web client: item status batch edit fails to save if required stat cats have differing values

[Andrea Neiman]

Per Beth Willis's comment here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1691861/comments/4

"Our consortium requires values for statistical categories be entered in order to save a copy. When I select multiple copies to edit and the values for these attributes differ, no values display and I am unable to save the copies. It would not be unusual to batch edit a number of copies that do not share values for one or more statistical categories. In that case, it would be impossible to edit and save them all at once. I have attached a screenshot for illustration."

Marking confirmed as I see this behavior in current master running Cesar's patch for bug 1691861. I also see this behavior in the batch item editor for Copy Buckets, on a server without the patch for 1691861.

My testing shows that this is only an issue when stat cats are required.

[Andrea Neiman (aneiman)]

Edited title from "Bug" to its more descriptive current form.

Thanks bshum for tipping me off!

[Andrea Neiman (aneiman)]

MassLNC has contracted Equinox to address this bug.

The fix will allow items with required stat cats to be saved if (a) required stat cat values are unchanged or (b) required stat cat values are changed to be the same value. This work will not address any additional copy editor interface display issues.

[Cesar V (cesardv)]

Patch for this is here:

http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/cesardv/lp1738893-webstaff_batch_volcopy_required_stat_cats

[Kathy Lussier (klussier)]

Works for me! I signed off on the commit and merged it to release 3.0 and 3.1. Since the maintenance release notes were already done, I also added entries for this fix.