[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OPAC start page

[Robert Ruthven]

Dan Scott <dan at ...> writes:

> 
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 04:35:01PM -0600, Vicki Reeves wrote:
> > We have gotten some bib and holdings records to load.  We celebrated by
> > playing in the OPAC.  But that gave us a new issue ...
> 
> Yay!
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Our problem is that we don't know how to 'point' the OPAC so that it
> > starts searching at our library (2nd level) instead of the regional
> > library (top level). 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > If I pick Beauregard Parish Library, I see 'Now searching Beauregard
> > Parish Library' which is where I want our patrons to start, but the URL
> > is still this:
> > http://evergreen.library.beau.org/opac/en-US/skin/craftsman/xml/index.xml
> 
> Once you've picked your library, run a search. The URL will change to
> something like
>
http://evergreen.library.beau.org/opac/en-US/skin/lul/xml/rresult.xml?rt=keyword&tp=keyword&t=jazz&l=103&d=2&f=
> 
> The key GET param you're interested in is the "l" parameter - which
> stands for "library". This specifies the ID of the library found in the
> actor.org_unit table to which you want to scope your search. However,
> you can see that value in the URL so you don't need to look in the
> database for this one.
> 
> Assuming that the value in your case is "l=102", you can provide links
> to
> http://evergreen.library.beau.org/opac/en-US/skin/craftsman/xml/index.xml?l=102
> to start patrons at the right search scope. In our case, we redirect
> patrons from various subdomains (like "laurentian.concat.ca" and
> "windsor.concat.ca") to the full URL including the "l" parameter
> appropriate for the scope of each library.
> 
> Hopefully this helps.
> 
> 
Hi 

I'm trying to get the embedded search box on our corporate website to work in
the same way but I can't figure out how to edit the url to get it to work.  I
want the search scope to deafult to l=102 but I'm not having any successs in
editing the url in this script

<form action="http://prd1.sedar.org.uk/opac/en-GB/skin/stirling/xml/rresult.xml"
method="get">
<div>
        Quick Catalogue Search:<br />
        <input type="text" alt="Input Box for Catalog Search" maxlength="250" 
 size="20" id="t" name="t" value=""  />
        <input type="hidden" id="rt" name="rt" value="keyword" />
        <input type="hidden" id="tp" name="tp" value="keyword" />
        <input type="hidden" id="l" name="l" value="2" />
        <input type="hidden" id="d" name="d" value="" />
        <input type="hidden" id="f" name="f" value="" />
        <input type="submit" value="Search" class="form-submit"  />
    </div>
</form>

Any help much appreciated!

Thanks