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Re: [Greenstone-users] Retour

[Greenstone D. L. T. <gre...@wa...>]

Hi Diego,
Excellent, thanks for looking into this.
I'll add coping with accents in buttonnames to my list of things to fix 🙂
Cheers,
Katherine

________________________________
From: Diego Spano <die...@gm...>
Sent: Saturday, 9 May 2026 1:51 am
To: Greenstone Digital Library Team <gre...@wa...>
Cc: Amadou K. Tall <tal...@gm...>; Greenstone Digital Library Team via Greenstone-Users <gre...@li...>
Subject: Re: [Greenstone-users] Retour

Hi Katherine. I found the problem.

I installed GS3.12 in my computer in the same folder as Amadou, just to recreate the same environment as him. I downloaded his collection and started to analyze collectionConfig.xml. The import process had no problems, so I started to check all options related to the index creation process. All index fields were ok. Then I checked the classifiers. I deleted them one by one and rebuilt the collection afer each deletion. The collection built successfully after I deleted all classifiers. So the problem was there. I restarted by adding them one by one and found that the problem was in the option " -buttonname" . There were two List classifiers with these values:

<classifier name="List">
<option name="-metadata" value="dc.Subject"/>
<option name="-buttonname" value="Thème"/>
</classifier>

<classifier name="AZCompactList">
<option name="-metadata" value="dc.Date"/>
<option name="-buttonname" value="Année"/>
</classifier>

The problem is the accent!. Just replaced them with a simple "e" and the collection builds like a charm!

Cheers!

Diego


On Fri, May 8, 2026 at 1:02 AM Greenstone Digital Library Team via Greenstone-Users <gre...@li...<mailto:gre...@li...>> wrote:
Hi again,

Just to be clear about your 3.12 installation:
Did you already have a greenstone installation and you have installed 3.12 over the top of it?  - This is bad.
Or is C:\BNGS312 a completely fresh 3.12 install, (BNGS312 was a brand new folder) into which you have copied 3.09 collections? - This is good.

Iin GLI, if you had to change the collect path, which it seems that you did - this means that previously you were building the collection in whatever collect directory had been specified before. Not in the current greenstone folder. This means the activation wouldn't work.

Now that this collect path  is correct, you are building the collection in the right place. But again the activation is not working.
When greenstone builds a collection, it starts with input files in the import directory. "import" converts them to our xml archive format, in "archives". Then we build indexes and classifiers and metadata database, in the "building" directory.
then an activate step moves building to index, and reloads the collection on the server.

 thank you for sending me the log from expert mode. It has a lot more information in it.
From your build log we can see that the build went through but the activation didn't work.


buildcol.pl<http://buildcol.pl>> ************************
buildcol.pl<http://buildcol.pl>> * Running  Collection  Activation  Stage
buildcol.pl<http://buildcol.pl>> ************************
buildcol.pl<http://buildcol.pl>>
buildcol.pl<http://buildcol.pl>> not well-formed (invalid token) at line 44, column 34, byte 1409 at C:/BNGS312/gs2build/bin/windows/strawberry-perl/perl/vendor/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 187.
buildcol.pl<http://buildcol.pl>> Error: Failed to run: "C:\BNGS312\gs2build\bin\windows\strawberry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe" -S activate.pl<http://activate.pl> "-library_name" "library" "-collectdir" "C:\BNGS312\web\sites\localsite\collect" "-builddir" "C:\BNGS312\web\sites\localsite\collect\eau01\building" "-site" "localsite" "-verbosity" "2" "-removeold" "eau01"
buildcol.pl<http://buildcol.pl>>        No such file or directory
buildcol.pl<http://buildcol.pl>> Can't spawn ""C:\BNGS312\gs2build\bin\windows\strawberry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe" -S buildcol.pl<http://buildcol.pl> -removeold "-gli" "-language" "fr" "-activate" "-site" "localsite" "-library_name" "library" "-collectdir" "C:\BNGS312\web\sites\localsite\collect" "eau01"": No error at C:\BNGS312\gs2build\bin\script\full-buildcol.pl<http://full-buildcol.pl> line 45.
buildcol.pl<http://buildcol.pl>> Error: Failed to run: "C:\BNGS312\gs2build\bin\windows\strawberry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe" -S buildcol.pl<http://buildcol.pl> -removeold "-gli" "-language" "fr" "-activate" "-site" "localsite" "-library_name" "library" "-collectdir" "C:\BNGS312\web\sites\localsite\collect" "eau01"
buildcol.pl<http://buildcol.pl>> La commande a échoué.

One thing to try - please shut GLI, and stop the greenstone server.
Then go to C:\BNGS312\web\sites\localsite\collect\eau01.
Is there a building folder?
delete index and rename building to index.

Then restart the greenstone server. Can you see the new documents in your collection now? If yes, it means that the rest of the collection build was ok, it was just the activation that failed.
If you can no longer see the collection in the library - then something has also gone wrong in the build. Can you check the index/buildConfig.xml file - is it valid XML? Opening it in a browser should tell you if its well formed XML or not.

Can you please also: start GLI, start a brand new collection, add a single document. You can leave other settings at their defaults.
Then do a complete build. Does this work? Or do you get the same error about activation? If this works ok, then it must be something about the eau01 collection that is going wrong, rather than something wrong with your installation.

Once we get the answers to all these questions, we will have more idea about where to go from here.

Can I also just check - are you using the official 3.12 binary release? (not a release candidate, or a nightly release?)
And what version of windows are you using?

Regards,
Katherine
________________________________
From: Amadou K. Tall <tal...@gm...<mailto:tal...@gm...>>
Sent: Thursday, 7 May 2026 1:44 pm
To: Greenstone Digital Library Team <gre...@wa...<mailto:gre...@wa...>>
Subject: Re: [Greenstone-users] Retour

Hello Ms. Katherine, thank you again for your professionalism.

I don't think I described the problem clearly enough.

I installed GS312 in a folder containing an older version. The older documents are visible in the library, but the problem is that if I add new documents and run the build with GLI, it gives an error message at the end.

Although the GLI log indicates that the documents are added and taken into account, they don't appear in the library.

I checked the connection preferences and corrected them by specifying the correct path, but after the build, the same message reappears, and the new documents are not in the library. Diego Spano is also helping me, but the error persists. I'm sending you the GLI log.

Sincerely, Katherine.

Le mer. 6 mai 2026 à 22:23, Greenstone Digital Library Team <gre...@wa...<mailto:gre...@wa...>> a écrit :
Hi Amadou,
Thanks for your various emails. Did you try all the things I mentioned in my previous email?

It is fine to install greenstone in C:\BNGS312,  And it is also fine to copy in collections from previous greenstone installations.

But GLI may be confused about which greenstone collect folder it is working with.
When you start up GLI do you get a warning about non-standard collect home? - This means GLI is using the wrong collect folder, its using one set up for a previous greenstone. (Note I'll be working on fixing this for the next release)
Did you check the file->preferences->connection settings? Is the collect folder specified the one in BNGS312? If not, change it to the correct one. C:\BNG312\web\sites\localsite\collect

If that doesn't fix the problem, then next:
Find the C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Greenstone\GLI folder. I think different versions of windows sometimes use a different path. eg it could be AppData instead of Application Data.  Note, this is NOT where you install greenstone, but instead where GLI stores some config files for when its running.
There should be a gonfi3.xml in there. Shut down GLI, then delete the config3.xml file.

Restart GLI - do you see your collection? does it have the newly added documents in it? If not, re-add them, rebuild - does it work this time?

You can also check the collection folder on the file system - does the import folder contain the new documents you added using GLI?

If, after you have tried all the above, you are still having trouble, then do the following:
Please put GLI into expert mode, rebuild the collection, and send me the log. The log you sent was using librarian mode, so doesn't have any useful information in it.

Regards,
Katherine




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Re: [Greenstone-users] Retour

[Diego S. <die...@gm...>]

Hi Katherine. I found the problem.

I installed GS3.12 in my computer in the same folder as Amadou, just to
recreate the same environment as him. I downloaded his collection and
started to analyze collectionConfig.xml. The import process had no
problems, so I started to check all options related to the index creation
process. All index fields were ok. Then I checked the classifiers. I
deleted them one by one and rebuilt the collection afer each deletion. The
collection built successfully after I deleted all classifiers. So the
problem was there. I restarted by adding them one by one and found that the
problem was in the option " -buttonname" . There were two List classifiers
with these values:

<classifier name="List">

<option name="-metadata" value="dc.Subject"/>
<option name="-buttonname" value="Thème"/>

</classifier>

<classifier name="AZCompactList">

<option name="-metadata" value="dc.Date"/>
<option name="-buttonname" value="Année"/>

</classifier>

The problem is the accent!. Just replaced them with a simple "e" and the
collection builds like a charm!

