[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] It's Community Bug Squashing Day!
Hi all, It's community Bug Squashing Day today! It's a day for the entire community to focus on getting bug fixes into Evergreen. Anyone can get involved in the day by confirming Evergreen bugs in Launchpad, testing bug fixes, or doing work to fix bugs. Information on how to participate in Bug Squashing Day is available at http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=dev:bug_squashing. If you have requested a Sandbox for Bug Squashing Day, you should have received information via e-mail on how to access that Sandbox. Please let me know if you have not received that information. I have also loaded a MassLNC Sandbox with two development branches for wishlist items - Long Overdue processing needs org unit settings separate from Lost Processing (https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1331174) and Payment by billing type breakdown (https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1174498). Feel free to let me know if you would let to test either of those features. We'll be keeping a tally of bug squashing activity at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1y0wCUuQju6YpeSKVn1t8QaL6SSvK900ixuPBXSPMF0U/edit?usp=sharing Feel free to let me know if you have any questions. Happy Bug Squashing! Kathy -- Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 343-0128 kluss...@masslnc.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Modifing Reports
Hi Elizabeth, There is a new feature in 2.7 that will allow you to edit reports. More info on this feature are available in the release notes at http://evergreen-ils.org/documentation/release/RELEASE_NOTES_2_7.html#_administration Kathy On 06/10/2015 03:27 PM, Elizabeth Davis wrote: Hello Everyone, I set up a series of Reports to run for some libraries in our system and now they have new staff and I need to update the report with the new email addresses. We’re operating on 2.6.3 and so I have to recreate the reports to include the new staff member. Is that different in newer updates or on someone’s development list? Or am I missing something in the version we have? Thanks! Elizabeth Davis Digital Services Librarian Scranton Public Library 500 Vine Street Scranton, PA 18509 570-348-3000 ext. 3050 570-955-7589 eda...@albright.org -- Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 343-0128 kluss...@masslnc.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bills Current Receipt Template and Total Owed
Hi, We are at 2.6.3. Patrons often ask for a print-out of current bills that includes their overall balance. The Bills Current Receipt does have a %total_owed% macro, but, when we add it to the template, it gives the balance of the last bill listed on the receipt and not the balance of all bills on the receipt. I did check Launchpad and could not find this listed as a bug. What am I missing? Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas, MLS Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.orgmailto:sc...@albright.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] alert for once juvenile becomes adult
I should clarify that my previous suggestion was based on my recollection that you have access to the database and could set this up. Justin On 6/10/15 3:09 PM, Justin Hopkins wrote: Holly, I think the simplest solution would be to run a script on a nightly cron that updated the database as necessary. Flip the Juvenile flag, change their profile, possibly remove the grouping/ident2_value, and add an alert. I thought we might be running something like that ourselves, but either I'm not finding it, or it's just something we'd also talked about doing but never did. Justin On 6/10/15 3:00 PM, Holly Brennan wrote: We’d like to be alerted when a patron who was marked as juvenile (the checkbox based on their birth date) is now over 18. The goal would be to catch those now-adults and change their library card type from Juvenile to Adult, so they are now responsible for their library card rather than their parent. We would also enter their ID information, and remove the parent’s ID (typically their driver’s license). The staff notification could be just a alert message. We’d like to avoid having to look at an expired account and calculate whether that patron is now an adult, so please no solutions involving math. J We’ve run a report for patrons who have Juvenile accounts but are 18+, and there are hundreds. I’m guessing we’re on our own fixing these ones, but maybe there is a miracle out there for adding the alert to these accounts too? Thanks! Holly Brennan Library Technology Specialist Homer Public Library, Alaska hbren...@cityofhomer-ak.gov 907-235-3180 (main) 907-435-3154 (direct)
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Outreach - ALA
