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Attendees (please add your name):

Magda Zacharska (OLD ACCOUNT) Erin Nettifee leeda.adkins@duke.edu Erin Weller Jackie Magagnosc Kimie Kester Monica Arnold Christine Tobias Thomas Trutt Sara Colglazier Amanda Ros Donald DepoorterRobert Scheier 

Note Taker:

Robert Scheier

Meeting Recording:

Discussion:

Topic
UXPROD-3785 Advanced query for single record type
  • Building search query
  • Previewing results
UXPROD-3468 Removing and adding permissions - continued from the last meeting
  1. What data  should be presented in the matching records table:
    * Last name, first name, middle name, patron group?
    * Permission name or permission display name?
  2.  Should the user be able to bulk edit  mutable, hidden and deprecated permissions?






Housekeeping

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Magda 8:27
Thank you to those who already added your names to the attendee list. We have 15 participants at this point in the meeting. And I don't think I see 15 attendees on the on the page. So please, please add your name to the attendees list.

Magda 9:01
Thank you so much to everyone who was involved in working on bug edit documentation for Morning Glory. It is so nice to have a new release with updated and very thorough documentation. Thank you so much.

Erin 9:23  
We still need somebody who can own this app going forward with the documentation working group. So if that's something you think you might be able to do, please message me or Christine and we can talk further about it. Both Christina and I already have big areas we are responsible for so it would be really hard for us to continue to own the bulk edit app documentation.


Development updates

Recordings of implemented Nolana functionality can be found here

Magda  9:56  
Development updates--there are links to the scrum board and to the snapshot environment. I highly encourage everyone to play with Bulk Edit in the snapshot environment. The majority of the functionality that was assigned to us or that we committed to do in Nolona is already in place. So you should be able to update user records.

Erin  10:41  
Snapshot, not the performance environment?

Magda  10:47  
The performance Bulk Edit environment URL has changed because we added support for multi-tenant environments. I will post the new URL in the Slack channel.

11:07  
[Magda reviewed the Bulk Edit functionality in the Snatshot environment at this point in the meeting. ]

Unknown Speaker  11:51  
packet did I choose the file

Magda 14:13  
Please spend some time in snapshots, I do agree there is hardly any data. Now, I will start planning out user acceptance testing in the performance testing environment so we have a  larger data set. Any questions?

Bob  15:33  
I'm just a little confused about why we can't do it in the performance environment.

Magda 15:50  
I will I don't remember exactly the new URL which has changed. And also the performance environment is not automatically updated with the latest code. So whatever you see in the snapshot environments may still not be deployed to the performance environment.

Morning Glory release notes

Bulk edit: 

  • required configuration
  • known limitations
  • known issues

Magda 16:18  
So let's go to our agenda again. And let's move to the next part, which is the Morning Glory release notes. As you know, morning, Glory was released on September 16th, and I would like to walk you through some points on the release notes. So first, the new app. There is only one a new app which is Bulk Edit in Morning Glory. And a quick overview what we support. In the in app approach, inventory items temporary and permanent locations and item statuses. In the CSV approach, user records. There are two sets of permissions that are required for this application, in app edit and view, and CSV edit and view. Depending on those permissions a user can access those applications. There are known there are Known limitations. As our performance tests discovered, in Morning Glory, you can only do a Bulk Edit of 2500 user records at the time. And for items, the limit is 10,000. This is a lot less than we were hoping for. Unfortunately, this is what it is for Morning Glory. We are looking at architectural changes to support a larger data set in the future.

Magda 18:54  
The last part here, module configuration, is for those who are hosting themselves. For everybody else, this is being set by the hoster. Those are the memory requirements for the container that runs the module data export worker, which is being used in Bulk Edit

Erin  19:01  
The performance test the performance work that you were talking about, is tracked in a particular Jira?

