Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Browse Listing - Did it change?
Thanks for the reply. Will take a look and report back. Jim From: Open-ils-general On Behalf Of Remington Steed Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2019 12:51 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Browse Listing - Did it change? Hi Jim, I looked at the difference between 3.1.8 and 3.1.9 code (not many changes), and I didn't see any changes that I think would affect the browse display. Have you compared the stock 3.1.9 templates with those on your test system? Remington -- Remington Steed Electronic Resources Specialist Hekman Library, Calvin College http://library.calvin.edu/ From: Open-ils-general mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org>> On Behalf Of Jim Taylor Sent: Friday, February 22, 2019 5:39 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group mailto:open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org>> Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Browse Listing - Did it change? Trying to sort some index issues out but need to figure out what changed between 3.1.8 and 3.1.9or if we did something here accidentally. To my knowledge these databases are the same other than the version.Did something change with the Browse Index Results that was not noted in the Release Notes? Thanks for any insight. Jim Our production database is on 3.1.8 and Browse Results look like: God Juvenile fiction. (1) God -- Juvenile literature (6) God Juvenile literature. (6) God -- Kingship (5) God Kingship. (5) God -- Kingship -- Biblical teaching (9) God Kingship Biblical teaching. (9) God -- Kingship -- Sermons (2) God Kingship Sermons. (2) God -- Knowableness (100) Our test server where we install upgrades first is on 3.1.9 and the Browse Results look like: --God (Judaism)-- --Worship and love.-- (5) --God (Judaism)-- --Worship and love-- --Biblical teaching.-- (1) --God-- --Juvenile fiction.-- (3) --God-- --Juvenile literature.-- (10) --God-- --Kingship.-- (4) --God-- --Kingship-- --Biblical teaching.-- (9) --God-- --Kingship-- --Sermons.-- (2) --God-- --Knowableness.-- (100) --God-- --Knowableness-- --Biblical teaching.-- (13) --God-- --Knowableness.-- --cm.-- (1)
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Browse Listing - Did it change?
Trying to sort some index issues out but need to figure out what changed between 3.1.8 and 3.1.9or if we did something here accidentally. To my knowledge these databases are the same other than the version.Did something change with the Browse Index Results that was not noted in the Release Notes? Thanks for any insight. Jim Our production database is on 3.1.8 and Browse Results look like: God Juvenile fiction. (1) God -- Juvenile literature (6) God Juvenile literature. (6) God -- Kingship (5) God Kingship. (5) God -- Kingship -- Biblical teaching (9) God Kingship Biblical teaching. (9) God -- Kingship -- Sermons (2) God Kingship Sermons. (2) God -- Knowableness (100) Our test server where we install upgrades first is on 3.1.9 and the Browse Results look like: --God (Judaism)-- --Worship and love.-- (5) --God (Judaism)-- --Worship and love-- --Biblical teaching.-- (1) --God-- --Juvenile fiction.-- (3) --God-- --Juvenile literature.-- (10) --God-- --Kingship.-- (4) --God-- --Kingship-- --Biblical teaching.-- (9) --God-- --Kingship-- --Sermons.-- (2) --God-- --Knowableness.-- (100) --God-- --Knowableness-- --Biblical teaching.-- (13) --God-- --Knowableness.-- --cm.-- (1)
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Floor Plan - Map - Drawing Software
Again, going from memory and what little I know of GEO-Location stuff...Also, Google has a full suite of Geo-Location API's one can use. You would have to go to each shelf and determine the GPS coordinates and then map those to the call# (obviously variations on this but trying to keep it simple). Not saying the below would be the best option as the API's mentioned above are available but just to demonstrate how you can tweak locations in google maps. If you search for Missouri River Regional Library you will see the "pin" at the following location. https://www.google.com/maps/place/38°34'28.5"N+92°10'07.0"W I have tweaked the location below so the pin moves to a different point within the library. As you probably know you can open a location on your maps on your phone and, in this case, choose the walking option and follow the map to the specified location...or more likely the use it would open the map in the library and you would dynamically see the "pin" at the shelf you need. Guessing most people wouldn't use the walking option, other than for the fun of it and to see if it works, unless you have a large confusing setup. https://www.google.com/maps/place/38°34'28.9"N+92°10'06.7"W What I am unsure of is if you can create your own map using the Google API's and use that for what they see. I would think so but not sure. Again, just a thought from something that was pretty creative at the time when this stuff wasn't as sophisticated and easy as it has become. If I find time I may take a closer look at the API's and see what can be done and report back. Does sound like fun. Jim -Original Message- From: Open-ils-general On Behalf Of jeff haskell Sent: Monday, July 16, 2018 11:34 AM To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Floor Plan - Map - Drawing Software Hi Jim, I LOVE that! How does one "program the GPS" to a library shelf? My apologies for my tardy reply - slammed at a new job. Thank you ever so much. J. Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 21:36:20 -0500 From: "Jim Taylor" To: "'Evergreen Discussion Group'" Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Floor Plan - Map - Drawing Software Message-ID: <006601d41989$1e3746a0$5aa5d3e0$@jtdata.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" It has been a few years so recalling this from my dusty memory collection but a few years ago I saw a presentation by someone in the Horizon Library world who mapped all his shelves using GPS. So when you looked up an item it would dynamically show you where the item was located. Things are even more sophisticated now so you could even provide "Directions" now on peoples phones. Click a link and tell it to "Start" and it would take them to the right shelves. Probably one additional table in the database to map Location/Collection/Call# codes to GPS coordinates and maybe a bit of map creation and away you go. If you wanted to get really fancy you could even do a StreetView kind of thing for your library so they could "See" where they needed to go. Or even fancier, put in LED tiles for flooring and then you could light up tiles for them to follow. Sorry, I get carried away sometimes. Sounds like a fun project though. Jim
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Floor Plan - Map - Drawing Software
