CANCEL ALL HOLDS button - bad news;good news

[Jim Gingery <jim.gingery@xxxxxxxxxx>]

IUG LIstServ

A week or two ago there was a discussion regarding how to take it into our 
own hands and remove/realign the CANCEL ALL HOLDS button.

One suggestion was to align it to the right to lessen the chance of patrons 
seeing it ; the other was to remove it entirely. I removed it and let III 
know. They warned me that there might be some bad consequences. There were 
some REALLY BAD consequences. 3 patrons had their holds disappear for no 
reason, sometimes by just clicking on the title. I also just learned from 
III that aligning the button to the right is equally problematic (see 
below). That's the bad news.

Here's the good news. A product manager at III has given me permission to 
share this with the IUG regarding Release 2003. This was after I mentioned 
I was thinking about aligning the button to the right

"Unfortunately, changing alignment is prone to the same problem. The BUT_ 
wwwoptions are accepting a value for a single attribute (src) of the img 
tag. When you append a second attribute & value as part of the definition, 
things get pretty confused.

I'm pleased to announce, however, that with the 2003 release you will be 
able to hide the Cancel All Holds button entirely. Also, based on the wise 
advice of the IUG members, this button will be suppressed by default for 
newly configured sites beginning with that release.

Please feel free to pass this news on to the folks on the IUG list.




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Jim Gingery                    Library Systems Administrator
jim.gingery@xxxxxxxxxx   Milwaukee County Federated Library System
(414) 286-5934          709 North Eighth St.
(414) 286-3209 fax             Milwaukee, WI  53233-2414
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