Magda  19:09  
JIRA and reports. I will link the list. There is a new performance testing Jira that we started in the Morning Glory. Some of the work will spill over into Nolana. Starting next week, we will be working on bug fixes for the functionality that was already delivered and testing, performance testing, adding API tests, and adding automated tests for the UI. So, most of the tests can be run automatically.

Regarding the known issues, there are two Jiras that are linked to Bulk Edit. One which we discussed a couple of meetings ago, has to do with Bulk Edit results triggered by holdings identifiers. When the mapping between holdings and items is not one-to-one, it may happen that the list of identifiers is shorter than the list of matched items. This will need to be addressed in Nolana. We will be working on this functionality.

Then the next issue is a little bit more serious. When you update datasets larger or larger than 10,000 records, there is a significant delay of up to several minutes before the display of the preview screen, i.e., the "are you sure" form. We are working on improvements.

Erin  22:59  
Did you ever see it timeout or just it would always come?

Magda  23:05  
We saw this, but it happened rarely. So I cannot tell it never happened. Yes, we saw that happened. But if this is the case, you just need to submit the Bulk Edit again. The data is not committed at this point. Any additional questions?

Erin  23:55
Jennifer has a question in the chat. "Does it affect any other operations happening at that time?"


Magda 24:34  
So the problems we saw with slowness are is caused by the mod data export worker that is being used. So separate from the inventory module or a data import module there should be no interference. However, if somebody exports EDIFACT or circulation logs are being exported, or bursar is being exported at the same time, it will have an effect.  However, in our tests, when we ran all of those three exports at the same time, EDIFACT, bursar, and circulation with a Bulk Edit of more than 10,000 records, that is when we say it affects other exports happening at the same time. Any other questions?

Holdings source  - Inventory vs. bulk edit (MODEXPW-247)

In inventory app, if the holdings record is not populated, it assumes that holdings source is the same as the instance record.  Is that expected behavior for bulk edit as well?

Magda 26:55 
Then I will move to the next part of our meeting. I would like to ask you about the behavior of the holdings source. There is a different behavior in inventory than in Bulk Edit. In Inventory, If their holdings source is not populated, the UI assumes the source of the instance that the holdings is associated with. In Bulk Edit, we don't do this because I am afraid this is a dangerous process. But I may be wrong. So I would like to hear your opinion. This is this JIRA, the screenshots will demonstrate the issue. So the question for this group is are you comfortable with the source being left blank here because it's blank in the database? Or would you rather we follow the inventory behavior?

Erin 28:33  
So are you're saying that if the Holdings Record doesn't have a source, it assumes it's the same as the instance record? And is that implying that it just displays it in the UI, but it does have value in the underlying record?

Magda  28:50  
That's correct. So this is what is happening here in the inventory UI. The UI populates this field with the data that is actually coming from the instance.

Erin  29:05  
That seems weird to me, but I don't know how the metadata folks feel about that. This is not the only place in FOLIO where the UI shows you something that doesn't isn't actually in the underlying data.

Jennifer  29:23  
That seems really strange. I know. We've had problems with that in the past. So it depends. So for example, if you have Mark holdings, rather than folio holdings, you can edit that and quick mark. So I think having the source is important to know like which we can open it. That was my understanding. And I know for us in our case, well at least as far as I know, the source should be null anywhere.

Erin  29:59  
Right. Are we seeing this in places other than the reference data, the reference environment?


Unknown Speaker  0:29  
It's so first of all, Jennifer, your audio is really bad. And I'm not sure I fully got what you said. So please, let me repeat.

Unknown Speaker  0:43  
Can you say it again,

Unknown Speaker  0:44  
Jennifer? Yeah.

