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From YouTube: Repurposing Fields | S3E15

Description

Are you wasting perfectly good fields? Do you have empty text boxes doing absolutely nothing? Do you hide your unused fields? Well, stop it! Make use of those fields. Put them to work for you. George is going to show you how to repurpose fields in the library branch data.

Contents:
0:00 - Title
0:27 - Intros
0:51 - Repurposing
6:33 - Inspecting Pages to Target Elements
11:53 - What's Coming in the Next Video

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Welcome back everyone, another exciting episode today: I'm Christopher Brannon with the Coeur d'alene public library, in The, Cooperative, Information, Network,.

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And I'm George Williams I'm, the next search catalog coordinator at Northeast, Kansas library system,.

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And today, George is going to walk us through some modifications for libraries and I can't wait to get started with that. In fact, we'll probably we're going to turn this into a two-parter uh he's going to walk us through those modifications and then our next episode will deal with uh what we can do with those modifications and uh why he modified things in the first place. So uh we will get into that in just a moment. This video.

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All right, George take it away.

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Well, uh that's an interesting looking ladder. You've got behind you there. Yes,.

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You're talking about repurposing some fields in the library records and so I thought I'd do something. That's repurposing, so we're repurposing a ladder back here.

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Yeah and you inspired me to go out and find a picture of Cadillac Ranch, where all the Cadillacs have been repurposed into a bizarre art form. It's.

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Black we're all gonna end up there. Yes select the Bruce Springsteen.

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Song, um the drivers aren't still in those cars I.

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Don't know never been there never been to that part of Texas, but- uh and here is the staff interface at the uh at our test site, uh the koha US demo site- and this is what uh you know if you go to. If you go to the admin console and you look at libraries, you see all this information here um and you know here are these this Library information and.

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You click on edit.

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And you know, there's this standard set of fields right and what happened when I came to Kansas is I was always confused, because when I was in Idaho, we used address line one for the mailing address and address line two for the street address the physical address.

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I, don't know anybody that uses address line three, but it always kept confusing me when I would have to modify Library records, because here in Kansas they used address line one as the street address they'd flipped, a lot of things, they've done a lot of things differently, and so what I went ahead and did was just to write some some code so that we've got mailing address street address physical ads street address, slash physical address and then for address three, since we weren't using it for anything else, we did director ill contact and we were using the um I think this is uh country we were plugging in the Kansas library express code into there, and so what I've got just really briefly is a piece of jQuery that I'll stick in here, and so what I'm doing is I'm saying every time we've got we're on this uh admin branches page find the label for branch address one and change it to mailing address Branch address 2 becomes street address, slash physical address, Branch address 3 becomes director, slash ill contact, I decided to add that in um not long after I got here because I figured, we could do some more things with that uh cut with that Library list, then we were using it for just to manage the libraries in Co-op and then finally, I changed Branch country to kle code, and so, if I put that in here and then reload all of that these labels are going to change if I reload it after it's saved there.

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We go mailing address street, address physical address, director, zip and postal code, so.

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Those are the things that I did with jQuery.

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It's just that really simple batch of code. All.

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You need to know is.

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The um the ID for each label and.

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You can rename any of these to anything you want and for our viewers that may be new to to jQuery. Can you just walk through how you found yeah those pieces of information to identify those labels, and uh you know just walk us through that- a little bit more in depth.

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So I use Firefox and on Firefox the way for me, the way I always access the inspection console. The console down here is to do shift. Control. I is the way I. Remember it. I know you. Do it a different way.

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I, you can right click on a on an element in the page or and uh do uh inspect, or you can do F12 in most browsers, yeah.

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For whatever reason in my head, I just automatically go to control shift I it's what I'm it's what I've always done so, but you know, however, you get there. You can also go up to the menu and I think it's under more tools and Firefox uh web developer tools. So there's a bunch of different ways to get there, but once you're there, you click on inspector and this little arrow over here and if we click on City, it's going to show us that the label for this field is Branch City.

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So if I wanted to make uh something different using City I could just re.

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I can just copy this line and change this Branch label for branch address one. Let's call it City.

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And maybe I want to call this town.

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And then, if I reload this page.

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Did I not save that.

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Thought I saved.

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It are you on the right.

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Average is admin labeled. Oh it's Branch, City I spelled it wrong. ah They have to be spelled exactly.

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That would make sense.

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So, let's try that again, reload and the jQuery loads, a second or two after and so now city has become town very nice. So the the jQuery is pretty simple. You can rename any of those fields, that's just what I choose to to do them, as so you know, if you're, at an at a library where you use uh where the top field is screen address and the second field is mailing address. You can flip those around you.

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Can rename any of these and.

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I did uh at some point, I never followed up on it, but we talked about the idea of you know how you have Patron extended attributes. I I did a suggestion to our support company buy water solutions. I had them write me a a spec for uh for a development that would be able to add Library extended attributes so that, if, if a library wanted to have more fields in this, in this data, more data than there are Fields right now there could, we could add more more Fields without having to completely rewrite koha.

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You just create extended attributes. Okay,.

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I've never followed up on that. Do.

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You happen to know the bug number on that.

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There wasn't a bug number because I asked by water to help I said about how much do you think this would cost? Oh.

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Okay, it was about a year ago and I never got to the.

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Point where I said yeah: let's do that so.

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Just you just yeah back on it: okay, yeah.

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And I think I I might follow up with that this year, um but any of these fields can be can be repurposed and there's. Another thing that I started doing in in ours um like I've, got the director name here and we have at our libraries. We have a director and there's usually at the bigger libraries there's somebody that's in their Library loan contact like at Atchison Library Cindy is the interlibrary loan contact, so I started using pipes to separate the different contacts that I put in here in.

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In Kansas, we have different Library types. This library is a major service center, uh two and so I put a pipe in there and put the type after that, and then I also put a logo for each library. In the OPAC information, most of our libraries have their own logos, I use the next search catalog and when we do a video next week, the next time we do a video I'm going to show you now that we've got all this information in here, we've got it all.

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Organized and I've got these director names separated by players on the next video we do. I will show you how I use the API to build this contact list and sticking on the circulation page.

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um So you know the when I first started doing this, it was a way of reorganizing the circulation. The library contact, the library information on the library page is a way of reformatting it to make it easier for me to enter new library and update information, and then it grew into this way of creating a contact list for all the libraries which I recently converted to doing that with the API, and we can talk about that in the next video all right so have a good week.

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Everybody and I'll see you in a couple weeks all right.