The Evergreen Outreach Committee will have a booth in the exhibit hall for the first time, at the June ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco. Are you interested in helping for a short while at this booth? We're looking for those in the Evergreen community to meet with conference attendees and talk with them about Evergreen at our booth. A link to the booth schedule can be found here. We're hoping for two people per slot, but we may go with just one person based on sign-ups: *http://tinyurl.com/o2yrpmp http://tinyurl.com/o2yrpmp* If you have any questions about the booth, you can write me at terl...@biblio.org. Thank you for your consideration! Hope to see you at ALA! Amy Terlaga The Evergreen Outreach Committee -- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Director of User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 24 Wooster Avenue Waterbury, CT 06708 terl...@biblio.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bills Current Receipt Template and Total Owed
Hi Scott, There is a %balance_owed% macro that works on the 'checkout' receipt, but it does not work on the 'items_out' receipt. It sounds like that would be a good bug to add to launchpad! Terran McCanna PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, GA 30345 404-235-7138 tmcca...@georgialibraries.org - Original Message - From: Scott Thomas sc...@albright.org To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 3:56:12 PM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bills Current Receipt Template and Total Owed Hi, We are at 2.6.3. Patrons often ask for a print-out of current bills that includes their overall balance. The Bills Current Receipt does have a %total_owed% macro, but, when we add it to the template, it gives the balance of the last bill listed on the receipt and not the balance of all bills on the receipt. I did check Launchpad and could not find this listed as a bug. What am I missing? Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas, MLS Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.orgmailto:sc...@albright.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Modifing Reports
Hello Everyone, I set up a series of Reports to run for some libraries in our system and now they have new staff and I need to update the report with the new email addresses. We're operating on 2.6.3 and so I have to recreate the reports to include the new staff member. Is that different in newer updates or on someone's development list? Or am I missing something in the version we have? Thanks! Elizabeth Davis Digital Services Librarian Scranton Public Library 500 Vine Street Scranton, PA 18509 570-348-3000 ext. 3050 570-955-7589 eda...@albright.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Modifing Reports
The new feature is great for this, but another option to consider is using group e-mail rather than individual e-mail addresses in reports. For example, if there is an e-mail address that goes to the library's reference staff, put that address in the report, the e-mail will always go to the right people no matter who joins or leaves the staff. On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Kathy Lussier kluss...@masslnc.org wrote: Hi Elizabeth, There is a new feature in 2.7 that will allow you to edit reports. More info on this feature are available in the release notes at http://evergreen-ils.org/documentation/release/RELEASE_NOTES_2_7.html#_administration Kathy On 06/10/2015 03:27 PM, Elizabeth Davis wrote: Hello Everyone, I set up a series of Reports to run for some libraries in our system and now they have new staff and I need to update the report with the new email addresses. We’re operating on 2.6.3 and so I have to recreate the reports to include the new staff member. Is that different in newer updates or on someone’s development list? Or am I missing something in the version we have? Thanks! Elizabeth Davis Digital Services Librarian Scranton Public Library 500 Vine Street Scranton, PA 18509 570-348-3000 ext. 3050 570-955-7589 eda...@albright.org -- Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative(508) 343-0128kluss...@masslnc.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier -- Elizabeth B. Thomsen Member Services Manager NOBLE: North of Boston Library Exchange Danvers, Mass. www.noblenet.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Modifing Reports
Thanks Elizabeth and Kathy! I’m excited to see this when we upgrade.We have a few email lists, but most reports are limited to one person, but it might worthwhile to look into for future reports. Elizabeth From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Thomsen Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 4:02 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Modifing Reports The new feature is great for this, but another option to consider is using group e-mail rather than individual e-mail addresses in reports. For example, if there is an e-mail address that goes to the library's reference staff, put that address in the report, the e-mail will always go to the right people no matter who joins or leaves the staff. On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Kathy Lussier kluss...@masslnc.orgmailto:kluss...