Show author name under Table of Contents

[neffe]

Under Issues > Back Issues > Table of contents you see the titles of the articles. Some of our journals handle articles by author name, so a visible second line under each title with the author names would be very helpful.

[openacademia]

Yes! I have missed the author names many times, too. If there is a large issue/volume with many articles with similar titles, it can be hard distinguishing between them.

[Michevole]

Hi @neffe, hi @openacademia!

Many editors asked me to get a better view of the back/future issues, so I tried something. I'm not a coding expert, so I offer my solution to the community but I appreciate if someone could confirm my changes. I'm using OJS 3.3.0-6.

The table of content (TOC) read the data in columns, so I didn't add a second line for authors as you suggested, but I added a new column. This is the final result.

To this, I edited just two files. The first one is /controllers/grid/toc/TocGridHandler.inc.php. You need to find these lines that managed the unique standard column (about titles)...

    // Article title
    $this->addColumn(
        new GridColumn(
            'title',
            'article.title',
            null,
            null,
            $tocGridCellProvider
        )
    );

...and replace them with the following ones. They add a new column with authors; furthermore, they resize both column with an horizontal ratio of 25/75%.

  // Article author
  $this->addColumn(
  	new GridColumn(
  		'author',
  		'article.author',
  		null,
  		null,
  		$tocGridCellProvider,
  		['width' => 24 /*percent*/, 'maxLength' => 25 /*digits*/]
  	)
  );
  
  // Article title
  $this->addColumn(
  	new GridColumn(
  		'title',
  		'article.title',
  		null,
  		null,
  		$tocGridCellProvider,
  		['width' => 74 /*percent*/]
  	)
  );

At this moment, you have two columns but the system doesn't know where it can find the author's name. So you take the second file /controllers/grid/toc/TocGridCellProvider.inc.php, now. Search for the following lines.

    switch ($columnId) {
        case 'title':
            return ['label' => $element->getLocalizedTitle()];

And replace them with these ones, in which I added the case 'author' to point at the authors' names.

  switch ($columnId) {
  	case 'author':
  		return array('label' => $element->getShortAuthorString());
  	case 'title':
  		return array('label' => $element->getLocalizedTitle());

If everything works, now you have a nice double-columned Table of contents, with authors and titles. Unfortunately, the sections titles appear in the first short column and so they are truncated. However I preferred to not edit more files to change them.

Please, let me know if it works. I'd love it if it could become a feature of the new releases, so I don't have to change the code with every update!

[openacademia]

@Michevole Wow, this looks great! I am not able to test it myself, but would love for this solution to become part of future releases. Excellent!

[pmangahis]

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