[Evergreen-general] Question about updating manual carousels

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On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 12:03 PM John Amundson <jamundson at cwmars.org> wrote:

> 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>
>
> https://www.cwmars.org
>
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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*
>> *  “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip"*   ― Diane Duane, So
>> You Want to Be a Wizard <https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3464>
>>
>>
>> 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
>> https://www.cwmars.org
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