[Koha-devel] making facets editable ?

[Mathieu Saby]

Hello

Currently, facets are defined in perl code.
This is not good for unimarc libraries : a recent improvement is 
specific to Marc21 and could not been transposed in Unimarc, because the 
information is not encoded in the same field in all unimarc libraries.
I'm referring to 
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4255 "Add item 
type to facet list" : there is no universal Unimarc field for "item 
type" :-(
The solution could be a system preference for this peculiar facet.

But if a development is needed I would prefer a more generic one, to 
make all facets fully editable, so that each library could define its 
own facets matching the (sub)fields of its choice, without editing perl 
files.
Do you think it would be a good idea ?
I think there is 2 way for doing this :
- create a configuration file (yaml ?)
- create a (big) syspref
Which choice would be the best regarding performances (and other 
criteria I did not think of...) ?

Regards,
Mathieu Saby
Rennes 2 University

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