Linux, Win98, Win2000 6 Nothing to do Possible current Java installation missing font, or perhaps drawback of HTML renderer; see above 203B060 - Highlighting doesn't work
Preview tab disabled 203F062 It would be best if there were possible to search through "Help" pages and it would be very useful to have an "Index" on Help pages ITProvision Linux, Win98, Win2000 5 Pending Build Greenstone collection on help documentation 203B063 Need to define JAVAHOME. The installation should write the path to "JAVAHOME" to Gatherer script or should write the variable name, ex. $JAVAHOME/bin/java ITProvision Linux 2.1 Fixed Install proceedure changed 203B064 Show allow to specify where to find java binary ITProvision Linux 2.6 Fixed Functionality provided by JAVAHOME; see 203B063 - Define JAVAHOME 203B065 DLS: do not print anything and is eating my processor. Building "Development Library Subset (DLS)" collection: the import progress bar is full but he do not print anything and is running. ITProvision Linux 3.1 Fixed 25-10-2003 Caused by same failed equals check which prevents DLS collections importing metadata under certain conditions 203B066 The build process failed if I have delete the index directory. Should check and create if it do not exist ITProvision Linux 6 Fixed 28-10-2003 OK
Turned out one of the debug statements would NPE if index didn't exist. 203B067 After the program tells me that it has failed to copy files to index, it is recommending me to preview the collection ITProvision Linux 6 Fixed 24-11-2003 Ensure consistancy between message during import/build
Now a failure in installCollection() will result in a collection preview unavailable message, rather than a collection successful message 203B068 "Cancel build" makes program return, but it is still working in the background ITProvision Linux 6 Nothing to do Quirk of java, unable to truely 'kill' external processes. All I can do is ask that it ends as soon as possible. 203B069 The GSDL software has installed selecting the spanish language. Suggestion: translate the options in the language select CAC Information Center (CACCI) Linux, WinME, Win2000 6 Nothing to do Correct install shield package 203B070 In the case with the CD-ROM delivered by UNESCO: In the folder, please change "Conjunto de programas informáticos para crear y distribuir bibliotecas" to "Conjunto de programas informáticos para crear y distribuir bibliotecas digitales". In the brochure, please change "espagñol" to "español" CAC Information Center (CACCI) Linux, WinME, Win2000 6 Nothing to do UNESCO to amend 203B071 In the Home of GSDL, "The Collector", "Administration", "Greenstone" and "Documentation" icons are in English. In the Search Page, the indexes say "text", "titles", "filenames", in English too. The remainding text is in Spanish CAC Information Center (CACCI) Linux, WinME, Win2000 6 Nothing to do Icons fixed by changing preferences. Text fragments for text, titles etc can be entered via the translation module in the design view 203B072 In the build collection stage, when the GSDL is importing and building the collection, the messages appear in English CAC Information Center (CACCI) Linux, WinME, Win2000 6 Nothing to do Makecol, import and build scripts are all being modified to allow the language of messages to be specified. (Outside the scope of the GLI). 203B073 In the summary of the collection build the titles are in Spanish but the text is in English CAC Information Center (CACCI) Linux, WinME, Win2000 6 Fixed 06-01-04 All plugins and classifiers are being made multilingual. Thus GLI can call a plugin asking it to display output in a certain language. This will of course prompt a rewrite of the way GLI tracks progress (as it searches for certain English sentinel values).
GLI now looks for non-language specific sentinel values in the script outputs, and thus the output themselves can now be made multilingual. 203B074 In the description of collection, don't show tildes (áéíóúÁÉÍÓÚ), letters of the spanish alphabeth (ñÑ), and their own simbols (¿¡ open question and open exclamation) and the "cedilla" character (Çç). The same occurs in the name of collection, the filenames of the source documents, metadata names and values, etc. When any of this characters are included in metadata names or values, an error occurs CAC Information Center (CACCI) Linux, WinME, Win2000 6 Fixed 21-08-07 Unsure unicode compliance when entering values and when writing value to file. Discovered that while DOM was being serialized (turned to a String) in UTF-8 the actual file writer stream was not. While I can't type cedilla (for example) using my keyboard, you can now type in unicode characters using the html standard (ie little cedilla is "ç") or unicode standard (again little cedilla "\u00e7"), and they will be recognized as their UTF8 character. 203B075 When the "Nombre de Fichero" (filename) classifier are selected, the icon reduces its size considerably CAC Information Center (CACCI) Linux, WinME, Win2000 6 Nothing to do Greenstone Spanish macrofile does not contain correct image width. 203B076 In the "Acerca de" (About) say "document(s)" instead of "documento(s)" CAC Information Center (CACCI) Linux, WinME, Win2000 6 Nothing to do Default text from DLS 203B077 Error detecting GSDLHOME. CAC Information Center (CACCI) Linux, WinME, Win2000 2.1 Fixed Installation revised to be more reliable and stable. 203F078 Error detecting version of Java if the Virtual Machine is other than Sun (tested with Kaffe Virtual Machine). CAC Information Center (CACCI) Linux, WinME, Win2000 2.1 Nothing To Do Add tests for correct JVM. Test under other JVM's
Impossible to know everyones system setup 203B079 Write a line saying "perl: /usr/bin/perl", (location of Perl). Suggestion: include another for Java or remove this CAC Information Center (CACCI) Linux, WinME, Win2000 2.1 Fixed Suggestion solution implemented. 203B080 Page 5: In Unix, the name for the GLI executable is "Gatherer" not "librarian". Suggestion:.: add "./Gatherer" CAC Information Center (CACCI) Linux, WinME, Win2000 2.3 Fixed Changed executable name to gli, edit documentation 203B081 In Debian Woody 3.0r1 have a library problem. The GLI requires a "libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2" that does not exist. Our solution: symbolic link to libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 provided CAC Information Center (CACCI) Linux 2.4, WinME, Win2000 Nothing to do Assume this unique to CACCI computers due to their setup 203B082 Install into GSDL hierarchy, or give an option to select the install directory. Suggestion: include default options with the same paths of GDSL installation process CAC Information Center (CACCI) Linux 2.6, WinME, Win2000 Fixed GLI now installed as part of GSDL file hierarchy. 203B083 In some opportunities, in Debian, when going into the hierarchy, the screen goes white (without text) but it says "Ready". Moving the mouse on the screen can detect (and goes in) links for closing the hierarchy, the search and other classifiers CAC Information Center (CACCI) Linux 4c6 Fixed Most likely a repeat of 203B006 - Search and browse on dc.Subject fail, but with a different 'symptom' under Debian 203B084 If one made mistakes in contructing the index, classifier, etc. When the Preview is launched a warning msg appears CAC Information Center (CACCI) Win2000 4c4 Fixed 24-11-2003 Possibly a repeat of 203B006 - Search and browse on dc.Subject fail. Increase error checking when designing collection
I now believe that this is the 'one failed index causes entire collection to become unusable' problem. This is causes by something with a two pass build failing in the first pass, the second pass subsequently killing the entire build because it can't find files that were meant to be generated by the first. 203B084 Yes, but the Developer's guide was needed too, for more information about plugin, classifiers, etc CAC Information Center (CACCI) Win2000 4c4 Fixed See 203B016 - References to Greenstone Manuals 203B085 If metadata with more than one word in its name is added, for instance inis.publication year, a file fail.txt is created in C:\program files\gsdl\collect\inis15\etc., if you try to contruct a hierarchy based on this metadata. No problem occurs if one assign the metadata name in this way: inis.publication_year CAC Information Center (CACCI) Win2000 4d3 & 4d4 Fixed Similar problem to 203B006 - Search and browse on dc.Subject fail, however here solution is to restrict metadata element names to non-whitespace strings
NonWhitespaceField used 203B086 If a tilde is included in the metadata name, by instance: Título, an error occurs, and the collection is not built. See Annex III for the error msg. The same happens if a tilde is included in the metadata value. By instance Una excursión por la Patagonia as a value in: inis.title CAC Information Center (CACCI) Win2000 4e3 Fixed Should work. See 203B074 - UNICode compliance
Values for metadata are unicode compliant. Difficulty occurs when metadata names are unicode as Greenstone build scripts fail to correctly match such metadata to the requested classifiers. Investigate ways to correctly match unicode metadata names.
While the import script appears to work fine, the build process (presumably somewhere in mg_passes) is not finding any metadata for unicode character metadata names
The problemw as more to do with the fact that GLI was outputing the unicode character in two subtlely different encodings (which wasn't apparent under the text editor I was using). Now the metadata.xml and collect.cfg use UTF-8 encoding and it all works. 203B087 Information about constructing collections in other languague is needed (for instance warning about actual problems of the software) CAC Information Center (CACCI) Win2000 4e3 Nothing to do Problems with the software will be fixed, so constructing collections in other languages should be easy. May include information about how to add unicode fonts to Java.
Adding fonts turns out to be a bit of a mission, and definately not for the novice or non-admin user. In fact there is no single unicode compliant font - and it seems to be quite a mission in extension forethought and massochism to develop one. I think I'll mention it in passing in a accompanying faq. I was also kicking around the idea of auto-loading any 'java' font found in a specified font folder, and then testing for each string being displayed whether it can be shown using the current, or some other available font. However this could be complex and slow with very little reward. Everyone should just learn to write English as good as I do... hmm as well as. Like, whatever. 203B088 When it has a previous version for 1.4 for Java, the installer says "Setup failed to locate your greenstone installation. Installation of this soft will proceed but will not be functional until Greenstone is installed correctly and the path to your greenstone installation is entered correctly in the C:\Archivos de programa\GLI\Gatherer.bat file" (The installation of GSDL is the default. The GSDL program it's on-line if accessed by web browser. The collector runs correctly too). Then it shows the next messages (correctly): "Set up failed to locate an appropriate version of the Java Runtime Environment on your computer. Before installing this software you must install version 1.4 or a version newer than the JRE. You can download the JRE from http..." CAC Information Center (CACCI) Win2000 2.4 Fixed Scripts are now a bit smarter when looking for Java. 203B089 When distributing this software in CD-ROM, provide all the software needed for its use CAC Information Center (CACCI) Win2000 2.4 Fixed Provision has already been made to bundle in a JVM for Windows. Linux and MacOS are more problematic 203B090 The icons of the collection are not shown CAC Information Center (CACCI) WinME 4a4 Fixed 24-11-2003 To investigate further.
