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

[Bill Erickson]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 10:31:59AM -0400, Mike Rylander wrote:
> 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.  

Yep.  It basically supports ranges at all levels except at the UI.

-b

-- 
Bill Erickson
| Senior Software Developer
| Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source
| phone: 877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
| email: erickson at esilibrary.com
| web: http://esilibrary.com