Bug 22555

Summary: Serials page doesn't show subscriptions on page load
Product: Koha Reporter: Hayley Pelham <hayleypelham>
Component: SerialsAssignee: Hayley Pelham <hayleypelham>
Status: In Discussion --- QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low CC: colin.campbell, katrin.fischer
Version: Main   
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Description Hayley Pelham 2019-03-21 00:33:01 UTC
At present, when clicking onto the Serials page the available options are to Search subscriptions or add a new subscription. It would be useful if clicking onto the Serials page showed the list of Serial subscriptions, rather than having to submit an empty search to see them all.
Comment 1 Katrin Fischer 2019-03-21 18:30:29 UTC
There are libraries with tons of subscriptions so it makes a lot of sense to me to start with a search as showing them all might potentially slow down the page quite a bit. If you look at other places in Koha (invoices, baskets) it would be quite unusual too.
Comment 2 Hayley Pelham 2019-03-26 04:55:09 UTC
(In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #1)
> There are libraries with tons of subscriptions so it makes a lot of sense to
> me to start with a search as showing them all might potentially slow down
> the page quite a bit. If you look at other places in Koha (invoices,
> baskets) it would be quite unusual too.

I see. It struck me as something that isn't particularly first-time-user friendly. Clicking on the subscriptions page, I would expect to see my subscriptions. 

I'm wondering if you think it would be a good idea to implement a paginator to control the amount of entries on the page, or even easier, add a message that indicates that there are subscriptions and how to see them, or that there are not yet any subscriptions.

Adding a friendly message could be done to the other places that you mentioned also. Let me know what you think!
Comment 3 Katrin Fischer 2019-03-26 06:33:17 UTC
Maybe we need to get some more opinions on this. The page is already paginated, although I think not server side, but client side (might be mistaken).

It hasn't come up in training as an issue. The most common workflow in serials I think is receiving an issue. I think libraries would still use the search in this case, as it's unlikely that the subscription would be on the first page. 

But I am not working daily with the module - training and explaining is different. Getting a few more views would not hurt.