[Evergreen-general] Sharing plans for changing library selector in Angular staff catalog

[Jason Boyer]

I like the idea of bringing shelving location groups to the staff client, yay for feature parity!

I won't join in on the listing of potential reasons why #2 is necessary as there are already several, but I would like to lean hard toward adding a staff_visible flag to OUs or something similar because a global flag is too heavy a hammer for this.

If hiding "deleted" or unused / unwanted OUs from more of the staff client is a sub-goal that is a much bigger thing and should be dealt with directly, where just excluding some OUs from staff search should be manageable without too much fuss.

Jason

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> On Jan 22, 2024, at 12:09 PM, Lussier, Kathy via Evergreen-general <evergreen-general at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> NOBLE is proceeding with a project to make some changes to the library selector in the Angular staff catalog. I'm sharing our requirements with the community first to ensure the project doesn't conflict with any desired behavior for the selector.
> 
> The full requirements are available at the bottom of this email, but the short version is:
> 
> We plan to restore shelving location groups in the selector, similar to the way they appear in the public catalog.
> We plan to make the library selector for the staff catalog search honor the visibility settings used for the public catalog library selector. 
> #1 is the restoration of a feature from the old staff catalog.
> #2 introduces new behavior that hasn't been used in previous staff catalogs. We could not think of a use case where an org unit should be invisible in the public catalog when performing a search, but should be visible in the staff catalog search. However, if there is one, let us know so that we can add an option, most likely a global flag.
> 
> Please send us any feedback or concerns by the end of the day Friday so that we can move forward with finalizing the requirements for this project.
> 
> 
>  Angular Staff Catalog: Library Selector Improve... <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Aioe5GfQXHXrWVF90r_xdsbMhm1PjHP1vFOyyO0R3DY/edit?usp=drive_web>
> Thank you!
> Kathy
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