2009/3/15 Duimovich, George <[email protected]>: > > Any comments on support for custom entities in, say, the opac ? > > Could I just add a custom entity in my opac_local.dtd file or will this > break things (i.e. does an entity have to be registered elsewhere, including > in opac.dtd)?
Nope, just go ahead and define custom entities in your opac_local.dtd file. > We are using a customized left sidebar menu for certain navigational items, > and we are also using /locale/ dtd's for Evergreen entities in our bilingual > environment. I can handle non Evergreen links already (using /locale/ aware > includes, hardcoding links, etc.) but I was just wondering if I could manage > some of our external links using custom entities, and if so, any gotchas to > look out for? You have to use & for ampersands instead of plain & - that's about the only gotcha I can think of off the top of my head. Oh, and this is broader than just entities, but if you end up customizing some of the JS files, like skin/<skin-name>/js/rdetail.js, inside a skin, you'll discover that the corresponding XML file in the skin hardcodes a call to skin/default/js/rdetail.js - which can be surprising the first time you make major changes to a JS file in a skin and wonder why you don't see any changes. A little sed can take care of that; for example, in the following we point to the skin/skin-name/js/ directory for all JS files that would otherwise be loaded from skin/default/js/ in page_rdetail.xml (although you might want to use a bit more precision than this!): sed -i -e 's/skin\/default\/js/skin\/skin-name\/js/' /openils/var/web/opac/skin/skin-name/xml/page_rdetail.xml > Step by step our customized opac coming along satisfactorily -- a few things > to get used to and improve upon (like don't make /any/ xml errors, some > minor CSS enhancements to be done for finer grain control, etc.), but I'm > very impressed with the thinking and organization behind the OPAC layout > pages! Good to hear that you're making progress, George! And yep, as usual, Bill/Mike/Jason's work excels. -- Dan Scott Laurentian University
