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

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

Wahoo!  Great news to have a new developer aboard the Evergreen Train!  And
behind every great developer is a whole team of people helping him/her know
what to code.  Good job, Bibliomation!

Lori



On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:

> 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 :)
>
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