Angular Catalog: Search links and Added Content

[Michele Morgan]

Staff users often make use of features such as search links and added content in the public catalog for cataloging and public service.

Currently, links in the patron view of the staff catalog are disabled, so these features are inaccessible.

Bug 1849137 discusses disabling the links, but that also disables useful functionality.

Possible ways to make these features available:

- Enable the search links in the angular catalog Patron View
- Add an additional tab in the angular catalog for added content, if any exists
- Open links in a new tab to preserve the view of the record

[Elaine Hardy (ehardy)]

There is currently no way to clear the added content cache, which is sometimes necessary to correct that content

[Terran McCanna (tmccanna)]

What we've done locally at PINES is to just add an "Open in OPAC" view to the title summary section that opens a new tab so that it is fully functional and a more accurate view of what patrons will see.

[Mike Rylander (mrylander)]

Terran, does PINES have a branch they could share with that addition? If it's not handy that's fine, just looking to avoid reinventing that wheel.

Thanks!

[Terran McCanna (tmccanna)]

Mike, I don't have a separate branch - all I did was add this line after the title in bib-summary.component.html. I didn't follow internationalization or display rules since it was just a quick local hack, so a little more thought should go into it:

&nbsp; <b><a href="/eg/opac/record/{{summary.id}}" target="_blank">(Open in OPAC)</a></b>

[Jane Sandberg (sandbergja)]

Not added content, but something that just confused 100% of our cataloging staff*

The electronic resources links are also not active in the Patron View tab. The natural inclination we had after working on a located URI in the MARC record was to check the Patron View, and make sure that everything looks good to the patron, including a working link to the relevant electronic resource.

From my colleague: "I don't see a way to click on the link, its solid, but the verbiage we use makes it seem like the link is clickable....i am looking at the patron view. I don't know what to make of this."

Happy to split this into a separate bug, if it would be helpful.

* = granted, it's only two people. :-)

[Bill Erickson (berick)]

We also added a "Patron View" button to the catalog record detail page (left of Place Hold) that opens the fully functional patron view in a new tab. For my part, it's a much more useful feature than the read-only 'Patron View' tab.

[Bill Erickson (berick)]

Here's a patch that adds the button I describe in my previous comment:

https://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/berick/lp1910452-angstcat-patron-view

Also note that sites using 3rd-party catalogs can have no expectation of a read-only embedded Patron View tab. We have removed this tab locally for this reason. I would +1 removing it from standard EG as well, since it seems kind of confusing/frustrating.

[Bill Erickson (berick)]

My patch is practically identical to Terran's patch, BTW.

[Terran McCanna (tmccanna)]

I am also +1 to removing the embedded Patron View tab.

[Elaine Hardy (ehardy)]

I don't see a need for the read only Patron tab. +1 to removing it.

[Michele Morgan (mmorgan)]

Another +1 to removing the read only Patron View tab.

The sooner the better!

FWIW, we also did essentially the same customization locally, adding an "OPAC View" button and removing the read only Patron View tab.

[Bill Erickson (berick)]

Second commit pushed to remove the read-only tab.

https://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/berick/lp1910452-angstcat-patron-view

[Michele Morgan (mmorgan)]

I tested this and it looks great! My signoff branch is at:

https://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/mmorgan/lp1910452_signoff

[Jason Etheridge (phasefx)]

Pushed to master, thanks!

[Jason Etheridge (phasefx)]

And pushed to rel_3_6

[Galen Charlton (gmc)]

Pushed to rel_3_7