Hi Ron and all others,

I've got a question concerning the module. Under "authors", all authors of a publication are listed. In order to have a comfortable search function, I want to use the the inbuilt /biblio/filter link. The problem now is that all the authors of a publication are listed, even the ones not working in the company. What would be great now would be a feature that would make it possible to blank out some authors for the search function, i.e. only to have the authors that really are working in the company and not other contributors. Did I overlook this function? Sorry, I'm still not 100% familiar with this great, extensive module.

Thanks a lot in advance,
Chris

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rjerome commented

Hi Chris,

No you didn't miss anything, I guess the issue there is how would you identify only the authors working in the "Company" in question?

Ron.

Glowy’s picture

Glowy commented

Hey Ron!

Thanks for the quick answer - Yes, that's exactly my question :) I want to identify those authors working in the company and then apply the filter just to them.

Chris

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rjerome commented

There is an "affiliation" field associated with each author, so if that was populated, then I suppose it could be used to filter the authors. Now if you have a lot of authors, it might be quite a bore to populate that field :-(

You will see that field if you go the the authors page and click on one of the [edit] links.

If you have a large number of authors to associate with the same organization, I'm sure we could find some way to automate the process.

Ron.

Glowy’s picture

Glowy commented

Right, this sounds like a solution! I've got not too many authors in the company, but, how do I enable this affiliation-filed in the filter?

rjerome’s picture

rjerome commented

Well, that bit of the solution doesn't exist yet :-) but now that I know what your after, I'll see what can be done.

Ron.

Glowy’s picture

Glowy commented

Oh, that would be so fantastic - Thanks a lot, Ron! It's just unbelievable what a support for the module there is!

rjerome’s picture

rjerome commented

I guess one last question is.. Is this something you want all users to be able to access (i.e. an option on the filter page) or do you want the admin to set this and the users will basically not have any knowledge of the fact that the author list has been filtered?

Ron.

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Glowy commented

Ah, in our case it's a global admin setting, I guess. The filtering is for the anonymous users accessing the website. They should only be able to filter the publishers in the company and not the ~200 other authors. So filtering should always be a compulsory "company authors" + other, optional filtering options as already implemented.

Chris

rjerome’s picture

rjerome commented

I'll see what I can do.

Ron.

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savitha commented

is there is a solution for filtering the biblio lists using the author's affliation?

rjerome’s picture

rjerome commented

Not yet, I must admit that this issue fell of the radar screen. I did run into this same issue recently on a site I did where there were a few thousand authors listed, but only a few hundred actually worked for the organization, so I know where you are coming from.

I'll see what can be done, but don't be afraid to bump this up to the top of the list again if it goes idle for too long.

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glebaron commented
Version: 6.x-1.2 » master

I would love to see this feature. We have a lot of authors in our database but only a relatively small number are actually affiliated with the department.

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