Re: [IUG] View Additional Copies button WAS: Persistent record link format

["Welch, Andrew" <AWelch at auroragov dot org>]

Replacing the awful button can be done with some javascript as well.

http://auroralibrary.org/screens/clhouse/view/view.html

This page provides the steps and necessary code, and a couple of
screenshots (they're shots of your bib_display, Elizabeth, so I know it
will work for you!). The text of the link is customizable. The script
also allows you to assign a class to the link, so you can style it like
the rest of your text links.

Let me know if you have questions about it.

-Andrew

Andrew Welch
Sr. Library Systems Technician
Aurora Public Library
Aurora, CO 80012
http://auroralibrary.org
 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org 
>[mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of 
>Elizabeth Thomsen
>Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 12:11 PM
>To: IUG INNOPAC List
>Subject: Re: [IUG] Persistent record link format
>
>Thanks, Bob!
>
>Actually, I didn't have to look very far to find an example of 
>what I described -- my good friends and neighbors at Minuteman 
>are using the unscoped permalink trick to add a "see other 
>copies" option to their catalog.  See this record for an example: 
>http://library.minlib.net/record=b1591687&searchscope=6
>
>I hadn't thought of Majax as the way to do this conditionally, 
>but I look forward to someone figuring this out and putting 
>the solution in the Clearinghouse!
>
>Any thoughts on a semi-related consortium issue -- how to 
>replace that awful "View additional copies or search for a 
>specific volume/copy" 
>button/searchbox with something much simpler, like a link that 
>says "See all copies" like we had back in 2000.
>
>(See my lengthy rant on this topic here:
>http://innovativeusers.org/list/archives/2000/msg04634.html)
>
>Elizabeth
>
>Bob Duncan wrote:
>> On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 07:50:27 -0400 (EDT)
>>   "Elizabeth Thomsen" <et at noblenet dot org> wrote:
>>> . . 
>>> So we're glad to see the scopes added to the bib record number,
>> 
>> Good thing, because I'll always think of this as the 
>Elizabeth Thomsen 
>> Enhancement.  ;o)
>> 
>>   
>>> What we'd really like is a link that says something like "See 
>>> additional copies" and that only appears when there actually are 
>>> other copies."  But if we can't do that, we'd like to put the 
>>> unscoped permalink on the bib record as a link, labeled 
>"See all copies."
>> 
>> The former may be possible with some Javascript created by someone 
>> more clever than I (and/or possibly using Annette Bailey's Majax 
>> code), but the latter is pretty simple.  Just create a 
>Javascript file 
>> that contains code along the lines of the following, and 
>call it using the INSERTTAG_INHEAD wwwoption.
>> 
>> function print_permalink()
>> 	{
>> 	var PermaLink = document.getElementById("recordnum");
>> 	if (PermaLink != null) {
>> 	var str = PermaLink.toString();
>> 	var PermaLink = str.replace(/~S.+/,"~S50");
>> 	document.write ('<div class="permalink">');
>> 	document.write ('<a href="'+PermaLink+'">See all copies</a>');
>> 	document.write ('</div>');
>> 	}
>> 	else {}
>>   }
>> 
>> Then pop the following in where you want to see the link:
>> 
>> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"> 
>> print_permalink(); </script>
>> 
>> Keeping in mind that the disadvantage to record links is 
>that you lose 
>> the context of the search results.
>> 
>> 
>> Bob Duncan
>> 
>> ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~
>> Robert E. Duncan
>> Systems Librarian
>> David Bishop Skillman Library
>> Lafayette College
>> Easton, PA  18042
>> duncanr at lafayette dot edu
>> http://www.library.lafayette.edu/
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