@masslnc.org wrote: Hi Elizabeth, There is a new feature in 2.7 that will allow you to edit reports. More info on this feature are available in the release notes at http://evergreen-ils.org/documentation/release/RELEASE_NOTES_2_7.html#_administration Kathy On 06/10/2015 03:27 PM, Elizabeth Davis wrote: Hello Everyone, I set up a series of Reports to run for some libraries in our system and now they have new staff and I need to update the report with the new email addresses. We’re operating on 2.6.3 and so I have to recreate the reports to include the new staff member. Is that different in newer updates or on someone’s development list? Or am I missing something in the version we have? Thanks! Elizabeth Davis Digital Services Librarian Scranton Public Library 500 Vine Street Scranton, PA 18509 570-348-3000 ext. 3050tel:570-348-3000%20ext.%203050 570-955-7589tel:570-955-7589 eda...@albright.orgmailto:eda...@albright.org -- Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 343-0128tel:%28508%29%20343-0128 kluss...@masslnc.orgmailto:kluss...@masslnc.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier -- Elizabeth B. Thomsen Member Services Manager NOBLE: North of Boston Library Exchange Danvers, Mass. www.noblenet.orghttp://www.noblenet.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] alert for once juvenile becomes adult
there's an srfsh script that converts juv to adult, whatever that is, that could potentially be conscripted to this task... So in addition to “unchecking” the Juvenile box, the script could also add an Alert? That’s exactly what we’re looking for. -Holly -- Ben Sent from my Nexus 6 On Jun 10, 2015 4:11 PM, Justin Hopkins jus...@mobiusconsortium.orgmailto:jus...@mobiusconsortium.org wrote: I should clarify that my previous suggestion was based on my recollection that you have access to the database and could set this up. Justin On 6/10/15 3:09 PM, Justin Hopkins wrote: Holly, I think the simplest solution would be to run a script on a nightly cron that updated the database as necessary. Flip the Juvenile flag, change their profile, possibly remove the grouping/ident2_value, and add an alert. I thought we might be running something like that ourselves, but either I'm not finding it, or it's just something we'd also talked about doing but never did. Justin On 6/10/15 3:00 PM, Holly Brennan wrote: We’d like to be alerted when a patron who was marked as juvenile (the checkbox based on their birth date) is now over 18. The goal would be to catch those now-adults and change their library card type from Juvenile to Adult, so they are now responsible for their library card rather than their parent. We would also enter their ID information, and remove the parent’s ID (typically their driver’s license). The staff notification could be just a alert message. We’d like to avoid having to look at an expired account and calculate whether that patron is now an adult, so please no solutions involving math. ☺ We’ve run a report for patrons who have Juvenile accounts but are 18+, and there are hundreds. I’m guessing we’re on our own fixing these ones, but maybe there is a miracle out there for adding the alert to these accounts too? Thanks! Holly Brennan Library Technology Specialist Homer Public Library, Alaska hbren...@cityofhomer-ak.govmailto:hbren...@cityofhomer-ak.gov 907-235-3180tel:907-235-3180 (main) 907-435-3154tel:907-435-3154 (direct)
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] alert for once juvenile becomes adult
Holly, I think the simplest solution would be to run a script on a nightly cron that updated the database as necessary. Flip the Juvenile flag, change their profile, possibly remove the grouping/ident2_value, and add an alert. I thought we might be running something like that ourselves, but either I'm not finding it, or it's just something we'd also talked about doing but never did. Justin On 6/10/15 3:00 PM, Holly Brennan wrote: We’d like to be alerted when a patron who was marked as juvenile (the checkbox based on their birth date) is now over 18. The goal would be to catch those now-adults and change their library card type from Juvenile to Adult, so they are now responsible for their library card rather than their parent. We would also enter their ID information, and remove the parent’s ID (typically their driver’s license). The staff notification could be just a alert message. We’d like to avoid having to look at an expired account and calculate whether that patron is now an adult, so please no solutions involving math. J We’ve run a report for patrons who have Juvenile accounts but are 18+, and there are hundreds. I’m guessing we’re on our own fixing these ones, but maybe there is a miracle out there for adding the alert to these accounts too? Thanks! Holly Brennan Library Technology Specialist Homer Public Library, Alaska hbren...@cityofhomer-ak.gov 907-235-3180 (main) 907-435-3154 (direct)
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] alert for once juvenile becomes adult
