Re: [VuFind-General] suggestions/advice about formatting repeated fields in VuFind

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I don't think this has anything to do with VuFind -- VuFind will display the full description regardless of length.  If you look at your staff view page, you can see here that the original MARC record has a truncated description:

http://www.katzenbibliothek.de/Record/1373/Details#tabnav

Is it possible that your MARC export is truncating the text?

- Demian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephanie Funk [mailto:ste...@gm...]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 4:09 PM
> To: vuf...@li...
> Subject: Re: [VuFind-General] suggestions/advice about formatting repeated
> fields in VuFind
> 
> 
> What do I have to do, if I want to make the field bigger? Because some of my
> descriptions are a little bit longer. At the moment you can only see three
> lines, like here:
> http://www.katzenbibliothek.de//Record/1373/Description#tabnav
> 
> Is it possible, that the field adapts to the content? If yes, please tell me
> exactly how to do. ;-)
> 
> -Steffi
> 
> 
> Demian Katz wrote:
> >
> > Right now, the default behavior is to show only the first summary on the
> > record display screen and to show all of the descriptions in the
> > Description tag separated by line breaks.
> >
> > If you want to change the display of the descriptions in the Description
> > tab, this is a fairly easy fix.  There is a file called
> > web/interface/themes/[your_theme]/RecordDrivers/Index/extended.tpl which
> > controls the contents of the Description tab.  (Replace [your_theme] with
> > the theme you have chosen - probably blueprint if you are running the
> > latest 1.3 release, but default in earlier versions).  In this file, there
> > is a block of code like this:
> >
> >   {if !empty($extendedSummary)}
> >   {assign var=extendedContentDisplayed value=1}
> >   <tr valign="top">
> >     <th>{translate text='Summary'}: </th>
> >     <td>
> >       {foreach from=$extendedSummary item=field name=loop}
> >         {$field|escape}<br/>
> >       {/foreach}
> >     </td>
> >   </tr>
> >   {/if}
> >
> > The key piece is inside the {foreach} loop, which determines how each
> > description will be displayed.  You could adjust this code to turn it into
> > a nested <ul>, or to put multiple line breaks after each entry, or to
> > enclose things inside a <p> with a class that you could apply CSS to, or
> > you could prefix with a &bull; entity, or... the options are endless.
> >
> > If you want to change the way the summary is displayed on the main record
> > view, it's a little more complicated - but I'll be happy to give some
> > suggestions if you need them.  Let me know.
> >
> > Also note that if you decide to customize this template, you can edit it
> > in place, but you might prefer to create your own theme, copy the file
> > into the new theme, and edit it there - this makes it a little easier to
> > keep track of which files you have changed.  See the wiki page on theme
> > inheritance (http://vufind.org/wiki/customization#theme_inheritance) for
> > more details if you are interested.
> >
> > I hope this is helpful, but please let me know if you have further
> > questions on the subject.
> >
> > - Demian
> >
> > From: Zoe Friedlander [mailto:zfr...@os...]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 7:04 PM
> > To: 'vuf...@li...'
> > Subject: [VuFind-General] suggestions/advice about formatting repeated
> > fields in VuFind
> >
> > Hi, some of the records that I'm putting in VuFind have multiple 520
> > (Summary) fields. In the web display, they are formatting as a single
> > paragraph on the record display screen, or as a single <td> under the
> > Description tag. I would like each 520 to be bulleted if possible, or at
> > minimum to be able to separate the different 520s from each other.
> > Suggestions on how I could do that? I'm just getting off the ground with
> > VuFind.
> >
> > Thank you very much.
> >
> >
> > Zoe Friedlander * Systems Librarian * Margaret Herrick Library
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