CUNY Academic Commons

Hi Filipa,

Thanks for the report and sorry this isn't working. I re-created the issue when i tried it on my test site here: https://coursetest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/hypoth-pdf-testing/

Hypothesis wont work on PDFs on private sites but I saw that your site and my test site (above) are both public so the plugin should be working on our PDFs.

I wonder if this issue might be caused by the link structure that refers the plugin to the media library where pdfs are stored, detailed in ticket #9120 -- https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/9120

If so, developers will know more about how to fix the link structure.

This works because it contains the link extension "via.hypothesis".

If you remove the extension it does not work, but it should. The plugin is supposed to run the tool on PDFs from the media library. Using the plugin, the site admin does not need to manually add the via link extension when linking to pdfs in media library.

When you view the pdf through the page on the commons with no link extension hypothesis sidebar should appear but it doesn't. https://coursetest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/hypoth-pdf-testing/

It's like the commons is blocking the sidebar, or not recognizing that the plugin is activated on that site w access to the media library.

When I click on the "What is New Media?" link at https://coursetest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/hypoth-pdf-testing/, I am led to the URL https://via.hypothes.is/https://coursetest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/2976/files/2019/08/Manovich-NewMedia.pdf, where I'm able to use the Hypothesis tools.

Can you explain what you mean by "the extension 'via.hypothesis'"? Does this mean the URL prefix? To my knowledge, there's no way to use Hypothesis on Commons PDFs unless you're viewing them via a via.hypothes.is URL.

When you say "when you view the pdf through the page on the commons" do you mean that the PDF should be embedded on the page? I'm afraid I don't fully understand the expected behavior.

Hi Boone,

I am sorry for the confusion. I am able to see the pdf with hypothesis tools now but only after I cleared my cache. Dumb mistake on my part. Looks like your fix worked and I just need more coffee.

Thanks for your help.

It's working for me, now! I was testing this across browsers yesterday (was having some issues last night getting it to work on Firefox, though it was working in Chrome and Safari) but it seems to be all good when I cleared my cache re-started my browser this morning.

Thank you Boone and Laurie so much for your help. My students also thank you!

Awesome! Thanks for circling back, Filipa!

Thanks to you all for working through this!