wishlist: make Carousels aware of availability
Bug #1912004 reported by
Andrea Neiman
This bug affects 7 people
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| Evergreen |
New
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Wishlist
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Bug Description
Posting a suggestion from a Carousels user:
Have Carousels take item availability into consideration, so they only display items which are available on the shelf (or titles with available items on the shelf).
There's obviously a lot to consider in the details here such as context locations; whether to apply this to all carousels via YAOUS, or as an individual carousel option; whether equivalent items should be considered; and whether real-time availability is possible/advisable or if availability should be calculated at time of carousel refresh. Probably other factors I'm not considering, as well.
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added: opac-carousel removed: carousel |
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| Elizabeth Thomsen (et-8) wrote | #1 |
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I think this would be a great option! I mentioned availability in this comment in the wishlist item about randomizing carousels: https:/
I'm influenced here by how the OverDrive curated lists work -- when you create a list, there's an Availability Filter (Show all title, Show Only Available Titles, Show All Titles But Show Availabile Titles First) and a Sort Option, which includes Newly Added, Most Popular and Random. I nearly always use Random and Show Available Titles First, which is probably what I'd do with most carousels.
Without these options, most people are only ever going to see the first group of titles that will always, and maybe another 10 or whatever if they hit the arrow a few times. Random is more dynamic so people see more variety, and availability also adds to the dynamic nature and shows them things that they can actually get right away.