Thanks Mike, indeed it does. I get it now. Your intended/future developments sound great... I was going in another direction but I'll keep that to myself 'til I look a little more and see if what I'm thinking about makes any sense at all. Cheers, Cynthia
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Mike Rylander <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Cynthia Williamson > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All - I'm wondering if anyone is using meta-records? The only info I > can > > find on them in the wiki tells me I have to create them using sql - is > there > > no way to create them in the client? I'm specifically wanting to link > > existing records, not working on an import of new records. > > Metarecords are created when bibs are imported, so you already have > them. If you select "Group formats and editions" on the advanced > search page, the results are, in fact, metarecords. If you use the > Advanced Options link when placing a hold and select one or more > formats from the multiselect box, that is placing a metarecord hold, > allowing the first available copy of any chosen format to fulfill the > hold. > > You can make metarecord results the default by changing the value of > SHOW_MR_DEFAULT in (by default) > /openils/var/web/opac/common/js/config.js to true. IIRC, Conifer does > this. If you have many formats and editions for popular works, this > can be helpful. > > We want to extend the use of metarecords in several places -- being > able to place a hold on an MR directly without having to go to one of > its constituent records, links from record detail pages to other > records within a metarecord, and I'd like to see a hierarchical > interface for metarecords. > > Does that help? > > -- > Mike Rylander > | VP, Research and Design > | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts > | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) > | email: [email protected] > | web: http://www.esilibrary.com > -- Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
