I’ve had a chance to do some work to tidy up the administrative section of the Portfolio Commons plugin. Repository and licence options are now editable directly from the plugin config. page, and it’s possible to set a default collection for each repository, and a default licence among those created.
Editing a repository’s details, and setting the default collection.
If an end user selects a repository which has a default collection defined, the collection selection part of the process is hidden from them, making the process somewhat simpler for those without experience of repository structures.
The user is now also prevented from trying to make a deposit to a repository if communication can’t be established with it in the first place.
The feedback after a deposit is now clearer and more detailed, and a link is presented to the user which takes them directly to the repository page featuring the resource they’ve just deposited (the ‘splashpage’).
Feedback after making a deposit
After some collaborative work with the E-prints/Edshare team, previews of deposited Mahara packages are now working well in Edshare, and the licence information is also picked up at the repository end and applied to the deposited package.
With these new features in place, we are very close to having a first fully working version of Portfolio Commons, so this is a major milestone.
We will do some more testing and tidying and take a look at Jorum compatibility next. After we have had some tea and cake.