Unknown Speaker  0:45  
Is this better? Yes. Okay. So I'm wondering because the source folio or source mark, that actually determines what you can open up the record in order to edit it. So for example, if it's a mark holding, you'll edit it, I think in quick mark, whereas the folio, you just use the, you know, actions and edit. So, I mean, I find it strange that, you know, this is now in the, you know, the back end in the UI only because I because we've had problems with this, where if it wasn't for you, we couldn't open the file, because it thought it was. So I think for us, this should this shouldn't be now. So

Unknown Speaker  1:34  
I agree. I agree with you. And this is also the case for bulk edit, because in bulk edit, we will not allow to make the location changes for the records that have source, Mark. That's why this is so important for us. I was surprised by the fact that this value is not populated. I admit, I did not look at the record if this is a required field or not. It may not be required, this may be above on the on the UI on the inventory site. So

Unknown Speaker  2:11  
I wonder if this is an issue with the data that's on snapshot,

Unknown Speaker  2:16  
I will double check in bug first environment. Okay. And if someone can check in their production environments as well.

Unknown Speaker  2:32  
Whether it's actually being populated, yes. Okay, because I don't know if anybody has Morning Glory yet?

Unknown Speaker  2:39  
Well, but the source was not added in morning glory. In in earlier releases, I don't remember when it was, but

Unknown Speaker  2:49  
but they could only verify by looking at the inventory data. So you're not asking people to look at bulk data yet?

Unknown Speaker  2:55  
No, no, no, no, no, just if you if you are comfortable looking at the the records and checking the developer tools, which is by clicking F 12. And that you will be able to see if you don't if you are not able to do this, I will just please let me know. And I will find a way to get this data. I mean, to get the data, is this is populated in the production or not. If it's not, then we definitely will need to create a JIRA in the inventory. That may be migration script issue, that that migration script did not updated this value. But in general, you agree with me that this logic of assuming that the instance source is a base for holdings source is inaccurate?

Unknown Speaker  4:04  
Correct?

Unknown Speaker  4:05  
Yep. Well, I'm not sure if anybody's in production yet with Mark holdings, but Duke for one will be will have both types.

Unknown Speaker  4:15  
Yeah. And it LOOKS BACK THE like the source ID is not required. Yeah, on the holding record.

Unknown Speaker  4:24  
So I'll check after after this meeting, the back office environment and see what's going on. My only scenario was that you and we've been doing it before that you can import Mark records using data import and then you manually were adding holdings, and then that would make the holding and Mark holding which is not always the case. But thank you very much for clarifying that. And we have less than 30 minutes so I'm not Sure, we won't be able to get to permissions. But I would like to start a conversation about the query tool that is needed. We started actually last week. Last meeting, I have some high level balsamic mockups that I would like you to walk through and get your feedback, please feel free to interrupt me in the moment, I will try to be as clean as possible. Can you see my balsamic editor? Yes. Okay, I will go into the presentation mode, because this will work better, I believe. So this is the balsamic implementation of rendering of our bulk edit. This is something what we talk about switching the order of the identifiers, put them on top, and then have the query or the identifiers below. So this is a what is here represented. Those two links, save query as are up an existing list. It's not in scope of our conversation for now, this is something we will come back later. But for, for the purpose of this conversation, we have, we are on the Query tab, in bulk edit, there is a new button called Build query. When the user clicks the button, it opens a new pop up that looks like this. It's a long data entry textbox with test button disabled.

Unknown Speaker  7:06  
So you're proposing here a redesign from what's currently implemented. And not

Unknown Speaker  7:11  
really redesigning, I think we will get to this, we will get to this. So I noticed this should be this big square textbox. Here below, it's missing on my mock up. But basically, I'm adding the new button that will allow us to build the query

Unknown Speaker  7:39  
this what you see here is plan would be a plan for puppy the other one. This is plan for Arcade. The difference is that in Arcade we would like to support just one record type. So you would be able to build the advanced query using only fields from the one record in Arcade it No, I'm sorry, I'm missing the releases in Arcade, there will be just one support for one record type in Poppy, you will be able to select to build the query based on several several record types. So in order to know what you have, there will be additional labels stating that you selected users because users are select that you can still edit only one record type at a time. But to build the query you have selected users. And then because you selected users user, users have access to users inventory items, circulation loads, and then circulation requests etc. This is for the demonstration purposes. And the questions on that Commons

Unknown Speaker  9:11  
No, I think I'm with you so far.