Make selecting icons easier, especially crazy icons relative to _httpcollection_
Browse buttons have now been added for selecting images - which automatically handles collection relative paths, although it does this by always copying the image to the images folder of your collection 203F091 There continuously appear blank screens (running a process) until the collection is built CAC Information Center (CACCI) WinME 4a5 Pending Caused by calling PERL scripts from shell. Write intermediate program to set correct Windows executable flags 203B092 In some opportunities, the collection with the changes realized is not shown, but in the web browser, the changes appear CAC Information Center (CACCI) WinME 4a6 Fixed Similar to 203B017 - Format changes not immediately viewable
Cases where leaving Format design do not release collection properly fixed 203B093 In Win 2000, if a screen saver is installed, the Gatherer is closed CAC Information Center (CACCI) Win2000 6 Nothing to do Caused by clash between DirectX drivers, the computer's 3D Graphics card and any java graphical application. Try adding this -D command to the line at end of the gli.bat/gli.sh file like so: java -Dsun.java2d.nodraw=true -cp classes/;GLI.jar;lib/apache.jar;lib/calpa.jar;lib/jp.jar. Should perhaps have a GLI 'safe-mode' launcher which prevents screensaver (pif)?
Can't set 'disable screensaver' from InstallShield7, nor can I supply a generic, windows-version independant, pif. Sounds like the sort of thing that should be provided in a faq, and then never thought of again. 203B094 If one make a mistake in the name of a metadata when the Edit Metadata Set facility is used, there is no way to correct the mistake (no edit button for "elements"). The only possibility is to remove the element and create a new one. One could only edit attributtes and values CAC Information Center (CACCI) Linux, WinME, Win2000 6 Nothing to do Investigation showed that it is much easier to leave names non-editable - instead edit identifier 203F095 It would be useful for Greenstone to support record-sharing using the OAI (Open Archives Initiative) protocol for metadata harvesting. (As far as we know, one could only harvest through the Web using the ImportFrom feature) CAC Information Center (CACCI) Linux, WinME, Win2000 6 Pending OAI PlugIn available. Investigate how to integrate into GLI 203B096 In the "Advanced" filters for the visualization of metadata asigned, what is the syntax for this? (the standard "a*" for all that starting with "a" don't work, and the "*" as default tempt us for this) CAC Information Center (CACCI) Linux, WinME, Win2000 6 Fixed 13-08-2003 Discovered filters not using pattern matching at all. Current pattern matching only allows exact matches, whereas a is less than, is greater than etc is needed. Replaced regular expression matching with custom string matcher. Works well for examples like "equal to a*" or "less than */2003", but has interesting behaviour when matching filters set as "b*y"; "bay" and "boy" are equal, "bee" and "bus" are less than while "buz" is greater than 203B097 Suggestion: There are not tool that checks if all metadata are given for all documents of an category. This is very useful tool. A button may be added for this function in the "Metadata Set Review" of the "Design" stage CAC Information Center (CACCI) Linux, WinME, Win2000 6 Nothing to do Functionality provided by using filtering methods of 'View All Assigned Metadata' (when they work properly) 203B098 Gather:In the "Gather" step, in the right panel, when right-click is done over a document without selecting it (without documents selected), there appears the "Delete" option but clicking on it don't produces any action (don't delete any document) CAC Information Center (CACCI) Linux, WinME, Win2000 6 Fixed Ensure that only valid options are available in the right click menu 203B099 Design: When a hierarchy classifier has been added, a metadata is selected by default, with its corresponding .txt of classification. If this metadata is changed, the file does not change accordingly. This can be confusing and may require a brief explanation CAC Information Center (CACCI) Linux, WinME, Win2000 6 Fixed As element can no longer change names this bug has dissapated like evil murky fog in the harsh light of day 203B100 Create: When a collection without documents is built, the GLI does not warn this. The progress bar runs from one extreme to another continuously CAC Information Center (CACCI) Linux, WinME, Win2000 6 Fixed See 203B058 - Import/Build progress bar incorrect
Building empty collections currently always fails in buildcol.pl - however once the little or no text issue is fixed you will be able to build empty collections to your little hearts content 203B101 Preview: In the "Preview" stage, the accents, letters and symbols of the Spanish alphabet are not shown CAC Information Center (CACCI) Linux, WinME, Win2000 6 Nothing to do See 203B061 - UTF8 displays incorrectly. Limitation of renderer
Preview tab disabled 203F102 For enrichment: validation tools CAC Information Center (CACCI) Linux, WinME, Win2000 6 Pending A number of add-in modules are already being planned for GLI 203B103 The use of " and ' commas in the same line (in help documents) a bit confusing. It is not necessary to include double commas in all the lines. Suggestion: remove the double commas in all lines CAC Information Center (CACCI) Linux, WinME, Win2000 5 Fixed OK. See 203B028 - Modify online help 203F104 It would useful to have the possibility to print the online help text as a PDF file CAC Information Center (CACCI) Linux, WinME, Win2000 5 Fixed A PDF version will be provided once the help text is finalized. 203F105 Suggestion: make a complete example, including, and explaining all stages CAC Information Center (CACCI) Linux, WinME, Win2000 5 Fixed There is already one quick tutorial available, with another on image collections half complete. Further tutorials could be produced around specific features/requirements/problems
The demonstration collections are to be rebuilt in GLI
Several different example collections created including a 'template' image collection 203F106 Apart from having a chapter in the User's Manual, perhaps it would be practical to have a separate manual for the Gatherer CAC Information Center (CACCI) Linux, WinME, Win2000 5 Fixed A PDF version of the online help may provide this. 203F107 Maybe the PDF version of its online help enriched with a lots of examples and a possible e-learning package or tutorial as a complement CAC Information Center (CACCI) Linux, WinME, Win2000 5 Pending See 203B104 - PDF version of online help & 203B105 - Tutorials. An e-learning package sounds intriguing 203B108 The local library server doesn't open minimized, and then GLI complains about it not responding NZDL Win* NA Fixed 20-11-2003 Due to gsdlsite.cfg file not existing yet (server.exe must be run at least once). GLI script should check that the gsdlsite.cfg file exists before starting.
Server.exe has been modified, and is now run once by the install program to create the necessary config file 203B109 If the GSDL missing, then the same warning message appears twice (one time it's gray, the other green) NZDL All NA Fixed Checking for GSDL is now done at the script level, before the GLI starts. 203B110 If some error occurs while opening a collection, the title bar says "Error" even after a collection has been successfully opened NZDL All NA Fixed 24-11-2003 Ensure collection changes correctly update title bar
Problem is collection hasn't opened successfully. Prevent areas becoming enabled when they shouldn't have
GLI now correctly determines when a collection has failed to open, and uder the particular circumstances that lead to the above error (a missing or corrupt collect.cfg file) not only doesn't partially load the collection, but also provides a more helpful error message explaining what has gone wrong 203B111 The purpose of the different parts of the design view is not clear ie Classifiers -> Ways to browse collection NZDL All NA Fixed Rename sections to be more understandable. Names chosen contain both a generally familiar idea (i.e. Browsing) and an idea specific to Greenstone (i.e. Classifiers) 203B112 Open collection dialog is overly complex for the average user NZDL All NA Fixed 22-08-2003 Replaced typical open dialog with simplier one showing only installed collections. Current file dialog is accessible via a "Browse" button. 203B113 Custom filters aren't being stored during a session NZDL All NA Fixed 22-08-2003 Fix custom filter code 203B114 Neither the metaedit table, nor the metadata sets details in the design view, update after a new metadata set has been imported NZDL All NA Fixed 18-08-2003 Wasn't firing appropriate event 203B115 Please add an 'Update' button to the format commands view NZDL All NA Fixed 21-08-2003 See 203B017. Remove 'live' updating, and add Replace button 203F116 The current method of harvesting plugin and classifier arguments seems overly difficult. It also appears to happen at the wrong time (when you create your first collection). Can't we make use of timestamps? NZDL All NA Pending Shift classifier/plugin database creation from new collection step. Redesign argument library to automatically detect changes in classifiers/plugins. Migrate the serialized data objects into xml. 203B117 The -library argument to GLI is redundant NZDL All NA Nothing to do The -library argument is used to specify the path of the local library server under Windows. 203B118 During design, you can enable advanced searches but leave the search types blank. When it comes to building there are errors when it can't understand the MGPP index commands NZDL All NA Fixed Have form search type selected by default. Prevent user removing both search types 203B119 Some key mnemonics are not underlined, for instance the movement buttons on several of the design screens NZDL All NA Fixed Redesign custom 'double-image' buttons 203B120 Allow some of the PlugIns to be hidden depending on -xml reported attribute NZDL All NA Fixed 19-08-2003 Added 'Abstract' attribute to plugins/classifiers allowing them not to be shown as available to be added (still have access to their arguments though) 203B121 Swapping between MG and MGPP leaves 'garbage' commands in the collect.cfg NZDL All NA Fixed 15-08-2003 Ensure disabling MGPP also disables MPGG specific commands 203B122 The means for adding/updating/removing text translations is different from everywhere else in the design pages. Can we make it the same? NZDL All NA Fixed 19-08-2003 View now has typical add/replace/remove buttons 203B123 If you have just created a new collection, right clicking on the collection tree causes a NPE error NZDL All NA Fixed 21-08-2003 When checking what actions should be available, ensure that the current node is non-null 203B124 After you have created two new default folders, the next one still has the name "New folder 1" NZDL All NA Fixed 26-09-2003 Fixed counting algorithm 203B125 metadata.xml files are being created with nothing in them (especially annoying in the import folder) NZDL All NA Fixed Have GDMDocument check if it has content before writing itself out to a metadata.xml
GDMDocuments are now only written out if they contain at least one description set 203F126 GLI doesn't seem to read G2.39 collect.cfg files correctly NZDL All NA Fixed Implement complete G2.39 support
G2.39 files are now properly read in (or at least well formed ones are) and are immediately converted to G2.4 standard for simplicity. 203B127 If you choose to delete the collection you current have open, the collection appears to be unchanged until you save, where-upon everything goes wrong NZDL All NA Fixed 04/08/03 Determine if the current collection has been deleted, and if so close it 203B128 Can we use the import folder rather than this new gimport one NZDL All NA Fixed 04/08/03 OK 203B129 If you confirm a collection for deletion, but then choose another collection, the confirmation remains checked NZDL All NA Fixed 04/08/03 Uncheck confirmation 203F130 Rather than print a 'technical' exception report to the console, would we be able to 'catch all' exceptions and then maybe allow the user to 'report a bug' about the GLI NZDL All NA Pending Found information on capturing all exceptions 203B131 After deleting one or more collections, closing the delete prompt causes NPE NZDL All NA Fixed 04/08/03 Prevent GLI attempting to alter list after it has been removed from the screen 203B132 A couple of minor problems with import/build settings. Import has two columns, while build arguments seem to be in random order (unlike import ones which are alphabetical) NZDL All NA Fixed 05/08/03 Remove bogus argument spacing code. Sort arguments 203B133 Demo collection doesn't show under "Greenstone Collections" in Gather tab NZDL Mac NA Nothing to do Import folder was being deleted by 'Collector' after collection build 203B134 Symbolic links aren't shown in "Local Filespace" NZDL Mac NA Fixed Decision previously made to not show symbolic links to prevent infinitely recursive searches. Test for symbolic link actually hid many other files, so removed test 203B135 Files aren't displayed after being dropped on the right-hand-side (it says 'overwriting' if you drop them there a 2nd time) NZDL Mac, Linux NA Fixed See 203B134 - Files being hidden 203B136 Adding a plugin, input_encoding cuts off the description NZDL Mac NA Fixed 19-08-2003 Purposefully shortening description otherwise combobox ridiculously wide. Hover mouse over combobox for full text 203B137 Preview doesn't work NZDL Mac NA Fixed Ensure correct address to local library/webserver is being used. Path must be specifically "http:////library". Replace text field with more constraining URL field
