Child Publisher

An ArchivesSpace plugin that adds the ability to publish and unpublish all child records of an archival object.

Developed against ArchivesSpace v2.7.1 by Hudson Molonglo for Yale University.

Summary

Two new options are available in the More menu on the component toolbar for components that have children - Publish this and all children and Unpublish all children. When selected, all child components of the current component will be published or unpublished respectively.

In the case of publication the current record is also published. When unpublishing the published state of the current component and its nested records is unchanged.

The published state of some Note records attached to child components is also unchanged.

Currently, this filtering is not configurable.

Installation

Follow standard ArchivesSpace plugin installation procedures.

This plugin is not dependent on any additional gems, does not require any database migrations, and does not override any existing templates.

Customization

To customize the filtering behavior, call ChildPublishing.add_filter(filter). For example:

    # turn off the default note filtering
    ChildPublishing.add_filter(Note)

See here for the call that sets the Note filter.