Unknown Speaker  9:14  
Okay, so we are back to arcade release user clicks on the on the textbox SEC search textbox and the list of available properties is being displayed.

Unknown Speaker  9:40  
So

Unknown Speaker  9:42  
user selects, patron group this was one of the property and then the list of identifiers and not an operator is available and the list of operators will obviously depends on the on the type of the, of the selected field. We will start obviously with equal in, not equal and not in.

Unknown Speaker  10:22  
So this is the same rendering by preserving the, the first option. So a user can go back and change, ask a question

Unknown Speaker  10:34  
Is it? Do we want to switch between words and punctuation? If if, like I understand what exclamation mark equals not, like not equals, oh, we should say not equal. Instead of, I don't know if other people have opinions on it, but just for consistency in that drop down. Just if we're gonna use word stick to words. Yeah,

Unknown Speaker  11:05  
I want I mean, I think there's standard search operators, but still, I think I would just do equals not equals in

Unknown Speaker  11:17  
Okay, thank you. So, we have the operators. Now, we selected the the operator and now we are getting the list the pre populated list of available options. So that would obviously be a in place only for the controlled vocabulary. So if in some case user selects the title, then obviously, we will not pre populate the drop down with all 10 Millions of titles that the collection may have. That would be a test text entry text where the user will be entering the data. But for for this example, we would pre populate the values with the pre populate the combo with the with the existing values for options that will have hundreds of options like locations, for example. The drop down will be a filtering drop down the same that already exists in inventory, where you select and your selection, you type and you're typing narrows down the list.

Unknown Speaker  12:51  
And the question No,

Unknown Speaker  12:57  
that all makes sense. So

Unknown Speaker  12:58  
next step is a user added the value. And the next option is the Boolean operator that will automatically be displayed. And user can choose to continue to add the query or just not select anything. A note, please note that once the first option is entered, the text test button is enabled. It was disabled until now. And here's the example when the user continued to build the query by adding the Boolean operator so we are back to I think this is up here we go. Here's the example that the user submitted the query, click that wrote the query, click the Test this gray area it's a progress bar that shows that there is a progress bar happening when the records are being counted. And in this example, we have more than 100,000 records returned and the notification please narrow, narrow down your search. The question here is what should be the number and how we should handle the number I do believe we talked about this at some point and was proposed that this that would be configurable but configurable, a value that the library can set up, set it up. However, we need to keep in mind that having a big number of the records that you will Like to retrieve to query, it will definitely impact the performance of bulk edit.

Unknown Speaker  15:06  
Is this a number across the board for queries? Or is it like record by record type or

Unknown Speaker  15:11  
that would be across the queries? Okay. So this is something we definitely will talk later. But I would like to you to keep it in mind. I see something in the chat. Let me take consistencies good.

Unknown Speaker  15:32  
Green. That's from the conversation about the

Unknown Speaker  15:36  
Okay. Okay, thank you. So no comments so far on this? Does anyone has like a quick feedback on the word? Oh, if this should be a limit of the bulk edit up.

Unknown Speaker  15:57  
I mean, I would think that it probably should, if we're talking about if we're talking about our current example, where we have 25,010 1000, I would want 10,000 As this number.

