[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Collection Organization tab

Mon May 4 12:39:38 EDT 2020

Very interesting approach, Mark.  What happens when someone goes directly
to an archival object from a search?  What view do they see then?

Thanks everyone who corroborated this issue.  And apologies to Lydia -- I
didn't intend to completely derail this conversation topic!

On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 11:20 AM Custer, Mark <mark.custer at yale.edu> wrote:

> Lara, all:
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> 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.
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> 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
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> For a “too long; don’t read” overview, you can explore the difference by
> looking at these two pages:
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> *Out-of-the-box, lazy-load approach*:
> https://puidevarchivesspace.library.yale.edu/repositories/5/resources/331/collection_organization
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> *Local, load-everything approach*:
> https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/5/resources/331/collection_organization
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> 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 😊).
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> 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.
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> Anyhow, I’m looking forward to the results of what Lydia’s group
> discovers!  Thanks for bringing this topic up on the listserv.
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> All my best,
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> Mark
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> *From:* archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:
> archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org] *On Behalf Of *Nic
> Stanton-Roark
> *Sent:* Monday, 04 May, 2020 12:11 PM
> *To:* Archivesspace Users Group <
> archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Collection Organization tab
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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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> *Nicholas Stanton-Roark*  |  Archivist  | Robert A. Nicholson University
> Library
> Anderson University  |  1100 E. Fifth St, Anderson, IN 46012
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> (765) 641-4285 <%28765%29%20641%204285>  |  ndroark at anderson.edu
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> On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 12:05 PM Lara Friedman-Shedlov <ldfs at umn.edu>
> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> The JIRA you reference does appear to describe this issue.
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> / Lara
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> On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 10:37 AM Blake Carver <blake.carver at lyrasis.org>
> wrote:
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> I can't seem to replicate that problem, are you saying that page doesn't
> work? I tried FF on Linux, Windows and Mac.
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> Is there a JIRA? Something other than this?
> https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/ANW-425
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> *From:* archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org <
> archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org> on behalf of
> Lara Friedman-Shedlov <ldfs at umn.edu>
> *Sent:* Monday, May 4, 2020 10:08 AM
> *To:* Archivesspace Users Group <
> archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Collection Organization tab
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> 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.
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> / Lara Friedman-Shedlov
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> 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> wrote:
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> Hello, everyone!
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> The Usability subteam
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> 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.
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> Thanks!
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> Lydia
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> Leader, Usability subteam
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