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Re: [VuFind-General] Email and Print from Search Results
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From: Matt M. <mm...@ba...> - 2008-08-13 17:45:36
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Andrew - I have staff and the public testing VuFind and this is one of the first things that they brought up. I will try your suggestions and if I get it functional I will let you know. I will probably have other questions for you too. Here is a screen shot of how I am thinking of adding it in to the interface. I am not concrete on the layout yet but this will be my first attempt. Matt Andrew Nagy wrote: > Matt - this is actually a funny thing that your bring up. Our librarians here have been asking for that feature for a long time - and the very first instance of vufind (that I presented at Code4Lib in 2007) had that feature built in. We removed it to help simplify the interface a bit. Chris, our UI designer, is trying to work on adding it back in - but trying to think of a more usable way without cluttering the interface. > > If you do get it functional, I'd like to see how you implemented it in the interface. > > To implement this you could add an ajax feature that would pull up the ids for each record that is checked and then generate an email with the information from the ids that were selected. This would be 2 parts - a javascript function that would show a form for a user to enter in an email address then get the ids from the checkboxes and then calls the ajax function. The 2nd part would be the server side ajax function that would take the ids, pull the info from Solr and then send the email. This could simply mimic the code in the current "Email This" feature. > > Of course you could implement a traditional form that posts to a new "action" that has an email form. > > Im sure the 1st approach will get included into VuFind at somepoint - it may not make it into VuFind 1.0 however. It might be nice to have a "Email This", "Text This", "Print This" menu just like on the record view page. > > Andrew > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: vuf...@li... [mailto:vufind- >> gen...@li...] On Behalf Of Matt Mackey >> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 2:16 PM >> To: vuf...@li... >> Subject: [VuFind-General] Email and Print from Search Results >> >> Hi All, >> >> I was wondering how hard it would be to add a checkbox to each title >> listed and then add "Print Selected" and "Email Selected" buttons to >> either print/email the titles someone checked? >> >> I added a checkbox to the Search/templates/list-list.tpl and it seems >> to work if I look at Web Developers Form Information. I just don't know >> where to go to add the buttons to print/email and where the logic >> should >> go to only print/email the "checked" titles. >> >> Thanks, >> Matt >> >> >> >> -- >> Matthew Mackey >> Consortium Manager >> Lehigh Valley Library System >> >> Email: mm...@ba... >> Tel: 610.867.3761 x261 >> Fax: 610.867.2767 >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> -- >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's >> challenge >> Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great >> prizes >> Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the >> world >> http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >> _______________________________________________ >> VuFind-General mailing list >> VuF...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vufind-general >> > > > -- Matthew Mackey Consortium Manager Lehigh Valley Library System Email: mm...@ba... Tel: 610.867.3761 x261 Fax: 610.867.2767 |