It has been a few years so recalling this from my dusty memory collection but a few years ago I saw a presentation by someone in the Horizon Library world who mapped all his shelves using GPS. So when you looked up an item it would dynamically show you where the item was located. Things are even more sophisticated now so you could even provide "Directions" now on peoples phones. Click a link and tell it to "Start" and it would take them to the right shelves. Probably one additional table in the database to map Location/Collection/Call# codes to GPS coordinates and maybe a bit of map creation and away you go. If you wanted to get really fancy you could even do a StreetView kind of thing for your library so they could "See" where they needed to go. Or even fancier, put in LED tiles for flooring and then you could light up tiles for them to follow. Sorry, I get carried away sometimes. Sounds like a fun project though. Jim -Original Message- From: Open-ils-general On Behalf Of jeff haskell Sent: Monday, July 9, 2018 11:54 AM To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Floor Plan - Map - Drawing Software Hi, I'm new to the list. I'm interested in drawing software so patrons and new staff, volunteers and student interns can find materials on shelves easily and quickly. Ex. one set of shelves to the far left of the circulation desk would be labeled Fiction. Then the next set of shelves named Mystery in the shelves bay to the right of the Fiction shelves bay and then to the right of that the shelves Bay for Supernatural. This would be a floor plan so a patron could walk around the library and look at this floor plan map and know where Fiction is - where Mystery is, Biography, etc. for every collection throughout the library. If I sat with an illustrator they could probably draw it all up in about 20-30 minutes and I would just scan what they drew and have a map (crude compared to a 3D) but enough so a patron could find items. But, is there any *free* software which could accomplish that? Thank you.
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Change in DB action regarding SQL marc update
I haven't done this for a while but just tried a straightforward SQL update of the "marc" field in the biblio.record_entry table and get the error below. Have done this 10's of thousands of times within the last year or so with no problem. Currently running version 2.12.6. Did something change which would purposely cause such an action to fail? Suggestions? Thanks. Jim ERROR: function oils_xpath(text, text, text[]) does not exist LINE 6: (oils_xpath( ^ HINT: No function matches the given name and argument types. You might need to add explicit type casts. QUERY: SELECT COALESCE( naco_normalize( ARRAY_TO_STRING( oils_xpath( '//text()', (oils_xpath( idx.xpath, transformed_xml, ARRAY[ARRAY[xfrm.prefix, xfrm.namespace_uri]] ))[1] ), '' ) ), '' ) CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function biblio.extract_fingerprint(text) line 34 at assignment PL/pgSQL function biblio.fingerprint_trigger() line 10 at assignment ** Error ** ERROR: function oils_xpath(text, text, text[]) does not exist SQL state: 42883 Hint: No function matches the given name and argument types. You might need to add explicit type casts. Context: PL/pgSQL function biblio.extract_fingerprint(text) line 34 at assignment PL/pgSQL function biblio.fingerprint_trigger() line 10 at assignment
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OpenSearch - Relevance
MUCH, MUCH BETTER!!! THANK YOU Apart from speed…not unusual for it to take 30-45 seconds to return results but that was true on the other as well. Is this normal or should someone be looking into how things are configured? While not blazing fast the OPAC is usually much better. Thanks again. Jim From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Wells Sent: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 11:05 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group <open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OpenSearch - Relevance Hello Jim, I think you may have discovered a bug. By default, the search is already doing relevance ranking, so you don't need anything extra there. However, it seems that the search 'class' is being more or less ignored; at least it does not trigger a title search in your example. You are just getting relevance ranked 'keyword' search. The following variation looks like it will honor the title index: http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/opac/extras/opensearch/1.1/ATS/marcxml-full/?ti=Bible+in+Mission <http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/opac/extras/opensearch/1.1/ATS/marcxml-full/?ti=Bible+in+Mission=25> =25 Does this get you closer? Sincerely, Dan On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 10:08 AM, Jim Taylor <jtay...@jtdata.com <mailto:jtay...@jtdata.com> > wrote: I have still been trying but none of these options or anything else I can find sorts by relevance like the OPAC. Is there not any way to do a search and get relevant results at the top of the list? Thanks. Jim -Original Message- From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org <mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org> ] On Behalf Of Mike Rylander Sent: Monday, July 31, 2017 4:08 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group <open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org <mailto:open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org> > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OpenSearch - Relevance Jim, You might try using the slimpac interface to do some searches and see how to build OpenSearch URLs in Evergreen: http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/opac/en-US/extras/slimpac/start.html -- that interface sits directly on top of OpenSearch, and just uses an XSLT to transform the ATOM output to HTML. Since you've looked at opensearch.org <http://opensearch.org> , you probably know about OSD files. Yours is at http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/opac/extras/opensearch/1.1/ATS/-/osd.xml and it can help you construct URLs as well. Note, if you're searching for a specific phrase, you can enclose it in double quotes to make sure you get the title you are looking for. Finally, OpenSearch uses the same backend for searching as the OPAC, you'll just need to construct the URLs a little differently. HTH, -- Mike Rylander | President | Equinox Open Library Initiative | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: mi...@equinoxinitiative.org <mailto:mi...@equinoxinitiative.org> | web: http://equinoxinitiative.org On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Jim Taylor <jtay...@jtdata.com <mailto:jtay...@jtdata.com> > wrote: > Hoping someone can tell me how to get useful results from opensearch. > I submit a search such as the following… > > > > http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/opac/extras/opensearch/1.1/ATS/mar > cxml-full/title/Bible+in+Mission?count=25 > > > > but I have to go to the 5th page to find this title. Is there a way to > tell opensearch to sort by relevance? > > > > I’ve looked at opensearch.org <http://opensearch.org> but not seeing > anything helpful and > can’t find anything the Evergreen documentation that applies…may just > not be doing the right search of course. > > > > Open to other suggestions as well. I have tried > > > > > http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/opac/extras//browse/mods/title/ASL > <http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/opac/extras/browse/mods/title/ASL> > AN/Bible%20in%20Mission?count=20 > > > > and it works much faster unless there are no results and then it can > take about 45 seconds to get a response. The results seem far more > appropriate but not as good as what is returned in the OPAC and the 45 > second delay for no results is a non-starter for that approach. > > > > Are there any other options or ways to make the above work better and > faster? Any way to return the OPAC search results in an XML format? > > > > Any other suggestions or links to documentation for the above that > might shine some light in my vast dark cavern of ignorance? > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Jim
