Using custom request forms in WebCat Ruth Salisbury, Systems Manager Reading University Library...

Using custom request forms in WebCat

Ruth Salisbury, Systems Manager

Reading University Library

EUUG, Copenhagen, 5-7-September, 2001

Contents

• Purchase request forms (Reading)

• ILL request forms (other Unicorn library)

• Unicorn policies

• HTML code for WebCat

• WebCat pages

Delivered form

RUL Purchase Request form

RUL Purchase Request form(2)

Other library - Book ILL

Other library - Article ILL

Unicorn policies

Unicorn requires all the usual policies to set up

• Request type

• Entry Ids (including Template, Full and Brief entry lists)

• Request format - to include ALL the fields you want to display

Request format/s

• If you want to create several custom request pages, you will need a separate request format, with the appropriate entries for each page

• Custom pages will be named ****.h and will be specified as Sirsi_Include files in 34.pg

Request format policy

HTML requires the entrynumbers as they appear

in this list

Request policy entry numbers

HTML code for WebCat

• Use the View Source option in the browser to see how WebCat uses the format entries

• Use this as a basis to create your custom page/s

Standard WebCat screen

View Source

Note the entry numbersfrom the format policy

WebCat pages

• Custom pages live:

../Unicorn/Webcat/Pages_custom/Default

• Relevant pages:– 34.pg– ****.h (this is the file specified in

SIRSI_Include)

../Unicorn/Webcat/Pages_deliv/Default/34.pg

../Unicorn/Webcat/Pages_custom/Default/34.pg

{Custom text

SIRSI_Conditional expression

<SIRSI_Conditional IF DC_COMP="KO^NEW TITLE PURCHASE">

<SIRSI_Include File="purchase.h">

<SIRSI_Conditional ELSE>

• DC_COMP=“datacode^value”

• KO - Request Type Description

• Request Type Description (RUL) - NEW TITLE PURCHASE

Request Type description

../Unicorn/Webcat/Pages_custom/Default/purchase.h

Textarea defined

../Unicorn/Webcat/Pages_custom/Default/purchase.h(2)

Size of field anddefault text

Field display label

• nb all default data has to be hardcoded in the HTML. The defaults set up the the format policy do not come through if the page is customised

• field labels can be any length ie not restricted to 10 characters



3 entries displaying on a single line



3 entries displaying on a single line

Tickbox

RUL Purchase Request form

RUL Purchase Request form(2)

Ruth Salisbury

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