Webstaff Holdings View action menu can be disorienting

[Bill Erickson]

Evergreen 3.0.beta

The "Actions" (or right-click) menu for rows in the web staff record detail Holdings View tab can be a little bit disorienting. For example, a menu action labeled "Copies" appears 3 times. Each performs a different action based on which heading (Add, Edit, Delete) the action sits under. If the heading is not view, the user is forced to scroll up to find the heading. What's more, in a rush it would be very easy to select the wrong action.

Perhaps in addition to the grouping, the action could be part of the label as well. For example:

Edit
 -- Edit Volumes
 -- Edit Copies
 ...

[Katlyn Beck (klbeck)]

I added clearer language to the options under the add, edit, and delete sections.

The branch for this fix can be found here:
http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/klbeck/lp1717551-holdings-view-action-menu-adjustment

I noticed the same issue in the interfaces for circulation -> item status -> list and detail views. Would it be worth reporting bugs for those as well?

[Bill Erickson (berick)]

Looks good Katlyn. Thanks!

I have pushed a sign-off branch here:

http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/berick/lp1717551-holding-actions-extend-labels

I will hold off on merging until others have had a chance to review.

Katlyn, opening a new bug for circ -> item status would be useful, but you may want to wait and see how this bug plays out.

[Dan Wells (dbw2)]

I moved this to 'wishlist' given that is not a bug fix, and will have translation implications for a very highly visible menu.

If others strongly feel this should be backported, that's probably fine, I could get on board with that.

[Bill Erickson (berick)]

Grabbing for 3.3 merging...

[Bill Erickson (berick)]

Re-tested and merged to master for 3.3. I think this is a nice addition. Thanks, Katlyn.

Dan, keeping this as a feature request is reasonable to me, more so given i18n implications. Marking as fix committed.