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OpenSearch - Relevance
I have still been trying but none of these options or anything else I can find sorts by relevance like the OPAC. Is there not any way to do a search and get relevant results at the top of the list? Thanks. Jim -Original Message- From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Mike Rylander Sent: Monday, July 31, 2017 4:08 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group <open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OpenSearch - Relevance Jim, You might try using the slimpac interface to do some searches and see how to build OpenSearch URLs in Evergreen: http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/opac/en-US/extras/slimpac/start.html -- that interface sits directly on top of OpenSearch, and just uses an XSLT to transform the ATOM output to HTML. Since you've looked at opensearch.org, you probably know about OSD files. Yours is at http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/opac/extras/opensearch/1.1/ATS/-/osd.xml and it can help you construct URLs as well. Note, if you're searching for a specific phrase, you can enclose it in double quotes to make sure you get the title you are looking for. Finally, OpenSearch uses the same backend for searching as the OPAC, you'll just need to construct the URLs a little differently. HTH, -- Mike Rylander | President | Equinox Open Library Initiative | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: mi...@equinoxinitiative.org | web: http://equinoxinitiative.org On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Jim Taylor <jtay...@jtdata.com> wrote: > Hoping someone can tell me how to get useful results from opensearch. > I submit a search such as the following… > > > > http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/opac/extras/opensearch/1.1/ATS/mar > cxml-full/title/Bible+in+Mission?count=25 > > > > but I have to go to the 5th page to find this title. Is there a way to > tell opensearch to sort by relevance? > > > > I’ve looked at opensearch.org but not seeing anything helpful and > can’t find anything the Evergreen documentation that applies…may just > not be doing the right search of course. > > > > Open to other suggestions as well. I have tried > > > > > http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/opac/extras//browse/mods/title/ASL > AN/Bible%20in%20Mission?count=20 > > > > and it works much faster unless there are no results and then it can > take about 45 seconds to get a response. The results seem far more > appropriate but not as good as what is returned in the OPAC and the 45 > second delay for no results is a non-starter for that approach. > > > > Are there any other options or ways to make the above work better and > faster? Any way to return the OPAC search results in an XML format? > > > > Any other suggestions or links to documentation for the above that > might shine some light in my vast dark cavern of ignorance? > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Jim
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question about a small library without a catalog to migrate
I normally do more behind-the-scenes stuff so may display a bit (or a lot) of ignorance here but. Making sure you have set data rules up-front is a given of course but then. If there is someone who can do a bit of scripting . I am reasonably certain you can do item creation (including barcode?) on import of bib records.I tend to be lazy so I would write a script that takes the scanned ISBN off of a book (or type if not) and retrieves the MARC and retrieves the Classification info, gives you the option to pick the correct record and adjust the classification info, if needed, and creates the needed tags and subfields from provided defaults for the item record, including the barcode. You can then have everything done in a few short steps and apply the barcode at the same time with a minimal amount of typing and book handling. Again, may be missing something obvious but maybe this will help. Jim From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Schooff, Rose (LVA) Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 12:50 PM To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question about a small library without a catalog to migrate Up until now we have only dealt with libraries that had established catalogs. I now have a very small library that only has a card catalog and their books are not barcoded. Where do I start? I know the new librarian has started with weeding and that is always my first suggested step. Do we barcode the books first or as they are added to the Virginia Evergreen Libraries catalog? I would think they would register patrons as they borrow books. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. - Rose M. Schooff Technology Consultant Library Development and Networking The Library of Virginia 800 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 804-692-3772 804-310-7901
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Aged_Circulation
Thank you very much. This is very helpful. Wish I could have found it in the documentation and not bothered anyone. One day I will figure out how to find stuff in the documentation Jim -Original Message- From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Jason Stephenson Sent: Friday, September 1, 2017 4:15 PM To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Aged_Circulation On 09/01/2017 04:50 PM, Jim Taylor wrote: > Okay. Thanks. > > > > So there is no duplication? Everything in aged_circulation was once in > circulation and is moved, not copied, to aged_circulation? It just > loses some of the info? Or is it copied and everything in > aged_circulation is still in circulation, assuming one hasn’t deleted > rows in circulation? There is no duplication. The action.aged_circulation is for statistical reporting while breaking the link to the patron who had the item checked out. Circulations get moved under three circumstances in stock Evergreen: 1. A patron is deleted. This moves all of the patron's circulations from action.circulation to action.aged_circulation 2. A row or row(s) in action.circulation are deleted. The action.age_circ_on_delete trigger moves deleted action.circulations to action.aged_circulation. 