Thank you! I will pass this on to our IT and cataloging departments. Diane Disbro Branch Manager/Circulation Coordinator Union Branch Scenic Regional Library 308 Hawthorne Drive Union, MO 63084 (636) 583-3224
On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 10:33 AM, Katie Greenleaf Martin < b...@blaircountylibraries.org> wrote: > I have been able to use my Dymo 450 printer with the web client . . . I'm > sure there are lots of use cases that may or may not be supported but here > is my label template for just spine label (instead of spine and pocket) > that works well for me. It did require some browser print settings > tinkering :) > Katie > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 11:09 AM, Diane Disbro <ddis...@scenicregional.org > > wrote: > >> Good morning - >> >> I appreciate hearing from several communities members their frustrations >> and suggestions for using the web client. >> >> Showstoppers for me are: >> >> - The inability to edit item attributes in the copy editor of more >> than one item at a time. >> - Losing settings and workstation registration after clearing the >> browser cache or restarting the computer. >> - The frequent need to clear the browser cache because of system >> freeze. >> - Several functions require being applied twice before the the >> function is performed. >> - Dymo printers aren't compatible with the web client. >> >> I chose the top five from my list of thirty-six. >> >> Thank you. >> >> Diane Disbro >> Branch Manager/Circulation Coordinator >> Union Branch >> Scenic Regional Library >> 308 Hawthorne Drive >> <https://maps.google.com/?q=308+Hawthorne+Drive+Union,+MO+%C2%A0+%C2%A0+63084&entry=gmail&source=g> >> Union, MO 63084 >> <https://maps.google.com/?q=308+Hawthorne+Drive+Union,+MO+%C2%A0+%C2%A0+63084&entry=gmail&source=g> >> (636) 583-3224 >> >> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 3:08 PM, Kathy Lussier <kluss...@masslnc.org> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Diane, >>> >>> I'm sorry to hear your frustration, but I can also empathize. While >>> working on a recent project to sponsor more bug fixes for the web client, I >>> also got discouraged as new bugs were reported, particularly when they were >>> ones that would have made our priority list if we had known about them at >>> the time we were selecting bugs to fix. To keep myself from getting >>> discouraged, I found it helped to keep some things in mind. >>> >>> - Despite the current open bugs, the web client has come a long way just >>> in the past year. Setting aside the addition of serials and offline, there >>> has been a lot of bug fixing over the last months. In many cases, the >>> fixes have been for what I consider to be showstopper bugs. I continued to >>> see this work even today as I was going through my bug mail. It might be >>> useful for the community to track statistics of how many web client bugs >>> are getting fixed on a monthly basis to help us see the progress that's >>> been done. Looking at the 3.0 point release notes is also a good way to see >>> how much work has been done. >>> >>> - There were many people, including myself, who spent a lot of time >>> testing the web client when the code was initially written, but, no matter >>> how much testing was done, we knew that there are just some bugs that just >>> won't be found until people start using it in production. This isn't unique >>> to Evergreen or open-source software, but is something I've seen when using >>> proprietary software as well. We tried to catch some of these bugs by >>> having 2.12 available for trial use in production, but I don't think most >>> sites really started using the web client heavily until 3.0, which was >>> just released in October. I would say the flurry of bug reporting since >>> that time is an expected part of the process of eventually getting to a >>> more stable web client. This is also why we are keeping the xul client >>> around through the 3.1 release, because we knew it would take time to get >>> the web client to where it needs to be for all Evergreen users to move to >>> it. >>> >>> I still remember the early days of the Template Toolkit catalog. I was >>> equally discouraged about bugs and missing features, but as more sites >>> started using it, they made sure features important to them were fixed or >>> added, and we now have a stable and feature rich public catalog. >>> >>> - I'm worried about stating this the wrong way, but we also have to >>> remember the number of bugs we've learned to live with under the xul >>> client. I'm not saying we should just learn to live with the web client >>> bugs, but they certainly are more noticeable now because they are new. >>> There are also several xul client bugs we were able to close out because >>> they were fixed in the web client. The important thing is that the bugs are >>> open and known. Evergreen sites can see where the problems are and >>> ultimately choose to focus on addressing the ones most important to them. >>> >>> Having said all of this, I do think it's important that if there are >>> showstopper bugs in the web client (not annoyances, but things that really >>> prevent you from using the web client), we need to identify those to >>> increase the likelihood that they will be fixed ahead of other bugs. For >>> example, one of the groups I work with recently set the bug priority to >>> High for a handful of bugs they considered to be showstoppers. Back in the >>> Template Toolkit days, there was a tag we used in Launchpad that identified >>> bugs we thought should be fixed before removing the old catalog from >>> Evergreen. Maybe we could consider doing something similar for the web >>> client. >>> >>> Kathy >>> >>> >>> >>> On 03/16/2018 03:27 PM, Diane Disbro wrote: >>> >>> Good afternoon - >>> >>> I volunteered to keep track of Webby problems for the Missouri Evergreen >>> circulation committee. I am pretty discouraged. My library began using >>> Webby in December but there were so many frustrations that we stopped after >>> about a month. My spreadsheet of problems now has thirty-five issue on it. >>> Every time a new bug report is sent out my heart sinks. >>> Diane Disbro >>> Branch Manager/Circulation Coordinator >>> Union Branch >>> Scenic Regional Library >>> 308 Hawthorne Drive >>> <https://maps.google.com/?q=308+Hawthorne+Drive+%0D%0A+++++++++++++++++++++++++Union,+MO+%C2%A0+%C2%A0+63084&entry=gmail&source=g> >>> Union, MO 63084 >>> <https://maps.google.com/?q=308+Hawthorne+Drive+%0D%0A+++++++++++++++++++++++++Union,+MO+%C2%A0+%C2%A0+63084&entry=gmail&source=g> >>> (636) 583-3224 >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Kathy Lussier >>> Project Coordinator >>> Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative(508) 343-0128kluss...@masslnc.org >>> Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier >>> >>> >> > > > -- > Katie Greenleaf Martin, MLIS > b...@blaircountylibraries.org > 814.946.0417x132 <(814)%20946-0417> > County Coordinator > Blair County Library System >