Unknown Speaker  16:12  
It's correction every net 25,000. But 2500 I'm sorry. So yes, this is just a proposal, as I said, we'll definitely come back to this lighter. So here what is happening right now, we run the query. And the query returns 1000 Records right now. And we see the preview. This is the hated preview that does not show all the records, but just some of them. And here you have the option of selecting columns. So this is easy to select. To see what you want to see and check and check the columns that you have. Once the preview is populated, there is a new button run the query. So the run the query will actually when the user click Run the query, what we'll do it will go back to the landing page, it closes the the pop up the login. And what is happening here the query that was created in the in the pop up is displayed here at this point is read on read only. And the list of the identify the list of matching records is here. So you see we can paginate to the to the results. Similarly, how this is done in inventory. By 100 records. There is also the option of the checkboxes at that user can narrow down their search results by selecting checkboxes. So in our example, we have 1000 records that that were found to match the query. But out of those 100 Only 10 was selected. And again here is the option of changing the columns. In this example, the user selected 100 records and on this 100 records, there will be a standard behavior of the bulk edit meaning you can save those 100 records into the CSV file. And then when you start and also when you start bulk edit the bulk edit will affect only those 100 Selected Records

Unknown Speaker  19:24  
comments make that does the checkboxes. When you get your search results, they automatically come pre populated like all checked and then you you select

Unknown Speaker  19:40  
I would say I will say yes that it will be populated. But this can be discussed in the details will not get to check boxes in Arcade that's for sure. But I would say yes let's populate and then buy sell Selecting that top checkbox, it will unselect the whole 100 that is displayed.

Unknown Speaker  20:09  
Okay. Yeah, I think that's a good idea too. And the other comments?

Unknown Speaker  20:25  
So the question I have is, if we get because this a rendering of the of the records, we can implement this also for the identifiers. Once you submit the list identifiers, instead of those top 10, you would get this behavior as well have the list that you can paginate. But the question I have for this group is, what makes what is reasonable to

Unknown Speaker  21:03  
paginate?

Unknown Speaker  21:04  
Through if you have 10,000 records that match your search criteria? Will you be paginating? By through those 10,000? By hundreds? No,

Unknown Speaker  21:18  
I would I I'm only paginating. To verify that. I'm, I didn't do something dominant I might page through the first part of it. But I'm not going to page the entire set. Anybody who would records?

Unknown Speaker  21:35  
I would think our filtering and things like that would be done in outside the system in a spreadsheet.

Unknown Speaker  21:42  
Right? You mean you might want to you might want to download the entire set? Yeah, which you'll be able to do, but you're not going to paginate through that in that UI.

Unknown Speaker  21:52  
Yeah, totally agree with that.

Unknown Speaker  21:56  
So how many records? Should we actually what will be the cutoff number of records that will be rendered to mean?

Unknown Speaker  22:10  
I? I guess I'm just thinking like, to me, that screen looks normal at paginating through 100. Right? And then it pulled 100 records or pulled 1000 records. And I would probably expect that if I clicked 10 times I would paginate through all the records. But I wouldn't probably do that very often. I'm sorry that I know, that's kind of like a wishy washy answer. No,

Unknown Speaker  22:41  
I was asking the same question at some point in inventory. Display. Because yet, go ahead,

Unknown Speaker  22:50  
I'm more likely to paginate through them, when I'm first getting used to how the bulk edit looks and works. You know, maybe the first 500 may be the first 1000. But if I'm getting consistent results that I expect to get, you know, the more that I use Bulk Edit, the less that I'm going to be scrolling through if I'm you know, if the in the beginning, it's doing what I want it to do.

Unknown Speaker  23:28  
Sure, that makes sense.

Unknown Speaker  23:31  
The thing is, I might I might want to see the end of the file results. Because just to make sure if I'm looking for any anomalies.

Unknown Speaker  23:43  
Yeah, that also makes sense. You know, if I'm expecting to get results all the way through to ZTE or

Unknown Speaker  23:49  
office, I don't know how these are. I don't know how they're coming back, you know, I'm just seeing the top of the file. So maybe there's no problems with the top of the file. But you know, halfway down the file, there's a bunch of errors for some reason, where I'm getting things back that I shouldn't that I didn't expect.

Unknown Speaker  24:05  
Yes. So the other option would be to sort it the the other way around. However, this is expensive operation, the sorting of 10,000 records that we need to be mindful. So it may make more sense maybe to add another link that will take you to the last one.

