Styjun

This is how the my search results page of DSpace looks like :

On clicking the item a new page opens up showing its description:

The description page opens the file upon clicking View/Open. Is it possible to directly open the file upon clicking its title on the results page? I want to skip the item description page.

As per my understanding this is the Java file which is called to render items. Do I need to make changes to this file? Or is it possible to achieve what I want by simply modifying the sitemap and xsl files?

The code that generates the thumbnail image is here.

https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/dspace-6_x/dspace-xmlui/src/main/webapp/themes/dri2xhtml/General-Handler.xsl#L34-L47

You could create similar logic to create an href to the original bitstream.

Look at the XML in /metadata/handle/xxx/yyy/mets.xml where xxx/yyy is your item handle. You should see the information that will point you to the original bitstream.

As was said in the comments, the xsl template to modify is the "itemSummaryList" in discovery.xsl

Replace that href value with $metsDoc//mets:FLocat[@LOCTYPE='URL']/@xlink:href"

 <xsl:element name="a">
 <xsl:attribute name="href">
 <xsl:value-of select="$metsDoc//mets:FLocat[@LOCTYPE='URL']/@xlink:href"/>
 </xsl:attribute>
 <xsl:choose>
 <xsl:when test="dri:list[@n=(concat($handle, ':dc.title')) and descendant::text()]">
 <xsl:apply-templates select="dri:list[@n=(concat($handle, ':dc.title'))]/dri:item"/>
 </xsl:when>
 <xsl:otherwise>
 <i18n:text>xmlui.dri2xhtml.METS-1.0.no-title</i18n:text>
 </xsl:otherwise>
 </xsl:choose>
 </xsl:element>

I was able to achieve what I wanted with help from Antoine Snyers, terrywb and this link. As pointed out by terrywb the information which I needed to read, i.e, the bitstream address of the uploaded file, was stored in the metsDoc. Here's a screenshot of my metsDoc with the fileSec expanded:

To be able to access the fileSec of the metsDoc I changed this line in discovery.xsl and this line in common.xsl to <xsl:text>?sections=dmdSec,fileSec&amp;fileGrpTypes=ORIGINAL,THUMBNAIL</xsl:text>.

Then I added/modified the following code to the itemSummaryList in discovery.xsl so that the title hyperlink now points to the file bitstream.

<xsl:variable name="filetype">
 <xsl:value-of select="$metsDoc/mets:METS/mets:fileSec/mets:fileGrp[@USE='CONTENT']"/>
</xsl:variable> 

<xsl:variable name="fileurl">
 <xsl:value-of select="$metsDoc/mets:METS/mets:fileSec/mets:fileGrp[@USE='CONTENT']/mets:file/mets:FLocat[@LOCTYPE='URL']/@xlink:href"/>
</xsl:variable> 


<div class="artifact-title">

 <xsl:element name="a">
 <xsl:attribute name="href">
 <xsl:choose>
 <xsl:when test="$metsDoc/mets:METS/mets:dmdSec/mets:mdWrap/mets:xmlData/dim:dim/@withdrawn">
 <xsl:value-of select="$metsDoc/mets:METS/@OBJEDIT"/>
 </xsl:when>


 <xsl:when test="$filetype">
 <xsl:value-of select="$fileurl"/>
 </xsl:when>

 </xsl:choose>

 </xsl:attribute>

Similarly, I also made changes to item-list.xsl file, and added this line <xsl:apply-templates select="mets:fileSec/mets:fileGrp[@USE='CONTENT']"
mode="itemSummaryList-DIM"/> to the template itemSummaryList-DIM.

So finally I got my desired result:

As visible in the inspector, the href attribute of the title now points to the original bitstream of the file :)