Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Need community suggestions for back-filling EG documentation

[lwalsh]

Thanks John, couldn't have said it better.

Lynne Walsh

Chesterfield County Library

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Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Need community suggestions for
back-filling EG documentation
From: "John Mundy" <jmu...@tcpclibrary.org>
Date: Wed, October 16, 2013 8:11 am
To: "Evergreen Discussion Group"
<open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org>, "Yamil Suarez"
<ysua...@berklee.edu>
Cc: Documentation discussion for Evergreen software
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Broadly, the reports module needs better documentation. Specifically, what the fields are, what they do, and how they relate.

 

When I used to work with Millennium you had Item records, Bib records, Patron Records, and Order records (and that was it).

 

You could use Bib records connected to item and order records, Patron records connected to item records, I don't recall what order records connected to, Item records connected to Bib records and Patron records.

 

I still am pretty new to Evergreen and as I create or modify reports I find myself often puzzled about how the different fields fit together. Maybe even a comprehensive list of which fields are where with definitions.

 

Thanks,

John

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Yamil Suarez <ysua...@berklee.edu>
To: General Evergreen List <open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org>
Cc: Documentation discussion for Evergreen software <open-ils-documentat...@list.georgialibraries.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 10:51:28 -0400
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Need community suggestions for back-filling EG documentation

Hola,
 
I am part of the Evergreen Oversight Board (EOB) and the Documentation Interest Group (DIG), and would like to get some suggestions from the EG community relating to documentation. The EOB would like to fund the creation of non-existing EG documentation. The EOB would like to get suggestions from the EG community of what area, workflow, or feature that currently completely lacks documentation the EOB should target in this project.
 
With your suggestions the EOB will be able to finish formalizing a proposal based on the size and complexity of the documentation area selected for this proposal. My expectation is that for this project only one specific documentation target will be addressed, but depending on the success of this approach, we may try again in the future.

Please let me know what areas that have never been documented you would like addressed.

Thanks in advance,
Yamil




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Yamil Suarez, MCS
Library System Administrator

Stan Getz Library
Berklee College of Music
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