wrong link to PDF and drawing files in CA design documents

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thomasst
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wrong link to PDF and drawing files in CA design documents

Post by thomasst » Fri Mar 16, 2018 12:11 pm

Dear OPS team,
we have come across a problem in the download links returned in the inquiry-result for certain CA design documents.
The call to
http://ops.epo.org/3.2/rest-services/pu ... 0.S/images
returns the ops:inquiry-result with links
link="published-data/images/CA/169610/A/fullimage"
to the different document CA.169610.A which is not a design and very old.

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<ops:inquiry-result>
         <publication-reference>
            <document-id document-id-type="docdb">
               <country>CA</country>
               <doc-number>169610</doc-number>
               <kind>S</kind>
            </document-id>
         </publication-reference>
        <ops:document-instance system="ops.epo.org" number-of-pages="9" desc="FullDocument" 
link="published-data/images/CA/169610/A/fullimage">
            <ops:document-format-options>
               <ops:document-format>application/pdf</ops:document-format>
               <ops:document-format>application/tiff</ops:document-format>
            </ops:document-format-options>
            <ops:document-section name="BIBLIOGRAPHY" start-page="1"/>
            <ops:document-section name="CLAIMS" start-page="6"/>
            <ops:document-section name="DESCRIPTION" start-page="2"/>
            <ops:document-section name="DRAWINGS" start-page="8"/>
         </ops:document-instance>
         <ops:document-instance system="ops.epo.org" number-of-pages="2" desc="Drawing" 
link="published-data/images/CA/169610/A/thumbnail">
            <ops:document-format-options>
               <ops:document-format>application/pdf</ops:document-format>
               <ops:document-format>application/tiff</ops:document-format>
            </ops:document-format-options>
            <ops:document-section name="DRAWINGS" start-page="1"/>
         </ops:document-instance>
</ops:inquiry-result>
At the moment I can not find any drawings for this document CA.169610.S on espacenet either. The correct response to the request should be an empty ops:document-instance tag.
Is it possible to fix this data kind code problem?

Kind regards
Thomas Stiefvater


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Re: wrong link to PDF and drawing files in CA design documents

Post by EPO / OPS Support » Mon Mar 19, 2018 9:51 am

Thank you for reporting this. The department in charge has already loaded proper S image file but it might take few days to be visible in OPS.

Regards,
OPS support


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