[Evergreen-catalogers] Item status refresh and scanned titles not in order

[Janet Schrader]

Well, should have looked in Launchpad first. This may be the same or
related to bug #1820887, item status order changes after updates. I added
my comment to the bug and subscribed to it.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1820887



Janet

On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 11:25 PM Janet Schrader <jschrader at cwmars.org>
wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> One of our catalogers discovered that scanned items in Item Status do not
> display in the order scanned. This is not due to sorting by columns, she is
> not sorting by any column, just wants the list to show in the order
> scanned, first item at the bottom, last at the top.
>
> After some testing we discovered the problem is due to scanning recently
> edited items and think this is caused by the fix for item status refreshing
> after edits are made to item(s) in the list. Her workflow is to edit an
> item created in Acquisitions in the holdings editor and then scan its
> barcode into Item Status open in another tab so that she can then batch
> print spine labels. After scanning about 10 items the next scans are added
> in random order. I think this is caused by the system seeing the items as
> being edited in Item Status, all display with the modified status icon in
> the far left column even though none are edited in Item Status.
>
> I can confirm that if I edit an item and then *within 10-15 seconds* scan
> that barcode into item status, item status displays the "item successfully
> modified" icon in the far left status column. even after 30 seconds or so I
> get the same edited icon. If I wait 60 seconds and scan the barcode into
> item status it does not display as an edited item. I haven't determined the
> exact amount of time it takes the system to not see the edit as a new one,
> modified in item status, but it appears to be significant. However, I do
> not think that this way the item status refresh is supposed to work.
>
> Has anyone experienced this behavior? I hesitate to create a bug report in
> Launchpad if we are doing something wrong. I realize waiting solves the
> problem but that means handling each item a second time instead of the
> smooth workflow she is now using.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Janet
>
>
>
> Janet Schrader
>
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>
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