Hopeless Holds Interface: Title links should open in a new tab

[Michele Morgan]

Evergreen 3.6

When clicking on a title link in the Hopeless Holds interface, the full record overwrites the Hopeless Holds results.

While processing the Hopeless Holds report, staff users need to retain the Hopeless Holds results while viewing multiple titles on the report to resolve the hopelessness. It's possible to select a hold and choose Show in Catalog from the Actions menu, but that's several extra clicks.

[Jennifer Pringle (jpringle-u)]

Confirmed this is an issue in 3.7

[Jason Etheridge (phasefx)]

How about control+click? That might be a web navigation convention for power users, but it's what was intended here.

[Michele Morgan (mmorgan)]

I'd consider Control+Click a workaround for this type of screen.

Many grids in the client, like Hopeless Holds, present a list of tasks that the staff user needs to resolve. For each entry, the staff user may need to check the bib, the patron, look for other titles to which the hold can be transferred, etc. For these types of grids the more natural thing seems to preserve the original list and have title links open in another tab by default.

There are existing screens in the web client where title links open in a new tab:

Item Status
Record Buckets (Record Query and Pending Records tabs (oddly, not the Bucket View))

All that said, I'm Happy to hear other opinions.

[Tiffany Little (tslittle)]

+1 to opening in a new tab automatically. That would be consistent with other interfaces, like the ones that Michele mentioned.

[Jennifer Pringle (jpringle-u)]

also +1 to opening in a new tab automatically

[Michele Morgan (mmorgan)]

Adding a link to related bug 1746278 which more broadly addresses opening links in new tabs.

[Terran McCanna (tmccanna)]

+1 from our staff as well

[Terran McCanna (tmccanna)]

Proposed patch at:

https://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/mccanna/lp1909681_open_hold_grid_links_in_new_tabs

[Garry Collum (gcollum)]

Works for me. A sign-off branch is at https://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=commit;h=2d4c718a5660d85fa60611234a9208dad00b5126

[Mike Rylander (mrylander)]

I've pulled this into rel_3_8 and master for 3.9, but there's a conflict on rel_3_7. Terran, do you mind creating an equivalent branch for rel_3_7? Thanks, all!

[Terran McCanna (tmccanna)]

Thanks, Mike - I think this should work for rel_3_7:

https://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/mccanna/lp1909681_open_hold_grid_links_in_new_tabs_3_7

[Mike Rylander (mrylander)]

Thanks, Terran. Pushed to 3.7!