RE: [IUG] WebOPAC--WHY ARE OUR TITLES BEING CUT OFF?

["Zhou, Don" <don dot zhou at wmitchell dot edu>]

The length of title is controlled by wwwoptions:

HEADING_LENGTH=20

This setting gives a maximum title heading display of 20 characters.

If this option is not set, the system uses a maximum title heading
display of 100 characters.


This design is actually desirable, for instance, for a law school, we
have lots of CIS titles which can run several lines long. 

The bad part of it is that it is arbitrary. So it can cut right in the
middle of a word.

Don Zhou
William Mitchell College of Law

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From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org
[mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Leslie O'Brien
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 8:24 AM
To: innopac at innopacusers dot org
Subject: [IUG] WebOPAC--WHY ARE OUR TITLES BEING CUT OFF?

Melodie, we reported a problem with OPAC displays that is similar to
your 
situation.  In a briefcit display, title and author data is truncated in

the middle of a word.  We've had a call open to III since July 
2005.  According to our call status, a software fix has been coded and
will 
be in the 2007 release.  Our call will remain open until the fix is in 
general distribution.

Along with the truncation problem, we noticed that our subfield displays

were not correct--245 subfields |b, |c, |h, etc. are not displayed in
the 
correct order.  Now that we are on release 2006, our subfield displays
look 
better than they did, but the truncation problem is still there.  I'd be

interested to know if you noticed the same thing in your briefcit view.

Leslie O'Brien
Virginia Tech


Message: 11
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:28:59 -0800
From: "Frances, Melodie" <mfrances at gtu dot edu>
Subject: [IUG] ANOTHER QUESTION FROM SOMEONE NEW TO THE 
WEBPAC  (SPECIFICALLY, WHY ARE OUR TITLES BEING CUT OFF?)
To: "IUG INNOPAC List" <innopac at innopacusers dot org>

I just noticed that in the title browse displays our titles are being
cut 
off after a certain number of characters - I'm thinking that I must have

done something wrong when I did some noodling with the extended and
brief 
display wwwoptions.

Here is what I am talking about:
http://grace.gtu.edu/search/Y?searchtype=Y&searcharg=god+jesus+&SORT=D&c
mdSubmit=SEARCH
results 7 and 8 are examples

Before I call Innovative I thought I would check here and see if anyone 
(inadvertently) ran into this.  Thanks!

Melodie Morgan Frances
Graduate Theological Union


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