2023-12-04 Meeting notes: Text fields and rich text format/html

Date

04 Dec 2023 

Housekeeping

• Convener and notes: Martina Schildt 
• Next meeting: 13 Dec 2023

Discussion items

1. Text fields
   1. Enrichment (RTF, HTML)
   2. Responsiveness

Minutes

Text field enrichment

• there were requests on adding html or richt text to text fields
• use cases
  • display hyperlinks - clickable URLs
  • multiple paragraphs
  • need to give notes fields structure: bullets, ordered lists
• from a technical perspective: Use richt text format or html?
• both possible
• relevant question: are there any other places where this information should be displayed
  • only browser / FOLIO UI
  • or other external places
• reason why this is relevant: html is "noisy" - do we want to show plein text field?
• there will be reports that are exported as csv files
• in some cases: Microsoft excel
• there is information moved over to financial systems
• is it possible to normalise the data? 
  • yes, there are different ways of handling this
• question: what do we ask from useres when editing and what approach do we want to take?
• question: do we need to touch code twice when we implement responsiveness and enrichment separately?
  • yes, we do have to touch things twice, but maybe not the same thing
  • responsiveness: is not urgent, but as we agreed on it we should not hold up the implementation for richt text
• question: richt text fields: opt-in or opt-out (should rich text be the default or not)? 
  • Bibliographic data in Inventory does not need enrichment for text fields
    • data is transmitted to various different formats
  • maybe non-bibliographic data
  • → then opt-in is the better way
• needed: a standard way of delivering richt text fields wherever it should be used (rtf attribute)
• the editor needs to be provided from central Stripes

Responsive text fields

Survey:

Results:

• survey result: all text fields should be responsive

Next steps

• Martina Schildt creates a page to collect rich text use cases | SIG conveners will take to their SIGs

Chat

00:01:21	Catherine C Tuohy:	sunny cold
00:12:49	Owen Stephens:	The other common thing we have is layout - being able to include multiple paragraphs
00:14:16	Kimberly Pamplin:	Export results (CSV) for Orders and Invoices do pull from a couple of note fields.
00:14:27	Maura Byrne:	Is there some kind of regular normalization code for stuff like that?  It sounds like that’s not an uncommon problem
00:15:29	Maura Byrne:	Reacted to "The other common thi..." with 👍
00:19:38	Maura Byrne:	BRB
00:23:07	Kristin Martin:	I think the impact on exports, data sharing, and reporting will need to be carefully considered.
00:23:26	Kimberly Pamplin:	Reacted to "I think the impact o..." with 👍
00:23:28	Laura Daniels:	Reacted to "I think the impact o..." with 👍
00:23:33	Maura Byrne:	Reacted to "I think the impact o..." with 👍
00:27:06	Ros, Amanda L:	Reacted to "I think the impact o..." with 👍
00:34:29	Kimberly Pamplin:	Thank you!

Attendees

Action items