[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bookbags and record buckets: having my cake and eating it too?

[Jane Sandberg]

Thanks, Terran!  I think I found it:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1696157

On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 2:10 PM, Terran McCanna
<tmccanna at georgialibraries.org> wrote:
> I thought there was a wishlist ticket in launchpad for something like this,
> but I'm not finding it now - but +1 from me.
>
> Terran McCanna
> PINES Program Manager
> Georgia Public Library Service
> tmccanna at georgialibraries.org
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> On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 4:58 PM, Jane Sandberg <sandbej at linnbenton.edu>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We have several bookbags that we use to keep track of books for a
>> particular assignment.  We particularly like being able to direct
>> students to a link that includes a nice HTML display of all the books
>> in that bookbag.
>>
>> We typically add books to those bookbags at the point they are
>> cataloged.  However, the staff client doesn't make it easy for
>> catalogers to add to those bookbags at the point of cataloging.  Since
>> the btype column in the container.biblio_record_entry_bucket table =
>> 'bookbag', catalogers can't go to the bib record, click "Other
>> Actions", and use "Add to Bucket".  Instead, they have to:
>> 1) Note the TCN of the book they are cataloging
>> 2) Look up the ID of the bookbag in a document and open it
>> 3) Look up the book by TCN in the Record Bucket Query interface
>> 4) Add the book to the bucket
>>
>> It's really round-about!  If I change the btype to 'staff_client',
>> then the catalogers can suddenly use "Other Actions" > "Add to Bucket"
>> from the catalog record.  It's way easier, but it means that we can no
>> longer see the bookbags in our catalog at the URL
>>
>> https://libcat.linnbenton.edu/eg/opac/results?bookbag=[bookbag_id_goes_here]
>>
>> Does anybody have any suggestions about how we can have our cake (i.e.
>> get nice, public-facing HTML displays of bookbags) and eat it too
>> (i.e. a less onerous process for catalogers to add the books they are
>> cataloging to those bookbags)?  Is there any particular reason that
>> non-bookbag record buckets can't have that nice HTML display in the
>> OPAC too?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>   -Jane
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jane Sandberg
>> Electronic Resources Librarian
>> Linn-Benton Community College
>> sandbej at linnbenton.edu / 541-917-4655
>> Pronouns: she/her/hers
>
>



-- 
Jane Sandberg
Electronic Resources Librarian
Linn-Benton Community College
sandbej at linnbenton.edu / 541-917-4655
Pronouns: she/her/hers