Re: [VuFind-General] Horizon

[Osullivan L. <L.O...@sw...>]

Hi Ray,

Thanks for the e-mail. 

At some point I hope to create a placeHold function with Horizon. I've
been tasked with implementing VuFind across three institutions which use
three different ILS/LMS. I don't have access to Horizon yet but it's in
the pipeline.

You're right that you have to create your own user interface for Place
Holds. I aim to do this using the Smarty Template as much as possible
but some changes to the "get Transactions" php code may be necessary to
ensure that the item_num is correctly received and assigned to Smarty.

Cheers,

Luke



-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Cummins [mailto:r...@bu...] 
Sent: 17 September 2009 00:27
To: Osullivan L.
Cc: Demian Katz; vuf...@li...
Subject: Re: [VuFind-General] Horizon

Osullivan L. wrote:
> Hi Ray,
>
> What do you think about adding the item id to the array returned by
get
> holding? This will make it easier to place holds / make recalls at the
> item specific level and save having to re-interrogate the database to
> get the item id in a placehold function. Getting the item id in the
> place hold function may be more in keeping with the general design of
> VuFind however.
>   
Funny that "select item.item# as NUMBER..." has survived in the 
getHolding/getStatus function in Horizon.php/SirsiDynixSybase.php since 
VuFind-0.7, however NUMBER has never made its way into the $holding 
array.  I see no reason for it not to be included in the array since 
that seems to have been the original intent (but I discovered VuFind 
only a month ago so who am I to talk about original intent?)  I don't 
see any other (out-of-the-box) ILS driver putting an item number in the 
$holding array, so there's no precedent for naming the key that is 
assigned the value of NUMBER.  Presumably a key name of "item_num" would

not offend anyone?

I was going to comment about the placeHold function being geared towards

bib-level holds but I just found your VUFIND-76 in JIRA so I see where 
you're going with this now.  Do you intend to implement placeHold in the

Horizon.php driver?

On a side note, correct me if I'm wrong, but I get the impression that 
even if one's ILS driver includes a working placeHold function, one has 
to "roll your own" user interface for it in VuFind (which is what you're

doing)?