[Koha-patches] [PATCH] bug 3034: Tag multiple items at once.

[Stephen G. Edwards]

I agree with the comments about the creeping clutter, and it was a  
concern while implementing the patch.  Note that I tried to reuse  
screen real estate by overlaying the sort selection during the tagging  
operation.

However, I thought it was best to get the functionality in there for  
my sponsoring organization (as represented by Danny Bouman).  Full  
disclosure: my ability to work through the UI issues depends on their  
desire to have me do so.

That being said, the "PowerEdit" button approach seems entirely  
reasonable to me.  Does it make sense to reconsider and/or overhaul  
the entire Koha UI with this in mind at some point?  My impression  
(without specific examples) is that the interface is not totally  
consistent throughout.

-Steve


On Apr 2, 2009, at 12:30 PM, Nicolas Morin wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Galen Charlton
> <galen.charlton at liblime.com> wrote:
>> Hi Owen,
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Owen Leonard <oleonard at myacpl.org>  
>> wrote:
>>> I agree. I've been looking at that "Place Hold" button lately trying
>>> to figure out what a better way of handling it is. Adding a Tag  
>>> button
>>> will complicate things further. If the functionality is sound I'd  
>>> love
>>> to see the feature added, but I we should spend some time refining  
>>> the
>>> interface.
>>
>> I'm inclined to go ahead and push the patch (along with a followup to
>> fix an IE compatibility issue), with the notion that you, Stephen,  
>> and
>> Nicolas will hash out UI changes.
>
> Sounds reasonable.
>
> LibraryThings puts the bulk tagging functionality into it's Power  
> Edit button.
> We could have something similar, more or less : see very rough mockup
> screen attached. We could have a "PowerEdit" button in the tools bar
> at the top of the results list. When you click on it, another tool bar
> opens up between the current one and the beginning of the results. You
> have to click on the button again to make this additionnal buttons bar
> disappear.
> Mockup screen provides a general idea.
> That would be one way to do it, I guess. If we go down that road I
> could do a more realistic screenshot.
> Nicolas
>
>>
>> While I agree that the search results page should have no more  
>> clutter
>> than required, I'm not sure about exiling batch operations to the the
>> carts and list interface.  Doing that adds a navigation step and  
>> makes
>> it less likely that a user will figure that the batch operation can  
>> be
>> done in the first place.  In the case of tagging, it's my impression
>> that library catalogs need all the UI support they can get to make it
>> easy to tag books, as otherwise patrons don't tend to do it at all.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Galen
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