3. The action.purge_circulations function is run. This function is meant to be run periodically to enforce patron privacy. It's behavior is controlled by two internal flags: history.circ.retention_age and history.circ.retention_count. The purge_circulations function is often run from cron via the purge_circulations.srfsh script. NOTE: This function will take a *long* time to run for the first time on a system that has had much activity. The srfsh script will likely time out before the database function finishes and nothing will get moved. If you have not been doing 2 or 3, then the aged_circulation entries you see are likely because of 1. You can delete rows from action.aged_circulation if you wish. Keep in mind that this could lead to the loss of statistical information depending on what reports you use. HtH, Jason > > > > Jim > > > > *From:* Open-ils-general > [ <mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org> > mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] *On Behalf > Of *Rogan Hamby > *Sent:* Friday, September 1, 2017 1:54 PM > *To:* Evergreen Discussion Group > < <mailto:open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org> > open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org> > *Subject:* Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Aged_Circulation > > > > Hi Jim, Benjamin, > > > > There are a number of differences that touch on aged versus not-aged > circulations. It's certainly true that circulations can be moved out > of action.circulation to keep that table size down and that can be > useful when we discuss things like tablespaces and Postgres. > > > > However, to me the major difference is that the action.circulation > table attaches back to the actor.usr table, i.e. there is a link > between the patron and the circulation. That link goes bye bye when a > circ is moved to action.aged_circulation. Some patron information is > recorded in aged circulations for future statistical reporting > purposes such as the user's post code, home org unit, profile group > and birth year but the patron themselves is no longer identifiable. > Obviously, this can be of significant value for patron privacy. > > > > > > > Rogan Hamby > > Data and Project Analyst > > Equinox Open Library Initiative > > phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) > > email: <mailto:ro...@equinoxinitiative.org> ro...@equinoxinitiative.org > < <mailto:ro...@equinoxinitiative.org> mailto:ro...@equinoxinitiative.org> > > web: <http://EquinoxInitiative.org> http://EquinoxInitiative.org > > > > On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Murphy, Benjamin > < <mailto:benjamin.mur...@ncdcr.gov%20%3cmailto:benjamin.mur...@ncdcr.gov> > benjamin.mur...@ncdcr.gov <mailto:benjamin.mur...@ncdcr.gov>> wrote: > > I’d love to see this as well if it exists. > > > > Benjamin > > > > Benjamin Murphy > > Manager, NC Cardinal Program > > NC Dept. of Natural and Cultural Resources > > 919.807.7424 < <tel:(919)%20807-7424> tel:(919)%20807-7424> > > <mailto:benjamin.mur...@ncdcr.gov> benjamin.mur...@ncdcr.gov < > <mailto:benjamin.
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Aged_Circulation
Okay. Thanks. So there is no duplication? Everything in aged_circulation was once in circulation and is moved, not copied, to aged_circulation? It just loses some of the info? Or is it copied and everything in aged_circulation is still in circulation, assuming one hasn’t deleted rows in circulation? Jim From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Rogan Hamby Sent: Friday, September 1, 2017 1:54 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group <open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Aged_Circulation Hi Jim, Benjamin, There are a number of differences that touch on aged versus not-aged circulations. It's certainly true that circulations can be moved out of action.circulation to keep that table size down and that can be useful when we discuss things like tablespaces and Postgres. However, to me the major difference is that the action.circulation table attaches back to the actor.usr table, i.e. there is a link between the patron and the circulation. That link goes bye bye when a circ is moved to action.aged_circulation. Some patron information is recorded in aged circulations for future statistical reporting purposes such as the user's post code, home org unit, profile group and birth year but the patron themselves is no longer identifiable. Obviously, this can be of significant value for patron privacy. Rogan Hamby Data and Project Analyst Equinox Open Library Initiative phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) email: ro...@equinoxinitiative.org <mailto:ro...@equinoxinitiative.org> web: http://EquinoxInitiative.org On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Murphy, Benjamin <benjamin.mur...@ncdcr.gov <mailto:benjamin.mur...@ncdcr.gov> > wrote: I’d love to see this as well if it exists. Benjamin Benjamin Murphy Manager, NC Cardinal Program NC Dept. of Natural and Cultural Resources 919.807.7424 <tel:(919)%20807-7424> <mailto:benjamin.mur...@ncdcr.gov> benjamin.mur...@ncdcr.gov Mail: 4640 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699 | Office: 109 East Jones St. Raleigh, NC 27601 Email correspondence to and from this address is subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. From: Jim Taylor [mailto:jtay...@jtdata.com <mailto:jtay...@jtdata.com> ] Sent: Friday, September 01, 2017 12:20 PM To: 'Evergreen Discussion Group' <open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org <mailto:open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org> > Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Aged_Circulation I am looking for a link to documentation that explains the purpose of each table. I have found the schema documentation but nothing that explains the purpose. Currently I am trying to determine the relationship of aged_circulation to circulation. Since circulation contains records that are older than aged_circulation I assume it isn’t what the name might imply? Thank you. Jim
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Aged_Circulation
I am looking for a link to documentation that explains the purpose of each table. I have found the schema documentation but nothing that explains the purpose. Currently I am trying to determine the relationship of aged_circulation to circulation. Since circulation contains records that are older than aged_circulation I assume it isn’t what the name might imply? Thank you. Jim
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OpenSearch - Relevance
