[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Acq - Copy location UI scoped to registered workstation

[Blake Henderson]

Bill,

This is the same conclusion that I was coming to. As I was saying 
before, I didn't want to jump to a launchpad bug because it seemed odd 
that something this fundamental wasn't already fleshed out and 
incorporated. Shall I create a bug?

-Blake-
Conducting Magic
MOBIUS

On 12/12/2014 9:48 AM, Bill Erickson wrote:
> This is probably a limitation within AutoFieldWidget.  It has a 
> special handler for copy locations to avoid loading all perm-visible 
> locations, which can be many thousands in some consortia.  This seems 
> like a good candidate for a typeahead box -- 
> openils.widget.PCrudAutocompleteBox in this context.
>
> -b
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Blake Henderson 
> <blake at mobiusconsortium.org <mailto:blake at mobiusconsortium.org>> wrote:
>
>     Mike,
>
>     We do have the working locations setup (checked) on each of the
>     branches in the system for the user in question. We only see the
>     copy locations populated for the branch that the workstation is
>     registered.
>
>     -Blake-
>     Conducting Magic
>     MOBIUS
>     573-234-4513  <tel:573-234-4513>
>     877-312-3517  <tel:877-312-3517>
>
>     On 12/12/2014 9:23 AM, Mike Rylander wrote:
>>     Blake,
>>
>>     I didn't see if this was already asked and answered elsewhere and
>>     I don't know if it will help in the ACQ interfaces, but, did you
>>     give the user in question multiple working locations via the user
>>     permission editor?
>>
>>     HTH,
>>
>>
>>     --
>>     Mike Rylander
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>>
>>
>>     On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Blake Henderson
>>     <blake at mobiusconsortium.org <mailto:blake at mobiusconsortium.org>>
>>     wrote:
>>
>>         Hello all,
>>
>>         I apologize for the duplicate email, I sent this to the dev
>>         list and it was suggested that I send it to the general list:
>>
>>          I couldn't find a bug on this. We are using acq for the
>>         first time and I
>>         don't want to jump to any conclusions. When creating a PO and
>>         assigning
>>         the copies to their branches and copy locations, we noticed
>>         that the UI
>>         only shows the copy locations for the branch that you happen
>>         to be
>>         registered to. We have a scenario where a single branch is
>>         doing all of
>>         the PO's for all of the sibling branches. Are we doing
>>         something wrong?
>>         During some experimenting, I found that if you register the
>>         user to the
>>         system level instead of the branch level, it will show all of
>>         the copy
>>         locations for each branch. That, of course, is not a good
>>         idea for other
>>         reasons. We ruled permissions out by assigning the
>>         EVERYTHING^consortium to the user.
>>
>>         It seems like if the software allows the copies to be assigned to
>>         different branches, it should also allow copies to get
>>         assigned to the
>>         respective shelving location in that branch.
>>
>>         --
>>         -Blake-
>>         Conducting Magic
>>         MOBIUS
>>
>>
>>
>

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