[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Icon on hold/transit checkin popup dialog

[Ben Shum]

Oh the turtle talk again, hehe!

So, there's been some discussion about this in the past.  Here are some
links to Launchpad tickets discussing this issue:

"a frog would improve usability of transit slip" (imo, best bug title
ever!) -- https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/763944
"support distinct pop-up images for holds, transits, and hold transits" --
https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1229757

That second launchpad bug actually points at some useful discussion in a
previous email thread on the general list:
http://markmail.org/message/wll3kljcyqr2lvpl

Notable in the email thread are Bill Ott (GRPL) sharing git code examples
and Martha Driscoll (NOBLE) sharing sample images that help to
differentiate between the types of events.  I think there's enough
information contained in these links to put together something useful.  The
git example from GRPL suggests to me that whatever is decided can be
implemented server-side as a potential local customization by whoever
runs/hosts the Evergreen system.

That all said, it is not too late for someone to pick up where LP#1229757
left off and submit new development / code / suggestions and help plot out
a potential new direction for how the community should address this area of
Evergreen.

-- Ben


On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

> I don't know if this is a local (C/W Mars) build setting or a not, but when
> people are checking in items, either from the Pull List or from the
> incoming
> ILL bin (or probably the general returns bin), the *same* picture (a
> turtle)
> shows up, whether the item is for the local holds shelf or for the outbound
> ILL bin. What seems to happen is that *sometimes* (and not esp. rarely), an
> item for the holds shelf will get tossed into the outbound ILL bin. Since
> we
> don't print a transit slip (C/W Mars is using an automated conveyer belt
> system to scan items and sort them automagically, so the slips are not
> needed
> except for items that have the barcode sticker in a strange place), unless
> the
> person doing the checkins *carefully* reads the dialog pop up, there is a
> non-trivial chance that the item will get tossed into the outbound bin.
> That
> is, the the person doing the checkins is NOT reading the dialog, but sees
> the
> turtle and without thinking tosses the item.
>
> It seems to me that the easiest cure for this is to use a *different* icon
> for
> the hold shelf popup and the transit slip popup.  Is this a possibility?
>  Is
> it something that can be configured locally?
>
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-- 
Benjamin Shum
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