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Description
Can't find what you're looking for? Then look no further! Seriously. This week Christopher shows a clever mod for adding links that will continue your search in the staff catalog to other resources on the web, all with a simple click! No more opening new tabs, finding the link for your resource, and retyping your search criteria! Make searching simple for your staff.
Contents:
0:00 - Title
0:33 - Intro
1:13 - The Mod
2:40 - The Code
2:50 - Getting the Search Criteria
4:44 - Building the Link Navigation Panel
5:25 - Adding Your Links
7:52 - Adding Links for Specific Libraries
9:41 - Addling a Link Section for Catalogers
11:04 - Reminder of Search Filter Enhancement
11:35 - The Results
13:28 - Demonstrating the Links for Specific Libraries
16:02 - Wrap Up
Referenced code:
https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/JQuery_Library#Also_Try_-_Extend_staff_searching_to_other_sources
Music: https://www.bensound.com
A
We
are
sponsored
by
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and
you'll
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in
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Playlists
you'll
find
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plus
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we've
curated
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groups
such
as
bywater
solutions,
they've
supplied
some
great
training,
videos
and
ours
are
up
at
the
top,
and
today
we're
going
to
be
talking
about
adding
or
enhancing
staff
searching
when
you
go
into
a
staff
search
and
you
do
a
search
like,
for
example,
I
did
a
search
here
for
dogs.
You
might
not
find
exactly
what
you're
looking
for.
A
You
might
look
for
something
that
doesn't
exist,
so
I'm
just
gonna
put
garbage
there,
but
you
might
get
no
results,
but
you
might
wanna
search
other
places.
You
might
have
your
worldcat
for
your
library
that
you
wanna
search.
You
might
have
other
resources,
such
as
goodreads
or
amazon
books,
that
you
want
to
search
and
see.
If
the
item
actually
exists
out
there,
you
might
have
catalogers
that
are
wanting
to
to
search
the
catalog
and
then
search.
You
know
if
they
don't
find
what
they
need
here.
A
A
B
There
already
is,
if,
if
there's,
if
there's,
if
you
get
a
result
and
you
go
to
an
items,
details
page
there's
a
there's-
a
more
searches
box
on
the
right-hand
side
of
the
page,
I
think
it's
a
drop-down
depends
on
how
you're
configured
probably
and
you
can
control
what
data
goes
in
there.
What
links
are
in
there
yeah.
A
So
so
this
will.
This
will
specifically
be
for
staff
side
only
to
help
the
staff
do
their
searches.
So
it's
looking
for
the
the
catalog
results
page
and
the
first
thing
it's
going
to
do.
Is
it's
going
to
grab
the
breadcrumbs
page
if
you'll
notice,
let
me
go
back
to
a
previous
search
result.
I
had
originally
thought:
okay
I'll
just
grab
this
information
here
in
the
in
the
single
quotes
off
this
line,
but
when
you
do
a
search
that
has
no
results,
there's
no
line
well,
there's
no
line
up
there
there.
A
It
is
here,
but
it's
in
a
different
place,
and
I
want
to
pick
a
place
that
was
more
consistent
in
the
crumbs
line.
Has
that
for
both?
So
it
always
has
the
the
search
criteria
on
that
line.
So
what
we're
doing
here
first
off
is
we're
grabbing
the
breadcrumbs
line
and
it's
using
some
regex
to
parse
sections
of
the
breadcrumbs
and
it'll
take
the
first
result
in
that
that
variable
and
assign
it
to
a
variable
called
search
criteria.
A
A
A
Are
just
a
bunch
of
resources
that
our
librarians
use,
so
I've
got
several
here
and
so
each
one
I
append
separately.
It
makes
it
a
little
bit
easier
to
to
see
each
one.
If
I
do
it
separately,
rather
than
add
them
all
in
one
append.
I
could
do
it
in
one
a
pen,
but
this
just
makes
it
a
little
bit
easier.
A
A
A
A
Because
there's
no
way
for
me
to
to
determine
whether
or
not
the
criteria
that
you're
searching
for
is
a
specific
type,
whether
it's
an
author
or
serial
or
whatever,
oh
okay,
I've
done
several
renditions
of
fintech
fantastic
fiction.
Where
this
one
was
searching
authors,
this
one
will
search
the
books
and
then
this
one
searches,
series,
okay
and
so
then
I'll
do
I've
got
good
reads
and
then
I
search
google.