Thanks. -Original Message- From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Mike Rylander Sent: Monday, July 31, 2017 4:08 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group <open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OpenSearch - Relevance Jim, You might try using the slimpac interface to do some searches and see how to build OpenSearch URLs in Evergreen: http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/opac/en-US/extras/slimpac/start.html -- that interface sits directly on top of OpenSearch, and just uses an XSLT to transform the ATOM output to HTML. Since you've looked at opensearch.org, you probably know about OSD files. Yours is at http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/opac/extras/opensearch/1.1/ATS/-/osd.xml and it can help you construct URLs as well. Note, if you're searching for a specific phrase, you can enclose it in double quotes to make sure you get the title you are looking for. Finally, OpenSearch uses the same backend for searching as the OPAC, you'll just need to construct the URLs a little differently. HTH, -- Mike Rylander | President | Equinox Open Library Initiative | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: mi...@equinoxinitiative.org | web: http://equinoxinitiative.org On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Jim Taylor <jtay...@jtdata.com> wrote: > Hoping someone can tell me how to get useful results from opensearch. > I submit a search such as the following… > > > > http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/opac/extras/opensearch/1.1/ATS/mar > cxml-full/title/Bible+in+Mission?count=25 > > > > but I have to go to the 5th page to find this title. Is there a way to > tell opensearch to sort by relevance? > > > > I’ve looked at opensearch.org but not seeing anything helpful and > can’t find anything the Evergreen documentation that applies…may just > not be doing the right search of course. > > > > Open to other suggestions as well. I have tried > > > > > http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/opac/extras//browse/mods/title/ASL > AN/Bible%20in%20Mission?count=20 > > > > and it works much faster unless there are no results and then it can > take about 45 seconds to get a response. The results seem far more > appropriate but not as good as what is returned in the OPAC and the 45 > second delay for no results is a non-starter for that approach. > > > > Are there any other options or ways to make the above work better and > faster? Any way to return the OPAC search results in an XML format? > > > > Any other suggestions or links to documentation for the above that > might shine some light in my vast dark cavern of ignorance? > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Jim
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OpenSearch - Relevance
Hoping someone can tell me how to get useful results from opensearch. I submit a search such as the following… http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/opac/extras/opensearch/1.1/ATS/marcxml-full/title/Bible+in+Mission?count=25 but I have to go to the 5th page to find this title. Is there a way to tell opensearch to sort by relevance? I’ve looked at opensearch.org but not seeing anything helpful and can’t find anything the Evergreen documentation that applies…may just not be doing the right search of course. Open to other suggestions as well. I have tried http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/opac/extras//browse/mods/title/ASLAN/Bible%20in%20Mission?count=20 <http://evergreen.asburyseminary.edu/opac/extras/browse/mods/title/ASLAN/Bible%20in%20Mission?count=20> and it works much faster unless there are no results and then it can take about 45 seconds to get a response. The results seem far more appropriate but not as good as what is returned in the OPAC and the 45 second delay for no results is a non-starter for that approach. Are there any other options or ways to make the above work better and faster? Any way to return the OPAC search results in an XML format? Any other suggestions or links to documentation for the above that might shine some light in my vast dark cavern of ignorance? Thanks. Jim
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen International 2017 Pre-conference Proposals
Assuming I am not the only interested party. If I am, maybe someone would be willing to take a little time and help me sort through some of the process. In regards to the question though… Basically walking through the process from the beginning. I am not wanting this to be a programming class but rather one on how to interact with the project. Acquiring credentials ( probably needs very little attention…the WIKI covers this very well.) Recommended tools for working with GitHub. (Again, not hard to connect but maybe there are better tools than some of us have found) The big thing, at least for me, is how one navigates the project after PULLING it. So many threads it is a bit overwhelming. An overview of the project so if I wanted to make changes to a particular area I could have a reasonable chance of finding it. Making and Submitting changes. Jim From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Rogan Hamby Sent: Monday, November 28, 2016 11:51 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group <open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen International 2017 Pre-conference Proposals This is something (as a general topic) that was discussed at the Hack-A-Way quite a bit. Assuming you'd be an interested p party in attending I'm curious what you would see as topics that could be covered versus what skills should be prerequisites. On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Donald Butterworth <don.butterwo...@asburyseminary.edu <mailto:don.butterwo...@asburyseminary.edu> > wrote: Any chance we could offer "Evergreen Programming 101" for programmers who want to begin contributing code, but don't want to get in over their head? On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Garry Collum <gcol...@gmail.com <mailto:gcol...@gmail.com> > wrote: Hi all, The 2017 Evergreen International Conference Committee is seeking proposals for 3 hour long pre-conference workshops to take place on Wednesday April 5th, 2017. A few weeks ago the committee performed a survey to see what types of programs people would be interested in attending. The results of the survey included the following: SQL (PostgreSQL) Reports Using Acquisitions Using Serials Holds configuration. Cataloging clean-up/deduplication Linked data How to use git How to contribute documentation Action triggers, how, what, when Cataloging in a consortia environment Web client in depth Selected presenters will be offered complimentary conference registration. The original deadline for submission of proposals for pre-conference workshops was November 24, 2016. Because of my error of posting the notice only to the developer's listserv, I would like to extend that deadline to December 8, 2016. Please contact Garry Collum at (garry.col...@kentonlibrary.org <mailto:garry.col...@kentonlibrary.org> ) or Anna Goben at (ago...@library.in.gov <mailto:ago...@library.in.gov> ) with any questions. Please submit proposals to eg-conf-progr...@list.evergreen-ils.org <mailto:eg-conf-progr...@list.evergreen-ils.org> . Garry Collum Kenton County Public Library -- Don Butterworth Collection Management Librarian / Faculty Associate B.L. Fisher Library Asbury Theological Seminary don.butterwo...@asburyseminary.edu <mailto:don.butterwo...@asburyseminary.edu> (859) 858-2227 <tel:%28859%29%20858-2227> -- -- Rogan R. Hamby, Data and Project Analyst Equinox - Open Your Library ro...@esilibrary.com <mailto:ro...@esilibrary.com> 1-877-OPEN-ILS | www.esilibrary.com <http://www.esilibrary.com>
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Can I after the fact (install) add the concerto sample data?
