[Evergreen-general] Question about updating manual carousels

[John Amundson]

For those interested...

Here is the bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1920234

John

John Amundson | Library Applications Supervisor | CW MARS

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On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 11:47 AM John Amundson <jamundson at cwmars.org> wrote:

> 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.
> [image: image.png]
>
> 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
>
> jamundson at cwmars.org | 508-755-3323 x322 <%28508%29%20755-3323>
>
> https://www.cwmars.org
>
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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>
>>>
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