[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] TPAC and Due Date

[Tony Bandy]

Hi Scott, folks,

No expert here, but we are in a consortium with multiple libraries and if your EG installation is like ours, each library has a custom set of TT2 files.  If this one listed below is not present in the library that does not wish to display the due dates, you can copy the default one into their directory and make the needed customizations....at least that's how we've done it before....

--Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Scott Thomas
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 8:57 AM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] TPAC and Due Date

Hi Galen,
   Thank you for replying. We are in a consortium and other members may not want to hide the due date. My assumption is that OPAC templates can be customized for each individual library in a consortium. Is this assumption correct? I am new to EG and still trying to figure out how all of this fits together.

I really appreciate it.

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Galen Charlton
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 8:49 AM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] TPAC and Due Date

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Scott Thomas <scott at albright.org> wrote:
>    Is there any way to prevent the Due Date from displaying in the 
> TPAC? We turned it off in our old ILS because some patrons would get 
> upset if a book they wanted was grossly overdue. If there is no way to 
> prevent it from displaying, is there a way to make long overdue items not be OPAC Visible?

Yes, that's a simple TPAC template customization.  I'm assuming that you're referring to the due date column on the item list on the record details page; if so, one could override the
opac/parts/record/copy_table.tt2 template and comment out or remove the following lines:

            <th scope='col'>[% l("Due Date") %]</th>

and

    <td>[% copy_info.due_date | html %]</td>

and

            <td>[%
                IF copy_info.due_date;
                    date.format(
                        ctx.parse_datetime(copy_info.due_date),
                        DATE_FORMAT
                    );
                ELSE;
                    '-';
                END %]</td>

One could also use CSS to hide that column.

Regards,

Galen
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