[Koha] Course reserves widget

[Joelle Hannert]

Greetings!

Our library just migrated to Koha at the end of June and this is my first
time posting to the list as a Koha user. I'm so happy to be part of the
open source library community!

I'm trying to create a search widget for our course reserves. If anyone has
code they could share, or any guidance, it would be most appreciated.

Thanks,
Joelle
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Joelle Hannert
Library Technical Services Coordinator
Northwestern Michigan College
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[Katrin Fischer]

Hi Joelle,

can you describe a bit more, what you are trying to do?

Do you mean adding a search form for course reserves on your website?

Katrin

Post by Joelle Hannert
Greetings!
Our library just migrated to Koha at the end of June and this is my first
time posting to the list as a Koha user. I'm so happy to be part of the
open source library community!
I'm trying to create a search widget for our course reserves. If anyone has
code they could share, or any guidance, it would be most appreciated.
Thanks,
Joelle

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[Joelle Hannert]

Post by Katrin Fischer
can you describe a bit more, what you are trying to do?
Do you mean adding a search form for course reserves on your website?

Yes, that's exactly what I mean, a search form for reserves that can be
added to our website (or LibGuides).

Thanks,
Joelle

[Katrin Fischer]

Hi Joelle,

I think you could easily build a little form offering a pull down of the
courses that brings up the course reserves page for each. But you'd have
to add courses and map them to the ID manually:

.../cgi-bin/koha/opac-course-details.pl?course_id=18

I think, unless you are changing the itemtypes, locations or collections
of your items to something related to course reserves, doing a catalog
search limited to those items would not be easily possible.

Using public reports and JSON you could build something more advanced.

Sorry for the answer, I've been keeping this in my inbox for a while
meaning to come back to it.

Katrin

Post by Joelle Hannert

Post by Katrin Fischer
can you describe a bit more, what you are trying to do?
Do you mean adding a search form for course reserves on your website?

Yes, that's exactly what I mean, a search form for reserves that can
be added to our website (or LibGuides).
Thanks,
Joelle
--
Joelle Hannert
Library Technical Services Coordinator
Northwestern Michigan College
[phone]
Work days: M evening, W, Th, F

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[Joelle Hannert]

Thank you, Katrin! I appreciate your answer, but it's a bit more involved
than I was willing to do to get a reserves widget. Equinox (our support
vendor for Koha) is working on a solution using iframes. Apparently, it's
working in Firefox, but not Chrome. I'm going to drop it for now; it's not
such a big deal, since the course reserves search is pretty easy to find
from within the OPAC.

Post by Katrin Fischer
Hi Joelle,
I think you could easily build a little form offering a pull down of the
courses that brings up the course reserves page for each. But you'd have to
.../cgi-bin/koha/opac-course-details.pl?course_id=18
I think, unless you are changing the itemtypes, locations or collections
of your items to something related to course reserves, doing a catalog
search limited to those items would not be easily possible.
Using public reports and JSON you could build something more advanced.
Sorry for the answer, I've been keeping this in my inbox for a while
meaning to come back to it.
Katrin

Post by Katrin Fischer
can you describe a bit more, what you are trying to do?
Do you mean adding a search form for course reserves on your website?

Yes, that's exactly what I mean, a search form for reserves that can be
added to our website (or LibGuides).
Thanks,
Joelle
--
Joelle Hannert
Library Technical Services Coordinator
Northwestern Michigan College
[phone]
Work days: M evening, W, Th, F