[Koha] Multiple but different URLs for the same item

[Indranil Das Gupta]

Hi Kelly,

Your users / patrons would be logged in into their own accounts via the
OPAC to access these authenticated resources?

If so (assuming I understood your use-case correctly) then how about adding
a bit of jQuery to OpacUserJS sys pref which does the following:

1) look up the branch code from the class of the body tag which is in form
of  "branch-<branchcode>" e.g. "branch-IDSK" where 'IDSK' is the branch
code.

2) and then latches on the the span class name - online_resources and
toggles the visibility of the URL of the resource as per #1 above (both for
results and the details page)

hope this helps

cheers,
-indranil


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On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 12:23 AM, Kelly Drake <ksdrake at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We are a consortia of 7 academic libraries just setting up on Koha and have
> a question on how folks are handling items that have multiple, but
> different URLS for the same item.
>
> For example. All the libraries subscribe to one journal, The Chronicle of
> Higher Education, but since this is a paid subscription with authenticating
> links, the users of each library need to select a different link in order
> to be able to authenticate.
>
> From previous experience we know that these different links need to be
> extremely obvious!
>
> Currently it looks as if Koha offers two options.
> 1. 856 links that can be highlighted, or called out in various ways through
> modification of the template.
> 2. Adding Item Types for each link - although in this case the URL itself
> is displayed (rather than any display text)
>
> Does any one have examples of how they are handling this? and making the
> links, and who should click where, really obvious?
>
> All input is greatly appreciated!
>
> Kelly Drake
>
> Kelly Drake
> HELM Project Manager
>
> kelly at flo.org | 617.442.2384
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