Thanks for sharing that, Michael.

Jim

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From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Michael Schell
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 11:22 AM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Academic PAC flavor

We have implemented a "Read More" feature in our test catalogue.  Here is a 
link<http://www.forterie.testenv.niagaraevergreen.ca/eg/opac/record/274558> to 
an example.  It uses the lightweight jQuery plugin readmore.js from 
here<https://github.com/jedfoster/Readmore.js>, and is super easy to setup and 
has some great options.  All it requires is that the [%- INCLUDE 
"opac/parts/record/contents.tt2" %] from the summary.tt2 be inside article tags 
like this:

<article>
      [%- INCLUDE "opac/parts/record/contents.tt2" %]
</article>

 I'm sure there are a lot of ways that this could be done but it works for us.


Michael Schell
Systems Administrator
Fort Erie Public Library
905-871-2546  x301
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www.fepl.ca<http://www.fepl.ca>


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From: "Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich"
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Date: 12/02/2014 04:59PM
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Academic PAC flavor
On 2014-12-02, at 05:25 , Donald Butterworth 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 
wrote:

> What would you think of taking the "... Read more" approach that Amazon uses 
> for reviews and long text, for long notes and text? This eliminates the 
> problem of clicking on a bar and finding it empty of content. It also would 
> make it possible to keep the copy/item record data always visible on the 
> screen without the need to scroll.

The feature sounds like a good idea. If implemented, consider using specific 
descriptive phrases like "View complete summary" or "View full contents" 
instead of repeating the same link text multiple times on one page.

Aleksey Lazar
IS Developer and Integrator - PALS
http://www.mnpals.org/

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