[ipac] [HORIZON-L] MARC Display and hotlinks in HIP

Wed Jun 18 16:25:50 EDT 2008

Ha!  Not me, how about you?  They could use your work on ratings and tag
clouds and such...

You know, if we all got together, I bet we could create one
H-E-double-toothpick of a library catalog.  

Thanks for the egging-on, y'all,
Natasha

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On Behalf Of David Pattern
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Go, Natasha!!!

Any chance you could give them a hand with Enterprise too? :-)

Dave

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From: ipac-bounces at lists.tblc.org on behalf of Natasha Stephan
Sent: Wed 18/06/2008 19:04
To: horizon-l at mailman.xmission.com; iPac-L
Subject: Re: [ipac] [HORIZON-L] MARC Display and hotlinks in HIP

Hi again all,
Just a bit more bragging... about our HIP install at
http://leonardo.lindahall.org <http://leonardo.lindahall.org/> .

- I've edited the CSS used in the full bib, summary, browse, and My List
so that hotlinks are consistently blue and underline and regular text is
neither.

- I've cut the MARC Display link out of the left-hand column (which we
have turned off now) and stuck it on the right, in small unobtrusive
text.

- I moved the bib# information to the top of the full MARC display.

- I made the full bib and My List use the same variable as the summary
for the email subject.

- I fixed the problem (buried in the Javascript) whereby the full bib
was emailed in HTML format even when Plain Text was the only option, and
it was checked.

I now wag my finger in a shaming gesture towards the programmers
(SirsiDynix or outsourced?) who developed this thing.  Ever heard of
QA?!
And I'm done,
Natasha

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From: Natasha Stephan 
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 6:52 PM
To: 'horizon-l at mailman.xmission.com'; iPac-L
Subject: RE: [HORIZON-L] MARC Display and hotlinks in HIP

By the way, in case I've forgotten, THANK YOU to the U of Chicago
libraries for making your notes on editing HIP available to everyone.
They were a huge help when I edited ours today.

http://leonardo.lindahall.org <http://leonardo.lindahall.org/> 
full bib w/ the left-hand column, links somewhat consistently blue and
underlined

http://leonardo.lindahall.org/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=lhlopen
full bib w/o the left-hand column, links somewhat consistently blue and
underlined

Our third profile is the same as the second one.

I'm letting staff decide which they like. :)
Natasha

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[mailto:horizon-l-bounces at mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Stuart
Miller
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 8:53 AM
To: horizon-l at mailman.xmission.com; iPac-L
Subject: Re: [HORIZON-L] MARC Display and hotlinks in HIP

Natasha,

Congratulations. We never liked the fixed elements and got rid of them
almost immediately lo these many years ago. At least in our case, if you
turn on the MARC Display button, it appears in the Holdings Information
box on the left. As we did this only for a profile used by staff, we
didn't do anything else to it. But I don't think you'll need to
customize anything.

Unless I missed something over the years, the only way to add
underscoring to the links is to do your own customization. You're
welcome to use ours  which is documented at:

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/staffweb/depts/ils/ipac/ipac21/xslmods306.ht
ml#css

Good luck.

Stuart Miller

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From: horizon-l-bounces at mailman.xmission.com
[mailto:horizon-l-bounces at mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Natasha
Stephan
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 6:04 PM
To: HORIZON-L; iPac-L
Subject: [HORIZON-L] MARC Display and hotlinks in HIP

Hi all,

I've finally gotten rid of the fixed elements in HIP!  Staff had tired
of the word "by" next to the author(s); we'd already removed it in our
auction catalog display, as we didn't to show a "by" next to the auction
house name.  Several people wondered why Subject and Series appeared
with bullet points and double-spaced.  We also could not display
multiple titles in the Title fixed element, such as the 880 (vernacular,
e.g. Chinese character) equivalent to tag 245.  Formerly, we compensated
for all of this by displaying limited information with the fixed
elements and then re-displaying everything below them.  But this morning
we decided to get rid of redundant information once and for all!

This meant we also turned off the left-hand "More" bar.  So my first
question, for anyone who has done this, is how hard was it to add a MARC
Display link elsewhere in the XML?  I've done minor edits, but for
anything big I'd probably need to copy-and-paste.

My second question is have any of you changed the color of hotlinks in
HIP?  Or gotten them to be underlined?  I noticed that they're kind of
grey-blue, perhaps so as to be unobtrusive.  But that, combined with the
fact that they're not underlined, makes it hard to tell what's hot
linked and what's not.  Especially on the summary display, where all of
the bibliographic information is in the same grey-blue, but only the
title is hot linked.

Thanks,

Natasha

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