[Koha] COURSE and Course Reserves

[Katrin Fischer]

Hi Carlos,

COURSE is not an 'official' authorised value in Koha (one that Koha
knows about). That means it's not tied to any functionality in Koha and
can't be automatically populated with values.

If you want a search feature in the OPAC, it should work without:

You could use a public report listing the id and course name. Then you
can build your drop down using the JSON data from the report. Your code
could be added to any of the HTML preferences Koha has, depending on
where you want it to appear. It needs a bit of knowledge in Javascript
and HTML, but it's doable.

If you want the users to select their course in their patron account, I
think the best way would be to maintain the COURSE authorised value for
a patron attribute manually for now.

Hope this helps,

Katrin

On 08.04.19 08:07, Carlos Lopez wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> I was hoping to compose a report (public) that would allow students to choose their course from a drop-down list, but when I went looking I found that the COURSE authorised value had not been populated by data from Course Reserves. So.
>
> Question 1: Is it possible to present borrowers with a customised public report that will allow them to choose from a set of values (like "Course code")?
>
> Question 2: Does Koha store course codes somewhere that  might allow us to populate a drop-down menu for Question 1?
>
> We're on Koha 18.05.
>
> With kind regards from the Dalton McCaughey Library Team
>
> Carlos Lopez
>
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