[Evergreen-catalogers] Display of library names in holdings view

[Kathy Lussier]

If you add the new bug for item status in Launchpad, could you add the 
webstaffcolumns tag to it? I've been tracking that tag as I've been 
working on other column picker bugs.

Kathy


On 14/12/17 11:41, Andrea Buntz Neiman wrote:
> I'm not a cataloger now but I was one in a past (work) life.... +1 to 
> shortname in Holdings View.
>
> Also +1 for using shortname in Item Status list -- it's consistent 
> with what XUL does in that interface.  Noting that the web client's 
> detail view for Item Status uses shortname for Circ Library and Owning 
> Library, it's just the list view where it differs.
>
> I don't see an OU code bug in Launchpad either, and I agree that it's 
> worth filing because OU code isn't really helpful to most end users.
>
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 11:18 AM, scott.thomas at sparkpa.org 
> <mailto:scott.thomas at sparkpa.org> <scott.thomas at sparkpa.org 
> <mailto:scott.thomas at sparkpa.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Kathy,
>        I agree that Shortname is preferable for the reasons you
>     specify. Here is something related: in our testing of 3.0, we
>     found out that Item Status displays the full name for the
>     Circulation Library. We feel this should be shortname as well like
>     it is in XUL. For Owning Library, it displays the numerical org
>     unit code which I assume is a bug. I've been unable to find it,
>     though, in Launchpad.
>
>     Thank you,
>     Scott
>
>
>
>     Scott Thomas
>     Executive Director
>     PaILS / SPARK
>     (717) 873-9461 <tel:%28717%29%20873-9461>
>     scott.thomas at sparkpa.org <mailto:scott.thomas at sparkpa.org>
>
>
>
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: Evergreen-catalogers
>     [mailto:evergreen-catalogers-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org
>     <mailto:evergreen-catalogers-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org>] On
>     Behalf Of Kathy Lussier
>     Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2017 11:10 AM
>     To: Catalogers, Evergreen
>     <evergreen-catalogers at list.evergreen-ils.org
>     <mailto:evergreen-catalogers at list.evergreen-ils.org>>
>     Subject: [Evergreen-catalogers] Display of library names in
>     holdings view
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     Bill Erickson recently submitted some code to change the display
>     of owning library in the record's holdings view to the shortname
>     instead of the library's full name. I and some others from IRC
>     think this is a good idea for a couple of reasons:
>
>     - The space for displaying fields in the grid is more limited than
>     it was in the old client. Once you use the column picker to add
>     fields to this grid, the name of the system/library can get
>     truncated, making it difficult to view which branch it belongs to.
>     Any effort to free up space in these grids is a good thing.
>
>     - Shortnames are used elsewhere in the client. I don't know we
>     have traditionally displayed the full library names in this
>     interface, but changing it to shortnames makes it consistent with
>     other web client interfaces.
>
>     Although these are very good reasons, I'm not a cataloger and use
>     this interface in testing. You all are using this interface on a
>     daily basis.
>     I thought it might be a good idea to run this one by the list
>     before merging the code into the core software.
>
>     I've attached two screenshots showing this interface with and
>     without the new code. In these screenshots, I added several fields
>     to the holdings view grid to better illustrate how this truncation
>     issue can arise.
>
>     Thanks!
>     Kathy
>
>
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