New community member introduction and question
Hi, I work as a volunteer in a non-profit association that runs the library for culture and religion at the Theological Centre in Meylan near Grenoble in France. My main task is cataloguing. We receive many books through book donations and bequests with the result that we have a large number of duplicates (circa 2500 books out of some 40000). We are setting up a framework to sell the duplicates for a token amount. To this end we have added a item.notforloan value "For Sale" which we use to generate a report of books for sale from which we create a virtual shelf that can be consulted by the patrons. I am trying to figure out how to add a "Price" column with items.price to the Holdings tab of the opac details page for folks viewing the "For Sale" virtual shelf in the "Normal View". The price is shown in the "Marc view". Any advice is gratefully accepted. Thanks, -David Penkler
Hi David, welcome! Currently it's not possible to make the Price field visible in the OPAC normal view. If you go to Administration > Table settings > OPAC > holdingst you can see all columns that can be made visible/be hidden from the table. Maybe putting/copying the price to OPAC note (item_notes) could work for your use case? Hope this helps, Katrin On 10.09.21 17:50, david@penkler.net wrote:
Hi, I work as a volunteer in a non-profit association that runs the library for culture and religion at the Theological Centre in Meylan near Grenoble in France. My main task is cataloguing.
We receive many books through book donations and bequests with the result that we have a large number of duplicates (circa 2500 books out of some 40000). We are setting up a framework to sell the duplicates for a token amount. To this end we have added a item.notforloan value "For Sale" which we use to generate a report of books for sale from which we create a virtual shelf that can be consulted by the patrons. I am trying to figure out how to add a "Price" column with items.price to the Holdings tab of the opac details page for folks viewing the "For Sale" virtual shelf in the "Normal View". The price is shown in the "Marc view". Any advice is gratefully accepted. Thanks, -David Penkler _______________________________________________
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Hi Katrin, Thank you very much for the suggestion to use the item_notes field. That works perfectly for our needs. Is there a way to use the batch operations to add the note from the items.price field ? Many thanks, -David On 2021-09-12 12:48, Katrin Fischer wrote:
Hi David,
welcome!
Currently it's not possible to make the Price field visible in the OPAC normal view. If you go to Administration > Table settings > OPAC > holdingst you can see all columns that can be made visible/be hidden from the table.
Maybe putting/copying the price to OPAC note (item_notes) could work for your use case?
Hope this helps,
Katrin
Hi David, I believe currently copying from one field into another is not an option with the batch edit tool for items. Katrin On 14.09.21 09:38, david@penkler.net wrote:
Hi Katrin, Thank you very much for the suggestion to use the item_notes field. That works perfectly for our needs. Is there a way to use the batch operations to add the note from the items.price field ? Many thanks, -David
On 2021-09-12 12:48, Katrin Fischer wrote:
Hi David,
welcome!
Currently it's not possible to make the Price field visible in the OPAC normal view. If you go to Administration > Table settings > OPAC > holdingst you can see all columns that can be made visible/be hidden from the table.
Maybe putting/copying the price to OPAC note (item_notes) could work for your use case?
Hope this helps,
Katrin
Is there a way to use the batch operations to add the note from the items.price field ?
This would work w/ the Batch record modification tool if it had access to the 952 tag & subfields. Unfortunately, it doesn't, at least in 20.05. Perhaps a good enhancement for down the road? This type of operation is trivial using a tool such as MarcEdit, though. Exporting & re-importing is obviously less time-consuming w/ smaller catalogs. All best, Cab Vinton, Director Plaistow Public Library Plaistow, NH
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