Hi Lebbeous,
I'll echo Tara's thanks for the quick bug resolution!
As it happens, a few of the Sitka sites have already conferred with
Cynthia Williamson at Mohawk College to develop a Booking feature
request list, which ESI has quoted on. If anyone is interested in
pooling funds toward development of any of the following high priority
Booking features, or if you would like more information about our
extended (lower-priority) feature list, I would love to hear from you!
Booking priority features for development:
-Edit an existing reservation (booked, captured, out)
-Ability to view a calendar or list of dates not available/already
booked when creating a new reservation
-Ability to add a note field to a new reservation (and display note field
in all table displays throughout Booking including pull list).
-Ability to cut and paste barcode from the ?Create Reservations?
screen
-Ability for the keyboard ?Enter? key to activate the Next button when
creating a new reservation.
-Search by resource barcode and display all reservations for a given $8,250.00
-Add options Capture, Pickup, Return, Create New and Cancel from
this mode
-Ability to customize the print out of the pull list including order,
width, and selection of columns. Column picker would be useful.
Cheers,
Sharon
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Sharon Herbert
Sitka Manager
BC Libraries Cooperative
Tel: 604.854.5618
Email: [email protected]
Quoting Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley <[email protected]>:
No problem Tara,
I can see why one would get that error message when trying to checkout
something that should be waiting to be picked up.
I also see where the booking code limits what you get shown to pickup
such that if something's not picked up on the first day of its
reservation, it doesn't remain on the pickup list and it becomes hard
to do anything with it. That much I can treat as a bug and fix.
Here's the developers' bug report, with a link to code that should fix
the problem: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/925169. This
fix should be included in all future releases.
I encourage everyone who has spoken up about what new features or
changes they'd like to see in the Booking module to keep talking! A
consensus list of desired work would be helpful to any future
development effort. Consider reaching out to Cynthia Williamson and
Robert Soulliere of Mohawk College, who pioneered the existing work
where there was no booking module before, (I recall their names, but I
hope I'm not leaving out anybody else!).
Lebbeous
On 01/31/2012 06:09 PM, Tara Robertson wrote:
Hi Lebbeous,
I didn't try to check out the item. Sorry for misreading Gordana's message.
That's probably why I didn't get that error.
Cheers,
Tara
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