<div dir="ltr">Morning Alan,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for this piece of advice. It's good to know how to do it the proper way!</div><div><br></div><div>I added the line to plugins, and after a tiny amount of confusion, got it working.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>James</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 8:35 AM Alan.Stiles via Eprints-tech <<a href="mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk" target="_blank">eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">James,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Have a look at <a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplugins.pl&data=01%7C01%7Ceprints-tech%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7Cba7a3770b7154a01936e08d686a58f64%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C1&sdata=Mt02DFqwD2XP0fall5FVl8G9L9g92gWnWbQUrXAM9hY%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="http://plugins.pl" shash="tFQtWv5NL43MVRmtayGYUE2ha00d8Lf3Pp/Jwq0MXcjtpwy7SNynk1YNnsn96eyFVJKV/uKNztvpQ9qc9QXb9PzWVT1G9YpOavdQR2cVsWNMvsEzd7Xi7yyL/O9rcoaZxAb3TMK30EdPjV87xUDaO3qb2MDRY67e4bOCKo0FQcU=" target="_blank">plugins.pl</a> 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><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <a href="mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk" target="_blank">eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk" target="_blank">eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>James Kerwin via Eprints-tech<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 30 January 2019 07:59<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk" target="_blank">eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [EP-tech] Modifying Details.pm/Overwriting module<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Apologies, ignore the previous email. I think I've done it.<u></u><u></u></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:<u></u><u></u></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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Previously I was changing both the package name and the filename and it was including both.<u></u><u></u></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" target="_blank">jkerwin2101@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></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.<u></u><u></u></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:<u></u><u></u></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
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