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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">James,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Have a look at plugins.pl in cfg.d , specifically the section starting at line 46 :
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https://github.com/eprints/eprints/blob/3.3/lib/defaultcfg/cfg.d/plugins.pl#L46</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">This shows how to tell eprints to replace the existing function with the new one, and not create duplicates or fill your server log
with ‘redefined’ warnings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>James Kerwin via Eprints-tech<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 30 January 2019 07:59<br>
<b>To:</b> eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [EP-tech] Modifying Details.pm/Overwriting module<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Apologies, ignore the previous email. I think I've done it.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It seems if I put the file in the suitable archive location and keep this line the same:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">package EPrints::Plugin::Screen::EPrint::Details;<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If I change the file name to something different (e.g. Detailz.pm) it appears to overwrite the original Details.pm.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Previously I was changing both the package name and the filename and it was including both.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">James<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 7:50 AM James Kerwin <<a href="mailto:jkerwin2101@gmail.com">jkerwin2101@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Could somebody please tell me how to overwrite an existing Perl module in EPrints?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I recently made some changes to Details.pm. I know better than to modify it in-situ, so I took a copy and moved it to my specific EPrint archive.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Original:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/Plugin/Screen/EPrint/Details.pm<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">New edited version:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">EPrints didn't pick up my changes (even after a server restart) unless I named the edited module something different so I called it:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Detailz.pm (package EPrints::Plugin::Screen::EPrint::Detailz;)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I've made the changes to how the page renders, but my problem now is I have a "Details" and "Details2" tab on the staff view of an EPrint. I want only my new Details.pm module to be brought in. I did follow Adam Field's YouTube video that
touched on this, but it wasn't quite the same problem and didn't work.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">James<o:p></o:p></p>
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