Cheers!

Diego


On Fri, May 8, 2026 at 1:02 AM Greenstone Digital Library Team via
Greenstone-Users <gre...@li...> wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> Just to be clear about your 3.12 installation:
> Did you already have a greenstone installation and you have installed 3.12
> over the top of it?  - This is bad.
> Or is C:\BNGS312 a completely fresh 3.12 install, (BNGS312 was a brand new
> folder) into which you have copied 3.09 collections? - This is good.
>
> Iin GLI, if you had to change the collect path, which it seems that you
> did - this means that previously you were building the collection in
> whatever collect directory had been specified before. Not in the current
> greenstone folder. This means the activation wouldn't work.
>
> Now that this collect path  is correct, you are building the collection in
> the right place. But again the activation is not working.
> When greenstone builds a collection, it starts with input files in the
> import directory. "import" converts them to our xml archive format, in
> "archives". Then we build indexes and classifiers and metadata database, in
> the "building" directory.
> then an activate step moves building to index, and reloads the collection
> on the server.
>
>  thank you for sending me the log from expert mode. It has a lot more
> information in it.
> From your build log we can see that the build went through but the
> activation didn't work.
>
> buildcol.pl> ************************buildcol.pl> * Running  Collection  Activation  Stagebuildcol.pl> ************************buildcol.pl> buildcol.pl> not well-formed (invalid token) at line 44, column 34, byte 1409 at C:/BNGS312/gs2build/bin/windows/strawberry-perl/perl/vendor/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 187.buildcol.pl> Error: Failed to run: "C:\BNGS312\gs2build\bin\windows\strawberry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe" -S activate.pl "-library_name" "library" "-collectdir" "C:\BNGS312\web\sites\localsite\collect" "-builddir" "C:\BNGS312\web\sites\localsite\collect\eau01\building" "-site" "localsite" "-verbosity" "2" "-removeold" "eau01"buildcol.pl>        No such file or directorybuildcol.pl> Can't spawn ""C:\BNGS312\gs2build\bin\windows\strawberry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe" -S buildcol.pl -removeold "-gli" "-language" "fr" "-activate" "-site" "localsite" "-library_name" "library" "-collectdir" "C:\BNGS312\web\sites\localsite\collect" "eau01"": No error at C:\BNGS312\gs2build\bin\script\full-buildcol.pl line 45.buildcol.pl> Error: Failed to run: "C:\BNGS312\gs2build\bin\windows\strawberry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe" -S buildcol.pl -removeold "-gli" "-language" "fr" "-activate" "-site" "localsite" "-library_name" "library" "-collectdir" "C:\BNGS312\web\sites\localsite\collect" "eau01"buildcol.pl> La commande a échoué.
>
> One thing to try - please shut GLI, and stop the greenstone server.
> Then go to C:\BNGS312\web\sites\localsite\collect\eau01.
> Is there a building folder?
> delete index and rename building to index.
>
> Then restart the greenstone server. Can you see the new documents in your
> collection now? If yes, it means that the rest of the collection build was
> ok, it was just the activation that failed.
> If you can no longer see the collection in the library - then something
> has also gone wrong in the build. Can you check the index/buildConfig.xml
> file - is it valid XML? Opening it in a browser should tell you if its well
> formed XML or not.
>
> Can you please also: start GLI, start a brand new collection, add a single
> document. You can leave other settings at their defaults.
> Then do a complete build. Does this work? Or do you get the same error
> about activation? If this works ok, then it must be something about the
> eau01 collection that is going wrong, rather than something wrong with your
> installation.
>
> Once we get the answers to all these questions, we will have more idea
> about where to go from here.
>
> Can I also just check - are you using the official 3.12 binary release?
> (not a release candidate, or a nightly release?)
> And what version of windows are you using?
>
> Regards,
> Katherine
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Amadou K. Tall <tal...@gm...>
> *Sent:* Thursday, 7 May 2026 1:44 pm
> *To:* Greenstone Digital Library Team <gre...@wa...>
> *Subject:* Re: [Greenstone-users] Retour
>
> Hello Ms. Katherine, thank you again for your professionalism.
>
> I don't think I described the problem clearly enough.
>
> I installed GS312 in a folder containing an older version. The older
> documents are visible in the library, but the problem is that if I add new
> documents and run the build with GLI, it gives an error message at the end.
>
> Although the GLI log indicates that the documents are added and taken into
> account, they don't appear in the library.
>
> I checked the connection preferences and corrected them by specifying the
> correct path, but after the build, the same message reappears, and the new
> documents are not in the library. Diego Spano is also helping me, but the
> error persists. I'm sending you the GLI log.
>
> Sincerely, Katherine.
>
> Le mer. 6 mai 2026 à 22:23, Greenstone Digital Library Team <
> gre...@wa...> a écrit :
>
> Hi Amadou,
> Thanks for your various emails. Did you try all the things I mentioned in
> my previous email?
>
> It is fine to install greenstone in C:\BNGS312,  And it is also fine to
> copy in collections from previous greenstone installations.
>
> But GLI may be confused about which greenstone collect folder it is
> working with.
> When you start up GLI do you get a warning about non-standard collect
> home? - This means GLI is using the wrong collect folder, its using one set
> up for a previous greenstone. (Note I'll be working on fixing this for the
> next release)
> Did you check the file->preferences->connection settings? Is the collect
> folder specified the one in BNGS312? If not, change it to the correct one.
> C:\BNG312\web\sites\localsite\collect
>
> If that doesn't fix the problem, then next:
> Find the C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application
> Data\Greenstone\GLI folder. I think different versions of windows
> sometimes use a different path. eg it could be AppData instead of
> Application Data.  Note, this is NOT where you install greenstone, but
> instead where GLI stores some config files for when its running.
> There should be a gonfi3.xml in there. Shut down GLI, then delete the
> config3.xml file.
>
> Restart GLI - do you see your collection? does it have the newly added
> documents in it? If not, re-add them, rebuild - does it work this time?
>
> You can also check the collection folder on the file system - does the
> import folder contain the new documents you added using GLI?
>
> If, after you have tried all the above, you are still having trouble, then
> do the following:
> Please put GLI into expert mode, rebuild the collection, and send me the
> log. The log you sent was using librarian mode, so doesn't have any useful
> information in it.
>
> Regards,
> Katherine
>
>
>
>
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Re: [Greenstone-users] Retour

[Greenstone D. L. T. <gre...@wa...>]

Hi again,

Just to be clear about your 3.12 installation:
Did you already have a greenstone installation and you have installed 3.12 over the top of it?  - This is bad.
Or is C:\BNGS312 a completely fresh 3.12 install, (BNGS312 was a brand new folder) into which you have copied 3.09 collections? - This is good.

Iin GLI, if you had to change the collect path, which it seems that you did - this means that previously you were building the collection in whatever collect directory had been specified before. Not in the current greenstone folder. This means the activation wouldn't work.

Now that this collect path  is correct, you are building the collection in the right place. But again the activation is not working.
When greenstone builds a collection, it starts with input files in the import directory. "import" converts them to our xml archive format, in "archives". Then we build indexes and classifiers and metadata database, in the "building" directory.
then an activate step moves building to index, and reloads the collection on the server.

 thank you for sending me the log from expert mode. It has a lot more information in it.
>From your build log we can see that the build went through but the activation didn't work.


buildcol.pl> ************************
buildcol.pl> * Running  Collection  Activation  Stage
buildcol.pl> ************************
buildcol.pl>
buildcol.pl> not well-formed (invalid token) at line 44, column 34, byte 1409 at C:/BNGS312/gs2build/bin/windows/strawberry-perl/perl/vendor/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 187.
buildcol.pl> Error: Failed to run: "C:\BNGS312\gs2build\bin\windows\strawberry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe" -S activate.pl "-library_name" "library" "-collectdir" "C:\BNGS312\web\sites\localsite\collect" "-builddir" "C:\BNGS312\web\sites\localsite\collect\eau01\building" "-site" "localsite" "-verbosity" "2" "-removeold" "eau01"
buildcol.pl>        No such file or directory
buildcol.pl> Can't spawn ""C:\BNGS312\gs2build\bin\windows\strawberry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe" -S buildcol.pl -removeold "-gli" "-language" "fr" "-activate" "-site" "localsite" "-library_name" "library" "-collectdir" "C:\BNGS312\web\sites\localsite\collect" "eau01"": No error at C:\BNGS312\gs2build\bin\script\full-buildcol.pl line 45.
buildcol.pl> Error: Failed to run: "C:\BNGS312\gs2build\bin\windows\strawberry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe" -S buildcol.pl -removeold "-gli" "-language" "fr" "-activate" "-site" "localsite" "-library_name" "library" "-collectdir" "C:\BNGS312\web\sites\localsite\collect" "eau01"
buildcol.pl> La commande a échoué.

