Webstaff Holdings View action menu can be disorienting
Bug #1717551 reported by
Bill Erickson
This bug affects 2 people
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Bug Description
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
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tags: | added: cataloging |
Changed in evergreen: | |
assignee: | nobody → Katlyn Beck (klbeck) |
Changed in evergreen: | |
assignee: | nobody → Bill Erickson (berick) |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in evergreen: | |
milestone: | 3.2.3 → 3.3-beta1 |
Changed in evergreen: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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I added clearer language to the options under the add, edit, and delete sections.
The branch for this fix can be found here: git.evergreen- ils.org/ ?p=working/ Evergreen. git;a=shortlog; h=refs/ heads/user/ klbeck/ lp1717551- holdings- view-action- menu-adjustment
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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?