[Evergreen-catalogers] Patron view in Angular staff client

[Terran McCanna]

Ah, gotcha.

I'm testing the new staff catalog and the new Bootstrap OPAC together, and
the two of them work well together.


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On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 5:30 PM Jason Boyer <jboyer at equinoxinitiative.org>
wrote:

> 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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> Jason Boyer
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> Equinox Open Library Initiative
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> On Dec 1, 2020, at 4:59 PM, Terran McCanna <tmccanna at georgialibraries.org>
> wrote:
>
> 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!)
>
> 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>
> 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.
>>
>> 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>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> WIsh I had realized what an issue this is going to be and brought it up
>> earlier!
>>
>> --
>> Elizabeth B. Thomsen
>> Member Services Manager
>> NOBLE: North of Boston Library Exchange
>> Danvers, Mass.
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