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On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Betty Massie <[email protected]> wrote: > Response # 2 from Georgia Pines -- ever the team player > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of McCanna, > Terran > Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 4:12 PM > To: Evergreen Discussion Group > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in? > > Most of those alerts are important, are they not? It's been a little > while, but when I've covered Circ and done check-ins, I don't recall > getting anything that I regarded as an unnecessary alert - I only recall > things that required some sort of staff action such as routing, printing > hold slips, etc. If alerts were suppressed, wouldn't that cause far more > staff error? > > > Terran McCanna > PINES Program Manager > Georgia Public Library Service > 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 > Atlanta, GA 30345 > 404-235-7138 > [email protected] > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jason Etheridge" <[email protected]> > To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" < > [email protected]> > Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 4:02:49 PM > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in? > > > Evergreen has lots of alerts - we tracked them for a week once. > > One thing I want to mention is that it was an intentional design decision > that certain workflows got "halted" by pop-up alerts, and there was a great > fear of users accidentally "scanning through" an alert without noticing. > > It seems like we've been slowly trying to mitigate the consequences of > that decision, for example, with the menu option Checkin > Modifiers->Ignore Pre-cataloged Items and the experimental Fast Entry > (Asynchronous) checkbox, and culminating in the "Suppress popup-dialogs > during check-in" library setting. > > It may be time to rethink this behavior from the ground-up, or at the very > least, better document it (I had forgotten all about that library setting, > despite having wrote it, and I bet a lot of folk would love to have it > enabled). > > -- > Jason Etheridge > | Support Manager > | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts > | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) > | email: [email protected] > | web: http://www.esilibrary.com > -- Ruth Frasur Director of the Historic(ally Awesome) Hagerstown - Jefferson Township Library 10 W. College Street in Hagerstown, Indiana (47346) p (765) 489-5632; f (765) 489-5808 Our Kickin' Website <http://hagerstownlibrary.org> Our Rockin' Facebook Page <http://facebook.com/hjtplibrary> and Stuff I'm Reading<http://pinterest.com/hjtplibrary/ruth-reads/>
