[Koha] cataloging files stored locally

[MJ Ray]

Amy Schuler <schulera at caryinstitute.org>
> Dear catalogers using Koha,
> 
> I am using koha v. 3.06.04.000.  I am having trouble getting file paths to work for digital items stored locally.  Using MARC Tag 856, first indicator value 4, $u, with file path something like file://mylocalserver/blahblah<file:///\\mylocalserver\blahblah>... does not work.  There is just no action in the browser whatsoever.  It seems this is because that tagging and indicator combination invoke the HTTP protocol which is not actually being used here.  I read in the MARC documentation that what I really want to use for locally stored files is first indicator value 7 and $2.  Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that Koha supports $2 (only a bunch of the letter subfields).
> 
> Has anyone figured this out?  Or feel free to point out other issues I may be overlooking.

Two ideas:

1. do many things understand the host-form of file:// links?  I know
it's in RFC 3986, but I only remember the file:///blahblah form working
in the wild.

2. where is the action and what does "View Source..." around it look like?

I think the line in opac-detail.tt is

          [% IF ( itemdata_uri ) %]<td class="url"><a href="[% ITEM_RESULT.uri %]">[% ITEM_RESULT.uri %]</a></td>[% END %]

and that gets fed things from opac-detail.pl

                     itemdata_uri            => $itemfields{uri},

which itself comes from a call to GetItemsInfo in C4::Items
which I think is just returning whatever came in the SELECT from
mysql, so I don't see how this could be going wrong... anyone?

Hope that explains,
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