[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

[Jason Etheridge]

> Evergreen has lots of alerts - we tracked them for a week once.

One thing I want to mention is that it was an intentional design
decision that certain workflows got "halted" by pop-up alerts, and
there was a great fear of users accidentally "scanning through" an
alert without noticing.

It seems like we've been slowly trying to mitigate the consequences of
that decision, for example, with the menu option Checkin
Modifiers->Ignore Pre-cataloged Items and the experimental Fast Entry
(Asynchronous) checkbox, and culminating in the "Suppress
popup-dialogs during check-in" library setting.

It may be time to rethink this behavior from the ground-up, or at the
very least, better document it (I had forgotten all about that library
setting, despite having wrote it, and I bet a lot of folk would love
to have it enabled).

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Jason Etheridge
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