Hi all,
Sorry to be replying to an older thread, but I came across it while
looking at column pickers in the web client.
ITEMS OUT SCREEN - COLUMN PICKER:
- I didn't go through every option, but there were obvious
differences between the current staff client and the web client
and definitely some columns missing that are in the current staff
client.
There are a few things missing (like checkout/checkin workstation and
circ or renewal worktation), and the list of values in the web based
client is not ordered alphabetically. We can fix the latter and the
former is due to one of the known challenges going to a web interface.
A longer and more explanatory email to come on that.
Did we ever get the longer and more explanatory e-mail? I'm guessing it
has something to do with cutting back our column picker options?
- Show All Columns and Hide All Columns don't appear to do anything
They surely don't. And honestly, I would not recommend anyone ever
use "show all columns" - do we really need that option when we have
60+ column options? And, now that I think about it... Has anyone ever
user hide all columns except after you accidentally chose show all
columns? Any opinions on keeping those functions?
+1 to removing those options.
Kathy
Kathy Lussier
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Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
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On 8/27/2014 9:13 AM, Grace Dunbar wrote:
Answers inline.
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 6:32 PM, McCanna, Terran
<[email protected]> wrote:
MAIN SCREEN OF INTERFACE:
- Register Patron(s) link missing
- Pull List for Hold Requests link missing
- Catalog Search field missing
- Advanced Search link missing
- Item Status link missing
To be clear, I assume you mean that all of the above should be added
as "quick links" from the splash page?
These actions
- Register Patrons
- Pull List for Hold Requests
- Catalog Search
- Advanced Search
- Item Status
are all available from the menus at the top.
Since we're moving to a browser client and have the opportunity to
re-think the splash page I think this might be a good time to get
community input as to what actions should be included and how those
should be organized.
Should there even be a splash page with a browser client and, if so,
what should be included as "quick links" by default?
- Is the large Equinox banner across the bottom of the screen
present because it's being hosted on an Equinox server, or is this
something you have added to the default interface?
Equinox would never brand the Evergreen open source product with its
name.
Never.
This is simply a style banner to indicate that we are hosting this
community test server. I'm sorry if that wasn't clear.
MENUS:
- Search Catalog link missing from Search dropdown menu
We can add that. (Right now it appears under Cataloging, for those
who are just following the email discussion) In the current client a
link to search the catalog appears under both Cataloging and Search
menus. Should we keep them both or eliminate one?
PATRON FUNCTIONS:
- When creating a new message on an account there is an empty
dropdown box on the right side of the pop-up window - what is that
for? I don't seem to be able to do anything with it.
What Bill said. It exists in the current client for custom penalties.
We should probably put a label on it at the very least.
- the Message pop-up window is missing the field to record staff
initials that is in the current staff client
Good catch. We'll add that.
ITEMS OUT SCREEN - COLUMN PICKER:
- I didn't go through every option, but there were obvious
differences between the current staff client and the web client
and definitely some columns missing that are in the current staff
client.
There are a few things missing (like checkout/checkin workstation and
circ or renewal worktation), and the list of values in the web based
client is not ordered alphabetically. We can fix the latter and the
former is due to one of the known challenges going to a web interface.
A longer and more explanatory email to come on that.
- Show All Columns and Hide All Columns don't appear to do anything
They surely don't. And honestly, I would not recommend anyone ever
use "show all columns" - do we really need that option when we have
60+ column options? And, now that I think about it... Has anyone ever
user hide all columns except after you accidentally chose show all
columns? Any opinions on keeping those functions?
- There is an optional column for "Due Date/Time" - what is that
for? (It does not display the date and time from the normal "Due
Date" column.)
The labels come from a different place, since the code is different.
The different place they come from calls that column "Due Date/Time"
-- it's the same place as the report output gets its column labels. We
can choose to allow both columns, or just one, and we can change the
labels. Opinions on the this?
- 'Check Out Date/Time' column is empty when turned on
Bug. Will be fixed.
- 'Check Out Date/Time' should be 'Checkout Date/Time' to be
consistent with other terminology
Can do.
- 'Check In Date/Time' should be 'Checkin Date/Time' to be
consistent with other terminology
Does this even belong on this column picker? I'm probably missing an
obvious use case but when would you have an item in the "items out"
list on this interface that has a checkin time?
- There is also a 'Checkin Scan Date/Time' - is that different
from 'Checkin Date/time' ?
Checkin scan date/time is the time the item was actually scanned. The
other will give you the checkin date/time after any backdating.
RENEW ITEM WITH SELECTED DUE DATE:
- date is off (example: select November 5, 2014 as the new date
and it records it as November 4, 2014)
You're correct. That's a bug. Fixing...
- does it matter what format the date is entered in? is there
going to be a calendar picker next to date fields like this?
See Bill's answer. :)
SCAN ITEM AS MISSING PIECES:
- it displays a field called Patron Barcode rather than Item Barcode
Oops! It surely does. We will fix the mislabeling.
Thanks for the testing and feedback!
Grace
Terran McCanna
PINES Program Manager
Georgia Public Library Service
1800 Century Place, Suite 150
Atlanta, GA 30345
404-235-7138 <tel:404-235-7138>
[email protected]
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