Missing Links?
Hi,
I'm new to this but feel somewhat stymied by the documentation as I try to work through the process of importing data and getting to know this system. There seems to be a number of things missing (or at least I cannot access them) so any help is appreciated. All of the issues are currently with the documentation of Providence.
Under "Parts of an Import Mapping" none of the blue hyperlinks are working for me. I'd love to read up on using bundle codes for instance and other things.
Similarly, I can't seem to get the bundle codes descriptions under import mapping.
None of the Links in the Configuration Library are working either.
A number of pages simply state "to come."
I kind of feel like I'm looking at a document in process and wondering if there is an older, complete version that I am missing?
Thanks,
Jonathan
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I'm afraid it's a work in progress. You can ask questions here and we'll try to answer them. The configuration library will be removed soon, which is why the links for that no longer work.
I guess to start is there any sort of guide to mapping Dublin Core Terms to the Database? That would be helpful to see how the data we have can be moved.
On a side note, it seems as though my images get stuck processing. Is there a setting or something I have missed?
I guess to start is there any sort of guide to mapping Dublin Core Terms to the Database? That would be helpful to see how the data we have can be moved.
Mapping depends upon how you have your system set up. If you really want to use DublinCore, try loading the DC profile (if you haven't already), and then look at the metadata elements that are set up for it. I'd start by looking at the metadata element list under the
Manage menu/Administration/Metadata Elements.What sort of data do you have? The importer can read delimited formats (Excel, CSV, tab-delimited) as well as a variety of XML formats, JSON, and even old-style MARC. How you map things for import depends upon both the structure and format of the source data and the set up of the system you're importing into.
On a side note, it seems as though my images get stuck processing. Is there a setting or something I have missed?
If you have QUEUE_ENABLED set in your setup.php file then uploaded files over a certain size will be queued for background processing. Processing is usually kicked off by a CRON job running the command-line
caUtils process-task-queuecommand. caUtils in in thesupport/bindirectory of your installation. My first guess if that you've got the queue enabled, but aren't running the process-task-queue command periodically.I should confess that I don't do a lot with terminal on my mac so some of this is new to me. That said (and at the risk of asking some dumb questions):
I reinstalled to start clean, I have the queue_enabled set in my setup.php file, also increased the upload and post levels, as well as the memory limit in the php.ini file as recommended. A test file currently not processing is a 1mb file, so hardly anything large.
I can find the caUtils file where you stated, I can even look at it, but (seriously) how do I get it to run? I'm assuming once I get some help with this I can add whatever command to crontab and tell it to do it regularly because it seems odd otherwise, but correct me if I am wrong.
Any help is appreciated.
In the terminal change directory into the support directory. If your install is in
/usr/local/var/www( a common location for web application installs on a Mac, but it might not be what you're using) , then change directory to/usr/local/var/www/support. The runbin/caUtils helpto see the list of available commands.Another option would be to simply disable the queue.