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

[Dan Wells]

Hello Linda,

You do not need to change the file before installing, so you are fine there.  Are you using the 'default' theme?  You probably are, but if not, you will need to edit the file in the directory matching your theme name rather than 'default'.  If you are using 'default', please feel free to post your changes so we can take a look.  I'd bet you are pretty close.

Thanks,
Dan W.

>>> On 1/22/2012 at 6:19 AM, Linda Jansova <skolkova at chello.cz> wrote:
> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>