Voyager 7 - Hide search tabs and change search options when simul searching

Tags: voyager 7 tomcat simul search simultaneous hide tab
Last Updated: 16 July 2009

Description
This is a javascript that will hide the Advanced (and other) tabs and alter the search options available when someone has chosen something other than your local database.
Author: Curran Riley
Institution: University of Wisconsin - Madison
2009
License: BSD style
Short description: Use, modification and distribution of the code are permitted provided the copyright notice, list of conditions and disclaimer appear in all related material.
Link to terms: [Detailed license terms]
Skill required for using this code:
Basic

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Installation instructions

State

Stable

Programming language

Javascript

Screen captures

Download

Working example

http://testcat-madison.library.wisc.edu/

Installation instructions

1. Download simul-search-hide-stuff.js.

2. Edit simul-search-hide-stuff.js:

a. Change catalogLabel.innerHTML =='UW-Madison' to reflect your catalog's name

b. Alter the "These are the tabs we want to suppress" section to reflect the tabs you want to hide

c. Alter the "elOptNew" chunks with the searches you want to add in. Make sure they're included in the "Add in the search indexes we want to insert" section down below as well.

d. Alter the "Work through the searches available and suppress the ones we want to remove" section to remove the searches you want to remove.

3. Upload simul-search-hide-js to your jscripts directory.

4. Edit /xsl/pageTools/frameWork.xsl to add the following line within the <head></head> portion of that file.