How to Make the ILL Copyright Agreement Checkbox to be Checked by Default and Hidden

Background Patron's Copyright Agreement for Borrowing Requests Patrons can be required to ‘sign’ a copyright declaration when they submit a new ILL borrowing request. A request that has not been marked as 'copyright signed' when the table’s configuration shows that it is a mandatory issue for the supplier (to whom the request is sent), will be blocked upon the Send' action.

Background By checking the checkbox in the new ILL borrowing request page the patrons ‘sign’ the copyright declaration.

new-ill-r-copyright The “checkbox” parameter in the relevant HTML page www_f_eng/new-ill-r-copyright (as seen in the previous slide) <tr> <td class=td1 id=bold width="20%" nowrap> I have read the above statement and agree to abide by its restrictions. </td> <td class=td1 id=bold width=1% align=center> <span class=text2>*</span> <td class=td1 id=bold> <input type="checkbox" name=Z40___COPYRIGHT_LETTER value="Y" $$3400-C"Y"> </tr> <td class=td1 id=bold colspan=3> <input type=hidden name="COPYRIGHT_MANDATORY" value="Y"> <input type=hidden name="UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_LETTER" value="Y">

html <input type="checkbox“> tag1 Different attributes may be added to the html <input> tag such as: Attribute: type=“checkbox” Attribute: checked=“checked” 1Taken from: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp

new-ill-r-copyright Add attribute - checked="checked“ – to the ILL copyright agreement checkbox Restart the web server <tr> <td class=td1 id=bold width="20%" nowrap> I have read the above statement and agree to abide by its restrictions. </td> <td class=td1 id=bold width=1% align=center> <span class=text2>*</span> <td class=td1 id=bold> <input type="checkbox" checked="checked" name=Z40___COPYRIGHT_LETTER value="Y" $$3400-C"Y"> </tr>

New ILL borrowing request The checkbox will be checked by default

Hiding the checked checkbox A library may prefer to not only have it by default checked but also not even have it appear. In this case they can leave the default as checked and make the checkbox hidden.

new-ill-r-copyright add the parameter ‘hidden’ to the <type> tag and comment out the text. Restart the web server <tr> <!-------------------------------- <td class=td1 id=bold width="20%" nowrap> I have read the above statement and agree to abide by its restrictions. </td> <td class=td1 id=bold width=1% align=center> <span class=text2>*</span> ----> <td class=td1 id=bold> <input type=hidden type="checkbox" checked="checked" name=Z40___COPYRIGHT_LETTER value="Y" $$3400-C"Y"> </tr>

New ILL borrowing request The Copyright Restriction are displayed in the page for the patron to read but the checkbox is not.

Copyright statement is signed The patron did not ‘sign’ the copyright statement but a new ILL borrowing request will be sent to the system as a ‘signed’ one.

Copyright statement is signed We can see via the GUI that the Copyright Statement was signed