If i recall, there's an srfsh script that converts juv to adult, whatever that is, that could potentially be conscripted to this task... -- Ben Sent from my Nexus 6 On Jun 10, 2015 4:11 PM, Justin Hopkins jus...@mobiusconsortium.org wrote: I should clarify that my previous suggestion was based on my recollection that you have access to the database and could set this up. Justin On 6/10/15 3:09 PM, Justin Hopkins wrote: Holly, I think the simplest solution would be to run a script on a nightly cron that updated the database as necessary. Flip the Juvenile flag, change their profile, possibly remove the grouping/ident2_value, and add an alert. I thought we might be running something like that ourselves, but either I'm not finding it, or it's just something we'd also talked about doing but never did. Justin On 6/10/15 3:00 PM, Holly Brennan wrote: We’d like to be alerted when a patron who was marked as juvenile (the checkbox based on their birth date) is now over 18. The goal would be to catch those now-adults and change their library card type from Juvenile to Adult, so they are now responsible for their library card rather than their parent. We would also enter their ID information, and remove the parent’s ID (typically their driver’s license). The staff notification could be just a alert message. We’d like to avoid having to look at an expired account and calculate whether that patron is now an adult, so please no solutions involving math. J We’ve run a report for patrons who have Juvenile accounts but are 18+, and there are hundreds. I’m guessing we’re on our own fixing these ones, but maybe there is a miracle out there for adding the alert to these accounts too? Thanks! Holly Brennan Library Technology Specialist Homer Public Library, Alaska hbren...@cityofhomer-ak.gov 907-235-3180 (main) 907-435-3154 (direct)
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bills Current Receipt Template and %total_owed%
Hi, We are at 2.6.3. Patrons often ask for a print-out of current bills that includes their overall balance. The Bills Current Receipt does have a %total_owed% macro, but, when we add it to the template, it gives the balance of the last bill listed on the receipt and not the balance of all bills on the receipt. I did check Launchpad and could not find this listed as a bug. What am I missing? Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas, MLS Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.orgmailto:sc...@albright.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bills Current Receipt Template and Total Owed
Good Evening Scott, I started playing around with receipt templates earlier this afternoon and pulled Jason Etheridge into the discussion. Thank you, Jason! While there was a potential workaround, we discovered that the sum= sumout= functionality is trying to inexplicitly strip out dollar signs. So, if a patron owes .70 cents, the Total Balance would read $70. I've created a bug report and Jason has provided a fix. I haven't had the opportunity to test the fix yet. Here is the link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1464025 Have a good night! Erica On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 4:34 PM, McCanna, Terran tmcca...@georgialibraries.org wrote: Hi Scott, There is a %balance_owed% macro that works on the 'checkout' receipt, but it does not work on the 'items_out' receipt. It sounds like that would be a good bug to add to launchpad! Terran McCanna PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, GA 30345 404-235-7138 tmcca...@georgialibraries.org - Original Message - From: Scott Thomas sc...@albright.org To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 3:56:12 PM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bills Current Receipt Template and Total Owed Hi, We are at 2.6.3. Patrons often ask for a print-out of current bills that includes their overall balance. The Bills Current Receipt does have a %total_owed% macro, but, when we add it to the template, it gives the balance of the last bill listed on the receipt and not the balance of all bills on the receipt. I did check Launchpad and could not find this listed as a bug. What am I missing? Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas, MLS Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.orgmailto:sc...@albright.org -- Erica Rohlfs Project Manager Equinox Software Inc. / The Open Source Experts Phone: 770-709-5572 | 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) x5572 Email: eroh...@esilibrary.com Web: http://www.esilibrary.com
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] alert for once juvenile becomes adult
Blake is going to put something together, for our own use if nothing else. Hopefully it will be useful for others :) Justin On 6/10/15 4:24 PM, Holly Brennan wrote: Thanks, Justin! Your messages were filtered to my junk – sorry for the late reply! I can look at the whole database, but only change things I’m familiar with (and this is not one). -Holly *From:*Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] *On Behalf Of *Justin Hopkins ?? *Sent:* Wednesday, June 10, 2015 12:11 PM *To:* Evergreen Discussion Group *Subject:* Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] alert for once juvenile becomes adult I should clarify that my previous suggestion was based on my recollection that you have access to the database and could set this up. Justin On 6/10/15 3:09 PM, Justin Hopkins wrote: Holly, I think the simplest solution would be to run a script on a nightly cron that updated the database as necessary. Flip the Juvenile flag, change their profile, possibly remove the grouping/ident2_value, and add an alert. I thought we might be running something like that ourselves, but either I'm not finding it, or it's just something we'd also talked about doing