Make OpenURL smarter to ignore possible blank values
If a string has a blank value for a field, skip using that field in favor of a later one that does contain a value.
Genie Shropshire
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Susan Payne commented
This is really important for us because our resolver tries to pull in data to improve finding articles for our users. Having a smarter open URL will help avoid having blank values in our user item request journey. We think it would be great if you could find a way to fix this. Thank you for considering!
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Rebecca M
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Hugely important, thank you!
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Jeff Suszczynski
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We would love to see this at the University of Rochester as well - it would make some auto-population work much better for OpenURLs coming from our discovery system
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Curran Riley
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The University of Wisconsin System would definitely like this - we are Alma customers and Alma requires us to construct our OpenURL template with all possible values. But then we end up sending blank values on to OpenURL targets such as ILLiad. While Alma should be "smarter" if ILLiad could handle blanks by skipping them, that would significantly improve things from our perspective.