Preview is so buggy it is being disabled
Preview tab disabled 203B138 Custom arguments to classifiers and plugins must have values or else the classifier/plugin is lost next time you reload NZDL All NA Fixed Old style of argument parsing would always check for an argument value, even when there were no more tokens in the string. Bug caught before Mac release, but remains in other platforms with older GLI. New version doesn't suffer the same problem 203B139 Table column headers are not visible NZDL Mac NA Fixed Determine whether table headers have height
For some ungodly reason table headers are sometimes assigned a preferred height of 2 pixels under the Aqua LAF. Now a test has been added for inappropriately small column headers, and they are set to more reasonable height (15-20 pixels) 203B140 When moving the mouse the mouse 'ghost' leaves graphically garbage where ever it travels, even over other components which the mouse ghost itself won't travel onto NZDL Mac NA Fixed 25-11-2003 Mouse ghost drawn and cleared relative to mouse location. Mouse location seems to be bogus occasionally
Now the ghost is correctly oriented to mouse pointer, but mouse pointer in wrong place. Arg. Will refile as new bug as its more annoying than fatal. 203B141 When you click "Build Collection" the progress view appears, but it appears a rectangle at the right-hand side is not being rendered properly NZDL Mac NA Fixed 25-11-2003 Ensure pane is getting sufficient processor time to repaint
Added pause to ensure screen has time to paint - might still be a problem under slow machines 203B142 If you open a collection that was built using the scripts, the Preview tab in the GLI is greyed out NZDL All NA Fixed 21-08-2003 Check if necessary index files exist, rather than remembering if GLI has built the collection before
Preview tab disabled 203B143 I use a fairly common idiom in creating my metadata; putting square brackets [ and ] around information about the document that the cataloguer derived from a source other than one of the prescribed sources of this information (al la AACR2)... I tried importing my files and metadata into GLI so I could take advantage of it's superior metadata facilities, only to find it does not recognise the escape characters. (I get folders named '[' and chopped up fields). Greenstone Developers All NA Fixed Was unaware of clash between GLI path separators and the escaping needed for Greenstone runtime formatting. Replaced path separator being written to file to double escape. Change should be transparent to user who can enter '[' and ']' characters into GLI without escaping them, and still use '\' to separate value hierarchies. 203B144 I'd like to be able to "Hunt" and "Mirror" files. Why are these view not normally accessible? Greenstone Developers All NA Fixed 28-08-2003 The "Hunt" and "Mirror" views have been re-enabled and updated. 203B145 PlugIns initially don't have arguments NZDL All NA Fixed 29-08-2003 Quirk of JComboboxes 203B146 Plugin list still contains those that have already been added NZDL All NA Fixed 29-08-2003 Ensured add/remove also changed list of available plugins 203B147 Classifiers don't show any of their inherited arguments NZDL All NA Fixed 29-08-2003 Slight change in terminology of XML report being produced by classinfo.pl (ClasInfo -> ClassInfo) 203B148 Argument configuration background colours appear to be alternating at the wrong place NZDL All NA Fixed 29-08-2003 Colour flag started with wrong value (true instead of false) 203B149 Translation view shows language codes in fragment table NZDL All NA Fixed 29-08-2003 Language names are now shown 203B150 Values to arguments in several parts of the design cannot have spaces or else collection won't build NZDL All NA Fixed 29-08-2003 Spaces work fine. When writing out files values wrapped in " if they contained spaces. Forgot to remove when reading back in and you quickly ended up with lines in the collect.cfg looking like this: classify AZList -button_name """""""""Hello there""""""""" 203B151 The buttons on the Index Partitions view are sometimes enabled when they shouldn't be (starting off enabled?) NZDL All NA Fixed 21-08-2003 Ensure initial state of buttons, and changes of state 203B152 On Mac file associations don't work NZDL Mac NA Fixed Find out how Mac handles launching applications. (Note: I have just read on the web that Runtime.exec() doesn't work on the Mac. - kjdon, 14/11/03)
Ah, Runtime.exec() sort of works on the Mac. But because the underlying system isn't a shell-type OS, you need to do magic to get things to work. Thats where a miracle Mac application, 'open', comes in. If file associations you can just type in 'open %1' (no speech marks) click add association and Bob's your uncle - open handles figuring out how to open the given file. If you instead want to force a particular application to be used try 'open -a %1'. I'll talk with Ian and see if MacGLI(tm) - or should that be iGLI - should just try open by default but allow the user to override via file associations
Mac now uses open %1 by default, and the browse button (which is problematic at best) is hidden 203B154 File chooser explores application bundles rather than recognizing that the top level folder is an application in its own right NZDL Mac NA Fixed Perhaps custom file browser that reacts appropriately to application bundles on Mac
Now the browse feature crashes with a NPE in apple.laf.AquaFileChooserUI, which unfortunately I can't do much about
Fixed, or at least dodged, as explained in 203B153 203B155 Tiffs and BMPs are not recognized as images when filtering file trees by images NZDL All NA Fixed 21-08-2003 Add tif and bmp file extensions to image filter 203B156 Running GLI under WinXP will start the library, but sometimes locks up shortly after. NZDL All NA Fixed If url as supplied by the glisite.cfg failed, the localhost name was being used, but the protocol http:// was missing, so no connection made 203F157 The 'argument' varaibles in the dictionary file aren't very informative. Could we use proper variable names (ie {filename}) rather than numbers (ie {0}, {32}) NZDL All NA Fixed 27-11-2003 Number is used as offset into argument array - so necessary. Will add the ability to specify variable like so {0:filename} or perhaps {0:number_of_documents}
Colon was a bad choice, so in the end I used {0-number of documents}, {1-filename} etc instead. 203F158 The pending download jobs are not saved between sessions NZDL All NA Pending Save a list of pending download jobs in the collection xml file 203F159 It would be nice to be able to schedule downloads NZDL All NA Pending After implementing 203B158, extend a WGet Job so that it can have specified download frequencies (i.e. every friday) 203B160 MGPP indexes need the ability to add all metadata NZDL All NA Fixed 29-08-2003 Add 'add all metadata' button which adds all elements to the index list with their default name (ie ex.Title -> "Title") 203B161 MGPP indexes need the ability to edit the names and update the index NZDL All NA Fixed 29-08-2003 Add an replace ability 203B162 Missing hot keys for lots of dialogs NZDL All NA Fixed Ensure key mnemonics are installed and correct target key is still in button string (ie when [U]pdate became Replace, "u" was no longer a good choice of keyboard shortcut)
All normal buttons are accounted for 203B163 Preferences - connection window not big enough for contents NZDL All NA Fixed Check that the correct layout is being used 203B164 Download list would look better if the first one - when only one entry - was the same size as when there are 2, not huge! NZDL All NA Fixed 27-08-2003 Use panel to fill out extra space so download job progress bars are all the same size 203B165 Whether certain workflow tabs are enabled/disable seem to incorrectly maintained when new collections created/opened. If GLI restarted then correct tabs are enabled. NZDL All NA Fixed 25-11-2003 Ensure workflow tab settings validated when collection changed
That wasn't the problem - I was caching the results of calls to get configuration settings (for efficiency) but forgot to empty the cache when collections changed. Hmm, thats the second time caching has got me into trouble (re DOMProxyListModel) 203B166 Double clicking on a file for which there is no file association does nothing. NZDL All NA Fixed File Association manager should be requesting information on how to launch the file (check if it is failing silently)
There is still a problem under windows where extra speech marks are wrapped around the command
Using command.com trick to open appropriate program instead 203B167 If you have a file selected, with folder level metadata, and change the value, append and replace do the same thing NZDL All NA Fixed 25-11-2003 GLI incorrectly using accumulate/overwrite flags
This turned out to be bigger than Ben Hur. The problem is by the time it came to adding metadata to the document, you didn't know whether it had been called by an append or a replace. In order to distinguish between the two I had to add an extra piece of data to all MSMEvents regarding metadata - and in some cases this came down to a best guess depending on where it had been called (such as when dealing with undo methods, which fortunately are no longer called). 203B168 When adding values, rows in the metadata table are sometimes incorrectly greyed out NZDL All NA Fixed Race condition between table builder and metadata manager
This buggy behaviour was 'fixed' by the code to ensure a certain row is selected in the table. While the table may still have indeterminate state during its build, the final refresh caused by selecting a different table row generally brings things up to date. 203B169 When importing metadata (in collect view) the prompt appears to match 'Subject' to 'dls.Subject and Keywords', yet "Add" is enabled. However clicking add did nothing. NZDL All NA Fixed 4-11-2003 This was caused by confusion in the code between metadata element names and identifiers. The "Add" button should not be enabled, because 'Subject' matches 'dls.Subject' (whose display name is 'Subject and Keywords'). 203B170 Assign languages in the partition indexes pane -> click add language -> DOMException: DOM008 Not Found NZDL All NA Fixed Adding to wrong parent 203B171 Despite what help file says, click the folder icon on the metadata table doesn't take you to the source 'node' of the metadata NZDL All NA Fixed 04-11-2003 It should. Ensure mouse events being correctly processed. 203B172 Format Commands design -> can't replace NZDL All NA Fixed 15-10-2003 Replace is not hooked up to listeners properly
It is now! 203B173 Editing a metadata element value -> change the parent value -> DOMException: DOM008 Not Found NZDL All NA Fixed Actually editing a value involved a Remove then Add, and the remove was bogus (not removing from correct parent) 203B174 Create a new profile, add an attribute (which should be called something else by the way) -> the 'from' bit doesn't get filled in NZDL All NA Fixed 27-11-2003 Clarify naming and check attribute adding code
Tidied up several bits of this code while I was fixing B203B318. 203B175 In profile. Edit attribute -> can't change the 'from' name NZDL All NA Fixed 27-11-2003 Was disabled on purpose. Re-enable 203F176 Help describes a '# of files section' on the Gather view, but none exists NZDL All NA Pending Re-enable selection report 203B177 Help talks about right-click menus. What about Macs? NZDL Mac NA Fixed There is a key-mouse click combination that emulates right clicks. Mention this in the documentation. 203B178 Enrich View. Select uncommon metadata, no append available NZDL All NA Fixed Whether append enabled determined by whether value is already selected (which in this cause it is so append disabled). Have to ensure that this only applies to common metadata 203B179 Hierarchy metadata -> still ignoring '\' -> have to type '\\' to get path NZDL All NA Fixed 05-11-03 Something to do with Codec transform not being applied at the right place
Actually the whole idea of using double escapes is flawed as this just causing further problems during building. Instead replace escape with some 'safe' character (What about newline?). Of course, this would be transparent to the user as they have been explicitly told in several help documents to use escape.
