[Evergreen-catalogers] Patron view in Angular staff client

[Jason Boyer]

Unfortunately Terran, the ability to have both the patron opac and the staff client active at the same time only works by accident. If you visit the traditional opac in the 3.6 client that will set the cookie(s) that causes the non-staff opac to lose its header and footer and cause both to be signed in as the staff account.

My understanding is that it’s difficult / impossible to know that your page is inside an iframe, so there’s no automatic way to hide the header / footer in the client while still showing it outside the client.

Though, perhaps if the opac took a url parameter like staff_view=1 that was always sent by the client and carried over by internal redirects such a thing could be possible, though both would still likely be signed in as the same staff user.

Jason

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> On Dec 1, 2020, at 4:59 PM, Terran McCanna <tmccanna at georgialibraries.org> wrote:
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> In my initial testing, it looks like we have finally gotten past the problem of the OPAC not being able to be open in the same browser as the staff client at the same time, so we can actually have the OPAC open in one tab and the staff client open in another tab. (Woo hoo!)
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> Some things I would suggest:
> - Make author into a link
> - Add 'View All Formats and Editions' link 
> - Add link or button to actually open the record in the full OPAC in a new tab or window where everything will be functional rather than (or in addition to) the embedded Patron View
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> On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 4:09 PM Thomsen, Elizabeth <et at noblenet.org <mailto:et at noblenet.org>> wrote:
> We're working with the Angular version of the staff catalog on Release 3.6 on our training server, and having a hard time with the Patron View with all the links disabled.  
> 
> The pre-Angular staff catalog is used by library staff who are searching the catalog for a various reasons, including cataloging ,but also reference, readers advisory, collection development, working on course reserves, booklists, displays, etc., and in all of these functions, it's not always as simple as "find a record, add an item" or "find a record, place a hold," etc.  Staff use the links in the catalog to navigate around between related records, just like patrons do (actually, probably more than patrons do.)  So they click on the author's name to see other works by the author, they follow the subject heading links to find related works, they click on the "View other formats and editions" to see what other versions of the title they have that may work for their patron or their project, and they click on the links for electronic resources for all the same reasons.
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> I support this comment from Bill: "I'd also like to suggest we make changes to the Angular staff catalog proper to support whatever staff work flows are needed. Having the embedded TPAC be integral to any staff work flow, apart from simply seeing what displays, is a big step backwards."  [ * ] <https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1849137/comments/9>   
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> It's not the embedded TPAC itself that's integral to so many staff workflows, it's the functionality that is only found there -- how can we bring this into the Angular Catalog?  Otherwise I know our staff will just want to stick with the Traditional catalog as long as possible, missing all the good things about the Angular catalog.
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> WIsh I had realized what an issue this is going to be and brought it up earlier!
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