Hi Catherine, See some answers below: ----- "Catherine Fagan" <cfagan@metier3.com.au> wrote:
Hi Everyone!
Ive just installed the newest version of Koha and ive created a MARC Tag that is particularly important to my library, but I don't know how to get it to display in the user interface's record. At the moment the user has to look at the MARC coding to find the information which isnt ideal!
Does anyone know how you determine what fields you show as part of a record? There are a few options here ...
As currently implemented, the opac-detail page for Koha 2.2.9 displays only MARC fields that have been directly mapped to an internal database table. So your first option would be to map the new field to a koha table field that you don't currently use (this can be done from within the biblio frameworks section of Koha). This is a bit of a cludge, as you might need to re-position the variable in your templates and you'd have to take good notes to reproduce the change after your next upgrade. Perhaps a better approach, would be to customize the ISBD detail page which you could set as the default view and use to display any field in the MARC record. (you can set ISBD to be the default from system preference, and you can customize the ISBD display from system preferences too). For more info on the ISBD options check out the user's guide: http://kohadocs.org/usersguide/ch01s01.html What I'd be really excited about, is sponsorship from a library to create a XSLT-based detail page. The theory is, you'd be able to define any fields in the record that you wanted to display, position them, wrap them in links, etc., all with just some basic XSLT stylesheet editing that could be done from within system prefs. I've did a proof of concept mockup of this for Nelsonville here: http://search.athenscounty.lib.oh.us/cgi-bin/koha/opac-cardview.pl?bib=44090 You can see how easy it is to edit the XSLT stylesheet by viewing this example: http://search.athenscounty.lib.oh.us/opac-tmpl/compact.xsl Any takers? :-) -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf@liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS