[IUG] briefcit and 970 Table of contents and author browsing

[Cindy Reid <creid at socialaw dot com>]

Hello,

I've finally updated our WebOPAC to the point where we now have a 
briefcit.html file and record browse displays.

We have a large amount of 970 TOC data for CLE materials.

Record browse is great because of the item availability information, but 
it does not have the functionality of the extended index browse where 
you can browse by author and see the 970 title associated with a 970 
author. 

For example

http://catalog.socialaw.com/search~/a?searchtype=a&searcharg=mest&SORT=D

will get you to an extended index because there are multiple authors 
that begin with "Mest"  - all of the titles displayed under the first 
author come from the 970 field associated with the author.

When you browse a singular author (or the author does not have something 
like a see reference)

http://catalog.socialaw.com/search/a?Schlissel%2C+Stephen+W.

It goes automatically to a record browse display - which only displays 
the 245.

I did fiddle with the briefcit.html and tried <!--{fieldspec:Vbjt}--> 
but that displays the first j970t field in the record.

Is there a way that I could make the author browse of a singular author 
go directly to the extended index display without being automatically 
pushed through to the record browse display, or is there a way to have 
the best of both displays?

I hope this makes sense - and that someone has a better handle on 
browsing display than I do.

Thank you,

-Cindy

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Cindy Reid
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