Re: [IUG] Rel.2007 option to open urls in new window? or is this for the next release

[Mark James Strang <mstrang at bgsu dot edu>]

FYI on this wwwoption at my site with Release 2007 1.0

When we activated your item level urls with the following the service commitment:
Use this service commitment to request the ability to add a MARC 856 tag, or 'URL', to item records.   See Variable-length Fields in Item Records for a description of the field.

We ran into some interesting things with this wwwoption.

If you use the wwwoption as:

DISPLAY_856=z|true
The item level 856 url will display both the  |u   and the |z  from the item record 856.
The link will open in a new window, but the display is very messy.

However, if you set the wwwoption up as:
DISPLAY_856=z|t
Then the item level 856 url will display only the |z   message as you'd expect.  The link  will also open in a new window.

I don't know if others will experience this or not, but I thought it would be a useful heads up.  Locally we are still evaluating the benefits and workflows for item level 856's.

Sincerely,
Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org [mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Bob Duncan
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 10:09 AM
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Subject: Re: [IUG] Rel.2007 option to open urls in new window? or is this for the next release

At 09:49 AM 08/08/2008, Cheryl Gowing wrote:
>Hi -  I may have dreamed this, but I could swear that Betsy Graham
>mentioned at the Rel. 2007 update sessions at IUG that this release
>would have some sort of option to have 856 urls automatically open
>in a new window/tab, without having to resort to hard coding a
>TARGET="_blank" into the url.   I remember asking whether this would
>mean I'd have to strip out any of the TARGET coding I've been
>putting into my urls and was told this would not be necessary.
>
>I can' find any reference to this functionality in the Rel2007
>enhancement list on CSDirect, the What's New's in the Rel. 07
>manual, or scouring the new manual entries on wwwoptions or OPAC
>system options [where I've assumed this would be set].


For a feature that's been asked for for years, you'd think III would
have touted its availability in R2007.  Go figure.

See the manual entry for the DISPLAY_856 wwwoption;  there's a second
parameter that is used to tell the system to open links in a new
window.  Ours looks like this:

         DISPLAY_856=z|true



Bob Duncan


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