A
I
search
google
books
specifically
and
then
there's
another
one
called
what's
next,
I'm
sorry
yeah
what's
next
and
then
it
will
search.
It
looks
like
what's
next
series,
so
it
has
a
specific
search
for
for
series
and
what's
next
so
those
are
pretty
straightforward,
you're
just
building
the
url
with
that
search
criteria
plugged
in
wherever
it
needs
to
go
in
that
url.
B
A
I
also
do
a
search
for
in
world
catholic
worldcat
is
constructed
in
such
a
way
that
it,
the
urls,
are
built,
especially
the
way
that
they
are
transitioning
right.
Now,
we've
been
doing
this
for
a
while,
but
it
looks
like
they're
they're
permanently
transitioning.
This
way,
worldcat
builds
their
urls
with
your
library,
specifically
in
the
the
url,
and
that
doesn't
work
for
all
libraries
in
general.
So
what
I'm
doing
for
this
next
section
is.
B
A
Then
I
I
am
going
to
end
this
div
that
we're
in
and
the
reason
for
that
is
I'm
going
to
add
a
new
section,
and
this
one
is
specifically
geared
towards
our
cataloger.
So
I'm
doing
a
whole
nother
header
section
just
like
I
did
up
here,
I'm
adding
another
section
just
for
catalogers
that
says
catalog
or
search
in
so,
if
they're
doing
a
search
in
the
catalog
for
something
to
see
if
it
exists
or
not,
and
it
doesn't
or
or
even
if
it
does,
they
can
search
some
of
their
resources.
A
Go
back
and
we'll
search
for
dogs
again
now
this
is
all
built
underneath
the
trigger
searching
you
I've
appended
underneath
it
you
could
pre-pinned
if
you
wanted
it
at
the
top
of
the
filter,
or
I
can't
remember
if
we
did
we,
if
we've
done
this
video
or
not,
I
had
a.
I
have
a
filter
enhancement
that
collapses
the
filters
and
expands
just
the
elements
that
are
in
use
and
adds
check
boxes
makes
the
filters
a
lot
more
user
friendly
over
on
the
left
hand,
side,
and
doesn't
we
did
a
video
on
that?
A
A
It
in
the
comments
I'll
make
I'll
make
note
of
it
down
below
here
on
that
video,
but
that's
a
great
enhancement
so
that
you're
not
having
to
scroll
down
to
find
the
stuff,
but
here's
what
we've
added.
So
I
could
my
search
was
for
dogs
up
here,
and
so
it's
it's
grabbing
this
information
and
it
added
this
link
and
you
can
see
if
I
hover
over
the
link
down
in
the
lower
left
corner.
A
A
A
For
specific
titles
or
topics
doesn't
matter,
one
section
that
you're
not
seeing
is
the
the
worldcat
and
that's
because
I
don't
have
a
I'm,
not
logged
in
as
a
library
that
matches
and
so
which
branch
are
we
logged
in
at
so
we're
logged
in.
Let's
see
here,
we
are
logged
in
as
koha
us.
So
what
I'm
going
to
do,
I'm
going
to
first
of
all,
I'm
going
to
inspect
this.
A
This
is
the
thing
that
you
have
to
dig
before
a
little
bit.
There
is
that
okay
branch
name
branch,
okay,
so
so
here's
the
the
code
for
the
branch,
the
koha
us
with
no
dash
all
uppercase.
So
I'm
going
to
copy
that
that
was
the
logged
in
branch,
so
we're
looking
at
we're
inside
the
logged
in
info
full
and
we're
looking
at
it
was
collapsed.
A
A
A
B
A
A
A
Cool,
that's
it
short
and
sweet,
but
we'll
have
these
we'll
have
this
in
the
the
koha
us
or
the
coho
jquery
library
ready
for
you
to
go
we'll
have
the
the
links
for
you
on
the
the
video
and
that's
pretty
much
it
pretty
cool
thanks,
yeah.
Just
a
reminder
to
everybody.
Make
sure
that
if
you're,
if
you're,
going
straight
to
our
video
playlist
on
kohai,
us
make
sure
that
you
visit
us
on
youtube.
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That's
where
you
can
like
and
subscribe
to
our
videos
and
our
playlist
and
and
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comment
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like
it.
So
we
know
that
that
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enjoying
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videos
make
sure
you
comment.
If
you
have
questions
or
if
there's
something
that
you
would
like
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see,
we
are
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All
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time,
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