[Koha] Koha 3.0 : item types or CCodes (again - sorry ..)

[Joshua Ferraro]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Owen Leonard <oleonard at myacpl.org> wrote:
>> So, for purposes of displaying icons on the results page, do we all
>> agree that a bib-level field would be the best place to pull this
>> info? If so, you can create any authorized value at the bib-level,
>> associate an icon with it, and that icon will display, along with any
>> other bib-level icons, on both results and details pages.
>
> I'm assuming that this is only true if you "modify your local XSLT file to point
> to the icons you want to display?" I think that's an important
> clarification to make here.
Nope, it should work out of the box with or without XSLT on.

>>> And though you can associate an icon with a
>>> collection code, the effort is pointless: Koha doesn't display that
>>> icon anywhere.
>>
>> Those icons should display on the detail pages (see above).
>
> Is this also true only if you modify the XSLT file for the detail
> page? Because it's not true for the normal view.
There may be a few sysprefs to tweak to get them to display, but last
time I checked, this was working as well.

Josh

>>> - Enable display of collection code icons in places where information
>>> about individual items is displayed: the holdings table of
>>> opac-detail, lists of checkouts, lists of holds on specific copies,
>>> lists of waiting holds.
>>
>> This should already be in place for all item-level authorized values.
>
> This isn't the case at all. I can't add a new item-level authorized
> value and expect it's associated icon to display in the list of
> waiting holds, or on the list of checkouts on opac-user.pl.
>
>> I think that just confuses the issue and you'd have a four-dimension
>> matrix to fill out for circ rules rather than three.
>
> Yeah, I agree that's a messy solution.
>
> I did leave one thing out from the wish list:
>
> - Enable ccode as a search limiter in the advanced search.
>
>  -- Owen
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