RE: LINK856 display problem in Silver

[wkmko at hkucc dot hku dot hk]

Hi all,
We have similar problem and III had sent the reply:

William Ko
Sys Dept., University of Hong Kong Libraries
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I have gotten word back from our Software Engineering department, and it 
turns out that this is the way that the wwwoption is supposed to
work. The wwwoption is designed to behave exactly as described in the User 
Manual, meaning that if you remove or leave the wwwoption without a value, 
then it will insert the default text in the web OPAC.

The way that you had it set up was never a documented feature, but a 
loophole in how wwwoptions worked. With Silver, we had to change our logic 
to strip trailing spaces from wwwoptions (to solve problems with many other 
wwwoptions breaking when there was a trailing space) and now leaving this 
wwwoption blank will not work as it did before.

If you would like to see this feature available in a future release of the 
web OPAC, you may submit an enhancement request


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Quoting kjohnson at library dot caltech dot edu:

> Thanks, everyone.  
> 
> Yes,  I did contact the help desk, and just heard back from them.  The
> problem has been moved up to Software Engineering for further analysis.
> And from your responses, it's obviously not just us.
> 
> In the meantime, I'll add the "$nbsp".  For those of you who were
> wondering, <nothing> meant I was putting nothing after the = sign.
> 
> Katherine Johnson
> Head, Technical Services
> Caltech Library System
> Millikan Library 1-32
> California Institute of Technology
> Pasadena, CA  91125
> Tel: (626) 395-6065	Fax: (626) 792-7540
> kjohnson at library dot caltech dot edu
> 
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org 
> > [mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Tom Larsen
> > Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 10:09 AM
> > To: IUG INNOPAC List
> > Subject: Re: LINK856 display problem in Silver
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Katherine,
> > 
> > I'm not sure if LINK856TEXT=<nothing> means that you 
> > literally have nothing after the equals sign or if it means 
> > that you had actually typed in "<notihing>", after the equals 
> > sign.  But either way what we had done is type a blank space 
> > after the equals sign back when we were still on
> > 2002 phase 3.  We upgraded to Silver about a week and a half 
> > ago; and after reading your message, I went and looked, and 
> > sure enough the "Click on the following to:" text has 
> > reappeared. So I guess our solution no longer works either.  
> > Have you put in a call to III about this?  If not, maybe I 
> > will because "Click on the following to:" just doesn't make 
> > any sense in a lot of cases combined with other text that we 
> > have put in on our links.
> > 
> > Thanks for pointing this out.
> > 
> > --
> > Tom Larsen
> > 
> > Database Management and Catalog Librarian Branford Price 
> > Millar Library Portland State University P.O. Box 1151 
> > Portland, OR 97207-1151
> > 
> > phone: 503-725-8179
> > fax:   503-725-5799
> > 
> > email: larsent at pdx dot edu
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > kjohnson at library dot caltech dot edu wrote:
> > 
> > >All,
> > >
> > >We've been having a problem with the LINK856TEXT option in the 
> > >wwwoptions file since  I installed Silver, and I'm hoping someone can
> > >provide me with some insight and a fix.   I have not changed the
> > >setting, and have it exactly as it was before the install:
> > >LINK856TEXT=<nothing>.
> > >
> > >Before the install, the option worked perfectly, and the 
> > "Click on the 
> > >following to:"  did not appear on the record in the WebPAC, which is 
> > >what we want to happen.  Since the install, however, the phrase has 
> > >reappeared and  I can't get it to go away.  We don't want 
> > any phrasing 
> > >to appear, as we feel it's redundant and takes up screen space 
> > >needlessly.  I've played with the wwwoptions file both in 
> > telnet and in 
> > >Millennium to no avail.  It's a complete mystery, and extremely 
> > >frustrating, so any solutions you all could provide would be quite 
> > >welcome.
> > >
> > >Katherine Johnson
> > >Head, Technical Services
> > >Caltech Library System
> > >Millikan Library 1-32
> > >California Institute of Technology
> > >Pasadena, CA  91125
> > >Tel: (626) 395-6065	Fax: (626) 792-7540
> > >kjohnson at library dot caltech dot edu
> > >
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