Aggregation Aliases Administration

Welcome to the help page for administrative functions on aggregation aliases and forwarding within this digital library.

This page explains the overall concept and some of the terms used.

General Concept

Aggregation aliases allows one or more aliases to refer to an existing aggregation. In this way, an aggregation can appear to have multiple codes or names. This can assist with URL readability and for sunsetting old aggregation codes while providing forwarding to the new aggregation codes.

For example, the old aggregation code ( flap ) for the aerial collection has been deprecated and replaced with a more readable aggregation code ( aerials ). However, some users may still have links to the old aggregation. By using an aggregation alias of flap, the old url ( ufdc.uflib.ufl.edu/flap ) points to the same new collection ( ufdc.uflib.ufl.edu/aerials ).

New Item Aggregation Alias

This section allows a new aggregation alias to be entered by entering the new alias and the code for the current item aggregation.

Existing Item Aggregation Aliases

This section allows the user to perform some tasks on existing item aggregation aliases:

• edit

  The administrator can edit the information for an existing alias. Selecting this link opens the pop-up form (below) which allows the user to change the item aggregation to which an alias points.

• view

  This opens the browser to that alias in a seperate window for testing how an alias is working or for demonstration purposes.

• delete

  This deletes the item aggregation alias. Administrators should carefully consider if anyone may still be using an alias before any deletion.

Example

Below is an example screenshot for adding new aliases and managing existing aliases:

Below is the image of the pop-up form used for editing existing aliases: