[Archivesspace_Users_Group] "?" being added unexpectedly to Digital Object File URIs

[Andrew Morrison]

You say your system in running 2.8.1. But does it have any plug-ins 
installed which contain a modified _digital.html.erb template based on 
an older release? A question mark is added by web browsers when 
submitting a HTML form with no input fields. And that is exactly what 
the non-thumbnail digital object button was until the 2.3.0 release, 
when this change was made:

https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/pull/1072

Andrew.


On 06/04/2022 17:03, Benn Joseph wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> We just discovered something unexpected when creating Digital Object 
> Instances, which is that when a DO Instance is constructed /without/ a 
> thumbnail URL--i.e. the DO Instance just has a single file version and 
> it’s the link to the actual thing—ArchivesSpace adds a “?” to the end 
> of that URL when a user clicks on it in the public interface. For 
> instance, if the File URI is “http://www.cnn.com”, then clicking this 
> link in the PUI will take you to “http://www.cnn.com/?” .
>
> The CNN website still works with that question mark, but when we use 
> an ARK to link to a record in our digital repository,
>
> “https://n2t.net/ark:/81985/n2dr2rt09”
>
> becomes
>
> “https://n2t.net/ark:/81985/n2dr2rt09?”
>
> …which is an entirely separate page.
>
> Is this a bug, or is this supposed to be happening? If it’s a bug I 
> can submit a ticket. We’re on version 2.8.1.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Benn
>
> *Benn Joseph *(he/him/his)**
>
> Head, Collections Services
>
> McCormick Library of Special Collections & University Archives
>
> Northwestern University Libraries
>
> Northwestern University
>
> www.library.northwestern.edu <www.library.northwestern.edu>
>
> benn.joseph at northwestern.edu <mailto:benn.joseph at northwestern.edu%0d>__
>
> 847.467.6581
>
>
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