bpepple
Add field for official page and/or reading service
Describe the solution you'd like A (or multiple fields) that allow to link to the official page and/or reading service for the issue. For example, a comic entry for "Amazing Fantasy 15" could have a field "publisherPage": "https://www.marvel.com/comics/issue/16926/amazing_fantasy_1962_15" and a button in the UI [Publisher Page] that opens the link and an additional field "publisherOnlineReadLink": "https://marvel.smart.link/fiir7ec77?type=issue&drn=drn:src:marvel:unison::prod:092dd587-22fb-4402-a7e9-66116273092f&sourceId=16926" which shows in the UI as a button [Read Online].
Additional context This could be useful to instantly reference the official page when researching comic using this database or even quickly start reading said comic if available in the publishers official reading service, or even see if said comic is even available in the official reading service.
For API consumers this could also be useful if they want to include a link to the official page of the publisher, load some more data from the official publishers page or enable automatically opening the official reading service (a reading order page/service would come to mind)
I'd be willing to try to implement this feature and open a pull request, but I'd first like to discuss this feature request.
I thought about doing this in the past, but I'm not sure how useful it would be. In addition I'm fairly certain, based on past experience, if it couldn't be automated (which realistically could only be done for Marvel releases) the information would never be added.
Now adding this would really only consist of add a URL field to the Issue model and then deciding how to present this on the issue detail page.
Not a difficult task, but I don't want to add it unless it will actually be used.
Not a difficult task, but I don't want to add it unless it will actually be used.
Certainly a valid objection. I personally am working on a project right now where this would be pretty useful, though not necessary. Is there a way we could find out/poll if this feature would be used/useful to users? Besides keeping this issue open and see how many people react to this.
If you're on Matrix, you could add poll in the general room. This would most likely get the most exposure.
Or if you're not on Matrix, and add thread in the Dicussions tab on github.