Use the 'Add from new site column' option and add the comments and description fields required by you.This will create a new Folder content type with a single field 'Name'.Give the name you want(I have used Descriptive Folder) and select the parent as folder content type.Go to Site settings > Site Content Types under Galleries main heading.We can create a new folder content type and replace the default folder content type. You are using the default Folder Content Type 'Folder' Now back to your Document library and click New menu, you will find the “Folder with description”.īesides, you can disable the ”Display New Folder command on the New menu” option in Advanced Settings to disable the default folder content type. On previous settings.) in Available Site Content Types. To add the site content type, we browse the Document library.Ĭlick Settings > Document Library Settings > Advanced settings.Įnable the management of content types, click OK.Ĭlick Add from existing site content types, choose Custom Content Types ,we will find “Folder with description” (maybe it’s not in Custom Content Types. Now a site content type has been created. In the “Site Content Type: Folder with description” page, clickĪdd from new site column, then type a column name (for example: Folder Description), choose the type of this column, click OK. In the Group section, choose whether to store this new site content type in an existing group or a new group.
(Note the list of parent content types differs depending on the option that you selected in the previous step.) In the Parent Content Type list, select the parent content type that you want to base your content type on.
In the Select parent content type from list, select the group on which you want to base this new content type. On the New Site Content Type page, type a name (for example:įolder with description) and, optionally, a description for the new site content type. On the Site Content Type Gallery page, click On the home page of the site collection, click Simply choose the Content Model that fits the file you wish to upload, and click 'Next'.We can create a site content type and add it to the library. If the collection you are ingesting the object into has more than one Content Model applied to its Collection Policy, the first screen that comes up will contain a drop-down menu similar to the following: This brings up the form for a single-object ingest. Choose 'Add an object to this collection' This will bring up a list of ways to manipulate the collection. This will take you to the collection's administrative page. In the example we're using here, the name of the collection is shown below the folder in the image below, and that folder has already been set up to use the 'Islandora Basic Image Collection' Content Model.Ĭlick on the folder to enter the collection.
For more information on how to create new collections, check out the section How to Create a New Islandora Collection, or for information on adding or removing Content Models from a collection policy, check out How to Manage Collection Policies.
A collection is represented (by default) by an image of a folder in the repository section of the site - and the digital collection you choose will need to be already set up with a Content Model in Collection Policy that matches the MIME type of file you would like to ingest. Choose a collection to add the item toĮach item you ingest into the Islandora Repository will need to be added to a collection. If the 'Navigation' block has been placed using your site's /admin/structure/block configuration page, a link to the Islandora Repository will also show up on any page that block has been enabled on. On a standard installation of Islandora 7.x, the Islandora Repository's root page can be accessed through the address path.to.your.site/islandora this will take you to the top-level collection. This tutorial will run through the steps to creating a new object in Islandora. Objects are ingested into the Islandora Repository by being added to a digital collection.
You will not be able to ingest unless you install and enable the XML Form Builder module or another module that implements the ingest registry hook.