[Koha] Multiple but different URLs for the same item

[Kelly Drake]

Thanks Indranil!

That sounds like an interesting possibility.

Kelly

On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Indranil Das Gupta <indradg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
> Indranil Das Gupta
> L2C2 Technologies
>
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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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