[Archon-L] pdfs

[Kyle Fox]

We recently changed the code in the default template to more
thoroughly escape characters special to html when records are
displayed in the public interface. These changes would cause your <a>
tags to appear as written in the public display of your records
instead of producing a link.

How many others would this change affect? Could the institutions that
this affects produce their own templates with less zealous escaping,
or should we change the code back to the way it is in Archon 2.10's
default template? Would people like a solution similar to bbcode where
the necessities like links and italicized font could be expressed
using a language similar to html but characters such as '<' and '>'
would still be displayed as written?

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Amy Schindler <acschi at wm.edu> wrote:
> We inserted the link for collections that only have a single inventory
> in Other Information as well:
> http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=6743. A
> number of our collections have multiple, distinct box lists (like for
> the records of the Office of the President that are arranged simply by
> accession: http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=7404)
> or the finding aids were rather long
> (http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=7098).
> In those cases, we simply inserted the link to the PDFs in the
> description field using the <a href> tag.
>
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Wood, Thomas J <twood1 at uis.edu> wrote:
>> We linked to our PDF finding aids using the "Other information" field.
>> See
>> https://uisapp-s.uis.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=7
>> 40 , for example. I wish there was a way to label the link to the
>> finding aid more specifically, however.
>>
>>
>> Thomas J Wood
>> Archivist
>> Archives/Special Collections
>> Norris L Brookens Library, Room 144
>> University of Illinois at Springfield
>> One University Plaza, MS BRK 140
>> Springfield IL 62703-5407
>> 217-206-6520 | wood at uis.edu | <http://www.uis.edu/archives/>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: archon-bounces at archon.org [mailto:archon-bounces at archon.org] On
>> Behalf Of Chris Gordon
>> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 2:20 PM
>> To: archon at archon.org
>> Subject: [Archon-L] pdfs
>>
>> We have about 300 finding aids that were written using Word. These
>> documents were converted to pdfs when we posted them on our web page.
>> Now we have entered our general collection information into Archon. Is
>> there a way to link these pdfs into the collection records in Archon?
>>
>>
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> Special Collections Research Center
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Kyle Jordan Fox


Senior in Computer Science
Developer - Archon Simple Archival Information System
Tour Manager/Internet Officer - Varsity Men's Glee Club
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University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign

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