On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:34:31AM -0500, Amy Terlaga wrote: > Hi all-- > > I would like to share Bibliomations good news with the rest of the > Evergreen general list. We just submitted a software enhancement and it has > been accepted by the Evergreen community. > > Melissa Lefebvre, Bibliomations Open Source Project Manager, and Ben Shum, > Bibliomations Open Source Software Coordinator, were jointly responsible in > making this software enhancement happen. > > Here are the details of this software enhancement: > > > When Bibliomation first installed Evergreen 1.6, we were very pleased > > to see the addition of the Button Bar to provide quick shortcuts to > > important staff client functions. It was an early decision to enable > > the Button Bar by default on all staff clients in our consortium. > > Based on user feedback from our development partner libraries, > > however, we soon discovered a great need to expand the existing Button > > Bar by including a "Search Catalog" option. Staff members were > > confused given that searching the catalog for items was deemed an > > important primary function and they were disappointed not to see a > > button for it. > > > > This was our first patch created for Evergreen and was submitted to > > the developers' mailing list on November 4, 2010. The new Search > > Catalog button links to open a new Advanced Search screen. Melissa > > Lefebvre created a new Search Catalog icon by adapting images drawn > > from the original icon sets used to create the first button icons used > > on the Button Bar. Ben Shum wrote the necessary code to create the > > new button functionality and compiled the patch against the latest > > version of trunk for submission to the Evergreen Community. > > > > Thanks to developer Jason Etheridge for answering our questions, > > reviewing and committing our first patch for Evergreen. > > Were very pleased to be able to contribute to the Evergreen community!
Many thanks to Ben, Melissa, and Bibliomation! I know our staff will be happy to have this additional feature; keep the good work rolling in :)
