[538] in ad-lib
Re: training issue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (patf@MIT.EDU)
Thu May 4 10:45:45 1995
From: patf@MIT.EDU
To: opac-lib@MIT.EDU, ninadm@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 May 1995 10:09:38 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 04 May 1995 10:44:55 EDT
Nina and others,
As far as I know, the select and view problem isn't a bug and needn't
fall to Grant for a fix. I'm asssuming, perhaps naively, that I just
don't know the magic steps to make this function work, or, that it's
meant to provide some function slightly different than what I remembered
from training. I agree that we shouldn't overload Grant with this -
it's hardly a high priority, but I do think we should figure it out or
create a help screen or something for ourselves. We could meet in some
computer place next opac meeting. That doesn't sound like a bad idea to
me.
Pat
|>I left BOG yesterday afternoon feeling pretty good. Compared to some
|>of the other modules, OPAC's got it easy. Given the frighteningly
|>short time, and considering that some modules don't actually work at
|>all yet, I think we're going to have to allow Grant and Geac to
|>concentrate on essential functionality for the time being. I agree,
|>this is a maddening and confusing feature and it should be fixed.
|>Would somebody submit it to Grant as a bug report, but clearly lable
|>it "suggestion for enhancement" or some such? Once we get this thing
|>up and running we can certainly turn our attention to things which
|>aren't precisely broken but which clunk and chunk along.
|>
|>Nina
|>
|>>
|>> Suzanne,
|>>
|>> Yes, I get the same result. Both an author word and a subject word
|>> search offered me a sort option which did not change the order of the
|>> headings at all (I checked). Then sort disappears. This may not be
|>> exactly a bug, but it's really bad design-wise and should definately go
|>> if at all possible.
|>>
|>> Pat
