[Koha-bugs] [Bug 7278] In the items table, make items.materials of type text, and show its contents at circulation

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7278

--- Comment #3 from Owen Leonard <oleonard at myacpl.org> 2011-12-02 15:48:50 UTC ---
This works well for me, but I have a couple of suggesions. Here's the
discussion on IRC:

[10:36]    <oleonard>    When I check out something which has a materials 
                        specified note, the checkout screen says "This item 
                        contains multiple parts: " + my note
[10:36]    <kf>    makes sense to me
[10:36]    <kf>    I think our libraries would use it for books with cds
[10:36]    <kf>    where the cds have no separate barcodes
[10:37]    <kf>    or language courses with cassettes/cds and booklets in a box
[10:37]    <oleonard>    jcamins: But you say that isn't necessarily accurate?
[10:37]    <jcamins>    oleonard: some libraries will use "materials specified" 
                        to indicate that they have only a portion of the item.
[10:37]    <jcamins>    For example, "first gathering."
[10:38]    <jcamins>    So, the item might have only one part, but the 
                        particular library doesn't have the whole thing.
[10:39]    <sekjal>    so, essentially, if you still think of this in terms of 
                        'number of parts', it's not a integer, but a rational 
                        number
[10:40]    <oleonard>    We need something less specific than "This item 
                        contains multiple parts: "
[10:41]    <oleonard>    "Note about the accompanying materials:" ?
[10:41]    <jcamins>    Makes sense to me.
[10:42]    <sekjal>    so long as the text is wrapped in a div with ID, we 
                        don't need to worry too much about the exact text
[10:42]    <sekjal>    so long as it's generically 'good enough'
[10:42]    <jcamins>    True.

- Can we change the prompt on checkout and checkin to the more generic "Note
about the accompanying materials:" (or something similar) ?
- Can we add an ID to the message div so that the text can be modified via
JavaScript?

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