If so, is this the way to do it? perl Open-ILS/src/support-scripts/eg_db_config \ --service all \ --user --password --hostname --port \ --database --load-all-sample Or ? Thanks, Jim.
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] postgres: FATAL: role "root" does not exist
It looks like the install of postgres went in without error by running: root@ubuntu-OptiPlex-755:~/Evergreen-ILS-2.10.5# make -f Open-ILS/src/extras/Makefile.install postgres-server-ubuntu-trusty But when I issued: root@ubuntu-OptiPlex-755:~/Evergreen-ILS-2.10.5# createuser -s -P evergreen Enter password for new role: Enter it again: createuser: could not connect to database postgres: FATAL: role "root" does not exist Just in case I did root@ubuntu-OptiPlex-755:~/Evergreen-ILS-2.10.5# /etc/init.d/postgresql start * Starting PostgreSQL 9.3 database server But a second attempt ad creating a user failed in the same manner. I'm not a postgres person. I know mysql well. Thanks, Jim.
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Where is Open-ILS directory?
I see this command in the install instructions: make -f Open-ILS/src/extras/Makefile.install But I can't find either that directory or a Makefile.install anywhere. Thanks, Jim.
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Can I run the staff client on the same system as the server?
We're just getting started and I want to let some of the folks become familiar with things. Our network isn't yet functional so I have a Ubuntu laptop I was thinking about putting both the server and a client on to let them test. Is that a reasonable thing to do? Thanks, Jim.
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Programmatic Merging of Bibliographic Records
Thanks for this as well. I have a list I produced but guessing your process is even more thorough than mine so will take a look. Yes. I probably annoy the librarians sometimes with all the previewing/testing I request before making batch changes but so far there hasn’t been much weeping and gnashing of teeth when all is said and done so hopefully I will continue the trend J Thanks again. Jim From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Rogan Hamby Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 2:04 PM To: swills beyond-print.com; Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Programmatic Merging of Bibliographic Records Hi Jim, It is available. To be clear I helped create the de-duplication algorithm but the actual coding was done by Galen Charlton of Equinox. You can find it here: http://git.esilibrary.com/?p=migration-tools.git;h=300a04108fc6a3d14424c6d365329be334114f7d The full scope of the script goes a bit beyond the original question as it also does de-duplication before the merging. The merging work is done by the merge_record_assets function that Jason referenced. Whatever method you use I heartily recommend doing so on a testing system and having catalogers look over the results first. You may have already done all the due diligence but I say it for anyone reading along as well. I've never had problems with this method and heard back from others with positive success with it as well but I also heard from at least one whose data was apparently different enough that it was not a clean merge. Caveat usor, let the user beware. On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 2:36 PM, swills beyond-print.com <swi...@beyond-print.com> wrote: Rogan Hamby shared his work with me. It's a set of SQL procedures that product a 'best bib' and then identifies the less interesting duplicate and it seems to work well. I modified it so that it produces the candidates but doesn't actually do the merge since we like to have that personal touch up in Maine. I'm not sure if it is in Evergreen Repos or not? Rogan, can you help and thanks again. Steve Wills On April 25, 2016 at 2:24 PM Jim Taylor <jtay...@jtdata.com> wrote: I raised the question at the conference regarding the ability to merge records outside the program interface and was told there was a procedure/function that would allow this to be done. Does anyone know where I can find this function? My searching has availed me naught. I found something under the Vandelay tables but not sure it is what I am needing as the above mentioned function is supposed to take two tcn numbers. Thanks. Jim -- -- Rogan R. Hamby, Data and Project Analyst Equinox - Open Your Library <mailto:ro...@esilibrary.com> ro...@esilibrary.com 1-877-OPEN-ILS | www.esilibrary.com
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Programmatic Merging of Bibliographic Records
Yes. I have a list of about 8,000 duplicates gained via some comparison scripting I did and was looking for a way to submit the two numbers and have the merge happen like it would if I did the merge through the interface. Thanks. Jim From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Janet Schrader Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 1:35 PM To: 'Evergreen Discussion Group' Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Programmatic Merging of Bibliographic Records Jim, Do you mean something other than record buckets? You can put bib records in a bucket and then select to merge them. The records open tiled vertically and you select the lead (retained) one. In this interface you can edit the record if you want to include something from the merged record in the retained record. If you edit using the flat text editor you can copy and drag the data from one record to another. The merged record will then show as deleted. Merging records this way links the TCN, although the retained record doesn't display it. Janet Janet Schrader Bibliographic Services Supervisor C/W MARS Inc. 67 Millbrook Street, Suite 201 Worcester, MA 01606 Tel: 508-755-3323 ext. 325 Fax: 508-757-7801 <mailto:jschra...@cwmars.org> jschra...@cwmars.org From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Jim Taylor Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 2:25 PM To: 'Evergreen Discussion Group' <open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org> Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Programmatic Merging of Bibliographic Records I raised the question at the conference regarding the ability to merge records outside the program interface and was told there was a procedure/function that would allow this to be done. Does anyone know where I can find this function? My searching has availed me naught. I found something under the Vandelay tables but not sure it is what I am needing as the above mentioned function is supposed to take two tcn numbers. Thanks. Jim
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Programmatic Merging of Bibliographic Records
