[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Google Books Preview in 3.1.4 not showing up

[Ben Shum]

Hmm confirmed on my new test server.  I think we should file a bug and
see what's going on here.  Thanks for the information and testing
Linda!

-- Ben
On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 11:42 PM Linda Jansova <skolkova at chello.cz> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> accidentally, we have discovered the following pattern:
>
> When one uses a link to the bib record which comes from the search
> results page, the preview does not show up, e.g.:
>
> https://spok.jabok.cuni.cz/eg/opac/record/29456?query=krizov%C3%A1%20intervence%20%C5%A1patenkov%C3%A1;qtype=keyword;locg=1;detail_record_view=0
>
> However, when permalink (without all those search parameters) is used,
> the preview does show up:
>
> https://spok.jabok.cuni.cz/eg/opac/record/29456?locg=1
>
> I have been trying to verify whether it also occurs in other Evergreen
> installations. It seems that demo servers
> (https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=community_servers) do not
> have the previews switched on.
>
> So I tried a couple of live systems and have found out that Laurentian
> probably uses at least 3.1.0 because one can see search terms being
> highlighted. The Google Books previews rewrite has been introduced in
> 3.0 (http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/3.0/_public_catalog_2.html), so if
> Laurentian also uses it (and it is, indeed, the case) it would also use
> the rewritten code for the previews.
>
> It follows the same pattern like the one we have discovered in our
> system, e.g.:
>
> https://laurentian.concat.ca/eg/opac/record/3138661?locg=105 - the
> preview shows up
>
> https://laurentian.concat.ca/eg/opac/record/911755?query=boudica;qtype=keyword;locg=105;detail_record_view=1
> - the preview fails to show up
>
> Is there anybody else using Google Books previews? Could you help
> confirm if it also looks like described above? If so, I would report it
> as a bug...
>
> Thank you!
>
> Linda
>
> On 08/31/2018 08:47 AM, Linda Jansova wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > We have been trying to set up Google Books Preview in our 3.1.4
> > installations. We have followed instructions from
> > http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/reorg/3.1/command_line_admin/_customizing_templates.html
> > – changed ctx.google_books_preview = 0; to ctx.google_books_preview =
> > 1; in parts/config.tt2 (which – judging by other examples in the same
> > config file – should be okay).
> >
> > When testing whether changed configuration actually changed anything,
> > we used examples of bib records about which we were sure they had a
> > preview in Google Books.
> >
> > We have also restarted Evergreen (including memcached) but to no avail.
> >
> > Is there anything else that needs to be set up (apart from setting
> > ctx.google_books_preview to 1 instead of 0)? Or anything else we might
> > have overlooked?
> >
> > Thank you for any hints!
> >
> > Linda
> >
>


-- 
Benjamin Shum
Evergreener