Re: [Treebase-devel] DOI links in the interface

[William P. <wil...@ya...>]

On Feb 2, 2011, at 7:42 PM, Rutger Vos wrote:

> There is probably an empty string (but not null) for the DOI field for those records.

Correct. This is a bug. The "http://dx.doi.org" hyperlink is provided for all non-NULL values, however when users enter citation information in which the DOI entry is left blank, the field is filled with "blank" rather than NULL. Hence a hyperlink to nowhere is displayed. 

Either the entry form should be designed to enter NULL for blank values, or the hyperlink should not be presented to users when the DOI is blank.  Anyone prefer one solution over the other?

bp