[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OPAC start page

[Anoop Atre]

Rob
I got it to search just the "Local Library System" in your catalog by 
changing the following hidden form input (you don't need to edit the url).

from
         <input type="hidden" id="l" name="l" value="2" />
to
         <input type="hidden" id="l" name="l" value="102" />

Cheers

On 01/25/2012 07:19 AM, Robert Ruthven wrote:
> 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
>
>


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