[Eg-newdevs] Possible NewDevs Topic

[Morgan, Michele]

Hi NewDevs!

These related, possibly even duplicate bugs were brought to our attention
again recently.

1929072 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1929072> - catalog
search filters do not work in staff catalog
1746800 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1746800> - Bibs with
Transcendant of 'f' showing on location limited searches
1664585 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1664585> - Hide
transcendent records from location group searches

It's not uncommon for staff members to want to use the staff catalog to see
everything in a certain shelving location, and the fact that empty bibs
show up in searches limited to copy locations, or location groups, make
this not possible.

Comments, especially those in the email thread link
<http://list.evergreen-ils.org/pipermail/evergreen-general/2021-May/000524.html>
in bug 1929072 indicate that it would be reasonable to exclude empty bibs
from the location (and location group) limited searches while continuing to
include them in other searches where you're not specifically trying to
limit to item attributes.

I don't know if this is a fairly straightforward change or an involved one,
but this comment
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1746800/comments/8> from Jason
Boyer said it would be a "smaller" change than adding an option to enable
or disable empty bibs in search results in general.

Does this sound like a viable topic for a future meeting?

Thanks,
Michele
--
Michele M. Morgan, Technical Support Analyst
North of Boston Library Exchange, Danvers Massachusetts
mmorgan at noblenet.org
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