Final collection not loading

[Abuechel22]

I have followed all the steps to create a digital collection, but now nothing is loading onto the final site. When I got the link to my site once it went live, I clicked "visit site," but nothing has loaded. If anyone has suggestions or help to get this to work that would be amazing!

[dcnb]

I'm not sure which repo you're working on, but in both the A-B one and the practice collection, your _config.yml file needs to be adjusted. Go through and check every value to make sure there is a space after the colon. For instance: title:practice-collection- should be --> title: practice-collection- And in the A-B one, the tagline: needs a space before the value And in the embroidery one, you've added this code to the _config.yml: {%- assign uniqueYears = clean-years | replace: ";;",";" | split: ";" | compact | uniq | sort -%} {%- if uniqueYears == empty or uniqueYears == nil -%} {%- assign uniqueYears = "" | split: "" -%} {%- endif -%}########## Remove that! The other issue: your metadata value (after `metadata: `) needs to have no spaces in it, so you'll need to rename that file in your repo (or upload a file that you change on your own computer) and put in a new value. For instance in practice collection: metadata:Infor Org_GH_SHEETS_CollectionBuilder_Metadata - Sheet1 (2) Should be metadata: InforOrg_GH_SHEETS_CollectionBuilder_Metadata-Sheet1 and you should rename that file `Infor_Org_GH_SHEETS_CollectionBuilder_Metadata-Sheet1.csv` and upload it to your _data folder. I removed the spaces and the parenthetical -- parentheses will break the file name as well. So it all has to do with your _config.yml file and your metadata file being correctly formatted and named. Look here for more information: https://collectionbuilder.github.io/cb-docs/docs/config/#common-yaml-errors

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[Abuechel22]

Is there something in the CSV that is causing no images to appear?
I have the data just not the images.

[evanwill]

@Abuechel22 yes, your metadata is still not correct. First, as I mentioned everything is case sensitive. Your "format" values need to be all lowercase, and your filenames do not exactly match the case of the filenames in your project (extensions are lower case in your "objects" folder, but are upper case in your metadata). Second, for your videos, in your metadata you have them as youtube videos--i.e. each one has a youtubeid value in the metadata. None of those youtubeid's seem to correspond to a public youtube video, so none of them work. Either make those youtube videos public, or it looks like you have mp4 files for the videos in your "objects" folder--to use those video files instead of youtube, delete the youtubeid values, and then put the filenames in the "filename" column (e.g. coll001-kdrtnzx4_6XrSfgxs.mp4, etc).

[Abuechel22]

I see, thank you very much! For the subject field, is that incorrect as well? On the webpage, it also doesn't show the words in the subject fields. I followed the format doc, but that didn't work, so I have been trying different ways.

[evanwill]

@Abuechel22 Two issues now-->
First, in your CSV your "subject" column, actually has some trailing space after it like subject (which humans can't really see, but computers do!). For each of the field heading in your Sheet first row, go to the value and delete any space after the text.
Second, it looks like you were trying different things in "theme.yml" to debug it, but unfortunately those won't work--in subjects-fields: you want just subjects-fields: subject (not individual values, just the field name).

If you want the map to work, you will need to delete the degree sign. e.g. -91.5346° needs to be -91.5346 instead.

[Abuechel22]

Thank you so much for your help! I greatly appreciate it!

[Abuechel22]

I do see that. The map isn't working now. I fixed the coordinates, but nothing is loading on the map page.

[evanwill]

Latitude column is spelled wrong, you have lattitude rather than latitude in your spreadsheet.

[evanwill]

I noticed in your repository that you are uploading copies of your metadata sheet as a CSV. Note that is not required, since you currently have it configured to load directly from the google sheet--any changes you make to the google sheet will go live as soon as you open the web page in a new window.

[Abuechel22]

I see, thank you! Also, is there a reason why my subjects are shown on the home page but not in the subjects page?

[evanwill]

In your metadata the column is named subject (which is the default), in your theme.yml you have it configured to look for subjects (i.e. subjects-fields: subjects) so it can't find anything matching.

[Abuechel22]

I see thank you so much!