[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bibliomation's Enhancement - "Search Catalog" Button

[Dan Scott]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:34:31AM -0500, Amy Terlaga wrote:
> Hi all--
> 
> I would like to share Bibliomation’s good news with the rest of the
> Evergreen general list.  We just submitted a software enhancement and it has
> been accepted by the Evergreen community.  
> 
> Melissa Lefebvre, Bibliomation’s Open Source Project Manager, and Ben Shum,
> Bibliomation’s Open Source Software Coordinator, were jointly responsible in
> making this software enhancement happen.
> 
> Here are the details of this software enhancement:
> 
> > When Bibliomation first installed Evergreen 1.6, we were very pleased 
> > to see the addition of the Button Bar to provide quick shortcuts to 
> > important staff client functions.  It was an early decision to enable 
> > the Button Bar by default on all staff clients in our consortium.
> > Based on user feedback from our development partner libraries, 
> > however, we soon discovered a great need to expand the existing Button 
> > Bar by including a "Search Catalog" option.  Staff members were 
> > confused given that searching the catalog for items was deemed an 
> > important primary function and they were disappointed not to see a 
> > button for it.
> >
> > This was our first patch created for Evergreen and was submitted to 
> > the developers' mailing list on November 4, 2010.  The new Search 
> > Catalog button links to open a new Advanced Search screen.  Melissa 
> > Lefebvre created a new Search Catalog icon by adapting images drawn 
> > from the original icon sets used to create the first button icons used 
> > on the Button Bar.  Ben Shum wrote the necessary code to create the 
> > new button functionality and compiled the patch against the latest 
> > version of trunk for submission to the Evergreen Community.
> >
> > Thanks to developer Jason Etheridge for answering our questions, 
> > reviewing and committing our first patch for Evergreen.
> 
> We’re very pleased to be able to contribute to the Evergreen community!

Many thanks to Ben, Melissa, and Bibliomation! I know our staff will be
happy to have this additional feature; keep the good work rolling in :)