Wishlist: Improve language throughout Acq

Bug #1836193 reported by Tiffany Little
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Bug Description

Since we had the discussion with catalogers about copies vs. items and call numbers vs. volumes, I think Acq could benefit from looking at the same thing. There's a lot of really similar language throughout Acq that can be confusing to users.

Some things that I can think of off the top of my head:

Funding sources vs. funds
Line items vs. line item details
Cancel and backorder are both cancels

I'm interested if others think it's worthwhile to rebrand anything, or if they're happy as-is. And if changes are desirable, what are some suggestions anyone has for new names?

For what it's worth, I often explain funds as "budgets" so I suppose that might be an option.

tags: added: needsdiscussion
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Jane Sandberg (sandbergja) wrote :

As we are considering terminology in the acquisitions module, I think we should also consider how the acquisitions module uses the term "State" instead of "Status". This causes trouble for translators as well, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1719375

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Tiffany Little (tslittle) wrote :

+1 to that, Jane. I also agree with your comment in that bug--I prefer "Status" as well.

Changed in evergreen:
status: New → Confirmed
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