On 10/24/07, Karen Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-admin:customizations:opac
Awesome. Thanks! > Another option I've considered, since most of the changes I want are to the > search page and not the results page, is embedding a search box for the OPAC > within the html of our existing Web page set up on another server. Any > thoughts on how this might be done and if it's practical with the OPAC as it > is? Hrmm. It should be easy enough to create a form which creates an OPAC url, but you might want to consider using OpenSearch, which Evergreen supports. You'll need smarter folks than me to tell you how to hook it up, though. *looks around* If you go to http://gapines.org/ in Firefox, you'll notice that the drop-down menu for Firefox's quick search field changes color, and if you click on it, you'll see a link for Add "Evergreen". I believe that is using OpenSearch. You can make a server-side or client-side script to parse a target site's OpenSearch description file, which explains how to search the site. You could then make your one search box understand how to support multiple targets, perhaps with a dropdown, and get results back in a parse-able format. Here's the wikipedia entry for general information on OpenSearch: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch > In that discussion from July there was made mention of some major reworking > of the OPAC planned for the future. Has that happened? Is it still in the > works? Would making some interface and feature suggestions/requests be > appropriate at this point? It hasn't happened yet, and it's always appropriate to make suggestions and requests! Bill Erickson is the OPAC developer and he's offline today, but should be back tomorrow. :) -- Jason Etheridge | VP, Community Support and Advocacy | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | web: http://www.esilibrary.com
