[Evergreen-catalogers] Deleting Items from Copy Buckets

[sarahc at zionsville.lib.in.us]

Has anyone else had a run in with the Delete All from Catalog
button in Copy Buckets?

If you click "Delete All from Catalog" in Copy Buckets, all the
items get deleted immediately. Poof. They're gone. You don't get
warning "Are you sure?" pop up like you do in Item Status or
Holdings Maintenance.  You don't even get an "Items have been
deleted" pop up afterward, so you could conceivably delete 100s of
items and not even notice.

In my case it was only 18 items, and I had them on a cart right
next to me, so it was a bit of a hassle to re-add all the items,
but not a nightmare. However, I could see it being a much bigger
problem if it happened with a lot of more items, and/or if you
didn't get noticed when it occurred.

>From my perspective, that button serves no purpose anyway, since I
always mass delete from Item Status where I can delete volumes as
well as copies, but if it is useful to others, I'd at least like a
chance to back out if I ever accidentally click it again.

I hadn't thought about it in a few months since I deleted those
items, but last week I was training staff how to use copy buckets
and they were freaked out by the button. Then, thanks to email
notification, it showed up in my inbox when the importance got
changed. https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/969312

It brought it on my radar again and made me wonder if any one else
has encountered this or is concerned about it?



Sarah Childs
Senior Cataloger
Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library
250 North Fifth Street
Zionsville, IN 46077
317-873-3149 x13330
sarahc at zionsville.lib.in.us