Correct, DSpace still does display "https://hdl.handle.net"; style URLs on Community/Collection/Item pages if you have DSpace configured to use Handles. So Handles still work in the same manner. It's just that you'll no longer see those "/handle" URLs in the browser's address bar.
Tim On Friday, August 25, 2023 at 10:29:37 AM UTC-5 Night Librarian wrote: > Thank you, Tim! > > I understand now. And DSpace will continue to show "Permanent URI for > this community" as https://hdl.handle.net/[prefix]/[suffix] on the item's > page, so the users should just use this URI to share information about the > item, as opposed to the URL from the browser's address bar, right? > > > On Tuesday, August 22, 2023 at 1:30:44 p.m. UTC-3 DSpace Technical Support > wrote: > > Hi, > > DSpace 7 user interface's URLs are not customizable. However, all > old-style 6.x Handles should redirect automatically in DSpace 7 to the new > URL. So, an old style URL like [dspace.ui.url]/handle/[prefix]/[suffix] > will automatically redirect to a new style URL like > [dspace.ui.url]/items/[uuid]. > > In other words, while DSpace's new URL structure cannot be customized, all > old URLs will still work to provide backwards compatibility with 5.x/6.x. > > (You are correct, this is a semi-common question when upgrading to 7.x. > Here's where it was last asked: > https://groups.google.com/g/dspace-tech/c/cLFoNivftB4/m/8bF59GzzBwAJ ) > > Tim > > On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:53:49 AM UTC-5 Night Librarian wrote: > > Greetings! > > I believe I read an answer to this some time ago, but I can't locate it. > In our institution (on DSpace 7.4), items' URLs in a browser's address bar > look like this: > > https://mydomain.com/items/8792bc71-856f-4748-bdf3-a9ae5755c28e > > Our neighbor institution's URLs look like this: > > https://theirinstitution.com/handle/10999/82794 > > I am not sure what DSpace version they have, but is it possible in our 7.4 > to get rid of /items/very_long_number_string and use > /handle/handle_prefix/handle_number instead? > > -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://www.lyrasis.org/about/Pages/Code-of-Conduct.aspx --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dspace-tech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/b888acad-1f6f-45eb-ab35-e713574c6331n%40googlegroups.com.