Unknown Speaker  24:29  
Can we can we export this to look at it in a spreadsheet?

Unknown Speaker  24:32  
Yes. So this is the Yeah, the existing behavior of the of the spreadsheet that we have is preserved. So you still can send the list of matching records. Save the list of matching record, as you do right now in bulk edit.

Unknown Speaker  24:51  
I would probably do that. You know, because I would want to see a whole bunch just look for any problems. So read

Unknown Speaker  25:00  
So do you see the value in this, of adding that preview? Or not? Really? Because you would still go to the

Unknown Speaker  25:09  
I think people were were expressing an interest in Yes, still seeing more than 10. You know, so I think this is valuable, but it doesn't have to go to the, you know, 200,000 Records. In my opinion,

Unknown Speaker  25:25  
unless you take away our exploitability, which it doesn't sound like you're going to do it,

Unknown Speaker  25:32  
can you Amanda, can you repeat,

Unknown Speaker  25:35  
I'm saying, you know, as long as we will continue to be able to export the data into an Excel spreadsheet. I don't see it as as a problem. You know, because we're, we're all used to manipulating the data in Excel. So it would be probably easier for us to find those anomalies. And Bob is disagreeing with me?

Unknown Speaker  26:11  
No, I was looking at my screen, because there things were going bad No, no, not at all.

Unknown Speaker  26:21  
So I mean, given the fact that we can export it, I'm, you know, like I said, I'm not, in the beginning, I'm probably going to flip through a few pages just to make sure that it looks like I expect it to but I'm still going to download the data. So you know, I am not going to, this is not the hill that I'm going to die on about how many records, we need to be able to flip through scroll page through.

Unknown Speaker  26:54  
Yeah, I mean, it seems to me that both are valuable tools for looking at the data and what should dictate how much data should be displayed as the system performance.

Unknown Speaker  27:10  
So this is this is a very good point, Bob, because we have to keep two things in mind. The performance displaying those dis records, it will definitely have an impact on on the performance. But if this is something that needs to needs to happen, we will need to take it into account. But also to develop this functionality. It's not a simple thing, this is a lot of a UI development. So

Unknown Speaker  27:50  
the

Unknown Speaker  27:52  
if you feel that you need this, then we will obviously us allocate resources to build it. If you think this is a nice to have that you can that you can live without it, then we will allocate the resources differently.

Unknown Speaker  28:13  
I think if we can say something that's like, we will show you the first 500 records if you want. If you got more back and you want to see the entire record set, download the export. If we can be say something that concretely in the documentation, I think that is fine for where we are at right now. I think eventually people are going to expect the full pagination because that's what you get, like Gmail, that's what you get in, in, you know, other other online tools. But I think I think if you can, as long as there's a way to get to the information, and as long as it's not like here's five records, if you want the rest, download the spreadsheet. I think that is okay.

Unknown Speaker  28:57  
I see Sara's question in the chat. That. Yeah, this is only my rendering of a few records. In fact, as Erin suggested, mentioned, this is the scroll down that will show you the rest. This is actually how the inventory works as well. On the screen, you don't see that 100 Unless you usually have a very small font. And I know Sarah, you were you were the person who was asking mostly about this. Do you have any other comments?

Unknown Speaker  29:37  
questions, requests?

Unknown Speaker  29:41  
No, I just wanted to make sure because somebody mentioned 10 or something at some point. I just wanted to make sure that we were that it was actually as I was seeing it that there was a scroll bar scroll bar would take us through the first 10 100 and that it wasn't in debate about the 100 it was We're about whether we can do pagination. I guess I'm from other systems and others here to use all of and there was like a pop up modal that would pop out. And you could scroll you could just skim through. And then you could also download it and put it in Excel to to manipulate in detail. And so I guess the pagination, and while pagination works, it is a very, very cumbersome and folio, it takes forever to get from one page to the next page to the next page, right? So.

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