One thing to try - please shut GLI, and stop the greenstone server.
Then go to C:\BNGS312\web\sites\localsite\collect\eau01.
Is there a building folder?
delete index and rename building to index.

Then restart the greenstone server. Can you see the new documents in your collection now? If yes, it means that the rest of the collection build was ok, it was just the activation that failed.
If you can no longer see the collection in the library - then something has also gone wrong in the build. Can you check the index/buildConfig.xml file - is it valid XML? Opening it in a browser should tell you if its well formed XML or not.

Can you please also: start GLI, start a brand new collection, add a single document. You can leave other settings at their defaults.
Then do a complete build. Does this work? Or do you get the same error about activation? If this works ok, then it must be something about the eau01 collection that is going wrong, rather than something wrong with your installation.

Once we get the answers to all these questions, we will have more idea about where to go from here.

Can I also just check - are you using the official 3.12 binary release? (not a release candidate, or a nightly release?)
And what version of windows are you using?

Regards,
Katherine
________________________________
From: Amadou K. Tall <tal...@gm...>
Sent: Thursday, 7 May 2026 1:44 pm
To: Greenstone Digital Library Team <gre...@wa...>
Subject: Re: [Greenstone-users] Retour

Hello Ms. Katherine, thank you again for your professionalism.

I don't think I described the problem clearly enough.

I installed GS312 in a folder containing an older version. The older documents are visible in the library, but the problem is that if I add new documents and run the build with GLI, it gives an error message at the end.

Although the GLI log indicates that the documents are added and taken into account, they don't appear in the library.

I checked the connection preferences and corrected them by specifying the correct path, but after the build, the same message reappears, and the new documents are not in the library. Diego Spano is also helping me, but the error persists. I'm sending you the GLI log.

Sincerely, Katherine.

Le mer. 6 mai 2026 à 22:23, Greenstone Digital Library Team <gre...@wa...<mailto:gre...@wa...>> a écrit :
Hi Amadou,
Thanks for your various emails. Did you try all the things I mentioned in my previous email?

It is fine to install greenstone in C:\BNGS312,  And it is also fine to copy in collections from previous greenstone installations.

But GLI may be confused about which greenstone collect folder it is working with.
When you start up GLI do you get a warning about non-standard collect home? - This means GLI is using the wrong collect folder, its using one set up for a previous greenstone. (Note I'll be working on fixing this for the next release)
Did you check the file->preferences->connection settings? Is the collect folder specified the one in BNGS312? If not, change it to the correct one. C:\BNG312\web\sites\localsite\collect

If that doesn't fix the problem, then next:
Find the C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Greenstone\GLI folder. I think different versions of windows sometimes use a different path. eg it could be AppData instead of Application Data.  Note, this is NOT where you install greenstone, but instead where GLI stores some config files for when its running.
There should be a gonfi3.xml in there. Shut down GLI, then delete the config3.xml file.

Restart GLI - do you see your collection? does it have the newly added documents in it? If not, re-add them, rebuild - does it work this time?

You can also check the collection folder on the file system - does the import folder contain the new documents you added using GLI?

If, after you have tried all the above, you are still having trouble, then do the following:
Please put GLI into expert mode, rebuild the collection, and send me the log. The log you sent was using librarian mode, so doesn't have any useful information in it.

Regards,
Katherine




________________________________

Re: [Greenstone-users] Retour

[Greenstone D. L. T. <gre...@wa...>]

Hi Amadou,
Thanks for your various emails. Did you try all the things I mentioned in my previous email?

It is fine to install greenstone in C:\BNGS312,  And it is also fine to copy in collections from previous greenstone installations.

But GLI may be confused about which greenstone collect folder it is working with.
When you start up GLI do you get a warning about non-standard collect home? - This means GLI is using the wrong collect folder, its using one set up for a previous greenstone. (Note I'll be working on fixing this for the next release)
Did you check the file->preferences->connection settings? Is the collect folder specified the one in BNGS312? If not, change it to the correct one. C:\BNG312\web\sites\localsite\collect

If that doesn't fix the problem, then next:
Find the C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Greenstone\GLI folder. I think different versions of windows sometimes use a different path. eg it could be AppData instead of Application Data.  Note, this is NOT where you install greenstone, but instead where GLI stores some config files for when its running.
There should be a gonfi3.xml in there. Shut down GLI, then delete the config3.xml file.

Restart GLI - do you see your collection? does it have the newly added documents in it? If not, re-add them, rebuild - does it work this time?

You can also check the collection folder on the file system - does the import folder contain the new documents you added using GLI?

If, after you have tried all the above, you are still having trouble, then do the following:
Please put GLI into expert mode, rebuild the collection, and send me the log. The log you sent was using librarian mode, so doesn't have any useful information in it.

Regards,
Katherine




________________________________
From: Amadou K. Tall <tal...@gm...>
Sent: Tuesday, 5 May 2026 11:06 pm
To: Greenstone Digital Library Team <gre...@wa...>
Subject: Re: [Greenstone-users] Retour

Hello Katherine,
Based on your various responses, I'm wondering if I've installed it correctly. I've attached a screenshot of my hard drive.

I installed GS312 in several folders (for testing purposes).

The current folder is C:\BNGS312, which already contains GS3.09 collections.

I installed GS312 there.
The existing collections are displayed.

However, GLI isn't working; that is, newly added documents don't appear after the build process is complete.

The error message I sent you is displayed.


Is it a problem if I install GS312 in a different folder than this one (C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Greenstone\GLI)?

Please excuse me for sending the screenshot; I think it might be helpful.


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Le mar. 5 mai 2026 à 00:19, Greenstone Digital Library Team <gre...@wa...<mailto:gre...@wa...>> a écrit :
Hi,
expert mode won't fix the problem, but I was hoping you might get more messaging around what went wrong.

If you restart your greenstone server, does the collection appear? This might happen if the collection has built ok, but GLI had trouble activating it in the library.

Check the file->preferences->connection settings - do they look valid. eg is the right port number set, the right site and servlet name. is the web folder specified the right one.
If you used to build with an older version of greenstone, and now you have installed a new version, GLI might still be using some old settings. Close GLI, Look for a GLI folder eg Windows: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Greenstone\GLI
and delete config3.xml.
then restart GLI. does this help your build to work?

When you built in expert mode, at the end of the output were there any error messages? You can try setting verbosity to 5 in build options and rebuild.

If you like, you could change GLI to english, set the verbosity to 5, rebuild and then send me the build log. you can find the build log in greenstone3/web/sites/<sitename eg localsite>/collect/eau01/log - choose the one with the latest timestamp.
(you could delete all the logs, then rebuild. then you can be sure you have found the latest log file)

Alternatively, you could build on the command line
cd to your greenstone3 directory.
gs3-setup
full-rebuild.pl<http://full-rebuild.pl> -site <sitename> eau01 > build.out 2>&1

then send me build.out

Regards,
Katherine
________________________________
From: Amadou K. Tall <tal...@gm...<mailto:tal...@gm...>>
Sent: Monday, 4 May 2026 11:09 pm
To: gre...@li...<mailto:gre...@li...> <gre...@li...<mailto:gre...@li...>>
Subject: [Greenstone-users] Retour

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Hi Khaterine, after several attempts in "expert" mode, the problem persists. I'm not comfortable with Perl; I feel more at ease with other languages.

Re: [Greenstone-users] Erreur Persistante

[Diego S. <die...@gm...>]

Hi Amadou. Sorry for the late reply but I was with a strong cold the whole
weekend.

That error is because after creating  the indexes, Greenstone must rename
the "building" folder as " index" folder but if files are in use in that
folder, the renaming action cannot execute.

As Katherine told you, send us the GLI log file.

Regards!

Diego


On Mon, May 4, 2026 at 1:03 AM Amadou K. Tall <tal...@gm...> wrote:

> Persistent error: I've been getting this error for a while now. At the end
> of creating my collection, I get the following message. I've attached a
> screenshot file
> [image: image.png]
> [image: image.png]
> .
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> Gre...@li...
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Re: [Greenstone-users] Retour

[Sandraghassen S. P. <spi...@ho...>]

Bonjour Amadou,

Je ne sais pas si avez pu resoudre le probleme! Il faut peut etre voir si le probleme vient d'un de vos fichiers en compilation .. Par exemple 'Eau potable'. Essayez de l'enlever et refaire la compilation.

Au plaisir de vous lire.

Sandraghassen

________________________________
From: Amadou K. Tall <tal...@gm...>
Sent: Monday, May 4, 2026 11:09 AM
To: gre...@li... <gre...@li...>
Subject: [Greenstone-users] Retour

Hi Khaterine, after several attempts in "expert" mode, the problem persists. I'm not comfortable with Perl; I feel more at ease with other languages.