Have now used the '|' character behind the scenes as it doesn't seem to cause problems in GLI and Greenstone. Of course the user still sees and uses '\' to denote hierarchical paths. 203B180 File association needs to agree with the help text, add replace remove buttons NZDL All NA Fixed Scheduled for updating so that there is consistancy between various views 203B181 What is a value alias? If it doesn't do anything get rid of it NZDL All NA Fixed - 05-11-03 The value alias is meant to be a unique identifier for a certain hierarchy path - this isn't made clear in the documents, and is far less of an issue for computer generate documents as it would've been for hand written ones 203B182 Edit Metadata screwy NZDL All NA Fixed The Metadata Set Editor is long overdue for a overhaul.
Mostly due to the DOM node remove not being implemented properly. 203B183 Can delete all search types if you select multiple rows then click delete (deleting one at a time prevents you deleting last search type though) NZDL All NA Fixed When removing a selection, ensure last search type isn't removed 203B184 Another little thing -- the Import profiles, when you see them on the Edit submenu of the Metadata Sets menu, are expressed as full filenames e.g. /Users/ihw/gsdl/collect/dls. This means that they are invisible until you learn how to horizontally scroll that window (which, believe it or not, wasn't obvious to me at first). Could you suppress the $gsdlhome/collect prefix so that this would just appear as "dls"? In the unlikely event that they did not reside in $gsdlhome/collect, then put the fully qualified pathname. NZDL All NA Fixed If the profile happens to be sourced from a collection within the gsdl/collect folder, then its full path is supressed and only the short filename is used. 203B185 If you show file sizes you can sometimes get sizes of 8.0 bytes - no decimal places for bytes NZDL All NA Fixed Well I though it was quite clever that I got the file size formatting working at all, but I'll fix this 203F186 Get GLI to determine if importing is necessary, or if build enough NZDL All NA Pending Importing is only necessary if new files added, metadata changed, or plugins changed 203F187 Allow users to place fonts in 'font' folder and have them loaded NZDL All NA Pending You can easily read in truetype fonts using System.getResourceAsStream(), then create a font from it by Font.createFont(). The problem is making these font available for a certain component, either by the users choice (which could be a slow process), or by using methods such as Font.canDisplayUpTo() to determine if the font can display the characters currently shown in the component. 203B188 Running Gatherer requires Java to be installed. Only passing reference is made on the home page, and it is not particularly easy to find and download the java runtime package, especially on a slow dialup link. It might help to: a) a link to the right java package could be included on the Gatherer web page; b) common java dustributions (windows, linux) could be included on the CD Mike Jensen Win2K 2.4 Fixed Provision has been made to include the JRE for Windows on the final release CD. JRE for Linux is tricky as runtime more platform dependant - perhaps include the most common linux JRE, or perhaps one for each major platform (Redhat, Slackware, Mandrake et al). Update Gatherer homepage with further "How to get started" information
There appears to be no 'standard' JRE for linux and mac systems. 203B189 Installation of Java requires Windows Service Pack 2. No mention of this is made. Mike Jensen Win2K 2.4 Nothing To Do Unfortunately we can't redistribute the Microsoft Service Packs - no matter how much we'd like to. 203B190 Running Gatherer for first time under XP on another machine - found errors - No path to gdsl library webserver and no perl - looking in Gatherer.bat script, found the GSDLHOME, CGIBINHOME and PERLHOME set to drive F, (javahome correct on drive c). GDSL had automatically installed itself on the F drive by default .Reinstallation allowed this to work, (gdsl still on F: drive, perhaps it had determined insufficient space on drive C.) Mike Jensen WinXP 2.4 Fixed The installation proceedure has been changed to be a lot more sensitive to the location of various programs. GLI is also now installed in the GSDL folder hierarchy. 203B191 On the other XP machine found Gatherer can build small collections but quickly dies, even if inactive. It did this during the first build of the DLS copy. Checked by rebuilding the DLS from GSDL directly, this worked fine, but then DLS no longer became visible in Gatherer. Had to reinstall the GDLS and sources from scratch. Mike Jensen WinXP 3.1 Fixed Strangely enough I am now fairly sure this is related to 203B093 - Screensaver causes GLI to crash. 203B192 On another attempt, building a test collection from scratch on the second XP machine resulted in Notepad twice popping up on the file: title_icon-1.2.pl Mike Jensen WinXP 3.1 Nothing To Do I'm fairly sure this file is from GIMP, so why its caused problems on a WinXP machine is beyond me. Again I'm going to hope its related to the graphical glitch noted in 203B093 & 203B192, caused by a conflict between the JVM's use of DirectX and the current graphics card. 203B193 Installation: Acceptable for the power user, hard for the average user. Could benefit from an autodetect on path to cgi-bin etc otherwise it may be too hard for average user to know. Fix other unidentified bug causing problem as described below. Mike Jensen Linux 2.5 Fixed Again the install program has been improved making install easier. If seperate webserver is used, then GLI can't really autodetect where it is (not without a ip/port scanner, which is probably illegal ;p), however the field on the 'Missing Library Server' window has been improved to help users enter a valid server path (whereas before they could enter anything they liked). The help for this dialog was also misleading as to what had to be typed in to make it work properly - this has been addressed. 203B194 Mandrake Gli installation appears to work, but running Gatherer results in the following java error (even though java is installed by default on Mandrake):
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: classes/:GLI/jar:lib/apache/jar:lib/calpa/jar:lib/jp/jar:lib/polloxml/jar:lib/qfslib/jar:lib/skinlf/jar:lib/nanoxml/jar
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:native)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:59) Mike Jensen Linux (Mandrake) 2.5 Fixed It appears from the error message generated that the classpath has been read as one giant string rather then folders separated by the : character. Not knowing Mandrake I can only assume that a different character should be used to have the script parsed correctly. Investigate the shell used, and contact Mike Jensen
Well, it turns out to be much simplier than that. Apparently not all java implementations support the -cp shortcut for classpath. Hence java ignores '-cp' then tries to run the 'classes/:GLI/jar:lib/apache/jar:lib/calpa/jar:lib/jp/jar:lib/polloxml/jar:lib/qfslib/jar:lib/skinlf/jar:lib/nanoxml/jar' class - which of course fails (and not just because no classpath is specified and the '.' classpath isn't default under Mandrake). Ensure the full string '-classpath' is used in startup script. 203B195 Installing Gatherer (gli_install) in Slackware expects to find gsdl in /usr/local/gsdlhome, but the default installation directory for gsdl is /usr/local/gsdl - had to manually create a symlink to /usr/local/gsdlhome Mike Jensen Linux (Slackware, RedHat) 2.5 Fixed The new install proceedure solves this 203B196 Once Gatherer was installed correctly on Slackware and RedHat it appears to need to run as root? Mike Jensen Linux (Slackware, RedHat) 2.5 Nothing To Do May be caused by incorrect permission on scripts.
