Move the Leap quotes out of WebAdmin and into SA
The author quotes in Polaris Leap suddenly became a hot topic because of a Neil Gaiman quote within the list. While making some adjustments, it occurred to me that there are more possibilities for those Leap quotes and that they could be used to convey real information to the staff about things like upcoming Polaris upgrades, library events, and so on. At the very least, changing the quotes in WebAdmin is a bit of a pain because you have to change a quote and an author separately.
My idea is that the quotes should be added to SA, where they're handled in a table like many other facets of Polaris. Additionally, it'd be nice to be able to have more than six of them and to provide the ability to enable/disable quotes. That way, if a library needed all of the staff to see an announcement in Leap, they could enable that one announcement and disable all the other quotes.
Daniel Messer
shared this idea
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Amy Mihelich
commented
This would be great to have - being able to edit the quotes somewhere other than the language editor would be a big time and labor saver, having more than 6 slots would help with onboarding staff to Leap (we've heard gripes about the same Atwood quote always showing up) and I really love the option of making the quote also a possible system or staff alert. We have system alert banners on our website and discovery layer for patrons, but nothing similar for staff.
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Michael Culletto
commented
Very much in agreement with this idea. The enable/disable option in particular would be nice to have. We recently attempted to remove all of the Quotes and when we did so, the quotation marks and dashes remained. Disabling them would have been preferred.
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Emma Olmstead-Rumsey
commented
This is a clever idea! We would definitely use this as Daniel suggested to communicate actual information to staff--similar to how after you log into something after it's updated to a new version, many programs and sites have a banner at the top alerting you to the changes.
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Great idea! That would make them less cumbersome and more useful!