Re: [Greenstone-users] Retour

[Greenstone D. L. T. <gre...@wa...>]

Hi,
expert mode won't fix the problem, but I was hoping you might get more messaging around what went wrong.

If you restart your greenstone server, does the collection appear? This might happen if the collection has built ok, but GLI had trouble activating it in the library.

Check the file->preferences->connection settings - do they look valid. eg is the right port number set, the right site and servlet name. is the web folder specified the right one.
If you used to build with an older version of greenstone, and now you have installed a new version, GLI might still be using some old settings. Close GLI, Look for a GLI folder eg Windows: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Greenstone\GLI
and delete config3.xml.
then restart GLI. does this help your build to work?

When you built in expert mode, at the end of the output were there any error messages? You can try setting verbosity to 5 in build options and rebuild.

If you like, you could change GLI to english, set the verbosity to 5, rebuild and then send me the build log. you can find the build log in greenstone3/web/sites/<sitename eg localsite>/collect/eau01/log - choose the one with the latest timestamp.
(you could delete all the logs, then rebuild. then you can be sure you have found the latest log file)

Alternatively, you could build on the command line
cd to your greenstone3 directory.
gs3-setup
full-rebuild.pl -site <sitename> eau01 > build.out 2>&1

then send me build.out

Regards,
Katherine
________________________________
From: Amadou K. Tall <tal...@gm...>
Sent: Monday, 4 May 2026 11:09 pm
To: gre...@li... <gre...@li...>
Subject: [Greenstone-users] Retour

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Hi Khaterine, after several attempts in "expert" mode, the problem persists. I'm not comfortable with Perl; I feel more at ease with other languages.

[Greenstone-users] Retour

[Amadou K. T. <tal...@gm...>]

Hi Khaterine, after several attempts in "expert" mode, the problem
persists. I'm not comfortable with Perl; I feel more at ease with other
languages.

Re: [Greenstone-users] Search Formatting

[Greenstone D. L. T. <gre...@wa...>]

Hi Will,
Sorry, it appears our sourceforge forum is no longer forwarding messages to our mailing list. We never think to check it either. I'll have a think about whether we keep the discussion forum and have it forward to our sourceforge mailing list, or maybe we disable the forum and just use the mailing list.

For a greenstone document made up of sections, generally the top section contains all the document metadata - the main title, authors, dates etc.
section levels get their own title and often that is all.

In search results, if you want to display document metadata, then you need to use a select attribute on your gsf:metadata element:
<gsf:metadata name="dc.Title" select="root"/>

For more info see https://wiki.greenstone.org/doku.php?id=en:user:gs3_format_statements#select

If you want a search on say dc.Title to return all the sections whose top level dc.Title matches, then you need to add the build option
"-sections_index_document_metadata  <value>" - this will add the top document level metadata into the index for each section.

values are:
-sections_index_document_metadata <enum>    Add document level metadata at section level for indexing

          never: Don't add any document metadata at section level.
          always: Add all specified document level metadata even if section  level metadata of that name  exists.
          unless_section_metadata_exists: Only add document level metadata if no section level metadata of  that name exist

Grouping search results by Title.
Hmmm. Have never thought about this before. We tend to view the search results as a linear list.
Generally search results are returned in a ranked order - those matching the query terms more often come higher up the list of results.

If you are using Lucene or SOLR as your indexer, you can specify sort fields for the index, and then search results can be sorted by this field.
You could try adding dc.Title to your sort fields, and making that the default sort option.
There wouldn't be grouping as such, but all sections with the same dc.Title would be next to each other in the list. (This would need the
-sections_index_document_metadata always|unless_section_metadata_exists option)

You do lose ranking using a sort field though.

Regards,
Katherine
________________________________
From: Will Gomes <wi...@mt...>
Sent: Monday, 4 May 2026 11:57 am
To: gre...@li... <gre...@li...>
Subject: [Greenstone-users] Search Formatting

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I posted this back in January in the Help Forum on sourceforge, but didn't get a response, so thought no one was monitoring.  So I am trying here since I saw some recent activity :-) .

I set up Greenstone with PDF documents. Search works as expected, but I was  trying to customize the search results when doing section level search. The results only seem to display the section (Page 1, Page 10, etc). I was trying to display additional metadata such as dc.Title in the results. They don't appear to be returned in the results XML. Ideally I would also like to group the page level results by title as well.

I couldn't find any documentation on configuring this. Is this doable?

Thanks for any assistance

[Greenstone-users] Search Formatting

[Will G. <wi...@mt...>]

I posted this back in January in the Help Forum on sourceforge, but didn't
get a response, so thought no one was monitoring.  So I am trying here
since I saw some recent activity :-) .

I set up Greenstone with PDF documents. Search works as expected, but I
was  trying to customize the search results when doing section level
search. The results only seem to display the section (Page 1, Page 10,
etc). I was trying to display additional metadata such as dc.Title in the
results. They don't appear to be returned in the results XML. Ideally I
would also like to group the page level results by title as well.

I couldn't find any documentation on configuring this. Is this doable?

Thanks for any assistance

Re: [Greenstone-users] Error persisting

[Greenstone D. L. T. <gre...@wa...>]

Hi Amadou
Please put your librarian interface into Expert Mode (File->Preferences->Mode) and rebuild the collection. You should get a lot more output, and hopefully it will tell you what is going wrong.
Regards,
Katherine
________________________________
From: Amadou K. Tall <tal...@gm...>
Sent: Monday, 4 May 2026 2:56 am
To: gre...@li... <gre...@li...>
Subject: [Greenstone-users] Error persisting

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Error persisting on GS3.12 after collection creation, the message below is displayed. je vous joint la capture d'écran ci-dessous
tal...@gm...<mailto:tal...@gm...>
[image.png]
[image.png]

[Greenstone-users] Error persisting

[Amadou K. T. <tal...@gm...>]

*Error persisting on GS3.12 after collection creation, the message below is
displayed. je vous joint la capture d'écran ci-dessous*
*tal...@gm... <tal...@gm...>*
[image: image.png]
[image: image.png]

[Greenstone-users] Erreur Persistante

[Amadou K. T. <tal...@gm...>]

Persistent error: I've been getting this error for a while now. At the end
of creating my collection, I get the following message. I've attached a
screenshot file
[image: image.png]
[image: image.png]
.

Re: [Greenstone-users] greenstone won't start

[Greenstone D. L. T. <gre...@wa...>]

Hi Masa
What version of greenstone did you download? Where from?
If you got it from www.greenstone.org/caveat-emptor<http://www.greenstone.org/caveat-emptor> - these are nightly builds and we don't recommend tto use these unless you are developing.
Please download the 3.12 version of greenstone from www.greenstone.org/download<http://www.greenstone.org/download> and try that.
If that is, in fact, what you did download, then  -

  *
can you run the server ok? (without gli)
  *
try restarting gli again - do you get the same error each time?

Cheers,
katherine
________________________________
From: Maša M <med...@gm...>
Sent: Monday, 1 December 2025 2:56 am
To: gre...@li... <gre...@li...>
Subject: [Greenstone-users] greenstone won't start

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Greetings,

I'm having problems running greenstone, and would need some help as soon as possible. I'm using windows 11, I downloaded greenstone3 (the newest patch) and when i start GLI it starts of normally but then turns into a never-ending line of errors (as depicted in the picture attached). I've checked and the file does exist.
I have tried the troubleshooting guide from your page but it made no chages. Please advise me on how to proceed.

Best regards,
Masa

[Greenstone-users] greenstone won't start

[Maša M <med...@gm...>]

Greetings,

I'm having problems running greenstone, and would need some help as soon as
possible. I'm using windows 11, I downloaded greenstone3 (the newest patch)
and when i start GLI it starts of normally but then turns into a
never-ending line of errors (as depicted in the picture attached). I've
checked and the file does exist.
I have tried the troubleshooting guide from your page but it made no
chages. Please advise me on how to proceed.

Best regards,
Masa

Re: [Greenstone-users] Error in running GLI : Failed to successfully start the GS3 server - Reg.

[Greenstone D. L. T. <gre...@wa...>]

Hi there,
Please try in a terminal window navigating to the Greenstone3 folder and running gs3-setup.bat.
Does that give any errors?

If not, run gs3-server.bat from the same folder.
If that had no errors, try accessing localhost:8383/greenstone3 in a browser.

Does that work?

Regards,
Katherine
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To: gre...@li... <gre...@li...>
Subject: [Greenstone-users] Error in running GLI : Failed to successfully start the GS3 server - Reg.

