On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Kathy Lussier <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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?
I didn't go into a ton of detail, but I did respond, I'm pretty sure.
However, I /did/ add the missing columns and add full-list sorting.
Those commits are in a working branch that is waiting to be merged
into master.
- 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.
I tend to agree, though I think it might be worth while for show-all
to be possible for some UIs with just a few columns. Thoughts?
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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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