but never did. Justin On 6/10/15 3:00 PM, Holly Brennan wrote: We’d like to be alerted when a patron who was marked as juvenile (the checkbox based on their birth date) is now over 18. The goal would be to catch those now-adults and change their library card type from Juvenile to Adult, so they are now responsible for their library card rather than their parent. We would also enter their ID information, and remove the parent’s ID (typically their driver’s license). The staff notification could be just a alert message. We’d like to avoid having to look at an expired account and calculate whether that patron is now an adult, so please no solutions involving math. J We’ve run a report for patrons who have Juvenile accounts but are 18+, and there are hundreds. I’m guessing we’re on our own fixing these ones, but maybe there is a miracle out there for adding the alert to these accounts too? Thanks! Holly Brennan Library Technology Specialist Homer Public Library, Alaska hbren...@cityofhomer-ak.gov mailto:hbren...@cityofhomer-ak.gov 907-235-3180 (main) 907-435-3154 (direct)
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] alert for once juvenile becomes adult
Thanks, Justin! Your messages were filtered to my junk – sorry for the late reply! I can look at the whole database, but only change things I’m familiar with (and this is not one). -Holly From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Justin Hopkins ?? Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 12:11 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] alert for once juvenile becomes adult I should clarify that my previous suggestion was based on my recollection that you have access to the database and could set this up. Justin On 6/10/15 3:09 PM, Justin Hopkins wrote: Holly, I think the simplest solution would be to run a script on a nightly cron that updated the database as necessary. Flip the Juvenile flag, change their profile, possibly remove the grouping/ident2_value, and add an alert. I thought we might be running something like that ourselves, but either I'm not finding it, or it's just something we'd also talked about doing but never did. Justin On 6/10/15 3:00 PM, Holly Brennan wrote: We’d like to be alerted when a patron who was marked as juvenile (the checkbox based on their birth date) is now over 18. The goal would be to catch those now-adults and change their library card type from Juvenile to Adult, so they are now responsible for their library card rather than their parent. We would also enter their ID information, and remove the parent’s ID (typically their driver’s license). The staff notification could be just a alert message. We’d like to avoid having to look at an expired account and calculate whether that patron is now an adult, so please no solutions involving math. ☺ We’ve run a report for patrons who have Juvenile accounts but are 18+, and there are hundreds. I’m guessing we’re on our own fixing these ones, but maybe there is a miracle out there for adding the alert to these accounts too? Thanks! Holly Brennan Library Technology Specialist Homer Public Library, Alaska hbren...@cityofhomer-ak.govmailto:hbren...@cityofhomer-ak.gov 907-235-3180 (main) 907-435-3154 (direct)
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] alert for once juvenile becomes adult
I'm interested in this idea too - have fines entered your discussions? We have encountered patrons who had max fines as a juvenile, but their parents never paid the fines. We wouldn't want to automatically remove the parent's identifying info from the account in these cases since the parent is still responsible for those bad debts. Of course, we could probably just add an extra bit into the script to check for fines before updating all of that info - or maybe partially update, but add different info to the alert. Terran McCanna PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, GA 30345 404-235-7138 tmcca...@georgialibraries.org div Original message /divdivFrom: Justin Hopkins jus...@mobiusconsortium.org /divdivDate:06/10/2015 5:37 PM (GMT-05:00) /divdivTo: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org /divdivSubject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] alert for once juvenile becomes adult /divdiv /divBlake is going to put something together, for our own use if nothing else. Hopefully it will be useful for others :) Justin On 6/10/15 4:24 PM, Holly Brennan wrote: Thanks, Justin! Your messages were filtered to my junk – sorry for the late reply! I can look at the whole database, but only change things I’m familiar with (and this is not one). -Holly *From:*Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] *On Behalf Of *Justin Hopkins ?? *Sent:* Wednesday, June 10, 2015 12:11 PM *To:* Evergreen Discussion Group *Subject:* Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] alert for once juvenile becomes adult I should clarify that my previous suggestion was based on my recollection that you have access to the database and could set this up. Justin On 6/10/15 3:09 PM, Justin Hopkins wrote: Holly, I think the simplest solution would be to run a script on a nightly cron that updated the database as necessary. Flip the Juvenile flag, change