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Hi,

My installation failed to start the GS3 server and localhost is also not running in localhost:8383/greenstone3. I got the following debug log. Please advise.
--
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>cd C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\GLI

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli>gs3-server.bat
'gs3-server.bat' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli>run gs3-server.bat
'run' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli>ant start
'ant' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli>cd
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli>cd
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli>cd C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3>ant start
'ant' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3>cd C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\GLI

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli>gli.bat -debug

Greenstone Librarian Interface (GLI)
Copyright (C) 2008, New Zealand Digital Library Project, University Of Waikato
GLI comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details see LICENSE.txt
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it

"Running gs3-setup-cli.bat"
Set environment variable GSDL3_EXTCLI_HOME:
  C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\ext-cli

Running gs2build\setup.bat
'chcp' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.


 ####                        #
##                           #
#     ###  ##   ##  ### ### ###  ##  ###  ##
#   # #   #### #### # # ##   #  #  # # # ####
##  # #   #    #    # #   #  #  #  # # # #
 #### #    ###  ### # # ###  ##  ##  # #  ###
(C) 2008, New Zealand Digital Library Project




Your environment has successfully been set up to run Greenstone.
Note that these settings will only have effect within this MS-DOS
session. You will therefore need to rerun setup.bat if you want
to run Greenstone programs from a different MS-DOS session.

+Your environment is now setup for the PDFBox Extension

Checking if GSDLHOME is writable...
GSDLHOME has write permission for the current user.

Neither JAVA_HOME nor JRE_HOME set. Will shortly check for bundled JRE of correc
t bitness.
  - Solr API accessed internally via: http://127.0.0.1:8383/solr/
+Your environment is now setup for the Solr Extension

Running local\gs3-setup.bat
Setting JRE_HOME to the bundled JRE_HOME at C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\
jre
Adding JRE_HOME\bin to PATH

JNI bitness test: 32
Using the bundled JRE detected at C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\jre

GSDL3SRCHOME : C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3
GSDL3HOME    : C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\web
JAVA         : C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\jre\bin\java.exe
JRE_HOME     : C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\jre
PERL         : C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\windows\strawberry-perl\p
erl\bin
ANT_HOME     : C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\ant

GSDLHOME environment variable is set to C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build.

Will use this to find build scripts.

Checking if the Greenstone collection directory is writable ...
... OK
Perl:
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\windows\strawberry-perl\perl\bin

Java:
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\jre\bin\java.exe

Greenstone Major Version :
3

GSDL3SRCHOME:
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3

GSDL3HOME:
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\web

GSDLHOME:
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build


GhostScript bundled with Greenstone will be used, if you wish to use the version
 installed on your system (if any) please go to C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2bu
ild\bin\windows and rename the folder called ghostscript to something else.


ImageMagick bundled with Greenstone will be used, if you wish to use the version
 installed on your system (if any) please go to C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2bu
ild\bin\windows and rename the folder called imagemagick to something else.


Running the Greenstone Librarian Interface...
Version: 3.12

Debug file path: C:\Users\TNPSc\Application Data\Greenstone\GLI\debug31-9-2025.t
xt
-- listing properties --
java.runtime.name<http://java.runtime.name>=Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment
sun.boot.library.path=C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\j...
java.vm.version=25.301-b09
java.util.prefs.syncInterval=2000000
java.vm.vendor=Oracle Corporation
java.vendor.url=http://java.oracle.com/
path.separator=;
java.vm.name<http://java.vm.name>=Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
file.encoding.pkg=sun.io<http://sun.io>
user.script=
user.country=IN
sun.java.launcher=SUN_STANDARD
sun.os.patch.level=Service Pack 1
java.vm.specification.name<http://java.vm.specification.name>=Java Virtual Machine Specification
user.dir=C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli
java.runtime.version=1.8.0_301-b09
java.awt.graphicsenv=sun.awt.Win32GraphicsEnvironment
java.endorsed.dirs=C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\j...
os.arch=x86
java.io.tmpdir=C:\Users\TNPSc\AppData\Local\Temp\
line.separator=

java.vm.specification.vendor=Oracle Corporation
user.variant=
os.name<http://os.name>=Windows 7
sun.jnu.encoding=Cp1252
java.library.path=C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\j...
sun.awt.enableExtraMouseButtons=true
java.specification.name<http://java.specification.name>=Java Platform API Specification
java.class.version=52.0
sun.management.compiler=HotSpot Client Compiler
os.version=6.1
user.home=C:\Users\TNPSc
user.timezone=Asia/Calcutta
java.awt.printerjob=sun.awt.windows.WPrinterJob
java.specification.version=1.8
file.encoding=Cp1252
user.name<http://user.name>=TNPSc
java.class.path=classes/;GLI.jar;lib/apache.jar;lib/j...
java.vm.specification.version=1.8
sun.arch.data.model=32
java.home=C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\jre
sun.java.command=org.greenstone.gatherer.GathererProg ...
java.specification.vendor=Oracle Corporation
user.language=en
awt.toolkit=sun.awt.windows.WToolkit
java.vm.info<http://java.vm.info>=mixed mode
java.version=1.8.0_301
java.ext.dirs=C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\j...
sun.boot.class.path=C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\j...
sun.stderr.encoding=cp437
java.vendor=Oracle Corporation
file.separator=\
java.vendor.url.bug=http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/
sun.cpu.endian=little
sun.io.unicode.encoding=UnicodeLittle
sun.stdout.encoding=cp437
sun.desktop=windows
sun.cpu.isalist=pentium_pro+mmx pentium_pro pentium+m...
  SafeProcess running: cmd /C "cd "C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\\" && ant check-to
mcat-running"
  SafeProcess running: cmd /C "cd "C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\\" && ant configur
e-servlets-xml"
Configuration.library_url = http://localhost:8383/greenstone3
Configuration.gliserver_url = null
Issuing start command to GS3 Server
  SafeProcess running: cmd /C "cd "C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\\" && ant start"
parsing xml file C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\web\WEB-INF\web.xml
### resolveEntity() called for file:///C:/Users/TNPSc/Greenstone3/gli/servlets.x
ml
### searching for entity 'servlets.xml' in: C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\web\WEB-I
NF
         Found C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\web\WEB-INF\servlets.xml
### resolveEntity() called for file:///C:/Users/TNPSc/Greenstone3/gli/flax.xml
### searching for entity 'flax.xml' in: C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\web\WEB-INF
         Found C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\web\WEB-INF\flax.xml
User cache dir: C:\Users\TNPSc\Application Data\Greenstone\GLI\cache\
***** Running ImageMagickTest command: C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\w
indows\strawberry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe -S gs-magick.pl<http://gs-magick.pl> identify.exe -version
  SafeProcess running: [ C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\windows\strawbe
rry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe -S gs-magick.pl<http://gs-magick.pl> identify.exe -version]
FileQueue started.
Unmapping recycle...
In loadClassifiersList()...
  SafeProcess running: [ C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\windows\strawbe
rry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe -S C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\script\cla
ssinfo.pl<http://ssinfo.pl> -listall -xml]
In loadPluginsList()...
  SafeProcess running: [ C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\windows\strawbe
rry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe -S C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\script\plu
ginfo.pl<http://ginfo.pl> -gs_version 3 -listall -xml]
PDFBoxConverter: **** Testing for java
Failed to run: java -version &gt;nul 2&gt;&amp;1
Error variable: |No such file or directory| and status: 65280
AutoLoadConverters: PDFBox Extension to Greenstone detected for PDFPlugin
... but it appears to be broken
AutoLoadConverters: Conversion not available (Couldn't run Java.)
WGet thread is waiting for DownloadJobs.
Getting Download Info: [C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\windows\strawber
ry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe, -S, C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\script\do
wnloadinfo.pl<http://wnloadinfo.pl>, -describeall, -xml, -language, en]
  SafeProcess running: [ C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\windows\strawbe
rry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe -S C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\script\dow
nloadinfo.pl<http://nloadinfo.pl> -describeall -xml -language en]
Unmapping ABS_ROOT...
Insert Documents in Greenstone Collections in ABS_ROOT at index 0 [Model: FileSy
stemModel]
Insert Local Filespace in ABS_ROOT at index 1 [Model: FileSystemModel]
Property os.name<http://os.name>: Windows 7
Insert Home Folder (TNPSc) in ABS_ROOT at index 2 [Model: FileSystemModel]
Insert Downloaded Files in ABS_ROOT at index 3 [Model: FileSystemModel]
BaseConfigPane: Main GUI components created.
BaseConfigPane: Main GUI components created.
Unmapping ABS_ROOT...
Insert Files in Greenstone Collections in ABS_ROOT at index 0 [Model: FileSystem
Model]
Insert Local Filespace in ABS_ROOT at index 1 [Model: FileSystemModel]
Property os.name<http://os.name>: Windows 7
Insert Home Folder (TNPSc) in ABS_ROOT at index 2 [Model: FileSystemModel]
Insert Downloaded Files in ABS_ROOT at index 3 [Model: FileSystemModel]
Error: Failed to successfully start the GS3 server.

