Yale Onsite Location

This is an ArchivesSpace plugin that introduces Onsite and Offsite locations via new flag on the Location model and exposes this as a new filter and container details in the PUI.

This plugin was developed by Hudson Molonglo for Yale University.

Getting Started

Download the latest release from the Releases tab in Github:

https://github.com/hudmol/yale_onsite_locations/releases

Unzip the release and move it to:

/path/to/archivesspace/plugins

Unzip it:

$ cd /path/to/archivesspace/plugins
$ unzip yale_onsite_locations-vX.X.zip

Enable the plugin by editing the file in config/config.rb:

AppConfig[:plugins] = ['some_plugin', 'yale_onsite_locations']

(Make sure you uncomment this line (i.e., remove the leading '#' if present))

Run the database migrations:

$ cd /path/to/archivesspace
$ ./scripts/setup_database.sh

See also:

https://archivesspace.github.io/archivesspace/user/archivesspace-plug-ins/

How it works

A new "Onsite" checkbox is presented on the Location record form and batch creation form. The boolean value defaults to true. Any records linked to that location (top containers, accessions, resources, archival objects) then calculate a readonly field onsite_status based on whether the linked locations (via the instance or directly) are onsite, offsite or mixed when the record is linked to both onsite and offsite locations.

This onsite_status is then indexed against those records allowing the PUI to filter by this value. It is also exposed in the PUI in the "Physical Storage Information" suffixed to the container identifiers.