RE: [IUG] ILL form

["Seeman, Corey" <cseeman at bus dot umich dot edu>]

Bob is right on this one (well, of course he is).

At my old gig in Toledo, we marked on the form the fields that we wanted
as mandatory, but there was nothing that forced it to happen.

The trick will be getting the form to allow you to move backwards and
just edit the data, not necessarily start from scratch.  We used
JavaScript a great deal in changing the ill forms (like for adding
drop-downs and the like).  But when we strayed too far from the path (as
it were), the system did not always respond as it was intended.

I would try this out on a form that you are not using or on a form on
the test port.  For what it is worth, this is the entry on the
Clearinghouse for the work we did on our ILL forms.  We did not have
extra mandatory fields in the form, but if gives you a sense of some of
the construction of the form.

http://innovativeusers.org/cgi-bin/clearinghouse/view.pl?id=16 

Hope this helps -- 

Best -- Corey

Corey Seeman
Associate Director, Information Resources and Systems
Kresge Business Administration Library
Stephen M. Ross School of Business
University of Michigan
701 Tappan Street, K3330
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1234
(734) 764-9969
Fax (734) 764-3839
cseeman at umich dot edu 

http://www.bus.umich.edu/kresgelibrary/
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cseeman/index.html

-----Original Message-----
From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org
[mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Bob Duncan
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 1:05 PM
To: IUG INNOPAC List
Subject: Re: [IUG] ILL form

At 11:33 AM 01/05/2006 -0600, you wrote:
>Is there a way to require that certain fields in ILL request forms be
>filled in?  That is that the form would not be submitted unless certain
>fields are filled in?  Do any of the customized forms in the
>Clearinghouse do this?

The manual states that there are mandatory fields for each form, but
that 
libraries cannot specify additional fields.  I think your only option is
to 
use customized forms and add some form validation Javascript to check 
fields for content.

Bob Duncan


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