I raised the question at the conference regarding the ability to merge records outside the program interface and was told there was a procedure/function that would allow this to be done. Does anyone know where I can find this function? My searching has availed me naught. I found something under the Vandelay tables but not sure it is what I am needing as the above mentioned function is supposed to take two tcn numbers. Thanks. Jim
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Conference - Thanks
Just wanted to say a big THANK YOU!!! to everyone involved in the conference. I am very appreciative of those who shared their expertise through presenting and answering questions directly as well as making this noob feel welcome to the Evergreen community. So, once again, THANK YOU!!! Jim
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Equality NC
Okay. Just seems like a door has been opened… Jim From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Grace Dunbar Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 9:29 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Equality NC An individual may be free to attempt to raise funds at the conference but they may not solicit. IOW, you can say, hey, I'm going to be there and I'm going to be taking money for the International Alpaca Fund - I'll be wearing an Alpaca shirt, come find me if you love Alpacas. You may not, however, directly solicit people at the conference for any kind of fundraising. This means you cannot approach or harass people to request they donate to your fundraising cause. Attendees may not use an exhibit booth, sponsored event, or a presentation to promote their political/fundraising activity. Also, for the record, Amy and Kathy requested permission from the local conference group as well as the EOB Conference Committee prior to sending that email. Any activities at the Evergreen Conference have the potential for being interpreted as being endorsed by the Evergreen Project, therefore, the Conference Committee and the EOB have the final say as to what constitutes an appropriate activity at the conference. As Amy and Kathy's cause is directly related to the recently released position statement put forth by the EOB on behalf of the project, and is in clear support of our Code of Conduct, it is acceptable. Though, to be clear, what they are doing is still not endorsed as a conference activity, and they may not use the Evergreen logo or insinuate that their fundraiser is endorsed by the project. I hope that helps clarify. Grace On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Rogan Hamby <rha...@esilibrary.com> wrote: /* begin comments not affiliated with any other entity including my employer I don't read it that way. Amy was clear that she was speaking for herself and Kathy as individuals,' not for the conference committee. I have a vague memory of some fund raising at a past event for some cause also but that memory may be faulty since I can't remember which or for what. For myself I see this as very much in line with the project as the project put out a related statement. It really would be up to the project not the conference committee since the conference committee implements the conference each year but it's the project's conference. end comments not affiliated with any other entity including my employer */ On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Jim Taylor <jtay...@jtdata.com> wrote: Does this mean that fund-raising, for any cause, is now officially authorized at the conference? Also, is the list now open for use in promoting whatever agenda we wish, in addition to Evergreen business? This is what I am understanding from the recent posts but wanted to get an official word so I don’t misuse the list. Jim From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Amy Terlaga Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 7:58 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Equality NC Hi all-- Going to the Evergreen conference next week? Kathy Lussier from MassLNC and Amy Terlaga from Bibliomation will be collecting donations from anyone at the conference interested in giving to Equality NC. Equality NC is dedicated to securing equal rights and justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) North Carolinians. For more info, see http://equalitync.org/. We'll be wearing rainbow ribbons on our shirts for easy spotting. Cash only. This is to make it easy for you to donate. Due to the political nature of their work, donations are not tax-deductible. We'll add it all up and make one donation to the organization the day after the conference Kathy and Amy are acting as individuals and are not affiliated with the Conference Organizing Committee. -- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Director of Member Services Bibliomation, Inc. 24 Wooster Avenue Waterbury, CT 06708 (203)577-4070 x101 <tel:%28203%29577-4070%20x101> terl...@biblio.org -- -- Rogan R. Hamby, Data and Project Analyst Equinox - Open Your Library ro...@esilibrary.com 1-877-OPEN-ILS | www.esilibrary.com -- Grace Dunbar, Vice President Equinox - Open Your Library gdun...@esilibrary.com 1-877-OPEN-ILS | www.esilibrary.com
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Equality NC
Does this mean that fund-raising, for any cause, is now officially authorized at the conference? Also, is the list now open for use in promoting whatever agenda we wish, in addition to Evergreen business? This is what I am understanding from the recent posts but wanted to get an official word so I don’t misuse the list. Jim From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Amy Terlaga Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 7:58 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Equality NC Hi all-- Going to the Evergreen conference next week? Kathy Lussier from MassLNC and Amy Terlaga from Bibliomation will be collecting donations from anyone at the conference interested in giving to Equality NC. Equality NC is dedicated to securing equal rights and justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) North Carolinians. For more info, see http://equalitync.org/. We'll be wearing rainbow ribbons on our shirts for easy spotting. Cash only. This is to make it easy for you to donate. Due to the political nature of their work, donations are not tax-deductible. We'll add it all up and make one donation to the organization the day after the conference Kathy and Amy are acting as individuals and are not affiliated with the Conference Organizing Committee. -- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Director of Member Services Bibliomation, Inc. 24 Wooster Avenue Waterbury, CT 06708 (203)577-4070 x101 terl...@biblio.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Did you migrate from III?
