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1rsterling
Sep 21, 2011, 2:33 am

I'm having a problem with the links in the lightbox for at least one quick link. The links are all set up correctly, but when you hover or click over the ISBNs/covers in the lightbox, it wants to just reload the librarything page instead of the search page on the other site.

Here's an example:
UCLA BookZone (UCLA Campus, Ackerman Student Union)

This happens both when I use the quick link I put in my right hand column and if I try use the quick link via the "all sources" page.

2timspalding
May 12, 2012, 1:48 am

Assigning to Jeremy

3jbd1
May 12, 2012, 9:46 am

Confirmed (and, may I say, weird!). ... Tim, I'll show this to you on Monday.

Notes for myself: test book - http://www.collegestore.org/newbookzone/detail.asp?isbn=0300171439
When added to quick links, "Book Availablity" indicator changes on refresh; venue doesn't show up in sidebar, &c.

4MarthaJeanne
May 20, 2012, 5:23 am

Is this the same thing?

I have been having trouble lately looking things up in WorldCat.

http://www.librarything.com/work/5720423

Some of the ISBNs are links but others aren't.

http://www.librarything.com/work/7997978
is an example were the only ISBN isn't a link.

5jbd1
Oct 19, 2012, 1:16 pm

So - UCLA BookZone no longer makes their holdings available, which loses us that particular example (they've changed their website and I can't see that they make it possibly to search for specific books there anymore at all). @rsterling, do you have another example of the specific behavior you saw with them (I saw it too, so I know it existed, but I can't find another case where it's happening now).

>4 MarthaJeanne: - Possibly - definitely something to be figured out, anyway. Those examples still hold.

6rsterling
Oct 19, 2012, 3:05 pm

I found the "search" option at UCLA BookZone and edited the ISBN and title search parameters on the LT Local page. The search on their end does seem to have some problems once you get to the results page, but it should work for the part that links to LT.

Try the quick link on this book, which I know is in their holdings:
http://www.librarything.com/work/10256125/get

The title search in the lightbox works, but the ISBN search (clicking on covers) just goes back to the LT work page.

7jbd1
Oct 19, 2012, 3:08 pm

Ah - good, thanks! Yes, it does.

8jbd1
Oct 19, 2012, 3:24 pm

So, Tim - go to http://www.librarything.com/work/10256125/get and choose the UCLA BookZone (use my account if you don't have that in your quicklinks). The lightbox shows two blank cover outlines in the ISBN section; if you click them all that happens is the lightbox closes.

9gangleri
Oct 19, 2012, 4:05 pm

Note: Here I have seen "/get" first time. One can link to the Bavarian State library via
http://opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de/search?language=en&oclcno=290494450#
Amazon direct at this page knows the ISBN 0812221664 .
One could find the book via
http://opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de/search?language=en&isbn=978-0-8122-4200-3# but not via
http://opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de/search?language=en&sbn=0812221664#

10timspalding
Oct 19, 2012, 7:07 pm

Are you done with this one, JBD?

11jbd1
Oct 19, 2012, 7:13 pm

Yeah, if you follow the steps in 8 you should see the bug. If not, let me know.