Print templates use variables for various pieces of information coming from the Evergreen database. These variables deal with everything from the library name to the due date of an item. Information from the database is entered in the templates with curly brackets {{term}}.

Example: {{checkout.title}}

Some print templates have sections that are repeated for each item in a list. For example, the portion of the Checkout print template below repeats every item that is checked out in HTML list format by means of the ng-repeat in the li tag.

<ol>
<li ng-repeat="checkout in circulations">
<b>{{checkout.title}}</b><br/>
Barcode: {{checkout.copy.barcode}}<br/>
Due: {{checkout.circ.due_date | date:"short"}}<br/>
</li>
</ol>

General text formatting

If you do not format dates, they will appear in a system format which isn’t easily readable.

Add " | currency" after any dollar amount that you wish to display as currency.

Example: {{xact.summary.balance_owed | currency}} prints as $2.50

You can use Angular JS to only print a line if the data matches. For example:

<div ng-if="hold.email_notify == 't'">Notify by email: {{patron.email}}</div>

This will only print the "Notify by email:" line if email notification is enabled for that hold.

Example for checkout print template that will only print the amount a patron owes if there is a balance:

<span ng-if="patron_money.balance_owed">You owe the library ${{patron_money.balance_owed}}</span>

See also: https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/directive/ngIf

To print just a sub-string of a variable, you can use a limitTo function. {{variable | limitTo:limit:begin}} where limit is the number of characters you are wanting, and begin (optional) is where you want to start printing those characters. To limit the variable to the first four characters, you can use {{variable | limitTo:4}} to get "vari". To limit to the last five characters you can use {{variable | limitTo:-5}} to get "iable". And {{variable | limitTo:3:3}} will produce "ria".

You can use HTML and CSS to add an image to your print template if you have the image uploaded onto a publicly available web server. (It will currently only work with images on a secure (https) site.) For example:

<img src="https://evergreen-ils.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/copy-Evergreen_Logo_sm072.jpg" style="width:150px;padding:5px;">

You can sort the items in an ng-repeat block using orderBy. For example, the following will sort a list of holds by the shelving location first, then by the call number:

<tr ng-repeat="hold_data in holds | orderBy : ['copy.location.name','volume.label']">

You can use Angular JS to add information from each iteration of a loop together to create a subtotal. This involves setting an initial variable before the ng-repeat loop begins, adding an amount to that variable from within each loop, and then displaying the final amount at the end.

<div>You checked out the following items:</div>
<br/>
<div ng-init="transactions.subtotal=0">                <!--  -->
<ol>
<div ng-repeat="checkout in circulations">
  <li ng-init="transactions.subtotal=transactions.subtotal -- checkout.copy.price"> <!--  -->
     <b>{{checkout.title}}</b><br/>
     Barcode: {{checkout.copy.barcode}}<br/>
     Due: {{checkout.circ.due_date | date:"M/d/yyyy"}}
  </li>
</div>
</ol>
<div style="font-weight:bold;">Total Amount Owed: {{patron_money.balance_owed | currency}}</div>
<div style="font-weight:bold;border:1px dotted black; padding:5px;text-align:center;">
You Saved<br/>
{{transactions.subtotal | currency}}<br/>              <!--  -->
by borrowing from the library!</div>

As you can only save a template on to the computer you are working on you will need to export the template if you have more than one computer that prints out receipts (i.e., more than one computer on the circulation desk, or another computer in the workroom that you use to checkin items or capture holds with)