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Amazon now requires the SECRET /Private key for all except covers. But
there does not seem to be a Koha System preference for this until version
3.2.<br><br>
From Koha 3.2 manual:<br><br>
<br><br>
<br>
<h1><b>Why do I need a AWSPrivateKey for Amazon Content?</b></h1>This FAQ
applies to: 3.2 <br>
Why do I need the AWSPrivateKey as well as the AWSAccessKeyID to use
Amazon Content?<br><br>
After 2009-08-15, Amazon Web Services will expect that all requests to
the Product Advertising API, which is what Koha uses for retrieving
reviews and other enhanced content from Amazon, include signatures.
This patch and subsequenct patches implement this functionality.<br><br>
What this means in practice (assuming the user has elected to use any
enhanced content from Amazon) is that
<ol>
<li>The user must get a Amazon Secret Access Key. This can be done
by logging in to the user's AWS account at (e.g.)
<a href="http://aws.amazon.com/">http://aws.amazon.com/</a>, going to the
'Access Identifiers' page, and from there retrieving and/or creating a
new Secret Access Key.
<li>The contents of the Secret Access Key should then be entered into the
new AWSPrivateKey system preference.
</ol><br>
Once that is done, grabbing reviews and table of contents from Amazon
should work as normal. If the user doesn't do this before
2009-08-15, reviews and TOCs will no longer be supplied from Amazon,
although there should be no crashes - the content will simply not show
up.<br><br>
Note that the requirement to sign requests does *NOT* appear to apply to
simply displaying book covers from Amazon.<br><br>
At Saturday 13/02/2010, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Hi!<br><br>
Do you have appropriate values for both AWSAccessKeyID and<br>
AWSPrivateKey? I think covers without reviews is symptomatic of a<br>
missing AWSPrivateKey.<br><br>
Regards,<br>
Magnus Enger<br>
libriotech.no<br><br>
2010/2/12 Chris Morrison <cmm1005@gmail.com>:<br>
> Our recent upgrade to 3.0.05 went smoothly (thanks for helping us
with the<br>
> label problem we had), and pretty much everything works now except
the<br>
> Amazon reviews. We get jacket covers both in the results page and
detailed<br>
> views, but the reviews tab isn't displaying. Further, when we click
the<br>
> image in the detailed view, we get a "page not found"
error. For example,<br>
> see this record:<br>
><br>
>
<a href="http://koha.lru.edu/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=76740" eudora="autourl">
http://koha.lru.edu/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=76740</a><br>
><br>
> But the image tries to take you to this page:<br>
><br>
>
<a href="http://www.amazon/gp/reader/0805447857/ref=sib_dp_pt/002-7879865-0184864#reader-link" eudora="autourl">
http://www.amazon/gp/reader/0805447857/ref=sib_dp_pt/002-7879865-0184864#reader-link</a>
<br>
><br>
> Which obviously doesn't work. Actually, it looks like it would need
to go<br>
> to:<br>
><br>
>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Cockroaches-Scattered-Musings-Leadership/dp/0805447857/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1265986313&sr=8-1#reader_0805447857" eudora="autourl">
http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Cockroaches-Scattered-Musings-Leadership/dp/0805447857/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1265986313&sr=8-1#reader_0805447857</a>
<br>
><br>
> Associate tags and AWS key are both filled in and it looks like
all<br>
> appropriate switches are turned on (AmazonContent,
AmazonSimilarItems,<br>
> OPACAmazonContent, OPACSimilarItmes). I searched the lists and
didn't see<br>
> this answered yet--just one person who couldn't get the covers to
display<br>
> and needed a patch (for 3.0.04).<br>
><br>
> Thoughts?<br>
></blockquote>
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Michael Mason<br>
Librarian & Director of I.T.<br>
Redemptorist Seminary Library<br>
10 Majella Ct.<br>
Kew, Vic. 3101<br><br>
Phone: +61 3 9817 9758<br>
Fax: +61 3 9816 9805<br>
Email: M.Mason@ytu.edu.au</body>
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