Improving Syndetics images

  • Good afternoon, photonicgnostic!

    I have a suggestion. Add “&type=unbound” to the end of Syndetics url’s. It allows for a dummy image to be populated with a title and media symbol.

    Thank you!

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  • Thread Starter cofficwtch

    (@cofficwtch)

    Specifically, line 1050 in functions.php becomes

    $cat_img_url = “https://syndetics.com/index.aspx?” . $item_id_type . “=” . $itemID . “/LC.GIF&type=unbound”;

    The other suggestion I have is to swap UPC and ISBN when searching for images. I frequently have the issue where the UPC is tagged with the image and not the ISBN… No idea why.

    So swap lines 1247 & 1251 also lines 1460 & 1463.

    Plugin Author photonicgnostic

    (@photonicgnostic)

    Thanks for the suggestion!

    The reason you get UPCs when pulling from an RSS feed is because the plugin checks the image URL of each item in the feed for an ISBN. If it can’t find one it looks for a UPC. If you swap those lines you’ll potentially end up with more UPCs in your Bookshelves.

    What library are you from?

    Thread Starter cofficwtch

    (@cofficwtch)

    From CCLS, we’ve emailed before. (I assume you left GPL or I would have emailed you.)

    I suggest the switch because Syndetics seems to attach images to UPC for non-print media even if there is an ISBN. I keep on getting blank return for them.

    Plugin Author photonicgnostic

    (@photonicgnostic)

    Can you give me an example feed URL?

    Thread Starter cofficwtch

    (@cofficwtch)

    This is what I normally use for testing:

    https://catalog.cclsny.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=Harry+Potter

    Plugin Author photonicgnostic

    (@photonicgnostic)

    I have updated the Syndetics image URLs with version 5.9.

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