Permissions on scripts ok. Am unsure how user managed to install GLI to directory which they then didn't have permission to write to. 203B197 Gatherer appears to start up correctly in Slackware and RedHat, but files dragged onto the right-hand pane of the collection manager are not visible, making it impossible to continue with the test for Linux. Consultations with the Gatherer developers are ongoing on this issue. Mike Jensen Linux (Slackware, RedHat) 3 Fixed Was caused by bug in function to prevent symbolic links causing infinite file system trees. Code removed, so infinite tree once again problem 203B198 Symbolic links can cause infinite file system trees. Only a problem during copying NZDL All NA Fixed Prevent same folder (by canonical path) from being copied twice in a single copy action
Solution similar to the way import.pl handles this, recurse 40ish folders deep and then complain that we may be in an infinite loop. 203B199 A minor error which does not have a significant effect is a warning which takes place upon starting Gatherer under Linux: "Cannot convert string "MetaCtrlInsert" to type VirtualBinding" Mike Jensen Linux (Slackware, RedHat) 6 Nothing to do This has been reported under several platforms, but no definite cause has been found. Non-fatal anyway. 203B200 Some information on files sizes in the gather section would be an advantage Mike Jensen Win2k, WinXP 4a.2 Fixed Option to show file sizes now available in Preferences 203F201 Sluggish Interface. Slow Data entry with frequent mouse interruptions. The interface is slow to use as data entry methods need to be streamlined for metadata input. Once an element has been selected it is slow to tab down to the value input bar. Using a mouse frequently during the data input process causes delays to raw input. Inability to enter metadata value with a return key stroke could be addressed. Mike Jensen Win2k, WinXP 4*.3 Pending Ensure key traversal working, and streamline interface in terms of data entry (consult data-entry specialist). Enter key now available to enter metadata (single Tab is used to complete value) 203F202 Would be good to centralize the metadata sets to reduce replicating existing data fields Mike Jensen Win2k, WinXP 4*.4 Pending Ensure import/export metadata set usage clearer in documentation 203B203 On the second test XP machine, plugins under Design is not clickable/accessible - the other options are Mike Jensen Win2k, WinXP 4*.4 Nothing to do Side effect of 203B003 - Failed to parse plugins 203B204 File locking issue only reported at end of process, this can waste time on large builds.
"Exception detected during collection install. Most likely caused by windows or local library holding locks on files: e.g: Index file C:\progra=1\gsdl\collect\spmet2k\index\text cannot be removed."
Pressing OK results in: "The collection has been built and is ready for previewing". But the file is not visible on the list. 2nd attempt identical. Action=restart library interface. message=lock file detected suggests collection already open. (note collection is locked, not the files added to the build).
The file locking issue appears be a problem when the library gets large and the compiling / building takes longer, the error is reported at the end of this long process. Mike Jensen Win2k, WinXP 4a.5 Fixed Side-effect of bigger problem, although a pre-build test is a good idea. Problem caused by Windows holding a lock over a file it think is open. This file may be open in the local library server is used, but should have been released. Perhaps GLI not waiting until collection properly released, or perhaps suggestion is right that build process returns when it hasn't quite finished.
Collections are now checked, in terms of taking locks over files, before they are built thus saving time if for some reason the files remain locked. As to the cause of the locking itself I haven't been able to find any. 203B205 Hovering over Mode option delivers no further information = empty info box Mike Jensen Win2k, WinXP 4*.5 Fixed Check description for Mode argument in buildcol.pl 203B206 Often replies no connection to server - but works well with collection based on one of the existing demo formats Mike Jensen Win2k, WinXP 4a.5 Nothing To Do Related to 203B204 - Error when installing collection. Since only some files are copied (until a locked one is detected) the collection is put into an inconsistant state. Shortly thereafter server crashes hence the no connection to server - there isn't one anymore! 203B207 Web files- (Html), copying the html file directly to collection results in errors in diplaying the file in the library interface, copying the entire directory in which the html file exists in seems to help Mike Jensen Win2k, WinXP 4b.2 Nothing to do It is the user's responsibility to ensure that the necessary associated files are copied - the GLI couldn't possibly do this in a general fashion. 203B208 Export metadata set - not functioning (greyed out) Mike Jensen Win2k, WinXP 4b.3 Fixed Unsure of why this happened. Investigate 203B209 Unsure of keyword examples - they seemed to be phrases e.g 'utilise and construct pit silos' Mike Jensen Win2k, WinXP 4b.3 Nothing to do Metadata values already present in DLS not GLI's fault 203B210 Once arguments are added to plugin, can't delete them easily. (under Design-plugins-configure selected plugin) - Doesn't delete if completely deleted, only if replaced by a space/other character Mike Jensen Win2k, WinXP 4b.4 Fixed Suggested practice is to disable the argument, rather than set its value to blank. Clarify in online help
Arguments which require values must have something typed into them if they are enabled 203B211 How to update plugins with new ones (where to download, copy to, etc) plus how to create for other formats would be useful Mike Jensen Win2k, WinXP 4b.4 Nothing to do Refer to the Greenstone documentation (especially the Developer's Guide) for more information on this sort of thing. 203B212 Failed build should not require build to be cancelled? Mike Jensen Win2k, WinXP 4b.5 Fixed OK 203B213 Folders do not show on the AZ list Mike Jensen Win2k, WinXP 4b.6 Nothing to do AZCompactList should be used 203B214 Enrich with hierarchical metadata - Could be more detailed with diagrams Mike Jensen Win2k, WinXP 4c.3 Fixed Description of how to assign hierarchical metadata reworded. Eventually walkthough tutorial will be available with screen shots of the hierarchical value process 203B215 PDF files - metadata does not accompany the file name in the a-z list, file location is the only information about the file, searching for the pdf filename (if file name is not contained within the document) results in 0 doc finds Mike Jensen Win2k, WinXP 4c.6 Fixed I believe this is a PDFPlugIn problem, but will investigate
Definately PDFPlug problem - plug is being fixed 203B216 Creating a database of only image (jpg) files is not easy - they do not appear on file list, are not searchable and no error message. Metadata on the image files do not respond to browse/search. Image files seem to only be viewable via a html file that points to the image Mike Jensen All 6 Fixed Image collections need the ImagePlug to be added, but this plugin conflicts with HTMLPlug so is not available by default. Possibly GLI should detect image only collection and automatically add ImagePlug. There are steps being taken to improve image collection support, such as extracted metadata containing thumbnail URL, and a default template value for a 'gallery' type VList
Creating image collections made simplier by allowing user to base their collection o a 'template' image collection 203B217 Plugin appears to be compatible with tif and bmp files but these produce errors: import.pl> WARNING - no plugin could process \JOKAZI.TIF Mike Jensen All 6 Nothing to do Not a GLI bug 203B218 A plugin for other image and multimedia formats may be required - for audio (mp3, wav, ogg), and video (mpg, avi) Mike Jensen All 6 Nothing to do There is already an UnknownPlug, meant to handle other file types we haven't considered. Ironically enough I don't known much about the UnknownPlug 203F219 To view new mapped network drives requires gatherer prog to be restarted or build of the current collection, no refresh seems possible (F5 has no effect) Mike Jensen All 6 Pending Functionality already in place to refresh trees. Add refresh button/key combination (F5 if I can figure out how) 203B220 Each time Gatherer is started, it needs to restart GDSL, even though it is running. Could this be eliminated? Mike Jensen All 6 Fixed Bug - probably caused by GLI being started before GSDL has been run once. Normally GLI would detect already running GSDL 203B221 GDSL collection menus should have the selections options up at the top of the window, at the moment too many of them appear below the first screen, making it hard to make the user aware of them and also necessitating an extra click to scroll down Mike Jensen All 6 Nothing to do Not a GLI bug. Good news though as Greenstone 3 will see the collection page changed 203B222 More information on the outcomes/impact of the various features Mike Jensen All 6 Fixed Restrictions on help text size. Hopefully several recent rewrites have improved understandability 203F223 Allow multiple users to work on the same collection at the same time (each user being interested in a different stage of collection building) SEDICI-UNLP All NA Pending The easiest approach to this problem, which involves issues regarding what files have been loaded into memory, is to allow 'by-module' saving of a collection (which is a step towards our modular goal). What this would mean is that if a user has GLI running with just the gather and enrich views (modules) enabled, then only files from those two modules would be saved. Note that the files for the other modules would be loaded to ensure available data was there for modular interaction - but they wouldn't be saved. Thus a second user could have GLI open with design, and a third with create and preview, and all three would be able to work on the same collection (although it might sometimes get out of sync). A record of what modules where available for read/write and which were read only could be kept in the collections lock file (which is after all another easily extensible xml file). A more ambitious idea would be to make GLI truely multiuser, by not storing files in memory, and instead providing loocking at an individual file level - although this would be difficult and require major rewrites of several parts of Gatherer. 203F224 Introduce security to GLI SEDICI-UNLP All NA Pending When Greenstone had no concept of security (besides what was offered by the webserver), it didn't make much sense for GLI to have password protection, but now that Greenstone has logins/passwords at the collection level, GLI should have the same. Simply add a login/pass to the collection xml file, which must be entered before the collection will fully load. 203F225 Give users the option to prune unused values from the Enrich panes value tree SEDICI-UNLP All NA Pending This could be implemented as a menu item, or perhaps have it as a preference, and then action it on collection save 203B226 Problem with graphical interface prevents collection building UNESCO Kazakhstan Linux NA Nothing To Do Problem description was "Build button does not work". Perhaps the Build button was not being enabled correctly? No reply was received when the testers were asked for more information. 203B227 Problem with Kazakh language encoding when Previewing a built collection UNESCO Kazakhstan Win98 NA Nothing to do Most likely due to limitations of current HTML renderer (see also 203B061 and 203B101). Other HTML renderers are being investigated. Also, a button will be added to the Preview pane which lets you view the page in your chosen web browser.
