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Cloud App version of SpineOMatic
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Make 'Select items' compatible with 'Scan In Items' and 'Return Items' screens #103

Closed jonahhighmanUWA closed 2 months ago

jonahhighmanUWA commented 1 year ago

The cloud app currently supports a 'Select items' option to choose items to print that are visible in a search results screen.

For our acquisitions and maintenance workflows, it would be a desirable enhancement to be able to print labels using the 'Select items' view directly from the 'Scan In Items' and 'Return Items' screens.

For acquisitions, we currently:

  1. Receive the item
  2. End process the item
  3. Perform cataloguing / copy cataloguing as necessary 3a. This often involves a librarian reviewing the classification
  4. Scanning the item into SpineOMatic desktop to print a label
  5. Scanning in the item through 'Scan In Items' to complete the work order.

To embed the cloud app into our acquisitions workflow, it would make a lot of sense to be able to scan in the item/s, click the cloud app, and have the scanned in item/s currently listed on the 'Scan In Items' page available under 'Select items'.

For streamlining high-volume physical acquisitions workflows, this would help reduce duplication and multiple scans of barcodes in different screens, and would aid individual or bulk printing for items in-hand that the operator has already scanned in.

Hopefully the 'Return Items' screen would be similar to implement - for maintenance, our circulation desks each have a spine label printer for easy reprinting of labels as needed, and they primarily use 'Return Items'. If an item is returned, and the CSO notices it needs a new label, they could avoid having to double handle the item by opening it up to scan again, and could print directly from the cloud app using 'Select items'.

mgobat commented 2 months ago

@jonahhighmanUWA, this is coming to "Scan In Items" in the June 2024 Alma release. It has not been added for "Return Items".