[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Mobius Book Carousel Demoed at the EG Conference this year

[Brent Mills]

Hi Jesse,

Yes. We've started using some of the auto-fill options and currently 
have the "Recently Added" one available at http://catalog.sage.eou.edu 
and on the KPAC at http://catalog.sage.eou.edu/eg/kpac/home

- Have you installed the bookbag_update.pl script and made sure the 
description field in the list has one of the updatetypes?
- Any errors when running the script? I know I had to put the 
Mobiusutil.pm file in to get ours working. 
https://github.com/mcoia/mobius_evergreen/blob/master/Mobiusutil.pm. 
Check the perl modules?
- Make sure the bookbag id 
(https://catalog.sage.eou.edu/eg/opac/myopac/lists?item_page=1;bbid=*1383951*) 
is in the book_carousel.tt2 file (bbags = [1383951]) like Blake mentioned.
- Shared on the bookbag list is set to "Yes"
- Make sure your eg.conf or apache config files have the custom template 
directive in the virtual host entry in if you haven't already/and are 
using them. We were just using redirects like hood.sage.eou.edu, so we 
had to create a few more templates:

    <Location /eg>
          PerlAddVar OILSWebTemplatePath
    "/openils/var/templates_new_library"
      </Location>

I would maybe try setting up a static list with some items you directly 
add and then seeing if that displays before running the script?

If you're doing it for the KPAC -- we had to duplicate 
/openils/var/web/opac/skin/default/js/carousel/basic.js and change this 
line 
<https://github.com/mcoia/mobius_evergreen/blob/master/bookbag_update/var/web/opac/skin/default/js/carousel/basic.js#L98> 
to direct to the KPAC record instead of the OPAC's. I just named it 
basic_kpac.js and then pointed to that file in the KPAC custom 
book_carousel.tt2 
<https://github.com/mcoia/mobius_evergreen/blob/master/bookbag_update/var/web/templates/opac/parts/book_carousel.tt2#L38>

-Brent

On 6/29/15 11:20 AM, Blake Henderson wrote:
> Jesse,
>
> Did you happen to get the code from Github?
>
> https://github.com/mcoia/mobius_evergreen/tree/master/bookbag_update
>
> There is a folder structure there intended to match the folder 
> structure in /openils
>
> /openils/var/web/opac/skin/default/js/carousel
> and
> /openils/var/web/templates/opac/parts
>
> The various files belong to various places. If you are using a 
> template override, book_carousel.tt2 needs to be in the base template 
> folder otherwise the template toolkit breaks.
>
> Be sure and edit book_carousel.tt2 and replace the numbers with your 
> bookbag id numbers.
>
> If you are getting nothing, then you might need to inspect the 
> resulting html page and look for
> <div id="hidden_bb_info" class="hide_me">
>
> Check to see if that div has any content. If not, the javascript stuff 
> isn't working. If it does, then take a careful look at your CSS. The 
> jquery plugin jcarousel is picky about the CSS. If you just use the 
> CSS example from Github, it should work but it never hurts to double 
> check.
>
> I would be happy to take a look at what you have.
>
>
> -Blake-
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> On 6/29/2015 11:56 AM, Jesse McCarty wrote:
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Has anyone implemented the Book Carousel that Mobius demoed at the 
>> conference this year? 
>> (http://slides.mobiusconsortium.org/blake/bookcarousel/#/1). I have 
>> been going over the slides trying to implement this on our test 
>> server with no luck so far. I have placed the appropriate .tt2 files 
>> in their locations and created lists with our circulation account, 
>> but nothing is showing up either in the lists or on our OPAC. Are 
>> there additional instructions online somewhere that I am missing? 
>> Extra details: we have four libraries running on our system and at 
>> this point we are only looking to implement it for one.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Jesse McCarty
>>
>> City of Burlington
>>
>> IT Technical Assistant
>>
>

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Brent Mills
Systems Librarian | Sage Library System
email: brent at hoodriverlibrary.org
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