ePADD is a software package developed by Stanford University's Special Collections & University Archives that supports archival processes around the appraisal, ingest, processing, discovery, and delivery of email archives.
Setting sortBy in browseMessages.jspf to a default value of ‘recent’ initially. This avoids sortBy being null and execution running through a path that is not in use anymore.
I am not sure whether that makes any practical difference but it seems to be safer as it says
this path should not be used as it sorts the docs in some order
(old code meant to handle clustered docs, so that tab can jump from cluster to cluster. not used now)
Setting sortBy in browseMessages.jspf to a default value of ‘recent’ initially. This avoids sortBy being null and execution running through a path that is not in use anymore.
I am not sure whether that makes any practical difference but it seems to be safer as it says this path should not be used as it sorts the docs in some order (old code meant to handle clustered docs, so that tab can jump from cluster to cluster. not used now)