[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Staff Client

[Grant Johnson]

Brandon, Jason and Bill,
Thanks for the tips.
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F. Grant Johnson
  Systems Coordinator
  Robertson Library
  University of Prince Edward Island

>>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at  5:44 PM, in message <48FE3F1D.4030705 at grpl.org>, Bill
Ott <bott at grpl.org> wrote:
> There's also a handy function called isXUL(), which I evaluate in 
> several places to provide different content to staff vs. the public 
> based on whether or not they're using a staff client.
> 
> 
> 
> Brandon W. Uhlman said the following on 10/21/2008 03:48 PM:
>> Hi, Grant.
>>
>> We managed to do what you're looking for in Sitka, but it's more a 
>> side-effect of our branding approach than a conscious decision. In 
>> Sitka, every site has it's own OPAC skin and theme, in order to 
>> preseve local branding.
>>
>> You should be able to get your desired result by changing your public 
>> OPAC links to point at a skin where either the JS or XML files are 
>> edited to not show the item barcode. Your staff clients, meanwhile, 
>> will stick with the default skin.
>>
>> The command that sets the default skin for us was in eg.conf in the 
>> Apache config directory. We're the only production site anywhere using 
>> Gentoo, though, AFAIK, so it could be somewhere else for you.
>>
>> RedirectMatch 307 ^/$ /opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/index.xml
>>
>> Happy hunting!
>>
>> ~B
>>
>> Quoting Grant Johnson <fgjohnson at upei.ca>:
>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> Will it be easier in the 1.4 version to modify the display in  the  
>>> Staff client  vs the OPAC?
>>>
>>> Right now it seems that they both use the same .js files and that  
>>> means some customization,
>>>  like  removing the barcode display for Patrons disturbs Staff who  
>>> liked that feature! :-)
>>>
>>> We might be able to ad some .js to re-add the barcode for the Staff  
>>> client but............
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> -- 
>>>
>>> F. Grant Johnson
>>>   Systems Coordinator
>>>   Robertson Library
>>>   University of Prince Edward Island
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ======================================
>> Brandon W. Uhlman, Systems Consultant
>> Public Library Services Branch
>> British Columbia Ministry of Education
>> Vancouver, BC (and Lillooet, BC)
>>
>> Phone: (604) 660-2972 or (250) 256-0344
>> E-mail: brandon.uhlman at gov.bc.ca 
>>         brandon.uhlman at bclibrary.ca 
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