Clear? checkbox is unintuitive on the Manage Copy Alerts screen

[Jane Sandberg]

The following is from the Web staff client in 3.1.2:

To delete/remove a copy alert from the Manage Copy Alerts interface, you have to do the following:

1) Select the Clear? checkbox
2) Click OK.

This is sort-of analogous to how a circulation worker might delete/remove a copy alert (Press the Clear button and click OK), but the interface is different.

Since the interfaces are already different, I propose that we use a term more intuitive to cataloging staff in the Manage Copy Alerts interface (e.g. delete, remove). Also, the click-a-checkbox-then-click-OK procedure seems unintuitive to me, though I can't quite put my finger on why.

Looking forward to hearing what y'all think.

[Elaine Hardy (ehardy)]

I think delete is the best term.

[Remington Steed (rjs7)]

I think the proposed solution for bug 1735816 (if it is committed) should inform how this bug is resolved.

[Terran McCanna (tmccanna)]

IMO, I think just changing "Clear?" to "Delete" would make this much clearer.

[Jennifer Pringle (jpringle-u)]

+1 to Delete

[Terran McCanna (tmccanna)]

This simply changes the wording of the checkbox to "Delete", but leaves the behavior the same.

https://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/mccanna/lp1788063_manage_item_alerts_wording

However, in the future it may be worth considering changing the Delete option to an X that immediately deletes the specified alert. (Unless that would make it too easy to accidentally delete alerts you don't want to delete!)

[Jason Stephenson (jstephenson)]

We tested this patch during the Monday code review, and it works!

I've signed off an pushed to main and rel_3_13 for the upcoming releases.

Thanks, everyone!