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1. Create a new View

   • Click to "Structure" then "Views".

   • In the "Show" box, select "Islandora Solr".

   • When creating a new view, the option to "Create a Page" will be checked, and the option to "Create a Block" will be unchecked.  Uncheck "Create a Page".  Check the box to "Create a Block".

   • Click "Continue and Edit"

   • By default, a block will be created that contains no more than five items in an unformatted list. For this tutorial, these settings will be fine. Click 'Continue & Edit' to continue.

2. Configure the Block:

   • Under "Fields", remove the "Islandora Solr: Score" field by clicking on "Islandora Solr: Score" and then in the pop up box clicking "Remove".  

   • In the top right corner, click "Save" to save the change.

3. Add the 'dc.title' field to FIELDS

   • Titles of objects created with an XML form are given the 'dc.title' field. This is what we are going to want our block to display.

   • In the "Fields" section, click the 'Add' button.  On the overlay that comes up, select "Islandora Solr: dc.title" from the list. Click "Apply (all displays)".

   • For a small block, we probably don't want a label showing up for every object listed, so uncheck 'Create a label'.

   • Check the 'Link field to object' button to make sure each object is being linked to from the block.

   • Click 'Apply (all displays)' again to close the overlay.

   • In the top right corner, click "Save" to save the change.

4. Add the 'RELS_EXT_isMemberOfCollection_uri_ms' field to FILTER CRITERIA

   • We want our objects to be filtered from a certain collection. RELS-EXT datastreams define this collection with the format 'info:fedora/namespace:collection_pid'. In the case of a standard installation of Islandora, the Basic Image Solution Pack will have the RELS-EXT isMemberOfCollection_uri_ms field 'info:fedora/islandora:sp_basic_image_collection'. At any time, you can check a collection's namespace:collection_pid by clicking the 'Manage' tab on that collection, and then clicking the

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1. • "Datastreams

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1. • " button. The collection's namespace:collection_pid will be above the list of datastreams.

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1. • Next to "FILTER CRITERIA

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1. • ", click the

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1. • "add

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1. • " button. Check off

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1. • "Islandora Solr: RELS_EXT_isMemberOfCOllection_uri_ms

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1. • "Apply (all displays)

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1. • ". On the next screen, under the 'RELS_EXT_isMemberOfCOllection_uri_ms' field, add 'info:fedora/islandora:sp_basic_image_collection'.

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1. • "Apply (all displays)

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1. • In the top right corner, click "Save" to save the change.
2. Add the 'fgs_createdDate_dt' field to SORT CRITERIA
   • We would like to view only the latest objects created in our list, and if there are more than five objects total in the collection, we will need to have them sorted. The 'Islandora Solr: fgs_createdDate_dt' field will allow us to display only the five latest objects in our list.
   • Beside 'SORT CRITERIA', click the 'add' button. Check off 'Islandora Solr: fgs_createdDate_dt' from the list, and click 'Apply (all displays)'.
   • In order for the latest objects to show up on the top, we will need to sort them 'descending' instead of 'ascending', so on the next page, click the radio button beside 'Sort descending'. Click 'Apply (all displays)' again to close the overlay.

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1. Save the block and add it to part of the structure
   • Click the 'Save' button at the top of the view editing page. This will add it to the list of blocks in your site's 'structure' section. You can add it to part of the structure by going to http://path.to.your.site/admin/structure/block, scrolling down to the 'Disabled' block section at the bottom, and adding it to one of the block regions.
2. Check the View and see how it looks.
   • Your new view will now show up in that region, listing all new images ingested into the Basic Image collection and providing links to those images. The below example is of a view block given the above setup, with the view name 'Image Feed', and a single image in that collection called 'Sample Image'.
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   • If you want this block to appear on a Drupal page of its own, you can create a new Drupal node (basic page), then configure the block so it appears on "Only the listed pages" and add the name of that Drupal node. Finally, place a link to that node in one of the site's Drupal menus.

Configuration

The Islandora Solr Views module has no configuration options of its own, but pulls entries from the Solr index. Check the Islandora Solr section for more information on setting up Islandora Solr.