Re: [IUG] WebPac pro and export displays

[Bob Duncan <duncanr at lafayette dot edu>]

At 04:08 PM 04/10/2008, Sue Birkenseer wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Our library is in the process of converting our old opac screens to the
> new Pro version, and is currently in staging.
>
> When testing the export function, it was discovered that the full
> display (to the screen) mode displays in a squished html version, rather
> than the ascii we expected. Ascii displays in the brief, endnote,
> procite and marc displays. It is only the full that is affected.  Has
> someone run across this, and if so, how did you make the html go back to
> ascii??


What you're seeing is not ASCII text versus HTML;  what you're seeing 
is HTML-formatted text in both cases, but the brief display is 
displaying the text within an HTML "pre" element, while the full 
display is using other HTML elements.  In this regard your live OPAC 
and your staging OPAC are no different, and both are Pro, so it's not 
specifically a WebPAC Pro thing that's responsible for the squishing.

The source of the squishing problem (as well as the problem with the 
first exported record missing altogether) is that your staging port 
is using a customized bib_display.html, and your code for this file 
is kind of messed up (see any bib record).  The export full display 
uses the code from bib_display.html to display record data, so you'll 
need to clean up that file in order to clean up the exported records display.

Bob Duncan


~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~
Robert E. Duncan
Systems Librarian
Editor of IT Communications
Lafayette College
Easton, PA  18042
duncanr at lafayette dot edu
http://www.library.lafayette.edu/