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denshoproject / ddr-local

Web UI used for interacting with DDR collections and entities on a local machine.
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Add support for .zip, .docx, .xlsx and other productivity file types #304

Closed GeoffFroh closed 2 years ago

GeoffFroh commented 2 years ago

Archivists need to be able to add their background notes and docs to the collection repos to preserve information about their work in researching and processing the materials. These documents are often produced in Word, Excel and other Office apps. They might also be a collection of documents compressed into a single zipfile.

They currently use the "Administrative" file type to upload PDF release forms; the Editor application should allow these other formats as well.

gjost commented 2 years ago

Fired up my dev copy of DDR and fed it a couple office productivity files:

Coming up with metadata to describe these was the hardest part. Yeah. Ingest worked fine, no errors. No access files were created. The UI displays URLs for them anyway but these don't work. No thumbnails are displayed in list views. I'm sure there's a way to generate them. Download links work and the documents open just fine in LibreOffice.

GeoffFroh commented 2 years ago

Let's use the same file icon as the HTML type files for the thumbnail in SORL.

gjost commented 2 years ago

I looked into this, and the transcript files just say "No image" in place of a file icon.