All good :o)

Although I probably should have said 'use a phrase' - and linked to a phrase where the link URL is inserted via a pin e.g.

https://github.com/eprints/eprints/blob/2d42b2be54004bf3db6881a6d893d39c7a7f909f/lib/lang/en/phrases/system.xml#L3392-L3394

 and

https://github.com/eprints/eprints/blob/2d42b2be54004bf3db6881a6d893d39c7a7f909f/perl_lib/EPrints/Plugin/Screen/EPrint/RemoveWithEmail.pm#L129-L130

Cheers,

John

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From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk <eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk> on behalf of James Kerwin via Eprints-tech <eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Sent: 13 August 2019 09:32
To: John Salter <J.Salter@leeds.ac.uk>
Cc: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk <eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] ScreenProcessor.pm and Admin Screen Messages

 

Ahhh thanks John.

I'm such a fool! I already had the code I needed from something I did the other month. I just thought I needed to do something different because I was trying to add $frag to add_message rather than just returning it to be added to $page.

There are probably a few unnecessary Perl variables here and I need to replace certain things with their actual parts, but it works:

my $repo = $self->{session};

my $frag = $repo->xml->create_document_fragment;

my $chunk = $self->{session}->make_element( "div", id => "ep_messages" );

my $searchlink = $self->{session}->make_element( "a", class=> "search_link", href="" target=>"_blank" );

$searchlink->appendChild($repo->make_text("bleep bloop blop"));

$chunk->appendChild( $searchlink );

$frag->appendChild( $chunk );

$self->{processor}->add_message(

"message", $frag);

What a relief that I don't need to go change scary things!

Thanks,

James

On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 8:16 AM John Salter <J.Salter@leeds.ac.uk> wrote:

Hi James,
I think you've got all the right parts - you just need to join them all together:
- create the link
- create the text
- append the text to the link
- append the link to the message

Cheers,
John

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From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk <eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk> on behalf of James Kerwin via Eprints-tech <eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Sent: 12 August 2019 14:57:39
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk <eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: [EP-tech] ScreenProcessor.pm and Admin Screen Messages

 

Hi All,

I have a button on the admin screen that does something when clicked. Then at the top of the screen a message appears upon completion to provide a url for the user to follow (or that is the plan). It usually present a plain text message, but I want a clickable link. At the moment users would need to copy the message text and paste it into the address bar.

At the moment I can have either text or a link that can't be seen or clicked, but shows up when you inspect the page.

Here is my code that I've adapted (only the bit in bold is really relevant):

sub add_result_message

{

        my( $self, $ok ) = @_;

        if( $ok )

        {

                #$self->{processor}->add_message( "message",

                        #$self->html_phrase( "aam_link" ) );

#$self->{processor}->add_message(

#"message",

#$self->{repository}->make_text( "Please go to www.google.co.uk to access the AAM Updates.")

#);

#my $messagelink =

my $uri = "www.google.co.uk";

$self->{processor}->add_message( "message",

$self->{repository}->make_text(

$self->{session}->render_link( $uri ))

);

        }

Is there a way that I can alter this to show a clickable text link or am I going to need to go further down the EPrints Rabbit Hole? My alternative approach is to alter render_messages in ScreenProcessor.pm, but I don't really want to do that and I also don't know how to make a local archive copy of this file either as it's a few levels up from the plugins directory.

Any suggestions or alternative approaches are very welcome.

Thanks,

James

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