2021-08-04 Meeting notes

Date

Attendees

Goals

  • Magda Zacharska will do a walkthrough of mockups as a first stage of the Bulk Edit project.

Discussion items

TimeItemWhoNotes
5 minNote-takerAmelia
  • Amelia has graciously volunteered to take notes.
40 minWalkthrough of mockups of Bulk User Edit workflowMagda
  • Bulk Edit Mockups
    • Review of the proposed workflow
      • Identifying records for editing (searching & selecting records)
      • Editing records (add, remove, update)
      • Review changes
      • Confirm changes commit changes
      • Log changes
      • Handle exceptions
    • Mockups are in very early stages
    • Bulk edit as an independent app (starting with only user’s functionality)
    • Potential to save queries to be reused
    • Queries are done in the bulk edit app
      • Records could be selected individually
      • queries will use some controlled language in the form of dropdowns
    • Mockup includes some form of cross app searching
      • This is well outside the scope of the pilot
      • Combination of searching between Circulation and Users potentially planned for mid 2022
    • Potential to upload either UUIDs, Username, external system ID (once it is made unique), or user barcodes to match on
      • This behavior will be similar to the data export identifier upload
      • This would require having a list of identifiers pre-made
      • What would happen if those identifiers don’t bring up any matches?
        • Some kind of notification
        • It would be useful if these failed matches could be downloaded as a list
    • Select Edit/Delete
      • Select kinds of edits (this screen lists the number of records to be changed)
        • Multiple edits could be added to the changes list
    • Confirmation screen showing some of the matching records with a preview of the selected changes as well as a list of the changes that have been selected
    • Before the delete action is taken it will provide a list of records that cannot be deleted because of open transactions
      • This list would need to be downloaded in the case of a longer list
    • There may be some cap on the number of records that can be changed (at least in the pilot)
    • Many more things to be discussed around deletions
10 minRevisit Profile PicturesBrooks
  • The development work to remove the setting to disable/enable the profile picture has been done, should we allow them to add this to the project
    • Yes, this should be removed it is confusing to have the option to enable a feature that is not extant. We just need to make sure the change will be easily reversible when the feature is developed
    • In the long term this feature will need to be specced out 
  • This kind of issue of features being incomplete, without any development planned should be addressed with a policy.  Brooks will bring up this issue with PC.

Action items

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