Robert Heller

Somehow you managed to place a hold on an item not in your collection. I think the only way that would be possible is that the hold was placed on an item that was later deleted.

Try creating an item with the problem barcode, even if it is a ‘dummy’ item. Right now, the system does not handle deleting items with holds or checkouts — the hold and checkout records are left dangling.

What are you using for a web browser? I believe there is a problem with IE9 and IE10 — appearently these browser don’t understand or implement ‘display: table*;’ CSS codes. There is not much I can do about that — I don’t have access to machines with any version of IE on them, since all of my machines run Linux (CentOS 5), so I use Firefox.

The short codes use span and div tags, using class names starting with “weblib-“:

.weblib-item-long {
  display: table;
}

.weblib-item-row {
  display: table-row;
  padding: 8px 0px;
  width: 100%;
}

.weblib-item-left {
  width: 90%;
}

.weblib-item-right {
}

.weblib-item-center-head {
  font-weight: bold;
  text-align: center;
  display: table-cell;
  padding: 2px;
}

.weblib-item-keyword-list {
  text-align: center;
  display: table-cell;
  padding: 2px;
}

.weblib-item-left-head {
  font-weight: bold;
  text-align: right;
  display: table-cell;
  padding: 2px;
}

.weblib-item-left-content {
  text-align: left;
  display: table-cell;
  padding: 2px;
}

.weblib-item-author {
  text-decoration: underline;
}

.weblib-item-title {
  font-weight: bold;
}

.weblib-item-content-block {
  display: table;
}

.weblib-item-content-element {
  display: table-row;
}

.weblib-item-element {
  display: table-cell;
  vertical-align: top;
  padding: 2px;
}

.weblib-item-info {
  width: 100%;
}

.weblib-item-index {
  font-size: 150%;
  padding: 0px 4px;
  text-align: left;
  width: 5%;
}

.weblib-item-brief {
}

.weblib-item-holdbutton {
}

.weblib-item-thumb {
  padding: 0px 4px;
  width: 48px;
  height: 72px;
}

The styling (by default) organizes things as a table. Rather than using table, tr, td, and th tags to implement the display as a table I used spans and divs, with dislay table and table element styles. This way if someone wanted a *different* display arangement, they would not have to rewrite the short codes, but could alter the style sheet to imlement the different display arangement. Everything works just fine with Firefox, but appearently IE9 and IE10 are broken…

I don’t think that is possible with the code as it is and I suspect it would be a non-trivial change (and probably not wanted for most people).

Why do you want to do this?

If you are using the database for multiple libraries and want to implement some sort of inter-library loan system, you might be better off with Evergreen (Open-ILS), which is designed for that.

It does not at present. It *can* handle E-Mailed Links. You need to have a Linux E-Mail account *on the same machine (server)* as the web/database server. A Tcl script (which I guess could be ported to Perl, etc.) is included (you need Tcl and mysqltcl installed on the server). This script can be run from a Procmail recipe — I in fact do this with my company web site (I have my own virtual server that is also my mail server).

The main problem with doing this with FTP subscriptions is a matter of timing — there isn’t a good way for WordPress to know when the subscription data was uploaded.

Of course the *best* option would be a HTTP POST delivery of the link data. (There are all sorts of security issues with this option though.)

(Actually, you’ll need to echo or print the results of shortcode methods).