From: feilmeyer, phil
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004
2:39 PM
To: 'ipac@lists.tblc.org'
Cc: 'Leah Oliver'; 'Vaidas
Sedys'; 'George Yobst'; 'Steve Smith'; 'Walker, Glen'
Subject: RE:
[ipac] Overdues in another color
Quite a few people have written asking for
the code behind this customization so I thought I would post it to the
list. It requires editing one
of the XSLT stylesheets...standard warnings apply (see note at the end of this email). I've attached two text files to help with
editing the stylesheet.
Here's a full description of the
customization:
In the
"Items Out" table, a note is added to
each "Due Date" cell telling the patron how many days until the due date or how
many days overdue. The color of the text changes to blue as the due date
gets closer, and then to red when the item is past due.
Examples:
Due in 8 days
(black)
Due in 3 days (blue)
Due tomorrow
(blue)
Due today (blue)
Overdue by 1 day
(red)
Overdue by 3 days (red)
You'll need to
edit the patronpersonaloptions.xsl stylesheet
in two places as described below (and illustrated in the two attached text
files).
The first piece of code is all JavaScript and defines a
function that calculates the difference in days between any date and today (I
should mention that I'm just a hack with JavaScript...there is undoubtedly a better way to do
this). In my stylesheet, I inserted the
JavaScript code right at the beginning of the "Items Out"
template.
The second modification is inserted right in the table cell that contains
the due date. The first several lines
of code pick apart the due date coming out of HIP (in MM/DD/YYYY
format) into individual variables representing the month, day, and year of
the due date. These values are then used by the previous defined
"diffdays" function and the appropriate note is
generated.
NOTE: There are references in the code to some Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)
classes that aren't included in the standard CSS files that comes with HIP so you'll either need to
add some new classes to the CSS or change the reference in the XSL. Also, if the date format on your HIP installation
is DD/MM/YYYY (rather than the standard US MM/DD/YYYY) you'll need to adjust the XSL in part 2 so that the variables are
properly defined.
Feel free to contact
me for more (or clearer) info.
Phil
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Phil Feilmeyer
pfeilmeyer@hclib.org
Integrated Library System
Manager (952)
847-8768
Hennepin County Library
(952) 847-8600 (fax)
12601 Ridgedale
Drive
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Note: This customization requires editing an
XSLT stylesheet which is not supported by Dynix. Additionally, HIP
upgrades and hotfixes assume you haven't made any changes and may replace
stylesheets wholesale, so be sure to backup and document what you do so that it
can be (relatively) easily redone.