Wishlist: Hide shelving locations not in use

[William C. Szwagiel]

Catalogers would like to have the ability to hide shelving locations their libraries do not use in the holdings editor so they do not have to sift through a long list of other libraries' shelving locations just to find theirs. Additionally, library staff would like the ability to hide shelving locations their library does not use in the Advanced Search interface.

I realize these may be two separate issues, so please feel free to split this up into two bug reports if necessary.

[Terran McCanna (tmccanna)]

I'm not sure I understand the issue - what level are your shelving locations set at? If you are setting your shelving locations at the branch level (which is what we recommend our libraries do) then does it not already work this way?

[William C. Szwagiel (wszwagiel)]

Our shelving locations are largely set at the consortium (Cardinal) level, because we try to maintain a standardized list of shelving locations for all member libraries to use. There are a handful of library system specific shelving locations, as well, though we try to keep those to a minimum as much as possible.

This means that catalogers at a single branch of a county library system see all of the shelving locations for all of Cardinal, even though they may only actually use a handful of them. So they would like to have a method for hiding the others they do not use from their respective lists (or perhaps "favoriting" the ones they do use?).

[Terran McCanna (tmccanna)]

Thank you, I understand what you are saying now.

(We recommend branch-level shelving locations because that gives you the benefit of being able to control OPAC-visibility, holdability, etc. for a specific part of a branch at once. Eg, if a leak suddenly develops in the YA section and the items are inaccessible while repairs are done, that's really easy to manage by changing shelving location settings rather than updating all of the items.)