--
Librarian,
Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission,
TNPSC Road, Broadway,
Chennai - 600 003.
Tamil Nadu, India.

[Greenstone-users] Error in running GLI : Failed to successfully start the GS3 server - Reg.

[Library T. <lib...@gm...>]

Hi,

My installation failed to start the GS3 server and localhost is also not
running in localhost:8383/greenstone3. I got the following debug log.
Please advise.
--
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>cd C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\GLI

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli>gs3-server.bat
'gs3-server.bat' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli>run gs3-server.bat
'run' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli>ant start
'ant' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli>cd
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli>cd
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli>cd C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3>ant start
'ant' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3>cd C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\GLI

C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli>gli.bat -debug

Greenstone Librarian Interface (GLI)
Copyright (C) 2008, New Zealand Digital Library Project, University Of
Waikato
GLI comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details see LICENSE.txt
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it

"Running gs3-setup-cli.bat"
Set environment variable GSDL3_EXTCLI_HOME:
  C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\ext-cli

Running gs2build\setup.bat
'chcp' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.


 ####                        #
##                           #
#     ###  ##   ##  ### ### ###  ##  ###  ##
#   # #   #### #### # # ##   #  #  # # # ####
##  # #   #    #    # #   #  #  #  # # # #
 #### #    ###  ### # # ###  ##  ##  # #  ###
(C) 2008, New Zealand Digital Library Project




Your environment has successfully been set up to run Greenstone.
Note that these settings will only have effect within this MS-DOS
session. You will therefore need to rerun setup.bat if you want
to run Greenstone programs from a different MS-DOS session.

+Your environment is now setup for the PDFBox Extension

Checking if GSDLHOME is writable...
GSDLHOME has write permission for the current user.

Neither JAVA_HOME nor JRE_HOME set. Will shortly check for bundled JRE of
correc
t bitness.
  - Solr API accessed internally via: http://127.0.0.1:8383/solr/
+Your environment is now setup for the Solr Extension

Running local\gs3-setup.bat
Setting JRE_HOME to the bundled JRE_HOME at
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\
jre
Adding JRE_HOME\bin to PATH

JNI bitness test: 32
Using the bundled JRE detected at C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\jre

GSDL3SRCHOME : C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3
GSDL3HOME    : C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\web
JAVA         : C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\jre\bin\java.exe
JRE_HOME     : C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\jre
PERL         :
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\windows\strawberry-perl\p
erl\bin
ANT_HOME     : C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\ant

GSDLHOME environment variable is set to C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build.

Will use this to find build scripts.

Checking if the Greenstone collection directory is writable ...
... OK
Perl:
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\windows\strawberry-perl\perl\bin

Java:
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\jre\bin\java.exe

Greenstone Major Version :
3

GSDL3SRCHOME:
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3

GSDL3HOME:
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\web

GSDLHOME:
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build


GhostScript bundled with Greenstone will be used, if you wish to use the
version
 installed on your system (if any) please go to
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2bu
ild\bin\windows and rename the folder called ghostscript to something else.


ImageMagick bundled with Greenstone will be used, if you wish to use the
version
 installed on your system (if any) please go to
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2bu
ild\bin\windows and rename the folder called imagemagick to something else.


Running the Greenstone Librarian Interface...
Version: 3.12

Debug file path: C:\Users\TNPSc\Application
Data\Greenstone\GLI\debug31-9-2025.t
xt
-- listing properties --
java.runtime.name=Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment
sun.boot.library.path=C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\j...
java.vm.version=25.301-b09
java.util.prefs.syncInterval=2000000
java.vm.vendor=Oracle Corporation
java.vendor.url=http://java.oracle.com/
path.separator=;
java.vm.name=Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
file.encoding.pkg=sun.io
user.script=
user.country=IN
sun.java.launcher=SUN_STANDARD
sun.os.patch.level=Service Pack 1
java.vm.specification.name=Java Virtual Machine Specification
user.dir=C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gli
java.runtime.version=1.8.0_301-b09
java.awt.graphicsenv=sun.awt.Win32GraphicsEnvironment
java.endorsed.dirs=C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\j...
os.arch=x86
java.io.tmpdir=C:\Users\TNPSc\AppData\Local\Temp\
line.separator=

java.vm.specification.vendor=Oracle Corporation
user.variant=
os.name=Windows 7
sun.jnu.encoding=Cp1252
java.library.path=C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\j...
sun.awt.enableExtraMouseButtons=true
java.specification.name=Java Platform API Specification
java.class.version=52.0
sun.management.compiler=HotSpot Client Compiler
os.version=6.1
user.home=C:\Users\TNPSc
user.timezone=Asia/Calcutta
java.awt.printerjob=sun.awt.windows.WPrinterJob
java.specification.version=1.8
file.encoding=Cp1252
user.name=TNPSc
java.class.path=classes/;GLI.jar;lib/apache.jar;lib/j...
java.vm.specification.version=1.8
sun.arch.data.model=32
java.home=C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\jre
sun.java.command=org.greenstone.gatherer.GathererProg ...
java.specification.vendor=Oracle Corporation
user.language=en
awt.toolkit=sun.awt.windows.WToolkit
java.vm.info=mixed mode
java.version=1.8.0_301
java.ext.dirs=C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\j...
sun.boot.class.path=C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\packages\j...
sun.stderr.encoding=cp437
java.vendor=Oracle Corporation
file.separator=\
java.vendor.url.bug=http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/
sun.cpu.endian=little
sun.io.unicode.encoding=UnicodeLittle
sun.stdout.encoding=cp437
sun.desktop=windows
sun.cpu.isalist=pentium_pro+mmx pentium_pro pentium+m...
  SafeProcess running: cmd /C "cd "C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\\" && ant
check-to
mcat-running"
  SafeProcess running: cmd /C "cd "C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\\" && ant
configur
e-servlets-xml"
Configuration.library_url = http://localhost:8383/greenstone3
Configuration.gliserver_url = null
Issuing start command to GS3 Server
  SafeProcess running: cmd /C "cd "C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\\" && ant
start"
parsing xml file C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\web\WEB-INF\web.xml
### resolveEntity() called for
file:///C:/Users/TNPSc/Greenstone3/gli/servlets.x
ml
### searching for entity 'servlets.xml' in:
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\web\WEB-I
NF
         Found C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\web\WEB-INF\servlets.xml
### resolveEntity() called for
file:///C:/Users/TNPSc/Greenstone3/gli/flax.xml
### searching for entity 'flax.xml' in:
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\web\WEB-INF
         Found C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\web\WEB-INF\flax.xml
User cache dir: C:\Users\TNPSc\Application Data\Greenstone\GLI\cache\
***** Running ImageMagickTest command:
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\w
indows\strawberry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe -S gs-magick.pl identify.exe
-version
  SafeProcess running: [
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\windows\strawbe
rry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe -S gs-magick.pl identify.exe -version]
FileQueue started.
Unmapping recycle...
In loadClassifiersList()...
  SafeProcess running: [
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\windows\strawbe
rry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe -S
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\script\cla
ssinfo.pl -listall -xml]
In loadPluginsList()...
  SafeProcess running: [
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\windows\strawbe
rry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe -S
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\script\plu
ginfo.pl -gs_version 3 -listall -xml]
PDFBoxConverter: **** Testing for java
Failed to run: java -version >nul 2>&1
Error variable: |No such file or directory| and status: 65280
AutoLoadConverters: PDFBox Extension to Greenstone detected for PDFPlugin
... but it appears to be broken
AutoLoadConverters: Conversion not available (Couldn't run Java.)
WGet thread is waiting for DownloadJobs.
Getting Download Info:
[C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\windows\strawber
ry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe, -S,
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\script\do
wnloadinfo.pl, -describeall, -xml, -language, en]
  SafeProcess running: [
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\windows\strawbe
rry-perl\perl\bin\Perl.exe -S
C:\Users\TNPSc\Greenstone3\gs2build\bin\script\dow
nloadinfo.pl -describeall -xml -language en]
Unmapping ABS_ROOT...
Insert Documents in Greenstone Collections in ABS_ROOT at index 0 [Model:
FileSy
stemModel]
Insert Local Filespace in ABS_ROOT at index 1 [Model: FileSystemModel]
Property os.name: Windows 7
Insert Home Folder (TNPSc) in ABS_ROOT at index 2 [Model: FileSystemModel]
Insert Downloaded Files in ABS_ROOT at index 3 [Model: FileSystemModel]
BaseConfigPane: Main GUI components created.
BaseConfigPane: Main GUI components created.
Unmapping ABS_ROOT...
Insert Files in Greenstone Collections in ABS_ROOT at index 0 [Model:
FileSystem
Model]
Insert Local Filespace in ABS_ROOT at index 1 [Model: FileSystemModel]
Property os.name: Windows 7
Insert Home Folder (TNPSc) in ABS_ROOT at index 2 [Model: FileSystemModel]
Insert Downloaded Files in ABS_ROOT at index 3 [Model: FileSystemModel]
Error: Failed to successfully start the GS3 server.

