Re: [IUG] Amazon cover art on 2006 and WebPac Pro

[Deb Bergeron <bergeron at macalester dot edu>]

Leo,

You are creative.  While we don't use Syndetics, we would like to 
extract the Amazon.com reviews into our catalog.  Any idea how to do THAT?

Thanks
deb

Leo Papa wrote:
> On a slightly different tangent...
>
> I was playing around with settings for Amazon and Syndetics in the
> BIBIMAGE  and WEBADDRESS wwwoptions, and was able to configure WEBADRESS
> so that it would link to Syndetic review if we had an item, and pass the
> search on to Amazon if we didn't.  If anyone is interested in the syntax
> I'll be glad to provide it.
>
> Syndetics has come out with a "compound" image, that provides links to
> reviews out of the BIBIMAGE wwwoption, expressed in a link below the cover
> art.  So, we will probably not use this 'hybrid' WEBADDRESS syntax, and
> just use that wwwoption for Amazon, should we decide to affiliate with
> them.
>
> I'm have added an (personal) affiliate ID to WEBADDRESS and it didn't
> break the wwwoption functioning, but we'll have to go live before we can
> test if it is really working.  No one is going to buy books off of our
> staging port.  If it works our library is considering becomming an
> affiliate. If anyone else is already testing or has an Amazon affiliation
> working, I'd like to connect with them.
>
> Leo Papa
> Canton Public Library
>
> John Dillon wrote:
>   
> > Deb,
> >
> > Here's a couple guesses:
> >
> > 1.  Looks like you have 3 occurences of the BIBIMAGE woption in your
> > port 2082 wwwoptions table, one for syndetics and two for amazon.  Maybe
> > you want to delete (or comment out) at least one of the amazon ones, or
> > two of the 3 while testing.  I think I've seen that sometimes an upgrade
> > process (say from 2005 to 2006) will in effect make a commented-out line
> > (using # character) no longer commented out.
> >
> > 2.  After upgrading to 2005 and/or WebBridge, we also got better results
> > by changing the BIBIMAGE subfield I to small i, per #106904 in our 2006
> > manual under the heading Content Linking and Other Resources Options.
> > We are at 2006 but not WebPac Pro.
> >
> > Hope this helps!
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~
> > John Dillon
> > Library Systems and Technical Services
> > Geisel Library
> > Saint Anselm College
> > 603.641.7349
> > jdillon at anselm dot edu
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >     
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org
> > > [mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Deb Bergeron
> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 2:02 PM
> > > To: IUG INNOPAC List
> > > Subject: [IUG] Amazon cover art on 2006 and WebPac Pro
> > >
> > > Everyone, Anyone,
> > >
> > > We just upgraded to 2006 this morning and will be upgrading
> > > to WebPac Pro tomorrow morning.  We're now having problems
> > > with the cover art link from Amazon.  Sometimes we get an
> > > error message and sometimes not.
> > >
> > > Our
> > > BIBIMAGE=http://images.amazon.com/images/P/%s.01.00TLZZZZ|i|ht
> > >       
> > tp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/%s/
> >     
> > > Has anyone else encountered this behavior?  Anyone know how to fix it?
> > >
> > > You can see the error message by going into our STAGING port at
> > > http://clicnet.clic.edu:2082 and searching for 'Tree of
> > > Life.' Some of the cover art will link to Amazon just fine
> > > and others not.
> > >
> > > Please let me know if you have found a fix for this.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > deb
> > >
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