AJAX Auto-Complete
The A-Z List and eBook Search include a configuration option to enable AJAX based automatic completion of titles during searches in the eBook Search and the Titles search tab of the A-Z List.
When the AJAX feature is activated, an auto-complete drop-down list presents a preview of the search results and suggests titles to be used as search terms when you begin to type in the search box.
The following is an example of an auto-complete drop-down list:
Auto-Complete
Auto-complete is available only with Starts with and Contains searches. When AJAX is enabled, the Exact search option is not displayed, since clicking a title within the auto-complete list for either the Starts with or Contains search has the same result as an Exact search.
If more than 10 results are found, only the first 10 results are displayed. In this case, to benefit from the auto-complete list, choose a more specific title search term.
You can either select a title from the auto-complete list or you can click Go to execute a title search with the search term entered manually in the Title box.
The text of the more results available message is configurable in the Translation & Display section. For more information, see Translations and Display.
Configuring AJAX Auto-Complete
To activate AJAX auto-complete:
- Select Enable Ajax for title search from the Display section. For more information, see Display.
- If the following template has been customized or a symbolic link to the file in sfxglb41 has been broken, you must copy the file from sfxglb41 and re-customize it:
exlibris/sfx_ver/sfx4_1/<instance>/templates/azlist_ver3/title_head.tmpl
The AJAX feature appears in the A-Z List only with the latest version of the template file.
To check whether the template has been localized:
Log on as the instance user and type the following:
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tm cd azlist_ver3 ls -la title_head.tmpl |
- If the file is symbolically linked, the following is displayed:
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title_head.tmpl -> exlibris/sfx_ver/sfx4_1/sfxglb41/templates/ azlist_ver3/title_head.tmpl |
- If the file is not symbolically linked, first use the diff command in order to find the differences between your customized file and the original file, title_head_old.tmpl.
- Move to the templates/azlist_ver3 directory and run the following command:
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Diff title_head.tmpl title_head_old.tmpl |
A list of differences between the files is displayed.
- Save the differences for use in re-customization.
- Create a new symbolic link by logging on as the instance user and typing the following:
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tm cd azlist_ver3 mv title_head.tmpl title_head.tmpl.bak ln -s exlibris/sfx_ver/sfx4_1/sfxglb41/templates/azlist_ver3/title_head.tmpl . |
- Re-customize the file using the list of differences.