-- 
Librarian,
Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission,
TNPSC Road, Broadway,
Chennai - 600 003.
Tamil Nadu, India.

Re: [Greenstone-users] Display of date in friendly format

[Greenstone D. L. T. <gre...@wa...>]

Hi Renate,
You are using the following choose-title template:

<gsf:template name="choose-title">
                                <gsf:choose-metadata>
                                        <gsf:metadata name="dc.Date"/>
                                        <gsf:metadata format="FormatDate" name="dc.Date"/>
                                        <gsf:metadata name="Title"/>
                                        <gsf:default>No date</gsf:default>
                                </gsf:choose-metadata>
                        </gsf:template>

This will display the first item that matches  - a plain dc.Date. If you remove that first dc.Date line, then the formatted version will be the first one in the list, and will be used.

Regards,
Katherine
________________________________
From: Renate Morgenstern via Greenstone-Users <gre...@li...>
Sent: Monday, 6 October 2025 7:15 am
To: greenstone-users <gre...@li...>
Subject: [Greenstone-users] Display of date in friendly format

Hi,
I have a collection of PDF files. I am not satisfied with the display of the date in the Subject classifier. I would like to see the date displayed in human format under the Subjec; See screenshot.
What should be changes in the collectionConfig,xml?
Thanks for the help.
Renate


--

Renate Morgenstern
Tel.: +264 61 242124
Cell: +264 81 2910284
10023, Windhoek, Namibia

[Greenstone-users] Display of date in friendly format

[Renate M. <rmo...@iw...>]

Hi,
I have a collection of PDF files. I am not satisfied with the display
of the date in the Subject classifier. I would like to see the date
displayed in human format under the Subjec; See screenshot.
What should be changes in the collectionConfig,xml?
Thanks for the help.
Renate

-- 


Renate Morgenstern
Tel.: +264 61 242124
Cell: +264 81 2910284
10023, Windhoek, Namibia

Re: [Greenstone-users] Disabling Favourite basket per collection

[Greenstone D. L. T. <gre...@wa...>]

Hi again Renate,

I have updated the favourites page in the wiki. https://wiki.greenstone.org/doku.php?id=en:user:favourites

The <paramDefault name="favouritebasket" value="off"/> part needs to be added to siteConfig.xml's top level <format> element.
Then restart the server, and use a new private window for testing.
All this does is set the default value to off, and the user can turn it back on in preferences.
To disable them completely for a collection, use the custom gslib technique.

Regards,
Katherine


________________________________
From: Greenstone Digital Library Team via Greenstone-Users <gre...@li...>
Sent: Friday, 3 October 2025 1:38 pm
To: greenstone-users <gre...@li...>; rmo...@iw... <rmo...@iw...>
Subject: Re: [Greenstone-users] Disabling Favourite basket per collection

Hi Renate,
I just had a try of this, and its not working at all. I thought maybe it only works if you put that paramDefault in the siteConfig, but thats not working either 🙁
So I'll need to look into this.

You can achieve it a different way.

  1.
If there is only one collection in the library, or you are happy with no collections having favourites: - edit resources/web/servlets.xml.in and set the favouritebasket init param to false for the servlet you are using. Then restart the server (ant-restart-with-exts.sh)
  2.
If you really just want to turn off favourites for only one collection, then add the attached gslib.xsl into the collection, into its transform folder (you may need to create that if it doesn't already have one). (use files tab in GLI, or on the command line go to web/sites/<sitename>/collect/<collname>) This just redefines the templates to display the stars and the link to favourites to be empty. You shouldn't need to restart.


Hopefully one of these solutions will work for you, and I will add to my list looking at how to set the param.

Regards,
katherine

________________________________
From: Renate Morgenstern via Greenstone-Users <gre...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, 2 October 2025 4:19 am
To: greenstone-users <gre...@li...>
Subject: [Greenstone-users] Disabling Favourite basket per collection

Hi,
I wan to disable the Favourites Basket for a collection.
In the collectionConfig.xml file I added this:  But the star is still there after a tomcat restart.
Where should this be done.
Thanks
Renate
.....
</displayItem>
</displayItemList>
<format>
<param name="favouritebasket" value="off"/>
</format>
<format>
<gsf:template name="choose-title">
<gsf:choose-metadata>
<gsf:metadata name="dc.Title"/>
<gsf:metadata name="Title"/>
<gsf:default>Untitled</gsf:default>
</gsf:choose-metadata>   ...
</gsf:template>

--

Renate Morgenstern
Tel.: +264 61 242124
Cell: +264 81 2910284
10023, Windhoek, Namibia

Re: [Greenstone-users] Disabling Favourite basket per collection

[Greenstone D. L. T. <gre...@wa...>]

Hi Renate,
I just had a try of this, and its not working at all. I thought maybe it only works if you put that paramDefault in the siteConfig, but thats not working either 🙁
So I'll need to look into this.

You can achieve it a different way.

  1.
If there is only one collection in the library, or you are happy with no collections having favourites: - edit resources/web/servlets.xml.in and set the favouritebasket init param to false for the servlet you are using. Then restart the server (ant-restart-with-exts.sh)
  2.
If you really just want to turn off favourites for only one collection, then add the attached gslib.xsl into the collection, into its transform folder (you may need to create that if it doesn't already have one). (use files tab in GLI, or on the command line go to web/sites/<sitename>/collect/<collname>) This just redefines the templates to display the stars and the link to favourites to be empty. You shouldn't need to restart.


Hopefully one of these solutions will work for you, and I will add to my list looking at how to set the param.

Regards,
katherine

________________________________
From: Renate Morgenstern via Greenstone-Users <gre...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, 2 October 2025 4:19 am
To: greenstone-users <gre...@li...>
Subject: [Greenstone-users] Disabling Favourite basket per collection

Hi,
I wan to disable the Favourites Basket for a collection.
In the collectionConfig.xml file I added this:  But the star is still there after a tomcat restart.
Where should this be done.
Thanks
Renate
.....
</displayItem>
</displayItemList>
<format>
<param name="favouritebasket" value="off"/>
</format>
<format>
<gsf:template name="choose-title">
<gsf:choose-metadata>
<gsf:metadata name="dc.Title"/>
<gsf:metadata name="Title"/>
<gsf:default>Untitled</gsf:default>
</gsf:choose-metadata>   ...
</gsf:template>

--

Renate Morgenstern
Tel.: +264 61 242124
Cell: +264 81 2910284
10023, Windhoek, Namibia

[Greenstone-users] Disabling Favourite basket per collection

[Renate M. <rmo...@iw...>]

Hi,
I wan to disable the Favourites Basket for a collection.
In the collectionConfig.xml file I added this:  But the star is still
there after a tomcat restart.
Where should this be done.
Thanks
Renate
.....
</displayItem>
</displayItemList>
<format>
<param name="favouritebasket" value="off"/>
</format>
<format>
<gsf:template name="choose-title">
<gsf:choose-metadata>
<gsf:metadata name="dc.Title"/>
<gsf:metadata name="Title"/>
<gsf:default>Untitled</gsf:default>
</gsf:choose-metadata>   ...
</gsf:template>
-- 


Renate Morgenstern
Tel.: +264 61 242124
Cell: +264 81 2910284
10023, Windhoek, Namibia

Re: [Greenstone-users] CollectionConfig.xml and html code

[Greenstone D. L. T. <gre...@wa...>]

Have you got a separate greenstone install (or GLI install) for client-gli? You'll need to put the new GLI.jar into that also.
Regards,
Katherine
________________________________
From: Renate Morgenstern <rmo...@iw...>
Sent: Thursday, 4 September 2025 6:29 am
To: Greenstone Digital Library Team <gre...@wa...>
Cc: greenstone-users <gre...@li...>
Subject: Re: [Greenstone-users] CollectionConfig.xml and html code

Hi ,

I have done and it works for GLI.jar and using the unescaped HTML code.   However,  when using the client-gli.sh the same error occurs.
What file should I download the extract to correct file.
Thanks
Renate


Hi Renate,
I have attached a new GLI.jar. This is taken from the latest nightly build, so it has the few changes that have been made since the release.

Please rename your existing GLI.jar so you can go back to it if the new one doesn't work for some reason.
greenstone3/gli/GLI.jar - eg rename to GLI.jar.original

Then copy the new one into that folder.

