[Koha-devel] question about OpacBrowser preference

[Nicole Engard]

For now the manual is updated.

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Paul Poulain <paul.poulain at biblibre.com> wrote:
> Le 27/07/2010 23:02, Nicole Engard a écrit :
>> Jane sent me this - can you confirm:
>>
>> [16:54]  <jwagner> Don't know if you were following my question
>> earlier, about the OpacBrowser syspref & script?
>> [16:54]  <nengard> saw it, but didn't see the answers you got
>> [16:55]  <jwagner> There's nothing much in the manual on either the
>> syspref or the build_browser_and_cloud.pl script.  Consensus seems to
>> be that they're only useful if you want to browse French Dewey
>> headings.  Maybe you could check that with BibLibre (I'm assuming they
>> did it?) and update the manual?
>> [16:55]  <nengard> k
>> [16:56]  <jwagner> Should have checked earlier -- git blame seems to
>> say it was tipaul -- Paul P? in 2007.
>> [16:57]  <jwagner> Main thing is to get something in the manual about
>> it being specific for French libraries, so other sites know not to
>> worry about it.
>>
>>
> Well, in fact, it's right, the script is dedicated to dewey, and fills
> some french datas in the database. In fact, I never could find time to
> improve my idea.
> We should have in Koha something like :
> - choose the MARC field you want to create a browser on
> - define your grouping categories (hierarchical). 'A' = 'history', 'A0'
> =european history, 'A1' = asian history, 'A0FR' =French history, 'A0GE'
> = German history, 'A1CH' = chinese history, 'A1JP' = japan history
> - define the links between MARC field an grouping categories. "MARC
> field = 'value1' => group to 'A0FR'", "MARC field= value2 => group to
> 'A1JP'", "MARC field=value3 => group to 'A0FR'"
> - run the script to build the hierarchy
>
> The build_browser do "almost" that. The limit is that MARC field=676$a
> dewey and the grouping categories are hardcoded (french dewey)
>
> HTH
>
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