Re: I-types and their usage (again)

[Mieko Yamaguchi <iss053 at bangor dot ac dot uk>]

Lesha,

Thanks for the clarification.  I knew that Sheffield Hallam had wanted
to display the loan length from the i-type for a long time but didn't know
your OPAC also displayed this information from the OPAC message field.

We also use this field in some cases but the main problem as you point out
is that the OPAC message and i-type values must be synchronised.

Mieko

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Lesha Fossey wrote:

> We display the loan length (which corresponds to itype) in our OPAC but in a
> roundabout way. We were told back when we started that the itype couldn't be
> displayed in the OPAC (if this has since changed we'd be delighted to know) and
> instead had to get Innovative to set up the Opac Message field to be displayed
> in the OPAC to display this info. The name of this field has been changed to
> "loan type" and we manually have to change it to correspond with the itype. So
> the itype is used by the loan rule to actually circulate the item for the
> correct length of time, and the loan type is used purely for display purposes on
> the OPAC to in effect tell the patrons what itype it is. If we could just
> display the itpe on the OPAC it'd be so much easier!
>
> Lesha

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