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Primo allows you to add up to three external links to Personal Settings and My Library (for OPAC via Link), and to each of the following sections in My Account: Loans, Requests, Fees & Fines, Blocks & Messages, Personal Settings (for OPAC via Primo).

The external links that can be added to each of the My Account options display next to the title. For example:

For the new UI, the links display below the title:

The links are generic with the exception of the link that is defined with the fines.payfinelink link code, which is intended to link to an external payment system. If the fines.payfinelink link is defined in the My Account Links mapping table, it will display above and below the fines list, as shown below:

For the new UI, the Pay Fine link displays below the title only:

You can include the following placeholders in the external links as is currently done with delivery templates:

• Institutional base_urls – {{ils_base}} or {{alma_base}}

• Interface language – {{language}} or {{language_bibliographic}}

• Primo server IP – {{primo_server_ip}}

• User IP – {{user_ip}}

• PDS handle – {{pds_handle}}

• Timestamp – {{timestamp}}

• Code of active view – {{view}}

For more information on placeholders, refer to the Linking to Delivery Systems section in the Primo Interoperability Guide.