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

[McCanna, Terran]

Most of those alerts are important, are they not? It's been a little while, but when I've covered Circ and done check-ins, I don't recall getting anything that I regarded as an unnecessary alert - I only recall things that required some sort of staff action such as routing, printing hold slips, etc. If alerts were suppressed, wouldn't that cause far more staff error?


Terran McCanna 
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Georgia Public Library Service 
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Etheridge" <jason at esilibrary.com>
To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 4:02:49 PM
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

> 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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