If you are using webswing GLI, then you'll need to do the same thing (replacing GLI.jar) in web/ext/webswing/apps/gli.

Does it work for you with the new GLI?
Note, Make sure you haven't got the escaped version of the description in the collectionConfig.xml file. It should look like HTML eg <a href=""> rather than being escaped eg &lt;a href=""&gt;

Cheers,
Katherine
________________________________
From: Renate Morgenstern <rmo...@iw...>
Sent: Wednesday, 3 September 2025 6:48 am
To: Greenstone Digital Library Team <gre...@wa...>
Subject: Re: [Greenstone-users] CollectionConfig.xml and html code

Hi Katherine,

I have changed the site for the collections that it looks like this. The collections are listed in the right column.
This is why I added the html code <href="  "  in the description of the collection.
See attached zip file of the home-tutorial.xsl

Regards and thanks
Renate


[cid:3d5...@iw...-0]
Hi Renate,
Thanks for sending your collectionConfig.xml snippet.

It turns out there is a bug in GLI - if the collection description had quotes in it - in your case this is in the <a href=""> part - then these would be escaped, resulting in invalid XML.

I have fixed this in the greenstone repository, for the next release.

In the meantime, please add the html into the coll-description template in your collection's transform/pages/about.xsl file. You should have this file if you started with a new collection (rather than basing it on an existing collection). if not, copy the one out of web/sites/modelsite/collect/modelcol/transform/pages/about.xsl into your collection, and edit that.
(if this is the collection where you had to move the transform folder out of the way, try adding just the transform/pages/about.xsl back in - does that work?)


Regards,
Katherine

________________________________
From: Greenstone Digital Library Team via Greenstone-Users <gre...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, 27 August 2025 1:17 pm
To: greenstone-users <gre...@li...>; rmo...@iw... <rmo...@iw...>
Subject: Re: [Greenstone-users] CollectionConfig.xml and html code

Hi Renate,
Please send the part of the collectionConfig showing what you have entered there, and where it fits into the file (ie what tag its inside).
And what are the error messages you get when building?

Are you just trying to add a link from the about page of a collection? You could add the html into the coll-description template in your collection's transform/pages/about.xsl file?
If not, please give more description of what you are trying to achieve.

Regards,
Katherine

________________________________
From: Renate Morgenstern via Greenstone-Users <gre...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, 27 August 2025 3:59 am
To: greenstone-users <gre...@li...>
Subject: [Greenstone-users] CollectionConfig.xml and html code

Hi,

I added  html code into the collectionConfig.xml file at the top to point to a another site.
When the collection is opened the link works, but when adding documents and building the collection it gives an error message, and it can't be opened again, unless I comment out the code.
Where else could I add pointers to other site for the user.
Thanks in advance for the help.
Renate





--

Renate Morgenstern
Tel.: +264 61 242124
Cell: +264 81 2910284
10023, Windhoek, Namibia

Re: [Greenstone-users] CollectionConfig.xml and html code

[Renate M. <rmo...@iw...>]

Hi ,

I have done and it works for GLI.jar and using the unescaped HTML code.
  However,  when using the client-gli.sh the same error occurs.
What file should I download the extract to correct file.
Thanks 
Renate


> 
> Hi Renate,
> I have attached a new GLI.jar. This is taken from the latest nightly
> build, so it has the few changes that have been made since the
> release.
> 
> 
> Please rename your existing GLI.jar so you can go back to it if the
> new one doesn't work for some reason.
> greenstone3/gli/GLI.jar - eg rename to GLI.jar.original
> 
> 
> Then copy the new one into that folder.
> 
> 
> If you are using webswing GLI, then you'll need to do the same thing
> (replacing GLI.jar) in web/ext/webswing/apps/gli.
> 
> 
> Does it work for you with the new GLI? 
> Note, Make sure you haven't got the escaped version of the
> description in the collectionConfig.xml file. It should look like
> HTML eg <a href=""> rather than being escaped eg &lt;a href=""&gt;
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Katherine
> From: Renate Morgenstern <rmo...@iw...>
> Sent: Wednesday, 3 September 2025 6:48 am
> To: Greenstone Digital Library Team <gre...@wa...>
> Subject: Re: [Greenstone-users] CollectionConfig.xml and html code
>  
> 
> Hi Katherine,
> 
> I have changed the site for the collections that it looks like this.
> The collections are listed in the right column.
> This is why I added the html code <href="  "  in the description of
> the collection.
> See attached zip file of the home-tutorial.xsl
> 
> Regards and thanks
> Renate
> 
> 
> > Hi Renate,
> > Thanks for sending your collectionConfig.xml snippet.
> > 
> > 
> > It turns out there is a bug in GLI - if the collection description
> > had quotes in it - in your case this is in the <a href=""> part -
> > then these would be escaped, resulting in invalid XML.
> > 
> > 
> > I have fixed this in the greenstone repository, for the next
> > release.
> > 
> > 
> > In the meantime, please add the html into the coll-description
> > template in your collection's transform/pages/about.xsl file. You
> > should have this file if you started with a new collection (rather
> > than basing it on an existing collection). if not, copy the one out
> > of web/sites/modelsite/collect/modelcol/transform/pages/about.xsl
> > into your collection, and edit that.
> > (if this is the collection where you had to move the transform
> > folder out of the way, try adding just the
> > transform/pages/about.xsl back in - does that work?)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Katherine
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > From: Greenstone Digital Library Team via Greenstone-Users
> > <gre...@li...>
> > Sent: Wednesday, 27 August 2025 1:17 pm
> > To: greenstone-users <gre...@li...>;
> > rmo...@iw... <rmo...@iw...>
> > Subject: Re: [Greenstone-users] CollectionConfig.xml and html code
> >  
> > 
> > Hi Renate,
> > Please send the part of the collectionConfig showing what you have
> > entered there, and where it fits into the file (ie what tag its
> > inside).
> > And what are the error messages you get when building?
> > 
> > 
> > Are you just trying to add a link from the about page of a
> > collection? You could add the html into the coll-description
> > template in your collection's transform/pages/about.xsl file?
> > If not, please give more description of what you are trying to
> > achieve.
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Katherine
> > 
> > 
> > From: Renate Morgenstern via Greenstone-Users <greenstone-
> > us...@li...>
> > Sent: Wednesday, 27 August 2025 3:59 am
> > To: greenstone-users <gre...@li...>
> > Subject: [Greenstone-users] CollectionConfig.xml and html code
> >  
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I added  html code into the collectionConfig.xml file at the top to
> > point to a another site.
> > When the collection is opened the link works, but when adding
> > documents and building the collection it gives an error message,
> > and it can't be opened again, unless I comment out the code.
> > Where else could I add pointers to other site for the user.
> > Thanks in advance for the help.
> > Renate
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

-- 


Renate Morgenstern
Tel.: +264 61 242124
Cell: +264 81 2910284
10023, Windhoek, Namibia

Re: [Greenstone-users] CollectionConfig.xml and html code

[Greenstone D. L. T. <gre...@wa...>]

Hi Renate,
Thanks for sending your collectionConfig.xml snippet.

It turns out there is a bug in GLI - if the collection description had quotes in it - in your case this is in the <a href=""> part - then these would be escaped, resulting in invalid XML.

I have fixed this in the greenstone repository, for the next release.

In the meantime, please add the html into the coll-description template in your collection's transform/pages/about.xsl file. You should have this file if you started with a new collection (rather than basing it on an existing collection). if not, copy the one out of web/sites/modelsite/collect/modelcol/transform/pages/about.xsl into your collection, and edit that.
(if this is the collection where you had to move the transform folder out of the way, try adding just the transform/pages/about.xsl back in - does that work?)


Regards,
Katherine
________________________________
From: Greenstone Digital Library Team via Greenstone-Users <gre...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, 27 August 2025 1:17 pm
To: greenstone-users <gre...@li...>; rmo...@iw... <rmo...@iw...>
Subject: Re: [Greenstone-users] CollectionConfig.xml and html code

Hi Renate,
Please send the part of the collectionConfig showing what you have entered there, and where it fits into the file (ie what tag its inside).
And what are the error messages you get when building?

Are you just trying to add a link from the about page of a collection? You could add the html into the coll-description template in your collection's transform/pages/about.xsl file?
If not, please give more description of what you are trying to achieve.

Regards,
Katherine
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From: Renate Morgenstern via Greenstone-Users <gre...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, 27 August 2025 3:59 am
To: greenstone-users <gre...@li...>
Subject: [Greenstone-users] CollectionConfig.xml and html code

Hi,

I added  html code into the collectionConfig.xml file at the top to point to a another site.
When the collection is opened the link works, but when adding documents and building the collection it gives an error message, and it can't be opened again, unless I comment out the code.
Where else could I add pointers to other site for the user.
Thanks in advance for the help.
Renate



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