• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph
• Product Version: 16.02

Description:
For p_cir_51, we have different letter formats for each institution.

I created a p-cir-51-smc.xml based on p-cir-51.xml which includes only the default letter format as an option.
However, the options that were previously coded in p-cir-51.xml are still displaying.
I removed the UTF file, but only the p-cir-51.xml was in there.

Does p-cir-51-smc.xml not read into the program, or did I used the wrong naming convention?

Resolution:
I can think of 3 different approaches for this:

1. The first is used by independent libraries sharing the same server. In essence it is done this way:
'In order to have multi pc_b_eng directories you must have multiple pc_server_defaults files and multi ADM libraries. Each pc_server_defaults file will include a variable "pc_services_directory" which will be the services directory. It will be $data_root/pc_b_eng of each library. It may be copied from $alephe_root/pc_b_eng and then customized.'
For this, you would have to create serveral pc_server_default files, run separate servers, and maybe also change aleph_start. If this is what you would like to have, then please consult the SKB record quoted above for more details.

2. In the same menu, from menu-circ.xml, try to offer 2 different options:
<display>Overdue and Lost Billing Summary Letter NDU (cir-51)</display>
<file>p-cir-51</file>
<display>Overdue and Lost Billing Summary Letter SMC (cir-51)</display>
<file>p-cir-51-smc</file>

3. Use the same p-cir-51.xml with varying options for Letter Formats (and make sure they exist in the respective xxx01/form_eng):
<label>Letter Format</label>
<default>00</default>
<cbitem>
<value>01</value>
<display>Faculty NDU only</display>
</cbitem>
<value>11</value>
<display>Faculty SMC only</display>
</cbitem>