[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] browser client update 2014-05-01 / feedback requested on catalog integration

[Bill Erickson]

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 2:53 PM, McCanna, Terran <
tmccanna at georgialibraries.org> wrote:

> More thoughts on catalog integration...
>
> - All the feedback I've received from our staff so far express a strong
> preference to keeping the catalog view that is in the staff client as close
> as possible to the public OPAC view.
>

Duly noted.


>
> - Although you're not working on the cataloging phase yet, catalogers
> switch back and forth between the MARC view and the catalog view of a bib
> record when creating it / working on it to make sure it will display
> properly when patrons view it through the OPAC, so please keep that in mind.
>

Do we see this as materially different from having the MARC view open in
one browser tab and the catalog view open in another?


>
> - Staff say that in an older version of the staff client, there used to be
> visual cues on the search results to indicate when a bib record was hidden
> from the public view (because it had no copies attached, because all copies
> were lost or missing, etc.) so that staff could readily tell what they were
> seeing that patrons could not see. This was lost in one of the upgrades. Is
> that something that can be re-enabled for the browser client?


I would suggest opening a LP ticket for this, if there isn't already one,
since it's (presumably) a feature that was lost with the move to TPAC.

Thanks, Terran.

-b

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