[Evergreen-general] Question about updating manual carousels

[John Amundson]

Hi, Misty:

Carousels
<https://docs.evergreen-ils.org/eg/docs/3.6/admin_initial_setup/carousels.html>
were introduced in Evergreen 3.4.

My network is upgrading from an older release to version 3.5, and we are
investigating how and if carousels should be used in our system.

Depending on your Evergreen version and your Evergreen setup, they may or
may not be available for use.

John

John Amundson | Library Applications Supervisor | CW MARS

jamundson at cwmars.org | 508-755-3323 x322 <%28508%29%20755-3323>

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On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 11:44 AM <misty at clintonpl.lib.in.us> wrote:

> I'm not sure if this is a silly question.. But, is the carousel available
> to use?
>
>
>
>
> *Misty MorseLibrarian AssistantClinton Public Library*
> *765-832-8349313 S. 4th St. Clinton, In.,478**42*
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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
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