[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Search range in template toolkit

[Mike Rylander]

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Kathy Lussier <klussier at masslnc.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We've been spending some time investigating Template Toolkit and what work
> needs to be done before it is ready for implementation in our networks. I've
> been keeping up with changes being made to the working release notes page at
> http://www.open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev%3Aopac%3Atemplate-toolkit%3Arelease_notes and
> noticed a recent addition regarding the fact that TPac does not maintain the
> concept of search range. As this note was added under"other considerations"
> instead of "features not yet implemented," I'm curious if this means there
> are no current plans to implement this concept of search range. Is it
> something we can expect to see in either the short- or long-range future for
> TPac?
>

My personal opinion is that is a bug -- but my opinion is by no means
authoritative and, because the TT-OPAC is being built initially to
support specific requirements, is perhaps even not valid.  (Also note:
I've not touched the code myself.)

However, the structure and design of TT-OPAC (and the API calls it
uses to gather data to render) will make it relatively simple to add
this back as an alternate results-page template.  If/when that's
created, it will be a simple matter of configuration (listing the
template directory containing the appropriate results page version
/first/) to choose which to use.

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