Spine Labels: Make it Easier!
Convert current Sierra print templates for spinelabels to something like what is available for email notices in LX Starter. We need an easier, more user friendly way to customize spine labels in Sierra. It is way too cumbersome and time-consuming with current print templates in Sierra and requires a third party application.
Idea Value
This will benefit the already-crunched for time and resources for Acquisitions and TechServices teams as well as PublicServices and ultimately benefits Patrons.
Amy Hezel
shared this idea
This idea has been reviewed with Engineering. The development of a replacement system for printing spine labels (and potentially other forms used in Sierra) would require resources that have been committed to other projects in the near-term roadmap.
Product Management will archive this idea for future reference and may re-evaluate this enhancement for a later release.
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Jayme Adams
commented
This would be very useful. As mentioned in the comments below, relying on third-party software that is not connected to Sierra is no longer a workable solution.
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Fran Juergensmeyer
commented
I have literally spent hours just trying to add the mobile phone field to an existing hold wrapper template. The current system for print templates is extremely difficult and unwieldy. Just testing a change is time consuming -- you can't test in Jaspersoft because it is not connected to Sierra, but Sierra can't give an error message. If it works, great! If it doesn't work, good luck figuring out why.
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Katie DuClos
commented
Yes, it would be nice if you didn't have to have programming experience to design a spine label.
When you have to work so hard to create a template, it really limits what you can do. We can't commit staff time to design all the different layouts we might like because the staff who have the knowledge and abilities to do this just don't have the time.
On a related note, we don't print spine labels from Sierra because we can't use the same font we use in OCLC Connexion (ALA BT Courier). It would be very helpful if this font were available in whatever is built in the future.
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Jeremy Goldstein
commented
An additional consideration beyond what was posted in the original idea is that the print template feature has not kept current with that piece of third party software. In order to edit a template in Jaspersoft Studio without encountering unhelpful errors you must use it in a compatibility mode for a version that is old enough that you can no longer download that client. Relying on that third party software to enable such a key part of the system is no longer a workable solution.