ok I have gone thr the documentation http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/How+to+add+a+term+to+a+controlled+vocabularies and improved it hopefully - but please feel free to suggest changes to it to make more sense to an implementer. And in the process I found the incredibly helpful functionality I wrote to update a vocab from a list that you can just send in - which I think will probably be a good solution for you. I have also improved that functionality to allow specification of ID's within that file but that wont be available til the 1.8 release I also fixed a bug in the refresh functionality that wasn't deleting options that had an ID automagically generated by the system, rather than specified in the cspace-config - but once again that is in trunk and wont be released til 1.8 but it is a very small patch so if you tell me which release you are working on I could create you a patch or build a war file with the changes for that release if it is useful Sorry for the delay in getting you the answers, it's been a while since I poked vocab generation and i had the initialize/refresh turned around in my head - sorry. I am hoping in 1.8 to create a call that will just reload the cspace-config into an existing deployed collectionspace.war and thereby reduce the paff of making changes, but it depends on other tasks as always. Good luck and poke me if anything a) doesn't work, b) doesn't make sense Chris On 25/05/2011 22:37, Joe Slag wrote: > http://localhost:8180/collectionspace/chain/vocabularies/currency/initialize > does not seem to be doing the trick here. Anything you might dig up on > this tomorrow would be appreciated. > > - Joe > > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Chris Martin<csm22@caret.cam.ac.uk> wrote: >> instead of refresh try initialize that should delete any existing vocab of >> that name and completely rewrite it. >> so: collectionspace/chain/vocabularies/{your vocab here}/initialize >> >> I know I wrote some doc about vocab initialization - I will try and dig it >> out when I am at work tomorrow >> >> Chris >> >>

Great, the cspace-config option is clearer now, and your new file-based method seems very promising. I've just realized that some of the trouble I was having figuring out if new terms were getting picked up or not were likely due to cacheing on the web UI side. Requesting the vocabulary via {serverurl}/collectionspace/chain/vocabularies/currency seems to be reflecting changes right away. A wrinkle: when using the file-based method, it looks like the contents of the file are appending themselves to the existing vocabulary, rather than replacing the terms. So I now have four copies of 'Euro' for example. There is a null pointer exception showing in the logs; I'll open a bug and put that info in there. thanks, Joe On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:49 AM, Chris Martin <csm22@caret.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > ok I have gone thr the documentation > http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/How+to+add+a+term+to+a+controlled+vocabularies > and improved it hopefully - but please feel free to suggest changes to it to > make more sense to an implementer. > > And in the process I found the incredibly helpful functionality I wrote to > update a vocab from a list that you can just send in - which I think will > probably be a good solution for you. > I have also improved that functionality to allow specification of ID's > within that file but that wont be available til the 1.8 release > I also fixed a bug in the refresh functionality that wasn't deleting options > that had an ID automagically generated by the system, rather than specified > in the cspace-config - but once again that is in trunk and wont be released > til 1.8 but it is a very small patch so if you tell me which release you are > working on I could create you a patch or build a war file with the changes > for that release if it is useful > > Sorry for the delay in getting you the answers, it's been a while since I > poked vocab generation and i had the initialize/refresh turned around in my > head - sorry. > I am hoping in 1.8 to create a call that will just reload the cspace-config > into an existing deployed collectionspace.war and thereby reduce the paff of > making changes, but it depends on other tasks as always. > > Good luck and poke me if anything a) doesn't work, b) doesn't make sense > > Chris > > On 25/05/2011 22:37, Joe Slag wrote: >> >> >> http://localhost:8180/collectionspace/chain/vocabularies/currency/initialize >> does not seem to be doing the trick here. Anything you might dig up on >> this tomorrow would be appreciated. >> >> - Joe >> >> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Chris Martin<csm22@caret.cam.ac.uk> >>  wrote: >>> >>> instead of refresh try initialize that should delete any existing vocab >>> of >>> that name and completely rewrite it. >>> so: collectionspace/chain/vocabularies/{your vocab here}/initialize >>> >>> I know I wrote some doc about vocab initialization - I will try and dig >>> it >>> out when I am at work tomorrow >>> >>> Chris >>> >>> >