One aspect of buckets I would like to see is an easier way to load the buckets. For example, when merging records. If the records display with a little check box next to the record, one could just check the likely candidates and load them in rather than having to open each record and load it from the "actions for this record."
Thanks Catherine -----Original Message----- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Jason Etheridge Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 12:34 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Buckets On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Hardy, Elaine <eha...@georgialibraries.org> wrote: > Personally, there are other problems with buckets that are much more > pressing that I would rather have handled than this. Hey Elaine, I'm just sounding folks out, not necessarily committing any of my free time to development on these things. The set versus non-set question came up when we were first implementing buckets; I'd like to see if conditions have changed. What sort of problems are you thinking of? The big one in my mind is that buckets are manipulated locally on the client side and that's just not scalable past a hundred or so items the way things are implemented now. However, there is sponsored work going on right now for implementing the server-side "meat grinders" that we always wanted for batch changes on the server-side. That's exciting. I'd also like to see better mechanisms for sharing and managing buckets, and an easy way to turn a bucket into a book bag and vice versa (they're implemented the same way in the database). I also want to finish the experiment with the search mechanism embedded in the record buckets interface. What I'd _really_ love to see is a way for patrons to "consume" bookbags that are shared by other patrons. For example, if I could pass you a URL for one of my bookbags, and you could magically copy that into a personal bookbag of your own, that would be awesome. -- Jason Etheridge | VP, Tactical Development | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: ja...@esilibrary.com | web: http://www.esilibrary.com Please join us for the Evergreen 2010 International Conference, April 20-23, 2010 at the Amway Grand Hotel and Convention Center, Grand Rapids, Michigan. http://www.evergreen2010.org/
