[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Innovative Systems Reading History
I was wondering if anyone who has migrated from an innovative system to evergreen has tried to move reading history? I know evergreen does not currently have this feature but even if it were dumped in some customized field to preserve it might be helpful. We have been told by many of our libraries that patrons would really miss this feature but would really want it to carry their list over from the old system. Also, given Innovative's design, we are not sure we could get it out of the system but any suggestions would be appreciated. Tim Spindler Manager of Library Applications tspind...@cwmars.org 508-755-3323 x20 IM: tjspindler (AOL, meebo, google wave) C/W MARS, Inc. 67 Millbrook St, Suite 201 Worcester, MA 01606 http://www.cwmars.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Innovative Systems Reading History
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 15:16 -0500, Tim Spindler wrote: I was wondering if anyone who has migrated from an innovative system to evergreen has tried to move reading history? I know evergreen does not currently have this feature but even if it were dumped in some customized field to preserve it might be helpful. We have been told by many of our libraries that patrons would really miss this feature but would really want it to carry their list over from the old system. Also, given Innovative's design, we are not sure we could get it out of the system but any suggestions would be appreciated. A quick thought, if you can get your hands on the data from Innovative, then you could create one bookbag per patron called Reading History that would list all of the items they've ever read. From there, they would be on their own have to maintain it themselves (unless you customized things to make each circulation automatically append the corresponding record to their reading history bookbag) but it would be one possible way of doing things.
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Innovative Systems Reading History
We didn't activate it here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in the Oracle tables for those who have that option and definitely not via data exchange function. And if it wasn't in Oracle, it won't be easily accessible anyplace else. III uses MySQL for some parts of its data storage, but you're not supposed to have access to the secret MySQL tables. I'm told that some of this stuff like reading history, etc. is likely to be in the MySQL tables, and that some sys admins are known to look at the overnight dumps/rebuilds that takes place with the MySQL tables. So apparently you can check /iiidb/mysql/dumps and see if something corresponds to what you're looking for. :) George George Duimovich NRCan Library / Bibliothèque de RNCan From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Tim Spindler Sent: March 3, 2010 15:17 To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Innovative Systems Reading History I was wondering if anyone who has migrated from an innovative system to evergreen has tried to move reading history? I know evergreen does not currently have this feature but even if it were dumped in some customized field to preserve it might be helpful. We have been told by many of our libraries that patrons would really miss this feature but would really want it to carry their list over from the old system. Also, given Innovative's design, we are not sure we could get it out of the system but any suggestions would be appreciated. Tim Spindler Manager of Library Applications tspind...@cwmars.org mailto:tspind...@cwmars.org 508-755-3323 x20 IM: tjspindler (AOL, meebo, google wave) C/W MARS, Inc. 67 Millbrook St, Suite 201 Worcester, MA 01606 http://www.cwmars.org
