2023-12-04 Meeting notes: Text field enrichment

Date

Dec 4, 2023 

Housekeeping

• Convener and notes: @Martina Schildt 

• Next meeting: Dec 13, 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:

Open

• survey result: all text fields should be responsive

Next steps

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