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by Payton Pietron August 13, 2020

Passing Parameters to the AEK from App Builder

The aim of this blog is to give a guide on how to pass useful values from the App Builder into an AEK integration. This topic assumes you’re already familiar with: How to create and publish AEK menu options How to create and deploy AEK projects If you’re not, please review these pages: Creating and…

by Josh Weisman Ex Libris August 10, 2020

Leveraging the Public Cloud: Creating a CORS Proxy

While building a Primo customization package, the need arose to call the Alma Resolver from JavaScript. As we've discussed before, most APIs and services don't support CORS as a security best practice. To work around this limitation, we can configure a proxy which adds the required CORS headers. In this post, we'll show an option…

by Yoel Kortick Ex Libris July 30, 2020

Alma Normalization Rule Examples

see also: Working with normalization rules Note 1: If you do copy/paste here make sure the quotation marks transfer correctly. Note 2: Some of the examples use "priority" and some use "salience". The "priority" and the "salience" work the same way. When there is a prioroity or a salience the the higher priority or salience…

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