[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Digital Objects navigation in v3

[Scott Renton]

Hi folks

Just about to put our main archives site up from v2.8.1 to v3.4.1. One of our archivists has noticed that where, in the past, she was able to link directly from an image to its source in a native system 

(eg https://archives.collections.ed.ac.uk/repositories/2/archival_objects/141060 - the link goes to search results in the LUNA image management system)

she is now forced to go to the digital object first, meaning there's a second click to get there. 

Looking at the code, my feeling is that this is a very conscious method of routing in version 3, and it is not something we should look to change (I wouldn't even think the native link is even available to the controller, but rather the digital object id). However, I did think we should check to see if anyone in the community has hit a similar use case and taken any action before we communicate that this is the correct way to work now.

Thanks very much
Scott

PS my colleague Patryk (cc'd) has an outstanding request to register onto the list using the http://lyralists.lyrasis.org/mailman/listinfo/archivesspace_users_group - he's not been accepted in yet though- this is still the way to register?

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Scott Renton

Digital Library Development & Systems

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[Christine Di Bella]

Hello Scott,

 

You are correct that this is an intentional change in functionality in as of v3.4.0 as a result of all the improvements to the Make Representative functionality. When a digital object instance is selected to display on a resource, archival object, or accession record (as representative), it links to the digital object record from which it came. If a digital object instance is linked but not selected to display, a generic icon appears and goes to the source link instead of the digital object record. (But the image itself won’t show on the archival object record because the assumption is that something not marked as representative is not an image to be displayed.)

 

Whether that could be overridden by a plugin or otherwise, I couldn’t say, but others may have good ideas if they have a similar use case.

 

For anyone interested in getting more familiar with the newer functionality, I recommend the relevant section in the user manual and the webinar Jessica Crouch and I did for last summer’s Member Forum.

 

Hope this helps,

Christine

 

Christine Di Bella

ArchivesSpace Senior Program Manager

christin...@lyrasis.org

 

[Scott Renton]

Thanks Christina, much appreciated- I'll feed this back.

Cheers

Scott

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Scott Renton

Digital Library Development & Systems

Floor F East

Argyle House

515219

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