[Koha-devel] RFC: New System Preference to Determine which 'Types' and associated icons to display in advanced Search

[Ryan Higgins]

Should be a list, not a single choice.
If I have meaningful data in both itemtype and collection, I should be able
to
limit on both.

Ryan


On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Joshua Ferraro <jmf at liblime.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> It seems like every library has a different definition of what they want
> to display as 'Type' limits in the advanced search area. The API is
> currently flexible to support any defined indexes, but customizing this
> beyond the default itemtypes currently requires editing of the
> advsearch.tmpl
> templates -- not horrible, but still kinda annoying.
>
> I propose a new syspref that allows the user to specify either
> 'itemtypes' (default)
> or any codes from authorised_values to be the limits in place of itemtypes
> (so
> for example, ccode).
>
> This would allow every library to define their own authorised-values, and
> then
> use those as search limits in advsearch.tmpl, without any template
> modifications.
> It's a fairly trivial addition, and if we default to itemtypes, won't
> affect any existing
> Koha installations.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE
> CEO migration, training, maintenance, support
> LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS
> jmf at liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS
> _______________________________________________
> Koha-devel mailing list
> Koha-devel at lists.koha.org
> http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
>



-- 
Ryan Higgins

LibLime * Open-Source Solutions for Libraries
Featuring KohaZOOM ILS
888-564-2457 x704
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: </pipermail/koha-devel/attachments/20080530/5a9a7c29/attachment-0002.htm>