Preview tab disabled 203B228 Having the help text available as a single HTML document would be beneficial University of Dakar All NA Fixed An HTML file (help.html) containing all of the help text has been generated and put in the "help" folder. The GLI help text will also be included in future versions of the Greenstone User's Guide. 203B229 The same file tree filter can be added multiple times to the filter drop-down box NZDL All NA Fixed Check when adding a new filter that it doesn't already exist in the list 203B230 The Stop button on the Gather pane should be disabled when nothing is happening NZDL All NA Fixed Only enabled OK when file queue is processing something
The button is now only enabled when an action is occuring (I had a moment of worry when the code I wrote to do this caused GLI to throw bazillions of exceptions on start-up, until I realized the button enabling code was throwing an exception -before- the file actioning thread had reached the point where it is meant to wait for the rest of the gui to be created, thus exceptions galour!) 203B231 The "-show_progress" argument is specified twice for RecPlug NZDL All NA Fixed OK 203B232 It is impossible to use UnknownPlug twice (but this is quite plausible) NZDL All NA Fixed OK 203B233 Removing an assigned plugin causes the list of plugins left to assign to be messed up NZDL All NA Fixed 19-11-2003 Arg. Yes they do become out of order - I wonder why? I'd hazard I'm refreshing their content but forgetting to sort them. 203B234 Changing the library path in the preferences doesn't update the preview pane (requires restarting the GLI) NZDL All NA Fixed Purged pesky preview pane. 203B235 If there are no indexes you get a parse error in the CDM... but this is legal now NZDL All NA Fixed Fix 203B236 The GLI is still writing ex.Metadata names to the collect.cfg files (should be just Metadata) NZDL All NA Fixed Fix
I think I finally tracked down the last of these... knock on wood 203B237 When the local library cannot be accessed, it asks whether you want to wait for another 60 seconds. Alas, if you choose Yes it asks ye yet again, with no 60 second wait in sight. NZDL Windows NA Fixed Discovered I wasn't resetting the counter to zero after the first sixty count. 203B238 java[809] Warning: Font ... claims fixed pitch with 0 max advance NZDL Mac NA Nothing To Do Find out what this means, and if I'm causing it
Apparently this may be caused by using HTML code when providing strings to controls. The most basic solution - as far as I can see - is to disable formatting arguments under mac
The word has come from on high that it is better to put up with the non-fatal error messages than change the GUI layout now 203B239 When dragging files mouse position in ghost (always upper left corner) badly wrong in regards to it relative position when starting the drag (assuming you start the drag anywhere other than the upper left corner) NZDL Mac NA Fixed Determine why mouse pointer jumps to where it does (which of course may be part of the hidden away drag'n'drop code) and fix if possible
Found I'd hardcoded a 5,5 offset 203B240 Random nodes in tree not being painted. If non-painted node just happened to be selected when it disappeared, tree selection no longer responsive until after node is made to paint (changing views etc) NZDL Mac NA Fixed Determine if this is a refresh problem (which I doubt) or something symptomatic of Java/Mac
The bug itself is triggered by a pretty specific set of circumstances. You must a) have a dynamic custom TreeModel, b) have the underlying TreeUI decide to use a VariableHeightLayoutCache and c) expand a node higher in the tree than an already expanded node. If you do this the layout cache returns an incorrect value for the number of displayable rows and things go pear shaped. As best as I can figure the model modified events being thrown by the custom model are not being recieved in a timely fashion by the layout cache. Anyhow the solution was painfully easy - simple prevent the TreeUI using VariableHeightLayoutCache by providing a prototype row height, and thus switching to a FixedHeightLayoutCache, which apparently doesn't suffer the same bug. Co-incidently under any other circumstances a fixed height layout cache would have been faster anyway. Unfortunately with the FileSystemModel and saving/loss in layout time is drawfed by the file IO time 203B241 While its difficult on other platforms, its nearly impossible to open top level folders in tree without the expansion toggle buttons NZDL Mac NA Fixed The easiest way to restore these is to make the root node visible - however we don't want that so I have to figure out a different smarter way
Yes, I had to be especially sneaky. I had to call the setShowsRootHandles() method with a value of... true. Wow. 203B242 Create views icon has a funky pink background - why isn't it transparent like the rest? NZDL Mac NA Fixed Ensure transparency set, and perhaps choose a different colour
transparency had transferred to a different colour - all bad. It's fixed now though. 203B243 Assigned plugins list separator (between movable and fixed plugins) is not visible. You get a blank line instead NZDL Mac NA Fixed Check how line created, and investigate other, less platform specific, solutions
Menu lines under mac default to an empty line. Replaced UI with BasicSeparatorUI. Oh-no. This has the undesired effect of transforming all of the menu separators in gli. New plan - provide a BasicSeparatorUI implementation just for the plugin separator
How about we just put up with the menu divider lines eh? 203B244 GLI custom editable comboboxes look fine (ones which have colour initializers), but the default editable JComboBox is squished under Mac - ie half the drop-down button is missing. Also buttons have a strange blue background NZDL Mac NA Fixed How odd. Ensure all editable JComboBoxes are actually GComboBoxes
Buttons need to be set to opaque to appear properly under Mac. To that end replace all JButtons with GLIButtons that know whether they are opaque based on the platform
GLI buttons in place. GComboBoxes sort-of done, but currently wrong colour. I can't seem to fix it though 203B245 Flag style format options still have a residual 'affected component' control - although it's only residual and thus has no functionality, and is cleared on the next big update NZDL Mac NA Fixed This graphical problem is a real bummer. Try shifting the changing of the cards into a SwingWorker thread
Moved the part combobox onto the editor card pane, which is a far better solution than the previous adding and removing of the component. 203B246 If MANPATH is not set prior to running source.csh, the script fails NZDL Mac NA Fixed Talk to John M about this and rewrite the script as necessary
Ian and Michael have fixed this by simply adding a test to determine if MANPATH is previously set. 203B300 Build log created twice SADL All NA Fixed Document was needlessly created twice 203B301 Collection Configuration file is not being correctly saved, nor is the windows library being correctly released SADL All NA Fixed Changing views wasn't driving save, and the save itself was not releasing/adding the collection at the correct time for it to work 203B302 A newline in the format statement causes GLI to break SADL All NA Fixed Format statements now correctly run through Codec 203B303 Would it be possible to add tooltips, or at least some way to describe, to the comboboxes of plugins and classifiers? SADL All NA Fixed 13-11-03 Ensure description metadata extracted from plugins/classifiers and utilized by the comboboxes 203B304 Enrich: Sometimes, after deleting a file, especially if you then add a file with the same name, the metadata becomes inconsistant for that file SADL All NA Fixed 10-12-2003 Ensure metadata is removed when file is deleted (seems pretty good) and that metadata isn't restored as per the old undo model
Found one error where a single occurance of a piece of metadata occasionally ended up with a count of 2, thus count != occurance and the metadata was marked as uncommon. The test has been changed so metadata is common is count >= occurance
Found more serious bug where I was removing elements from the DOM in a forward counting for loop - and since DOM NodeLists are live this lead to random behaviour. Now nodes are removed -after- the for loop (the for loop had to be forward counting for natural ordering reasons). 203B305 Design: You are able to 'commit' zero length values for several of the arguments. GLI crashes shortly thereafter destroying the collect.cfg file. SADL All NA Fixed 13-11-03 Increase empty string checking 203B306 Design: Typing a value into a spinner control doesn't work properly SADL All NA Fixed Caused by spinner loosing focus if it also goes nonvisible at the same time. If focus lost while visible appropriate behaviour maintained
Whenever mouse moves off current options view, all JSpinner controls have their changed values commited 203B307 Design: Bad arguments to plugins should be ignored, not cause build process to fail SADL All NA Nothing To Do Provide plugins etc with an argument -gli which prevents them dieing on bad argument
Moved to Greenstone bug list. Forgive my 'orrible spelling. 203B308 Create: Also 'Warning - little or no content' should not break build SADL All NA Fixed Prevent a missing file from crashing build in subsequent passes 203B309 Design: UnknownPlug appears to be choking on spaces SADL All NA Fixed Commented out the test for filenames containing spaces in UnknownPlug - what was it there for anyway? 203B310 Design: Translation doesn't show required languages SADL All NA Fixed 18-11-2003 TextFragment table must have one row for each language currently assigned anywhere in the collection. The problem occurs when trying to match assigned language fragments versus this list 203B311 Design: Doesn't clear default or partitions if filters removed SADL All NA Fixed 18-11-2003 Ensure defaults are cleared in several places where the remove of a setting should also reset default
Languages suffered from same problem, but they are all fixed now 203B312 Create: Progress for partitions is not entirely accurate as is progress for Phind SADL All NA Fixed Partitions generate more indexes, but my current system doesn't correctly calculate how many indexes are going to be built (indexes * partitions * languages)
The mentioned fix has been implemented, but the Phind fix is on hold until I find out how we are going to handle multilingual import and build scripts (whereapon the sentinel values I'm looking for are going to be gone)
Progress tracking has now been rewritten and is accurate in regards to partitions and the Phind plugin (although detail has been decreased a little due to complexity of time taken to calculate tiny progress changes). 203B313 Create: Partitions require all three separators, even when no processing flags are specified SADL All NA Fixed Make sure final slash is printed or else import chokes when it tries to pattern match 203B314 Design: Collection extra breaks if you use <, > and &. It also only seems to truncate at 256 characters? SADL All NA Fixed Needs to be passed through TEXT2DOM codec. The truncation is caused by DOM automatically spliting long strings into several text nodes. I'm sure I've fixed this before, but it seems to have come back.
