[OPEN-ILS-DEV] [patch] Selecting many Z39.50 targets

[Jason Etheridge]

Warren, I like this, thanks!  Grant and I were experimenting with
scrollbars, hiding the information altogether, etc., but I think this
strikes a good balance of less clutter versus useful information.  I
tweaked things a bit so that the per-service summaries still exist,
but as a tooltip.  Also, I preserved the original property text and
added a new property for omitting the service from the summary string,
so I left the POTS stuff alone.

http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/changeset/13375

-- Jason

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Warren Layton<warren.layton at gmail.com> wrote:
> Some of our staff have run into a bug with the Z39.50 search tool in
> the staff client. We have a number of available targets and when they
> select many of them, the staff client display becomes larger than the
> screen and useful buttons such as "MARC Editor for Import" are
> inaccessible (see PNG image, attached).
>
> The problem is caused by the text label about the results containing
> "Showing 1 of 4228 for ULaval  Showing 2 of 1670 (...)"  and so on for
> each target. The more targets being searched, the longer the text
> becomes until it spills over the screen.
>
> Attached is a patch (against trunk) which reduces the text to simply
> "Showing <# results displayed> of <total count>", without listing the
> individual targets (which are listed beside each result anyways under
> the "Service" column). Also included are changes to cat.properties to
> modify the text string (if these aren't properly done, let me know and
> I'll try again).
>
> Cheers,
>  Warren Layton
>  NRCan Library
>