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

[Linda Jansova]

Dan, we have tried it already but without success. We have made the 
changes in the file 
/openils/var/web/opac/skin/default/xml/result/result_table.xml.

Do you think that it should be sufficient to make the desired changes in 
this file or is it necessary to make them during the installation 
process (as the location 
Open-ILS/web/opac/skin/default/xml/result/result_table.xml you have 
mentioned might indicate)? Or - in case we have Evergreen already 
installed - is it necessary to make some changes in some other files or 
something like that?

Thank you in advance for your view!

Linda

PS: Also a big thank you goes to you for all of your recommendations 
regarding our favorite ;-) facet translations etc. - we usually proceed 
little by little as we fiddle with Evergreen in our spare time :-).

Dne 19.1.2012 07:22, Linda Jansova napsal(a):
> 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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