| Summary: | Add dedicated option to append to item notes in batch item modification | ||
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| Product: | Koha | Reporter: | Andrew Fuerste-Henry <andrew> |
| Component: | Tools | Assignee: | Bugs List <koha-bugs> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | Testopia <testopia> |
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P5 - low | CC: | angela.berrett, blawlor, chughesman, flyingendpaper, lisettepalouse+koha, mfuerst, sbcornell |
| Version: | Main | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Change sponsored?: | --- | Patch complexity: | --- |
| Documentation contact: | Documentation submission: | ||
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Description
Andrew Fuerste-Henry
2019-07-11 20:34:50 UTC
Ditto this! This would be incredibly useful. This would be very helpful! Lisette I agree! This would be very useful. This is possible since bug 29781. Using capturing groups in a regex substitution, one can basically say "replace the current note with the current note plus these new words." A very basic example, if one wanted to append the text "Disc cleaned 5-26-23" to all notes on a group of items, one could put "(.*)" in the Regex Pattern and "$1 Disc Cleaned 5-26-23" in the Regex Replacement in the item batch mod interface. (In reply to Andrew Fuerste-Henry from comment #4) > This is possible since bug 29781. Using capturing groups in a regex > substitution, one can basically say "replace the current note with the > current note plus these new words." > > A very basic example, if one wanted to append the text "Disc cleaned > 5-26-23" to all notes on a group of items, one could put "(.*)" in the Regex > Pattern and "$1 Disc Cleaned 5-26-23" in the Regex Replacement in the item > batch mod interface. This might make a great addition for the manual. I'm glad appending is possible, and I've used it a few times. But it would be *so* wonderful if there were a checkbox that said "append?" and Koha would simply append if that was checked. It's a lot to ask my staff to learn even that amount of regex in order to append to notes when batch editing. Would a checkbox like that be possible? (In reply to Sarah Cornell from comment #6) > I'm glad appending is possible, and I've used it a few times. But it would > be *so* wonderful if there were a checkbox that said "append?" and Koha > would simply append if that was checked. It's a lot to ask my staff to > learn even that amount of regex in order to append to notes when batch > editing. > > Would a checkbox like that be possible? Seems like a reasonable enhancement, yeah! We could reopen this bug as a request for a dedicated tool/checkbox/option or you could file a new one. I've never filed a bug so I propose reopening this one! I'm re-opening this bug to suggest a dedicated Append option in the item batch mod tool -- the ability to check a box labeled "append" and have whatever text is entered appended to the respective field rather than overwriting it. It'd probably make sense to include this on all the LONGTEXT fields in the item record. This is especially important since the regex solution can only append to fields that already have text in them. If your batch of barcodes has a mix of some items with notes and some without then your batch mod will only append to the notes that already exist. This is probably not what the user is expecting when they are trying to append text to a field. It creates an extra step if you have to separately batch mod items that don't have a note. |