interact (live) with the underlying ILS?
Kevin Kierans
Very nice work! Nice clear look.
Question: do any implementations of this
interact (live) with the underlying ILS for
things like placing holds on items?
We've got a php mysql catalog that we build
daily from our underlying ILS, and we can place
holds from it back to our ILS.
Your OPAC part is much nicer than ours, but we
don't want to lose the ability for patrons to
place holds...
Thanks for any pointers and answers.
BTW, great article on this project in _Computers
in libraries_ Oct 2007!
Cheers,
Kevin
Kevin Kierans, Director of Libraries
Thompson-Nicola Regional District
www.tnrdlib.bc.ca
Kevin Kierans, Director of Libraries
Thompson-Nicola Regional District
www.tnrdlib.bc.ca
Gabriel Farrell
> Hi all,
> Very nice work! Nice clear look.
> Question: do any implementations of this
> interact (live) with the underlying ILS for
> things like placing holds on items?
>
I'm not as well versed in the catalog connection bits as others on
this list (hint, hint), but I don't believe it's been extended for any
POST operations at this point. I think http://library.paulsmiths.edu/catalog/
and some other implementations exchange data on page load with the
underlying ILS to determine availability status at the item level, but
I may be wrong on this.
> We've got a php mysql catalog that we build
> daily from our underlying ILS, and we can place
> holds from it back to our ILS.
>
> Your OPAC part is much nicer than ours, but we
> don't want to lose the ability for patrons to
> place holds...
>
I'm sure whichever method you use for your php catalog could be moved
over to F-B-O. Check out the item function in views.py and the way it
supplies variables for the item.html template.