their profile, possibly remove the grouping/ident2_value, and add an alert. I thought we might be running something like that ourselves, but either I'm not finding it, or it's just something we'd also talked about doing but never did. Justin On 6/10/15 3:00 PM, Holly Brennan wrote: We’d like to be alerted when a patron who was marked as juvenile (the checkbox based on their birth date) is now over 18. The goal would be to catch those now-adults and change their library card type from Juvenile to Adult, so they are now responsible for their library card rather than their parent. We would also enter their ID information, and remove the parent’s ID (typically their driver’s license). The staff notification could be just a alert message. We’d like to avoid having to look at an expired account and calculate whether that patron is now an adult, so please no solutions involving math. J We’ve run a report for patrons who have Juvenile accounts but are 18+, and there are hundreds. I’m guessing we’re on our own fixing these ones, but maybe there is a miracle out there for adding the alert to these accounts too? Thanks! Holly Brennan Library Technology Specialist Homer Public Library, Alaska hbren...@cityofhomer-ak.gov mailto:hbren...@cityofhomer-ak.gov 907-235-3180 (main) 907-435-3154 (direct)
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] alert for once juvenile becomes adult
Changing the ID would be manually, when the juve-now-adult is at the library. When we scan their card the alert would prompt us to ask for THEIR ID and then we’d change the information, as long as the fines are below our threshold (we’re often very generous with kids becoming adults, especially if the fines were accrued when they were very young). Since we have to manually view and enter the new ID info (Evergreen isn’t THAT good), it doesn’t make much sense to have the script remove parent ID automatically. Actually, that sounds pretty scary! ☺ -Holly From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of McCanna, Terran Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 5:11 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] alert for once juvenile becomes adult I'm interested in this idea too - have fines entered your discussions? We have encountered patrons who had max fines as a juvenile, but their parents never paid the fines. We wouldn't want to automatically remove the parent's identifying info from the account in these cases since the parent is still responsible for those bad debts. Of course, we could probably just add an extra bit into the script to check for fines before updating all of that info - or maybe partially update, but add different info to the alert. Terran McCanna PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, GA 30345 404-235-7138 tmcca...@georgialibraries.orgmailto:tmcca...@georgialibraries.org Original message From: Justin Hopkins Date:06/10/2015 5:37 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] alert for once juvenile becomes adult Blake is going to put something together, for our own use if nothing else. Hopefully it will be useful for others :) Justin On 6/10/15 4:24 PM, Holly Brennan wrote: Thanks, Justin! Your messages were filtered to my junk – sorry for the late reply! I can look at the whole database, but only change things I’m familiar with (and this is not one). -Holly From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Justin Hopkins ?? Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 12:11 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] alert for once juvenile becomes adult I should clarify that my previous suggestion was based on my recollection that you have access to the database and could set this up. Justin On 6/10/15 3:09 PM, Justin Hopkins wrote: Holly, I think the simplest solution would be to run a script on a nightly cron that updated the database as necessary. Flip the Juvenile flag, change their profile, possibly remove the grouping/ident2_value, and add an alert. I thought we might be running something like that ourselves, but either I'm not finding it, or it's just something we'd also talked about doing but never did. Justin On 6/10/15 3:00 PM, Holly Brennan wrote: We’d like to be alerted when a patron who was marked as juvenile (the checkbox based on their birth date) is now over 18. The goal would be to catch those now-adults and change their library card type from Juvenile to Adult, so they are now responsible for their library card rather than their parent. We would also enter their ID information, and remove the parent’s ID (typically their driver’s license). The staff notification could be just a alert message. We’d like to avoid having to look at an expired account and calculate whether that patron is now an adult, so please no solutions involving math. ☺ We’ve run a report for patrons who have Juvenile accounts but are 18+, and there are hundreds. I’m guessing we’re on our own fixing these ones, but maybe there is a miracle out there for adding the alert to these accounts too? Thanks! Holly Brennan Library Technology Specialist Homer Public Library, Alaska hbren...@cityofhomer-ak.govmailto:hbren...@cityofhomer-ak.gov 907-235-3180 (main) 907-435-3154 (direct)
