display_multiple_containers

An plugin to modify how containers are displayed in the ArchivesSpace public user interface (PUI)

About

This plugin modifies the ArchivesSpace public user interface (PUI) so that if three or fewer containers are associated with a descriptive record title information for all three containers will display in the PUI. If four or more containers are associated with a descriptive record the number of containers will display in the PUI.

The plugin overrides behavior in three files:

• public/locales/en.yml: updates ‘multiple_containers’ enumeration to accept the number of containers as a parameter

• public/models/record.rb: updates the parse_container_display function in the Record class. Moves the multiple containers return statement out of the instance loop to prevent the loop from stopping once the container count is greater than 1. Adds a condition so that if the length of the container list is greater than 1 but less than 4 the function returns a string representation of the container titles. Adds an elsif statement so that if the number of containers is 4 or more the function updates and returns the ‘multiple_containers’ locale with the number of containers.

• public/views/shared/_present_list.html.erb: added a line so that the string representation of the container list for multiple containers (less than 4) will display properly - the file looks for a string and then does nothing, since no additional processing is needed as the list has already been converted to a string. This seems a little hacky but was the shortest and easiest way to do it.

Examples

Display with less than four containers:

Display with more than three containers:

Requirements

• Tested on ArchivesSpace 2.5.1 and 2.7.0