How to add a live URL to an online book

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How to add a live URL to an online book

1yedlint
Apr 17, 7:07 pm

I thought I once asked this but cannot find any discussion on the topic. We would like to start adding records for online books with a live URL to the online book. What field is available for that and how do we make the url live?
Thank you

2Keeline
Apr 18, 12:55 am

I believe that just putting in the URL will not do it in the description field of the listing.

You can use an HTML "a" tag to do it. I'll try to make it appear here but you won't want to merely copy paste since there are special codes to make this work:

<a href="https://URL-to-book">Text label to display</a>

James

3Maddz
Apr 18, 1:53 am

I use the comments field to add external links. You don't need to use HTML tags:

4keristars
Apr 18, 3:46 am

Yeah, I just put the links into the comments field. They don't appear to be live when I first save, but refresh the page and they're good.

5yedlint
Apr 18, 11:20 am

Yes, I see that now thanks. However the Comments field does not show up in the brief record. Is there a way I can control what fields are part of the brief record, and add it?

6keristars
Edited: Apr 18, 12:34 pm

>5 yedlint: What are you referring to for "brief record"?

https://www.librarything.com/work/899791/details/310829229

This book of mine has the comments at the bottom, and I customized "Your Book Information" on the work page to include the comments. (picture 1)

For the catalogue view, you can add comments as a column to any of the 5 style settings (A-E). (picture 2)

7Maddz
Apr 18, 12:47 pm

>6 keristars: I think the OP is referring to TinyCat.

8keristars
Apr 18, 3:20 pm

>7 Maddz: Oh, yeah! That makes more sense than my guesses. :)

9bnielsen
Apr 18, 5:28 pm

>8 keristars: And the discussion is continuing here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/383761

10yedlint
Apr 18, 7:34 pm

Yes I meant in Tinycat. Sorry