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

[Mary Llewellyn]

I agree, +1 for the shortnames in those views.

Mary


On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Tiffany Little <
tlittle at georgialibraries.org> wrote:

> A‌s another former cataloger, +1 to using shortnames in both Holdings and
> Item Status.
>
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> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 11:45 AM, Kathy Lussier <klussier at masslnc.org>
> wrote:
>
>> 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 <
>> 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
>>> (508) 343-0128
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