[Evergreen-catalogers] Hotkeys in the web client - Keyboard Navigation
Elaine Hardy
ehardy at georgialibraries.org
Thu Feb 6 15:43:35 EST 2020
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On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 12:03 PM Josh Stompro <stomproj at gsuite.larl.org>
wrote:
> Janet, having a workflow to look at is useful, thanks.
>
> Since the web client doesn't have an "Actions for this Record" menu that
> holds all the features, it doesn't really work to have one command like
> Alt+Shift+A that activates one menu. But it is possible to just set
> arbitrary keyboard shortcuts, even if they are not tied to a menu.
>
> So maybe we go with the equivalent to XUL shortcut keys just to make
> migration easy. Some of the XUL options are shared, like v for marc view
> and add volumes, so maybe add volumes/add holdings should just have it's
> own , like Alt+Shift+n (for new). Or maybe we should avoid basing them off
> of the past design? We just need to work around the browser defined
> functions that may matter to the user, and the ones that are reserved by
> chrome.
>
>
> - Alt+Shift+a h - Holdings Maint
> - Alt+Shift+a enter - Opac View
> - Alt+Shift+a v - MARC View
> -
> - Alt+Shift+a e - MARC Edit
> - Alt+Shift+a c - Holdings Maintenance
> -
> - Alt+Shift+a p - Manage Parts
> -
> - Alt+Shift+a s - View Holds
> -
> - Alt+Shift+a r - View/Place Orders
> - Alt+Shift+a b - Add to bucket
> - Alt+Shift+a m - Mark for Overlay
> - Alt+Shift+a d - Delete Record (Doesn't exist in web client)
> - Alt+Shift+a u - Undelete Record (Doesn't exist in web client)
> - Alt+Shift+n - Add Volumes/Add Holdings
> - Alt+Shift+a c - Mark as Target for Conjoined Items
> - Alt+Shift+a a - Alternate Serial Control (Not sure about this?)
> - Alt+Shift+a i - Serials Batch Receive (Or this, Quick Receive?)
>
>
> One roadblock that I'm not sure how to get around is the whole, keyboard
> shortcuts don't work within an iframe, so if the default view is the opac
> view, staff have to click out of the iframe to use keyboard shortcuts. An
> easy work around is to have a different default view set, so the opac view
> isn't the default... or use the angular web client.
>
> In the Volume copy editor, it would be ideal to never need to touch the
> keyboard to create items, and not have to tab through all the UI elements.
>
> The template selector dropdown/textbox should require less steps. Right
> now you have to click or tab to it, then Ctrl+A to select all, then type in
> the start of your template, then tab twice, then press enter, then tab,
> then enter to apply.
>
> It would be nice if there was a keyboard shortcut for moving focus to the
> template selector box, then if it automatically selected all the text, so
> the user can just start typing if they want a different template. And then
> setup Alt+Y to apply the template. One of those little floaty messages
> might be nice also "Template applied".
>
> I also wish there was an easy way to recover from applying the wrong
> template, other than reloading the page. When working quickly it happens,
> and is usually noticed right away, so if there was a simple way to reset
> back to the initial values that would be great. Especially since setting
> values in copy templates to be unset seems to be not support.
>
> Josh
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 1:16 PM Janet Schrader <jschrader at cwmars.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Josh,
>>
>> No, as far as I know, nothing has changed. Like you, we have more than
>> one library that is using, unhappily so, the web client and is extremely
>> frustrated by the lack of keyboard commands. Here is a response from a
>> library with 6 branches when asked what keyboard shortcuts/commands are in
>> xul and missing in the web client.
>>
>> XUL adding items for main and branches
>>
>> - F3 for advanced search – scan ISBN or title/author search or
>> LCCN or other
>>
>> - Alt+Shift+A to access Actions for this record menu, then H
>> for Holdings maintenance
>> The Alt+Shift+A is used to go to Marc Edit, Opac View, and Mark for
>> overlay and is very convenient
>>
>> - If overlaying record, Alt+G then Z will take you to the Marc
>> import via Z39.50 screen
>>
>> - Find the record, then Alt+O, then Alt+D, then Alt+O
>>
>> - In XUL we have to add/edit items in the different branches
>> separately, but can do multiple items in a single library (if Main branch
>> has three items, I can add/edit those at once, as long as they use the same
>> template)
>>
>> - Right-click the row with the item to edit or Right-click on
>> the volume to add an item or Right-click on the library to add a volume and
>> item
>>
>> - Then select Edit item, add item, or add item, respectively
>>
>> - Scan barcode, enter Call number and price, then select
>> Template
>>
>> - Alt+Y to apply template
>>
>> - Alt+R to Re-barcode/update items or Alt+C to Create volumes
>> (depending on if you are editing or adding
>>
>>
>>
>> Janet
>>
>>
>> Janet Schrader
>>
>> Bibliographic Services Supervisor | CW MARS
>>
>> 67 Millbrook Street, Suite 201, Worcester, MA 01606
>>
>> P: 508-755-3323 x 325 | F: 508-757-7801
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> jschrader at cwmars.org || http;//cwmars.org <http://www.cwmars.org/>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 1:27 PM Josh Stompro <stomproj at gsuite.larl.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Janet, did you ever find out more details about the state of keyboard
>>> navigation? Has much changed since you posted this? I read through all
>>> the responses, but they mainly seemed focused on the global hotkeys.
>>>
>>> We know about the hotkeys that are available (pressing the ? key to show
>>> a list). And those are nice for quickly getting to certain functions. But
>>> like you we are wondering about keyboard navigation in specific interfaces.
>>>
>>> I'm also wondering if the term hotkey means something different than
>>> keyboard shortcuts or keyboard navigation. I've also seen the term
>>> function key, which might specifically means the F1-F12 keys?
>>>
>>> This bug seems to cover all keyboard navigation, but the comments seem
>>> focused on hotkeys, but not on navigating within each interface.
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1437106
>>>
>>> Our staff are having a hard time justifying the work to switch
>>> cataloging and acquisitions to the web client because of how much longer
>>> everything takes to complete, mainly because the mouse needs to be used
>>> constantly to navigate.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if this needs to be tackled interface by interface, or if
>>> there is some overarching plan to add in keyboard navigation for all the
>>> menus and context menus?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Josh
>>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 4:56 PM Janet Schrader <jschrader at cwmars.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Are there hotkeys in the web client comparable to the xul client such
>>>> as ALT+a+v+v+Enter to go to the add volumes screen, or, ALT+a+h to go to
>>>> holdings maintenance? I have one cataloger who prefers to use the mouse as
>>>> little as possible.
>>>>
>>>> I know the add volumes button and holdings view now require only one
>>>> mouse click. Are there any keyboard shortcuts to open these without a
>>>> mouse? I haven't found any so far.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Janet
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Janet Schrader
>>>>
>>>> Bibliographic Services Supervisor | CW MARS
>>>>
>>>> 67 Millbrook Street, Suite 201, Worcester, MA 01606
>>>>
>>>> P: 508-755-3323 x 325 | F: 508-757-7801
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
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