Recent submissions don't show up in ETD communities

When you navigate to a collection in the ETD or the NDLTD community in DSpace 7, recent submissions do not appear on any of the collection homepages. There's just a message that reads, "Loading recent submissions" (please see screenshots below). @kdweeks also mentioned seeing this error recently.

 

 

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@pyoung1 Does this occur when you are signed in or doesn't it matter

Doesn't matter- just says Loading... with the moving dots. Thanks.

Example: https://vtechworks-dev-ds7.cloud.lib.vt.edu/collections/7c095232-9e41-41ba-aa51-e5933e79cb62

@pyoung1 Can you try this on preproduction. I just tried it and it worked as expected.

Looks good, thanks!

Confirmed that this is working on Preproduction, closing the issue

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I've opened this again, if only briefly, because the issue is still happening on the dev server even though the code has been updated with changes from pre-prod.

@goynejennifer, or anyone, do we have any ideas what might be causing the issue on Dev? Was it happening previously on pre-prod, and then it started working as expected, or has it always worked on pre-prod?

My hope for investigating a little more is to gain some understanding of the issue so that we can prevent it from happening on production. I did remove the "Priority" label (prematurely?) because perhaps, fingers crossed, it won't be an issue on the production server, either.

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The problem was also occurring on pre-prod.

@vtkeithg I did some testing on dev and it looks like this problem has come back. Just wanted to make a note of it before we go live.

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This remains a problem in the live production instance of 7.6.

I've corrected the issue.

It was a configuration problem with the discovery index. The ETD collections have a discovery index that is unique to them. I had copied the configuration from DSpace 6, and dc.date.accessioned was not included in the custom configuration for these ETD collections.

DSpace 7 retrieves recent submissions by searching for items in the collection and then sorting by accession date. The search was failing only for ETD collections because of the absence of the accession date entry.

No code deploy or reindexing was necessary; the recent items for ETDs are now displaying after the configuration update, which has been committed to our backend project.

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