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

[Elaine Hardy]

Whenever the library's name appears in staff view columns, it should be the
short name - owning and circ library

I noticed the org unit code and have it on our internal bug list but
haven't had a chance to enter a launchpad bug report. I have a number I
need to get fully researched and added...



J. Elaine Hardy
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On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Andrea Buntz Neiman <
abneiman at equinoxinitiative.org> 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 <
> 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
>> scott.thomas at sparkpa.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Evergreen-catalogers [mailto:evergreen-catalogers-b
>> ounces 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>
>> 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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>> Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
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