Work-flow issues

[Robby Stephenson]

On Thursday 27 November 2008, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> I think the real issue is that I can't create an "empty box" into which
> I can then add items. From a GUI perspective, I have what appear to be
> folders in the left panel; the folders are really just field groups
> created by selecting "box" in the drop-down box. If these were real
> folders, I could select the folder, and then right-click to add new
> entries into that folder.

Maybe effectively, you could do a multiple edit on the entries after you add 
the 20-30 books from the box? If you have a Location field, then importing 
books essentially adds them to the "(Empty)" box, right? After you import 
the books for that box, then in the (Empty) group on the left, select all 
of them, right-click to edit, and then set the location for all of them at 
once. Wash, rinse, repeat.

> Keep in mind that I'm talking about a work-flow of scanning 20-30 books
> at a time into location-based sub-collections. If I scan 200 books like
> that, that's 60+ clicks to import the titles, plus 10x?? clicks to label
> them with the right box or shelf number. It's the sub-collections that
> magnify the inefficiencies here.

So in this case, you still have th 60+ clicks to import, but just about 1 or 
2 to label them.

> > There should be a dialog that pops up with a list of the ISBN values
> > that weren't found. I think you also wrote about some false negatives,
> > too. In any case, I would think you could simply copy the list of
> > failed numbers and paste that in the search dialog  and start the
> > search again?
>
> The problem is that sometimes the books really are found, in which case
> you have to manually ensure you don't import duplicate copies when you
> don't have physical duplicates.

Wait, there are ISBN values being found but which are reported as not found? 
That's certainly a bug. Tellico tries to be smart, but with hyphenating and 
the existence of ISBN-10 and ISBN-13. it's hard to match ISBN values.

Robby