[Dspace-general] Subscription email used default handle URL instead of our local URL

[Fiona Campbell]

Swinburne does not use  CNRI handles. Instead, we use our local URL eg http://images.swinburne.edu.au/handle/1111.1/590. The handles we use are referenced in the dspace.cfg & by the HandleManager.java variable getCanonicalForm.

This generally works. It works in the web interface and in our submission emails. The one place it does not work is in the subscription emails sent out to users who have subscribed to get email updates for new entries. Instead of having http://images.swinburne.edu.au  it has http://hdl.handle.net 

Subscription emails (WRONG!)

      Title: Test for Fiona and Susan
         ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1111.1/3732 


INVESTIGATION AND POSSIBLE SOLUTION

The simple wording of emails is changed by adjusting the email templates 
in [dspace-source]/config/emails. We've done that - that is not the problem.

To change the argument passed to the template you must change
[dspace-source]/org/dspace/eperson/Subscribe.java
in sendEmail change

This appears correct as it uses our getCanonicalForm that is used elsewhere quite successfully.

emailText.append("\n         ID: ").append( 
    HandleManager.getCanonicalForm(hii.handle)).append(
                                 "\n\n");

However, one recommendation I have found was to use this form instead:

emailText.append("\n         ID: ").append( 
  ConfigurationManager.getProperty("dspace.url")).append(
                                 "/handle/").append(
                                 hii.handle).append(
                                 "\n\n");

This will use the property dspace.url as defined in 
[dspace-source]/config/dspace.cfg to build the ID which is used in the 
subscription email.

QUESTION

Does anyone else recommend changing the [dspace-source]/org/dspace/eperson/Subscribe.java?

What solutions have other people come up with?

Regards,
Fiona


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Fiona Campbell
Systems Librarian ITS Information Systems
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Victoria,  Australia
Email: fcampbell at swin.edu.au
Phone:+ 61 03 9214 8279



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