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

[Joshua Ferraro]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Paul POULAIN <paul.poulain at free.fr> wrote:
> Joshua Ferraro a écrit :
>>
>> 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.
>
> Wow ! that's exactly what one of our customers request atm...
>
> As this mail is quite old, has it been added to koha 3.0 already ?
Yes, it's the system preference called 'AdvancedSearchTypes', and it
currently has two values, though more could be added down the road.

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