[Koha] Question / UX defect

[Indranil Das Gupta]

Hi,

You can do it by binding the 020$a input field with a js keydown / keyup
event to throw that alert / hint on the UI

Although tbh, this is something that a professional cataloger is supposed
to know, which i understand you are not (appreciate your effort to learn
though :-).

Cheers
Indranil.



On Sat, 21 May, 2022, 4:01 pm C.S. Hayward, <c.s.hayward at protonmail.com>
wrote:

> Thank you for clarifying!
>
> I no longer think that hyphens should be accepted and ignored, but putting
> some message like a good UX password field's "Caps lock is on" would help
> people like me realize that I'm not supposed to enter hyphens.
>
> Br. C.S. Hayward, c-s-hayward.com
>
>
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Friday, May 20th, 2022 at 11:44 AM, Hernandez, Heather H <
> Heather_Hernandez at nps.gov> wrote:
>
>
> > Hi, C.S.!
> > Hyphens are never entered into the 020 ISBN field of a MARC record--they
> are specifically prohibited, actually--c.f.:MARC 21 Format for
> Bibliographic Data: 020: International Standard Book Number (Network
> Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress) (loc.gov)
> >
> > So all library systems, including Koha, are designed to deal with them
> without hyphens, and the MARC format instructs that hyphens may be
> generated for display.  The hyphens are only for humans, dividing the ISBN
> into its components of country of publication, publisher, then publication
> number.
> > So since the MARC Format instructs we humans to omit the hyphens, I
> would argue that there's no UX enhancement needed to instruct the software
> to ignore the hyphens--that's the way the software is supposed to be
> designed.  And if a human does include the hyphens and the search fails
> because of the hyphens, perhaps we should be improving the instructions to
> humans to omit the hyphens?
> > Cheerio!h2
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > Ms. Heather Hernandez (she, her, hers)
> > Technical Services Librarian
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