Multiple text nodes are now recombined in MSMUtils.getValue() 203B315 General: If you don't have the file permissions necessary to open a collection, such as when creating lock file or opening col file, then there should be a more helpful message than 'Could not open collection' and sixty bazillion FileNotFound(Permissions) exceptions being thrown at the prompt. SADL All NA Fixed Supress the file not found errors
GLI now acts more predictably when it encounters a collection it doesn't have permission to write to. Although it would be nice to allow a user to open it in a read-only mode, then let them 'save as' to a new collection, the 'Save As' method is current disabled. Instead a warning message informs the user the problem is file permissions, and the collection doesn't load at all. 203B316 Gather: If a FileNotFound exception occurs during copying, and you click OK, the file copy is cancelled instead. SADL All NA Fixed I'm actually not all that excited about the FNFException being thrown in the first place, but regardless ensure that process reacts appropriately
I've just had a further think about this and I think this is alright as it is. 203B317 Gather: Tree model changes are not always reflected in both trees. Ensure refresh, or at least provide a refresh button/key SADL All NA Fixed 25-11-2003 I'm not sure why the correct events aren't being fired - but it seems to happen specifically with folders being brought into collections (not files)
Still don't know what was causing this but Michaels refresh speed-ups seem to have made the problem go away 203B318 Metadata Set Editor: The values for attributes need to go through the TEXT2DOM codec - to remove problems with <, >, and &. SADL All NA Fixed Now go through TEXT_TO_DOM 203B319 Collections go out of memory - it seems to be something about loading metadata.xml file SADL All NA Fixed - 06-11-03 Make memory use reasonable
I've made memory savings in two ways (hopefully). First I've re-activated the idea of only caching a certain number of MDSDocuments in memory (its currently arbitarily set at twenty five), as one of the causes of this problem was hundreds of small MDSDocuments being loaded. The second problem is that the threaded task that loaded all of the documents initially never released the tree nodes after creating them - thus if your collection contains hundreds of folder nodes, each with a small mds, you'd blow your memory allowance. Since caching has been re-enabled I've simply disabled the loader thread (which used to be necessary for hierarchies when I had to depend on the stupid numbering scheme - this however has hopefully been addressed with the hvalue attribute in MDS documents). 203B320 Files in the file trees must be selected before they can be right-clicked on NZDL All NA Fixed Fix 203F321 Opening a non-gatherer collection. Need to add in the option for the user to create a new metadata set and have all the metadata elements added automatically to that. Currently the only option is to select a metadata set and get prompted for merge/add. NZDL All NA Fixed There is code there to get the prompt and create the new metadata set, but then the user still gets prompted for merge/add. Need to make it so all the elements get added automatically. 203B322 Reading in collection config files. There are currently two CollectionConfiguration classes, one in collection, one in cdm. The one in collection is much simpler, only reads in collect.cfg files, and stores some strings - creator, name,description etc. The one in cdm parses the whole file into XML. NZDL All NA Fixed Make it so they all use the cdm version. Need to check that it doesn't run too slowly.
Um. It does comparatively, thats why I made the two separate versions in the first place. Perhaps we should rename the simplier one to BasicCollectionConfiguration or something.
Fixed as suggested 203B323 Handling non-language-qualified collectionmeta. The GLI reads in coll meta and assigns it as English metadata if it has no language. This is bad cos its not necessarily English if its a non-gatherer collection. Have changed it so that it always writes out a lang bit for all metadata (previously, if it was English and the first one, then it left it off.) So you cant create no-lang collmeta. However I think that it would be useful. So need to think about how to do it. Thought about having a default language that you can translate into - Ian thought this was too confusing. NZDL All NA Fixed See above.
I have no idea what that cryptic comment means, but the problem has been fixed anyway. Current non-language-qualified metadata is defaulted to be in the language the interface is currently displaying. 203B324 Opening non-gatherer collections. Due to the way I have implemented this, we run into a problem with the GDMDocument cache size. What I do is create empty metadata.xml files (and GDMDocuments) for each folder in the collection, then for each file, go through the old metadata and try to items for this file. These are then added to the new GDMDocuments. Once all this has been done, I copy the old metadata files out of the way, then save the collection, which writes the new one out. However, with a small cache of files in memory, the new ones are getting written out over the top of the old ones before I have had a chance to get the metadata out. NZDL All NA Fixed Change the procedure. Copy all the files first then search for metadata from this new folder? Read in the existing metadata and somehow process it so that its all namespaced?
Wrote new class for importing legacy metadata.xml files prior to GDMManager seeing them. 241B325 Reading in non-gatherer config files - not handling quotes properly for format statements. If you read in a collectionmeta surrounded by ' ', then internal " end up being written out escaped. But for format statements, they get written out as is, breaking the format. NZDL All NA Fixed Work out why these two are different and fix.
Extended GREENSTONE_TO_DOM codec to account for speech marks and apostrophies that hadn't yet been escaped, let alone converted to be DOM safe. 241B326 dls.Subject(Subject and Keywords) - this is acting weird in classifier configuration - you double click on the classifier to open up the controls, and dls.Subject is not selected - matching problem? NZDL All NA Fixed 19-11-2003 Fix. 241B327 Format statements - all the default ones appear in the list and end up being written to the config file - so now you have eg a DateList format statement with no Date classifier. NZDL All NA Nothing To Do Remove DateList format string
Far too much work for so little return 241B328 Opening a non-gatherer collection. If no metadata sets are added then don't bother looking for metadata? Or does it stop after the first prompt anyway? NZDL All NA Fixed Investigate 241B329 Close a collection, open a collection, don't do anything on the Gather pane, then switch to the Enrich pane. No files are shown. NZDL All NA Nothing To Do Ensure new collection message propagated to all visual components
Although I've also had this problem once in the past, I can't seem to repeat it now. So unless someone can predictably repeat it there isn't much I can do. 241B330 Prevent the user copying files from the import directory of the currently loaded collection (workspace tree) into the collection tree. This causes all sorts of problems. NZDL All NA Fixed 17-11-2003 Either a) check for and block these invalid file actions, or b) prevent files in the import folder (workspace tree) being selected at all (ie. grey them out). Hiding the currently loaded collection in the workspace tree is not an option.
Now all file nodes know whether they are in the currently opened collection and refuse to be dragged if so.
Icons complete 241B331 Trying to change from MG to MGPP crashes out with a ClassCastException if no indexes assigned NZDL All NA Fixed Caused by trying to sort a list of no indexes with the natural order comparator 241B332 Should the term 'metadata' be a special term in the indexes list for mgpp collections - cos its still legal. NZDL All NA Fixed Despite some people thinking it wouldn't be much use, I'll add this back in as it is needed for legacy support
It's back in. I wonder if we shouldn't consider making these multilingual - however that would require significant changes to various scripts. 241B334 If configure a classifier whose metadata is dls.Subject, it doesn't match the dls.Subject in the metadata list, and so its set wrong in the controls. NZDL All NA Fixed Check how the names are matched
Was matching the wrong strings 241B335 Currently assigned levels in mgpp collection. The default is document if no levels are indicated - should the gatherer put in document if none are specified? NZDL All NA Fixed Add in this as the default behaviour
Document level is now there by default. In fact its added if there are no current levels, if its the only level you can't remove it, and if you do somehow manage to remove it it gets added back straight away. 241B336 Saving a collection causes the inherited metadata icons to disappear NZDL All NA Fixed 25-11-2003 Ensure inheritance data isn't being stompped, and if not determine why repainting table doesn't repaint icons
The problem occured because the pre-save metadata 'purge' wasn't being called (I'd obviously added an extra boolean argument, but had forgotten to increase the number in the call. Worse still this was an overrided method and one of the other methods happened to match!) 241B337 Importing metadata from legacy files currently requires GDMLoader and a large cache. This has to change if we want to avoid the Out Of Memory problem on large collections NZDL All NA Fixed 27-11-2003 Was reinstated for legacy collection importing. Need to move the namespace adding code to its own pre-load stage where it gets completed before the GDMManager is loaded.
LegacyCollectionImporter class written, which goes through the legacy collections metadata prior to the GDMManager being loaded, and ensures its all properly namespaced - prompting the user for how to merge elements as necessary. Its unfortunate I had to write a new class but if turns out to be far more efficient than trying to further extends GreenstoneMetadataParser to cover this special case (where the file/folder isn't important and where we only want to touch each metadata.xml file once - as compared to several times when determining inherited metadata). Regardless the new class now only ensures the metadata.xml files are compatible (in terms of namespacing and subject hierarchies), but also prebuilds the element value trees based on what it finds when it parses the hfiles (which it has to do anyway). 241B338 Need to add help text for new features: opening legacy collections, exporting to cdrom. NZDL All NA Fixed Do it.
Done it. 241B339 Previewing collections. Need to add code for MACs. Under linux, it currently uses the file association for html files. However, this could be used for editing html files, so instead want a separate browser setting. perhaps changeable in the preferences page. NZDL All NA Fixed Implement suggestion
The first time you try to preview a collection GLI will ask you to enter the command used to launch the preview browser using a derivative of the FileAssociationDialog. However from then on you change the launching command via the Preferences->Connection view. The command itself is stored in the GLI's configuration file. 241F340 Exporting collections to cd. Need to make a nicer result dialog - message at top, then script output in a separate scrolling box. NZDL All NA Fixed Done, but as a side effect of fixing modal dialog hang and progress bar. 241A341 If you drag copy files which have associated metadata, but you have no metadata sets in your collection, you recieve a warning. If you click OK you are immediately faced with another warning. Then another. One for each file. Could we please have it so you only have to say OK once per drag action. NZDL All NA Fixed Add another flag created for each file copy action, which records if the user has already seen and dismissed the WarningDialog.
