[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] opac dynamic api question

[Mike Rylander]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:05 PM, mlowenberg <mlowenberg at tnrdlib.bc.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
> Here's what we're trying to do...build library opacs in kiosk mode using
> our skin
> and scoped to the branch the patron is standing in but also reveal the
> number of copies in
> our system (but not all of the consortium) at the search results page.
>
> The hack we tried almost works except you get 0 results if the branch has
> no copies but the system has copies.

The OPAC can already handle what you want (assuming I understand you
correctly) if you feed it the correct URL parameters.  For instance:

http://gapines.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/index.xml?ol=ARL-ATH&d=1

 * ol => the "original location", which can be either the org unit id
or short name
 * d => the scope depth.  If you're using the stock 3-level setup of
Consortium -> System -> Branch, then System is 1

If you search for "harry potter" (no quotes) you'll see that one of
the results on the first page has 0/0 for the branch, but 1/1 for the
system.  Is that what you want to happen?

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