Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] TPAC and Due Date
Hi Scott, Another option might be to have the long overdue items age to a different status (Long Overdue or Lost) when they are so many days overdue. The copy statuses themselves have an opac_visible flag. So for example, if items are set to Long Overdue after a certain amount of time, and the opac_visible flag on the Long Overdue status is set to false, those items will not display to patrons in the catalog. Note that doing this will also bill the patron for the cost of the item, which may or may not be what you want. As far as the consortial implications, the opac visibility of a status is consortium wide, but changing status of items when they become long overdue is done with an action trigger and can be done library by library. Hope this helps, Michele On 2/11/2015 10:00 AM, Galen Charlton wrote: Hi Scott, On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Scott Thomas sc...@albright.org wrote: Thank you for replying. We are in a consortium and other members may not want to hide the due date. My assumption is that OPAC templates can be customized for each individual library in a consortium. Is this assumption correct? I am new to EG and still trying to figure out how all of this fits together. Yes, it is possible. For example, compare https://ashland.sparkpa.org/eg/opac/home and https://york.sparkpa.org/eg/opac/home That said, various Evergreen consortia have different policies regarding the degree to which member libraries' OPACs are allowed to vary -- for example, some place a high value on providing a consistent experience for all patrons of a resource-sharing group -- so there can be a difference between what is technically possible and what fits within a consortium's policies. Regards, Galen -- Michele Morgan, Technical Assistant North of Boston Library Exchange, Danvers Massachusetts mmor...@noblenet.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] TPAC and Due Date
Hi Galen, Thank you again. It just so happens that my consortium is SPARK, the very one you used as your example below. They are cool with local variation so we will be able to implement this solution. Scott -Original Message- From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Galen Charlton Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 10:00 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] TPAC and Due Date Hi Scott, On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Scott Thomas sc...@albright.org wrote: Thank you for replying. We are in a consortium and other members may not want to hide the due date. My assumption is that OPAC templates can be customized for each individual library in a consortium. Is this assumption correct? I am new to EG and still trying to figure out how all of this fits together. Yes, it is possible. For example, compare https://ashland.sparkpa.org/eg/opac/home and https://york.sparkpa.org/eg/opac/home That said, various Evergreen consortia have different policies regarding the degree to which member libraries' OPACs are allowed to vary -- for example, some place a high value on providing a consistent experience for all patrons of a resource-sharing group -- so there can be a difference between what is technically possible and what fits within a consortium's policies. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web:http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org http://evergreen-ils.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] TPAC and Due Date
Hi Galen, Thank you for replying. We are in a consortium and other members may not want to hide the due date. My assumption is that OPAC templates can be customized for each individual library in a consortium. Is this assumption correct? I am new to EG and still trying to figure out how all of this fits together. I really appreciate it. Scott -Original Message- From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Galen Charlton Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 8:49 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] TPAC and Due Date Hi, On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Scott Thomas sc...@albright.org wrote: Is there any way to prevent the Due Date from displaying in the TPAC? We turned it off in our old ILS because some patrons would get upset if a book they wanted was grossly overdue. If there is no way to prevent it from displaying, is there a way to make long overdue items not be OPAC Visible? Yes, that's a simple TPAC template customization. I'm assuming that you're referring to the due date column on the item list on the record details page; if so, one could override the opac/parts/record/copy_table.tt2 template and comment out or remove the following lines: th scope='col'[% l(Due Date) %]/th and td[% copy_info.due_date | html %]/td and td[% IF copy_info.due_date; date.format( ctx.parse_datetime(copy_info.due_date), DATE_FORMAT ); ELSE; '-'; END %]/td One could also use CSS to hide that column. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web:http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org http://evergreen-ils.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] TPAC and Due Date
Hi Scott, folks, No expert here, but we are in a consortium with multiple libraries and if your EG installation is like ours, each library has a custom set of TT2 files. If this one listed below is not present in the library that does not wish to display the due dates, you can copy the default one into their directory and make the needed customizationsat least that's how we've done it before --Tony -Original Message- From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Scott Thomas Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 8:57 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] TPAC and Due Date Hi Galen, Thank you for replying. We are in a consortium and other members may not want to hide the due date. My assumption is that OPAC templates can be customized for each individual library in a consortium. Is this assumption correct? I am new to EG and still trying to figure out how all of this fits together. I really appreciate it. Scott -Original Message- From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Galen Charlton Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 8:49 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] TPAC and Due Date Hi, On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Scott Thomas sc...@albright.org wrote: Is there any way to prevent the Due Date from displaying in the TPAC? We turned it off in our old ILS because some patrons would get upset if a book they wanted was grossly overdue. If there is no way to prevent it from displaying, is there a way to make long overdue items not be OPAC Visible? Yes, that's a simple TPAC template customization. I'm assuming that you're referring to the due date column on the item list on the record details page; if so, one could override the opac/parts/record/copy_table.tt2 template and comment out or remove the following lines: th scope='col'[% l(Due Date) %]/th and td[% copy_info.due_date | html %]/td and td[% IF copy_info.due_date; date.format( ctx.parse_datetime(copy_info.due_date), DATE_FORMAT ); ELSE; '-'; END %]/td One could also use CSS to hide that column. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web:http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org http://evergreen-ils.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] TPAC and Due Date
Hi Scott, On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Scott Thomas sc...@albright.org wrote: Thank you for replying. We are in a consortium and other members may not want to hide the due date. My assumption is that OPAC templates can be customized for each individual library in a consortium. Is this assumption correct? I am new to EG and still trying to figure out how all of this fits together. Yes, it is possible. For example, compare https://ashland.sparkpa.org/eg/opac/home and https://york.sparkpa.org/eg/opac/home That said, various Evergreen consortia have different policies regarding the degree to which member libraries' OPACs are allowed to vary -- for example, some place a high value on providing a consistent experience for all patrons of a resource-sharing group -- so there can be a difference between what is technically possible and what fits within a consortium's policies. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web:http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org http://evergreen-ils.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] TPAC and Due Date
Hi, Is there any way to prevent the Due Date from displaying in the TPAC? We turned it off in our old ILS because some patrons would get upset if a book they wanted was grossly overdue. If there is no way to prevent it from displaying, is there a way to make long overdue items not be OPAC Visible? Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas, MLS Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.orgmailto:sc...@albright.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] TPAC and Due Date
Hi, On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Scott Thomas sc...@albright.org wrote: Is there any way to prevent the Due Date from displaying in the TPAC? We turned it off in our old ILS because some patrons would get upset if a book they wanted was grossly overdue. If there is no way to prevent it from displaying, is there a way to make long overdue items not be OPAC Visible? Yes, that's a simple TPAC template customization. I'm assuming that you're referring to the due date column on the item list on the record details page; if so, one could override the opac/parts/record/copy_table.tt2 template and comment out or remove the following lines: th scope='col'[% l(Due Date) %]/th and td[% copy_info.due_date | html %]/td and td[% IF copy_info.due_date; date.format( ctx.parse_datetime(copy_info.due_date), DATE_FORMAT ); ELSE; '-'; END %]/td One could also use CSS to hide that column. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web:http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org http://evergreen-ils.org
