[Evergreen-general] Question about updating manual carousels

[John Amundson]

Thanks, Lindsay.

Yes. I can do that.

To add more records to the bucket at that point, though, I would have to
use the Record Query tab, which isn't very good for complicated searches.
Our libraries aren't very familiar with the interface, either.

After emailing, I did discover I can add a title directly to a carousel
from the record's view in the catalog.
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However, this still creates a disconnect from the bucket that the
library created and the carousel that displays.

Libraries should be able to add/update their logically named and
accessible bucket and have the carousel update automatically. I think I
will file a bug report.

John

John Amundson | Library Applications Supervisor | CW MARS

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On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 11:39 AM Lindsay Stratton <lstratton at wlsmail.org>
wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> I went through this a while ago, and if my notes are correct, you can
> access the carousel bucket by clicking Shared Buckets in the Buckets
> dropdown, and then entering the carousel bucket id (in your example
> 1257746).
>
> Lindsay
>
> *Lindsay Stratton*
> *Systems Librarian*
> Westchester Library System
> 570 Taxter Rd., 4th Floor
> Elmsford, NY 10523
> lstratton at wlsmail.org
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 11:22 AM John Amundson <jamundson at cwmars.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I have been wading my way through Carousels in Evergreen in
>> preparation for my network's upgrade to 3.5.3.
>>
>> I have searched Launchpad and cannot find a bug for the following, so I
>> just want to make sure I'm not missing something before I create one.
>>
>> I created a manual carousel from a bucket and then a mapping. The
>> carousel displayed nicely and in the order I added the titles to the
>> bucket. So far, so good.
>>
>> I then added additional titles to my bucket. To my surprise, the carousel
>> entries did not update in the catalog.
>>
>> When I view the "link to bucket" field in Carousels Configuration, the
>> carousel links to a different bucket than the one I created, specifically
>> one with a name of "System-created bucket for carousel 197 copied from
>> bucket 1257746".
>>
>> Refreshing the manual carousel isn't allowed, and I do not have access to
>> the new bucket through my "Buckets" dropdown.
>>
>> The only way I have found to add new titles to this bucket is through the
>> "Record Query" interface, which is not as robust as catalog searching.
>>
>> This is not very intuitive and makes it hard for library staff to
>> maintain their own manual carousels.
>>
>> Are others using carousels seeing this behavior? And if so, how do you
>> work around it?
>>
>> For now, I see the best workaround as creating a new carousel for every
>> change, then removing the old carousel.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> John
>>
>> John Amundson | Library Applications Supervisor | CW MARS
>>
>> jamundson at cwmars.org | 508-755-3323 x322 <%28508%29%20755-3323>
>>
>> https://www.cwmars.org
>>
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