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

Thu Dec 14 12:52:16 EST 2017

Andrea,
   Thank you. I created one for the Circulation Library display: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1738249.  I basically just plagiarized your verbiage for 1738240 and changed a few things. Hey, why mess with perfection?

Scott

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Bug for Item Status to use shortname instead of OU code here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1738240

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Elaine Hardy <ehardy at georgialibraries.org<mailto:ehardy at georgialibraries.org>> wrote:
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...

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On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Andrea Buntz Neiman <abneiman at equinoxinitiative.org<mailto: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<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

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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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