Re: [IUG] ILL, SFX and Millennium

[Bob Duncan <duncanr at lafayette dot edu>]

At 03:37 PM 11/18/2010, Anja wrote:
> Same problem here, and I finally decided to try the route David 
> mentioned and get rid of this awful 
> DOCDEL_INNOVATIVE_INNOPAC  parser that requires copies of the ILL 
> form templates sitting on the SFX server. The linking syntax needed 
> for directly linking to the ILL forms on the Millennium server is 
> actually available in the Innovative documentation, though rather 
> well hidden in the WebBridge 
> section: 
> http://csdirect.iii.com/webbridge/index.php?n=LinkSyntax.InnovativeInterlibraryLoan 
> (csdirect login required)
>
> As I have no Perl knowledge to speak of, I cobbled something 
> together based on an existing parser and have figured out how to 
> adapt it to work with our customized illj and illb forms. It already 
> works fairly well with the exception of a bug that occurs when the 
> author information is missing. I'll be happy to share it with you - 
> and if you have anyone with Perl knowledge in house we can probably 
> get that bug fixed quickly as well.


FWIW, if you use a token to create your ILL forms, the form should 
auto-populate with information from the URL without having to do 
anything else.  If you don't use a token, some simple Javascript can 
do the trick.


Bob Duncan


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