[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Copy status for reference books?

[Linda Jansova]

Thank you, Dan! We shall definitely try it :-)!

Linda

Dne 18.1.2012 16:15, Dan Scott napsal(a):
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 02:34:41PM -0500, Mike Rylander wrote:
>> 2012/1/16 Linda Jansova<skolkova at chello.cz>:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We have come across a probably more or less country-specific issue:
>>>
>>> In Jabok Library, reference books (i.e., books which cannot be checked out
>>> and can only be read in the library) don't share the same copy location (as
>>> often, though probably not always, do reference books in US libraries).
>>> Rather, the books in Jabok Library are dispersed throughout the library. A
>>> typical example would five copies of the book - four of them could be
>>> checked out and one of them could not be. All five copies would be
>>> physically located on the very same shelf - distinguished by a spine label
>>> so that the user immediately sees whether he or she is able to check out the
>>> particular copy.
>>>
>>> When it comes to Evergreen (we are currently using version 2.0.9), would you
>>> recommend creating a new copy status (in Server Administration ->  Copy
>>> statuses) entitled (in English) say "Reference" which would be visible in
>>> the OPAC and one could not place holds on it? What we need is to make it
>>> more visible for the user to see whether a particular copy is a "usual" copy
>>> which could be checked out whether it is a reference book... In case we use
>>> the copy status as indicated, we (and the users of course) can conveniently
>>> see the status below the record of the title...
>>>
>>> Or perhaps an entirely different solution would be better in this case?
>>>
>> There's a Reference flag that can be set on a per-copy basis, and can
>> be used to disallow holds and circulations.
> Building on what Mike said, that Reference flag for copies is exposed in
> the data available to BibTemplate (in the JavaScript OPAC) using the
> marcxml-full data type - which is what the search result copy summaries
> are built from.
>
> So, let's peek behind the veil to see a snippet of the XML that's returned:
>
> <holdings xmlns="http://open-ils.org/spec/holdings/v1">
>    <counts>
>      <count type="public" count="2" available="2" unshadow="2" transcendant="0" org_unit="1" depth="0"/>
>      <count type="public" count="2" available="2" unshadow="2" transcendant="0" org_unit="105" depth="1"/>
>    </counts>
>    <volumes>
>      <volume id="tag:open-ils.org:asset-call_number/1744485" lib="OSUL"
>          opac_visible="t" deleted="f" label="QA 76.76 S46 Z55 2006">
>        <copies>
>          <copy id="tag:open-ils.org:asset-copy/490288"
>              create_date="2006-03-14T00:00:00-0500"
>              edit_date="2011-03-28T09:36:52-0400" copy_number="" circulate="t"
>              deposit="f" ref="f" holdable="t" deleted="f" deposit_amount="0.00"
>              price="" barcode="30007008266958" circ_modifier="BOOK" circ_as_type=""
>              opac_visible="t">
>            <status ident="0" opac_visible="t">Available</status>
>            <location ident="142" opac_visible="t">Circulation (3rd floor)</location>
>            <circlib ident="103" opac_visible="t">J.N. Desmarais Library</circlib>
>            <circ_lib xmlns="http://open-ils.org/spec/actors/v1"
>              id="tag:open-ils.org:actor-org_unit/103" shortname="OSUL"
>              name="J.N. Desmarais Library" opac_visible="t"/>
>            <monograph_parts></monograph_parts>
>            <copy_notes></copy_notes>
>            <statcats></statcats>
>          </copy>
>        </copies>
>        <uris/>
>        <prefix ident="-1" id="tag:open-ils.org:asset-call_number_prefix/-1" label_sortkey=""/>
>        <suffix ident="-1" id="tag:open-ils.org:asset-call_number_suffix/-1" label_sortkey=""/>
>        <owning_lib xmlns="http://open-ils.org/spec/actors/v1"
>          id="tag:open-ils.org:actor-org_unit/103" shortname="OSUL" name="J.N. Desmarais Library"/>
>      </volume>
>    </volumes>
> </holdings>
>
> All of that is mostly to expose what is available to sites to fairly
> easily customize displays. In your case, the<copy>  element is what
> you're looking for, and the "ref" attribute is what tells you whether
> the reference flag has been checked off. You could then adjust the
> BibTemplate code in
> Open-ILS/web/opac/skin/default/xml/result/result_table.xml to check the
> value of the "ref" attribute and alter the display accordingly, within
> the scope of the "dojo.query('copy', vol).forEach(function (cp) {" loop.
>
> For example, you could assign the value of copy.getAttribute('ref') to a
> variable, and then within the chunk of code that determines the display
> status, make it generate "Reference" instead of "Available" (or append
> "Reference" to the current status string, and/or make it an HTML element
> with a title attribute so that when the user hovers over it it says
> "Cannot be held or circulated") or something like that.
>
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