You are now only warned once for each independant file action. 241A342 Once you have build a collection you are presented with a WarningDialog. Couldn't this be a less worrying MessageDialog instead? NZDL All NA Fixed Subclass WarningDialog and replace 'warning' strings with 'message'. This may also require a change to the terminology in the prefences dialog to ensure people know where to look to find the hide/unhide for this dialog 241F343 On the general design pane can we show a preview thumbnail of the icons, rather than a cryptic path with doesn't mean much to anyone? NZDL All NA Pending Dig out the thumbnailing code present in Hermes (GLI 0.1), and use thumbnail images rather than path. Will require a little shuffle around of components
This is on hold until the strings come back from translation so I can see if its possible to chop "URL to" off the front of them. 241F344 The ImportSet dialog needs simplifying in much the same way that the open collection dialog was. NZDL All NA Pending Create a SimpleImportSetDialog - however I have to be sneaky and mostly reuse strings already present in dictionary 241F345 In format statements you're not allowed to put in 'ex.' for extracted metadata. We should use 'ex.' consistantly throughout GLI. If in Greenstone you encounter 'ex.' strip it NZDL All NA Pending Changing GLI so as to always show the namespace, including ex, shouldn't be to hard. A more difficult task will be changing Greenstone to make it aware of the ex namespace 241F346 GLI Preferences panel - Modes: Geek vs Library tech support vs Librarian vs Librarian Assistant depending on whether you understand (a) running PERL scripts, and (b) regular expressions. Suppress stuff on Create and Design panels according. NZDL All NA Pending I don't know if I appreciate being referred to as a Geek! Anyhow the last two categories as easy to implement (make use of workflow code already in place) but the separation between the first three could be trickier. Redesign views involved to have different appearances depending on the mode setting. Also suggested was simplified messages in the log. This can easily be implemented once the non-language dependant markup has been added to perl scripts. 241F347 Allow for any -metadata argument to plugins, classifiers etc to be a comma separated list. This will address the problem of metadata spread over several namespaces (ie ex.Title, dc.Title and dls.Title) and also allow a user to indicate preferred ordering. NZDL All NA Pending GLI can be easily extended, although the control itself - a mixture of a combobox, list and two buttons - might need some refinement. Extending Greenstone to provide this added functionality is of course a different story 241B348 Several plugins still choke on filenames that include space NZDL All NA Nothing To Do Fix plugins - it seems in several instances the only reason they're dying is an explicit assert preventing spaces - yet there seems to be no good reason for it 241B349 Make images links in HTMLPlug work even when they're in a folder whose name contains an extended latin character (it already escapes space, but not accented letters) NZDL All NA Fixed While this is mostly Greenstones problem, as ImagePlug is responsible for extracting 'images', GLI might be helping to propagate this problem by writing a malformed value into the metadata.xml
GLI no longer writes extracted metadata to metadata.xml in such a way that Greenstone will incorrectly reassign the values over and over. 241B350 If you change the thumbnail size in ImagePlug (say to 50), the change is not reflected in any ex.thumbnailsize metadata previously extracted NZDL All NA Fixed A combination of two problems: (1) Extracted metadata, in order for it to be available when you open a previously built collection, is stored in the metadata.xml files. However the second, and subsequent, times the Greenstone scripts are run this metadata is reassigned. Thus even if the thumbnail size changes, both values - the original and the new one - for the size will be available as extracted metadata, and (2) No attempt is currently made to remove obsolete extracted metadata as I had (incorrectly) assumed it would be pretty static.
The first problem has been addressed. While extracted metadata is still stored in the metadata.xml, it is now saved in an element named 'XMetadata', which is not recognized by Greenstone which only looks for 'Metadata' elements
Second problem fixed. Again I'd used a forward counting for loop - what was I thinking? Also shifted the whole thing out of the actually Archive parsing code, and made a method which removes all the extracted metadata at once (far more efficient ie 10 times faster) 241F351 Export to CD-ROM. Progress bar needed NZDL All NA Pending An indeterminate progress bar is in place - but a more accurate progress bar is being postponed until the details of the non-language specific perl output markup is complete 241B352 There is a memory leak caused by PreferencesPane reregistering components with the dictionary over and over NZDL All NA Fixed Unregistering code needed - previously not necessary as all other 'temporary' components didn't need to be live in the case of a dictionary change. Preferences however - but design - is always active when the dictionary changes.
Put the unregistering code back in. 241B353 Cancelling the autofilter dialog also removes any current filter for that column NZDL All NA Fixed Ensure that the cancel action doesn't call the clear filter methods (as it used to before the remove filter button was added)
Done 241F354 Allow free editing of the collect.cfg - to allow commenting etc NZDL All NA Pending This of course was the reason I rewrote the entire CDM to use a DOM as its model. My previous data model caused all non-recognized commands in the config - including comments - to be pushed to the bottom of the collect.cfg gli wrote out. Now that the DOM is in place a free editor shouldn't be too dificult - simply use a list proxied onto the DOM and treat adding/removing a list entry as adding/removing a node in the tree. 241F355 Extend the dls.mds to be multilingual. NZDL All NA Pending -- High priority Download as many translations as I can from dublincore.org
Languages Remaining (in order of priority):
Italian
German
Portuguese
Turkish
Greek
Finnish
Japanese
Thai
Ukrainian 250B356 Dialog Modality. The built in method of dialog modality supported by the Swing libraries is not only buggy, but also has the draw back of modality applying to all open frames and dialogs. As we want people to be able to open an interact with a help frame even when a 'modal' dialog is displayed we needed a slightly different approach. Thus we developed a different method of modality. The idea was to essentially hijack control of the AWT event dispatch thread while the modal dialog is open, only allowing non-user events to be passed to the parent dialog. Furthermore it was planned that this only has effect within the current frames component tree by utilitizing a component TreeLock. While this provided necessary functionality in terms of multiple frames, it has also been found to be buggy, causing several problems when attempting to display dialogs from outside the AWT Thread, and when attempting to close the GLI. Some concrete examples of the problems caused by Modal dialogs are:
1. If, in the Design view, you enter a collection title that is already in use, and then immediately click File->Exit, the modal dialog warning of the title clash causes GLI to hang during shutdown.
2. If you have a modal dialog open, switch to another application which causes a repaint of the entire screen, then switch back to GLI, the modal dialog is hidden and there is no way to restore it. NZDL All NA Pending There are two things that need to be done. Extra code must be added to ensure that attempting to acquire the TreeLock doesn't result in Deadlock. This may be as simple as always opening modal dialogs from the AWT Thread using swing workers. Secondly we must ensure that either WindowEvent events are processed properly (which I'm fairly sure they are) and that if a modal dialog is open WindowEvents such as WindowDestroy are vetoed somehow. 250F357 Perhaps add an 'I'd like to complain' + Automatic bug reporting. NZDL All NA Pending An honours student is currently working on this feature. 250F358 Turn GLI into an applet. Break into independent modules, and add security. NZDL All NA Pending Due to the 'research' growth nature of the GLI, I'm afraid whatever modularity and good oo-design it once had has been severely undermined by interclass communication. In order to begin providing modularity (ie not even including the compiling Mirror type code unless you choose it) the boundries between class would need to be clarified, and I'm afraid nothing short of a rewrite from scratch is likely to do that (think throw-away prototype). However due to the considerable effort and expense already invested durin Beta testing, perhaps more surgical efforts need to be made to separate 'modules'. Of course modularisation is required if you want to provide GLI as an applet and you don't want a rediculous download - furthermore it is necessary to address 250F360. And when designing or migrating to an applet it is necessary to address security, not only at the file 'sandbox' level, but also in terms of restricting access to certain collections. This might require user lists and other related information. All and all this is quite a mamoth task. 250F359 Separate mds and profile editing. Redesign to provide more natural access. NZDL All NA Pending The metadata set editing dialog was one of the last major components of the GLI to be envisioned - and it shows. It was only partially functional during beta testing, and even then it wasn't really testing. In fact, much like the Mirroring module, I believe it is best described as pre-alpha. While it is significantly better than the free text xml editing it replaced, there is still a lot of room for improvement especially in terms of user interaction. For instance making more use of the 'tree' structure paradigm and right click menus rather than columns and columns of buttons. The plan was to separate metadata set and import profile editing as they are distinct tasks - which were thrown together here for simplicity of code rather than any user specific reason. 250F350 Allow GLI to run without greenstone installed - eg just gather and enrich NZDL All NA Pending Related to 250B, this type of functionality is needed before we provide a 'spawned' version of GLI just for field operatives or the like. Currently there is significant dependancy on Greenstone within GLI, such as running the makecol scripts and determining where files are actually copied to. Any spawn version would have to have its own version of collection creation - plus would probably need work completed (read begun) on the collection 'Export' functionality. 250F351 Handle zip files NZDL All NA Pending By 'handling zip files' we mean allow GLI to treat a zip file like a folder much like the new WinXP behaves. Thus a zip could be opened, browsed, copied from just like any source folder. This would seem 'predestined' given that java already provides api methods for zip streams and handling. 250F352 Add back customAZlist NZDL All NA Pending A Custome AZList allows you to specify the various letter ranges into which files are grouped. An excellent example of how to do this is present in the Organizer. It was decided early on that it would be nice to include the same functionality in the GLI, but it turned out to be difficult to implement given the current system of metadata. The difficulty was adding custom AZ list metadata (to coerce the files into the appropriate range) but in correctly removing it especially when the user changes the ranges via classifier configuration. Current methods for mass metadata removal are slow and require traversing the entire collection. Regardless the skeleton for run time loading of custom classifiers, with out without custom configuration dialogs, is still supported. 250F353 WebRenderer - browsing from files, and previewing your collection NZDL All NA Pending If you have read the bug list you will have learned that there have been several stumbling blocks encountered when dealing with html rendering. One possible solution is the inclusion of software such as the excellent HTML renderer libary, WebRenderer, from JadeLiquid software. While this would allow for HTML rendering in GLI, including Applets, it has the serious drawback of being non-public license. We could at least support WebRenderer, but have JEditorPane or similar 'free' library as a fall back. 250F354 Test working remotely (gatherer and colls on different machines) NZDL All NA Pending Several feature requests revolve around remote access of GLI, where several users all use GLI to work on shared collections. While in theory remote access, via a locally mapped drive, is possible, no testing has been carried out on how well it works. 250F355 Detect if import needed before re building NZDL All NA Pending Currently the entire collection is reimported and rebuilt each time the user clicks "build collection". However there are specific cases in which import, build and both import and build need to be run. GLI could keep track of which action(s) are needed to rebuild the collection successfully. 250F356 Make help more context sensitive NZDL All NA Pending There are already several contexts under which the default Help pages shown are specific to that context. However even further sensitivity could be implemented, such as an error message offering to let the user read the appropriate help for that action (or whatever caused the error). 250F357 The pattern used to validate the URLField says some perfectly good urls are poorly formed NZDL All NA Pending The cuurent pattern works well for the local library url, but doesn't support port numbers, login/pass and other advanced url features. A new pattern will have to be found/written, but this turns out to be quite a task (I've already tried several patterns I found via Google Groups and they all are worse than the current pattern ranging from only accepting urls starting www to accepting any string at all).