[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OPAC start page

[Vicki Reeves]

Thank you.  This sounds like exactly what we needed.  

On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 22:26 -0500, Dan Scott wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 04:35:01PM -0600, Vicki Reeves wrote:
> > We have gotten some bib and holdings records to load.  We celebrated by
> > playing in the OPAC.  But that gave us a new issue ...
> 
> Yay!
>  
> <snip>
>  
> > Our problem is that we don't know how to 'point' the OPAC so that it
> > starts searching at our library (2nd level) instead of the regional
> > library (top level). 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > If I pick Beauregard Parish Library, I see 'Now searching Beauregard
> > Parish Library' which is where I want our patrons to start, but the URL
> > is still this:
> > http://evergreen.library.beau.org/opac/en-US/skin/craftsman/xml/index.xml
> 
> Once you've picked your library, run a search. The URL will change to
> something like
> http://evergreen.library.beau.org/opac/en-US/skin/lul/xml/rresult.xml?rt=keyword&tp=keyword&t=jazz&l=103&d=2&f=
> 
> The key GET param you're interested in is the "l" parameter - which
> stands for "library". This specifies the ID of the library found in the
> actor.org_unit table to which you want to scope your search. However,
> you can see that value in the URL so you don't need to look in the
> database for this one.
> 
> Assuming that the value in your case is "l=102", you can provide links
> to
> http://evergreen.library.beau.org/opac/en-US/skin/craftsman/xml/index.xml?l=102
> to start patrons at the right search scope. In our case, we redirect
> patrons from various subdomains (like "laurentian.concat.ca" and
> "windsor.concat.ca") to the full URL including the "l" parameter
> appropriate for the scope of each library.
> 
> Hopefully this helps.