[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] include due time on My Account summary?

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Gordana Vitez
<gvitez at niagaracollege.ca> wrote:
> We are an academic library using Evergreen and we sign out items to students
> based on hourly periods (reserve items, laptops). A common complaint we hear
> from students is that they can’t double check the due time on an item from
> the My Account, Items Checked Out summary.
>
> Is there a way to modify the summary to include due time?

Yes.  One approach is to customize the opac/parts/config.tt2 template,
uncomment out the DATE_FORMAT setting, and set it to a pattern that
includes the time.

For example:

DATE_FORMAT = '%D %I:%M %p';

which will display times like

2/10/15 11:59 PM

Doing it this way is a bit of a shotgun, however, as it will make
*all* date/time fields in the OPAC display using that format.

To customize only the current checkouts page, the template to modify
is opac/myopac/circs.tt2, where you could change

                        <td name="due_date" class='[% due_class %]'>
                            [% date.format(due_date, DATE_FORMAT) %]
                        </td>

to

                        <td name="due_date" class='[% due_class %]'>
                            [% date.format(due_date, '%D %I:%M %p') %]
                        </td>

There are other possibilities, including getting even fancier and
writing a function that would recognize whether the time portion was
11:59 PM, and if so, only display the date portion.

Regards,

Galen
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