[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Collection Organization tab

Mon May 4 12:19:43 EDT 2020

Lara, all:

In addition to the scroll bar issue that you’ve noted, there were a few other issues with the initial single-scroll view in the ArchivesSpace public interface that made that view less than ideal in our own implementation at Yale.  For instance, the mobile view did *not* seem to work at all on most Android-based web browsers, and users who liked to use CTRL-F to search within the page simply couldn’t do that in this view and expect to actually find every occurrence of their search term.

For the time being, we opted for a completely different approach, with one of the main goals being to reduce the appearance of 3 scrollbars to just 1.  For a more thorough description of our updates, see this document:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/194-QB9JxVY0CQtgg66y1th3fvqp37K2p6KbF2Ral5ko/edit?usp=sharing

For a “too long; don’t read” overview, you can explore the difference by looking at these two pages:
Out-of-the-box, lazy-load approach: https://puidevarchivesspace.library.yale.edu/repositories/5/resources/331/collection_organization
Local, load-everything approach: https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/5/resources/331/collection_organization

I’d be interested on your feedback with our approach (not least because I’d love to get those updates, or something like them, into the core code of ArchivesSpace 😊).

I think that our approach is a small step in the right direction, but certainly not perfect either.  As others have noted, they really like having the entire hierarchy present in this view, as well, which we opted to remove for now with our current approach since we wanted to see how things would work with less information displaying in that view.

Anyhow, I’m looking forward to the results of what Lydia’s group discovers!  Thanks for bringing this topic up on the listserv.

All my best,

Mark

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I have replicated it on FF on Windows 10 on multiple institutional computers and my home computer as well.

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On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 12:05 PM Lara Friedman-Shedlov <ldfs at umn.edu<mailto:ldfs at umn.edu>> wrote:
Using Firefox, the only way to scroll down the main content section of the page (the larger section on the left) is using the scroll wheel on the mouse (and for some reason it only scrolls painfully slowly). There is no slider on the scroll bar, and clicking on it does not work either.

This is using Firefox on Windows 10.  This has been replicated on many computers in our organization, and it is currently happening to me at home.

The JIRA you reference does appear to describe this issue.

/ Lara

On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 10:37 AM Blake Carver <blake.carver at lyrasis.org<mailto:blake.carver at lyrasis.org>> wrote:
I can't seem to replicate that problem, are you saying that page doesn't work? I tried FF on Linux, Windows and Mac.

Is there a JIRA? Something other than this? https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/ANW-425<https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchivesspace.atlassian.net%2Fbrowse%2FANW-425&data=02%7C01%7Cmark.custer%40yale.edu%7C4edb02948a4247ece2b708d7f045cf42%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C1%7C637242054936061799&sdata=mWqEj8%2BasAF%2BbzMHLBvjUxzrQZjvfS2s1ByahSxIaF8%3D&reserved=0>
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Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Collection Organization tab

Related to overall concerns about the Collection Organization tab: has anyone been frustrated by the fact that the scroll bar on the right side of the main content area in the Collection Organization view does not work in the Firefox browser?  See the two screen shots below, one from our own instance of ArchivesSpace (in which we call this tab "Finding Aid View") and one from Slippery Rock University, which I include to show that the problem is not just with our instance.  There is a scroll bar there, but it doesn't have the little slider on it. Clicking on the little up and down arrows on the scroll bar does not work either.  We have reported this multiple times over the course of years, but the problem persists.

/ Lara Friedman-Shedlov

University of Minnesota:

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Slippery Rock:

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On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 6:40 AM Tang, Lydia <ltang5 at msu.edu<mailto:ltang5 at msu.edu>> wrote:

Hello, everyone!

The Usability subteam<https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchivesspace.atlassian.net%2Fwiki%2Fspaces%2FAC%2Fpages%2F893714474%2FUsability&data=02%7C01%7Cmark.custer%40yale.edu%7C4edb02948a4247ece2b708d7f045cf42%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C1%7C637242054936061799&sdata=ZRLz42MUPmGlzTDWs%2Fy%2FfC7tC0iwz%2B0vN7mFQtDVx%2FE%3D&reserved=0> is currently exploring the Collection Organization tab for the ArchivesSpace PUI for creating recommendations to improve the usability  We would love to hear from institutions that have customized your public interface.  If you have or if you would like to see our work-in-progress, please get in touch on or off the list!  So far, we have Yale, Dartmouth, and Archives Hub.

Thanks!

Lydia

Leader, Usability subteam
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