How to make MARC Fields Appear in Opac?
Hi Again, Still trying to get my head around Koha. So I've been through all the tags, identifying the ones our organisation is likely to use (mainly tradtitional koha items), disabling many others and now have a MARC form consisting of only 2 tabs, with tab 10 hidden. (Took me ages to figure out hiding was deliberate, or is it?) Quite a bit of work, but cool, now that it's done :-) Now that I have my fields, how do I control which field displays in the Opac? Also, changing the label to the field? They seem to be different in the Opac to the ones defined in the subfield screen. Seemingly this can this be somehow be done via the admin interface? Or have I misunderstood this and its all pretty much hard-coded? I read the somewhat cryptic help file in the Edit Subfields screen which refers to 17 different visibility condtions. An exclamtion mark (!) signifying where what is hidden. Does this actaully work? I've not yet been able to just take an obscure MARC field and deliberately make it display in the Opac... It would be absolutely awesome if this customisability was operational, so I hope I've just missed the main point (as I often do) and there is actually a way of achieving this. Best Regards to all, TIA Bo
Hi ,
Now that I have my fields, how do I control which field displays in the Opac? Also, changing the label to the field? Just wondered if anyone had any pointers to this topic posted a few days ago. I have tried -via the subfields screens- to use the 17 visibility setting mentioned in the help file but have not been able to make tags apear...
Here's a small, specifically related example. In my Koha installation I have defined: For Marc: 942K Dewy/Call Number For Items: 952K Call Number (Combined) These display fine throughout various screens on the intranet but how can I make the call number show in the opac? Which subfield/linkage is required for the opac field to display 942/952 fields. Go to http://opac.bswa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bib=3 - the call number area is not filled here. If you go into MARC view you can see the call number. Any help would be much appreciated. Bo (Koha 2.9.9 MYSQL 5.0 Apache 2 on Ubuntu Feisty)
Hi Bo, The visibility settings in Koha are designed to affect the visibility of fields in the MARC view of the OPAC, not the default view. If you want to alter the view of the default view you'll have to edit the template directly. We've had some ideas for a while for using an XSLT stylesheet to change what is visible, and indeed, we've even done some mockups of what that could look like and the flexibility it would give us, but unfortunately, no library has stepped forward and sponsored that feature enhancement. If you're interested, here's a mockup of what could be done: XSLT Stylesheet: http://search.athenscounty.lib.oh.us/opac-tmpl/compact.xsl Resulting view: http://search.athenscounty.lib.oh.us/cgi-bin/koha/opac-cardview.pl?bib=88099 By altering that simple XSLT stylesheet you could drastically change the 'simple' view of a given record. ... anyway ... Cheers, -- 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 ----- "Bo Schafers" <bo@weavebrain.com.au> wrote:
Hi ,
Now that I have my fields, how do I control which field displays in
the Opac? Also, changing the label to the field? Just wondered if anyone had any pointers to this topic posted a few days ago. I have tried -via the subfields screens- to use the 17 visibility
setting mentioned in the help file but have not been able to make tags
apear...
Here's a small, specifically related example. In my Koha installation I have defined:
For Marc: 942K Dewy/Call Number For Items: 952K Call Number (Combined)
These display fine throughout various screens on the intranet but how
can I make the call number show in the opac? Which subfield/linkage is
required for the opac field to display 942/952 fields. Go to http://opac.bswa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bib=3 - the call number area is not filled here. If you go into MARC view you can see the call number.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Bo
(Koha 2.9.9 MYSQL 5.0 Apache 2 on Ubuntu Feisty)
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Joshua M. Ferraro wrote:
If you want to alter the view of the default view you'll have to edit the template directly.
OK! Thanks,,,
If you're interested, here's a mockup of what could be done:
Yes that kind of thing would be marvellous. Once I have Koha running for our little non profit organisation's library I'll promote it no end, perhaps eventually a bigger player will sponsor such enhancement. Regards, Bo
These display fine throughout various screens on the intranet but how can I make the call number show in the opac? Which subfield/linkage is required for the opac field to display 942/952 fields. Go to http://opac.bswa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bib=3 - the call number area is not filled here. If you go into MARC view you can see the call number.
Bo, I took a look at the link you provided. Is the call number you want to show up in the call number column KOS 540? If so you might just have to edit your template to have it show in that column. Make sure you're changing the template you've selected in your parameters. --Jason
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