Did not move from III but I used MarcEdit to transform to MARCXML. Its API capabilities allows one to use a scripting language to access many of its functions so I could tweak the records as needed as well as the conversion needed for the import into Evergreen. Jim -Original Message- From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Glen Modell Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 7:54 AM To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Did you migrate from III? Hello, this is Glen at the Ann Arbor District Library. We are not an Evergreen site but are exploring it. I'd like to hear from anyone who migrated to Evergreen from Innovative Interfaces. I'm experimenting with bib record migration and I'm curious as to whether anyone was able to use the xmlOpac from III to get pre-packaged marcXML or whether you have have other suggestions. Thanks. -- Glen. * Glen Modell Library Automation Specialist Ann Arbor District Library 734-327-8322 mode...@aadl.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen Test Writing Day
Is there a link to a document somewhere that explains "Test Writing Day"? What is the purpose, what happens, how does one get involved, etc.? I assume the name is somewhat self-explanatory but the extended discussion here makes me think my first guess was wrong. I browsed the top level of the web site but didn't see anything. Thanks. Jim -Original Message- From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Kathy Lussier Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 11:47 AM To: Evergreen Development Discussion List; open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen Test Writing Day Hi all, Just to add some clarification on the dates, test-writing day is scheduled for today, November 17 and the point release is scheduled for tomorrow, November 18. I clarified the dates in IRC earlier when I realized there was confusion on the dates, but I neglected to send a follow-up email to the lists. Liam, I don't know how you want to proceed on re-scheduling or not, but I think it's fine to continue today. Kathy On 11/17/2015 12:30 PM, liam.wha...@bc.libraries.coop wrote: > Because I scheduled the current Test Writing Day to take place on the > same day as the Monthly Maintenance, I will postpone test writing day > until next week. > > Here is a Doodle poll to help choose the new date: > > http://doodle.com/poll/6mbgkn22d29y25r3 > > I will add this new date to the Evergreen community calendar by the > end of Friday this week. > > Liam > > Quoting Jason Stephenson <jstephen...@mvlc.org>: > >> Quoting Kathy Lussier <kluss...@masslnc.org>: >> >>> Jason, do you think there will be much of a conflict with release >>> day if we hold off on merging any of the tests until after tomorrow? >>> The patches from the August test writing day weren't merged until >>> last week, and, I don't see why it would be a problem waiting a few >>> days to merge this batch. >> >> For monthly releases, I doubt that it would be a huge deal. I don't >> think the tests would normally get back ported to the release branches. >> >> I just recall that 2.9.0 release day was a bit of a pain because >> people kept pushing documentation commits after I had already started >> working on the release. >> >> I still think it would be a good idea to have test writing day or any >> other day involving code or documentation to fall on days other than >> release days. >> >> It is tough enough to get releases together without the added >> distractions. >> >> (Particularly difficult for me since our release schedule seems to >> fall on the day after my consortium's Executive and/or Membership >> meetings, so I have a day full of meeting the day before the >> release.) >> >> Cheers, >> Jason >> -- >> Jason Stephenson >> Assistant Director for Technology Services Merrimack Valley Library >> Consortium >> 4 High ST, Suite 175 >> North Andover, MA 01845 >> Phone: 978-557-5891 >> Email: jstephen...@mvlc.org > > > -- Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 343-0128 kluss...@masslnc.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen Test Writing Day
Thanks. -Original Message- From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of liam.wha...@bc.libraries.coop Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 12:56 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen Test Writing Day Here is quick blurb on the Wiki with a couple of links for more reading if you are interested. http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=dev:test_writing_day Liam uoting Jim Taylor <jtay...@jtdata.com>: > Is there a link to a document somewhere that explains "Test Writing > Day"? What is the purpose, what happens, how does one get > involved, etc.? I assume the name is somewhat self-explanatory but > the extended discussion here makes me think my first guess was wrong. > I browsed the top level of the web site but didn't see anything. > > Thanks. > > Jim > > -Original Message- > From: Open-ils-general > [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf > Of Kathy Lussier > Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 11:47 AM > To: Evergreen Development Discussion List; > open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen Test Writing > Day > > Hi all, > > Just to add some clarification on the dates, test-writing day is > scheduled for today, November 17 and the point release is scheduled > for tomorrow, November 18. > > I clarified the dates in IRC earlier when I realized there was > confusion on the dates, but I neglected to send a follow-up email to > the lists. > > Liam, I don't know how you want to proceed on re-scheduling or not, > but I think it's fine to continue today. > > Kathy > > On 11/17/2015 12:30 PM, liam.wha...@bc.libraries.coop wrote: >> Because I scheduled the current Test Writing Day to take place on the >> same day as the Monthly Maintenance, I will postpone test writing day >> until next week. >> >> Here is a Doodle poll to help choose the new date: >> >> http://doodle.com/poll/6mbgkn22d29y25r3 >> >> I will add this new date to the Evergreen community calendar by the >> end of Friday this week. >> >> Liam >> >> Quoting Jason Stephenson <jstephen...@mvlc.org>: >> >>> Quoting Kathy Lussier <kluss...@masslnc.org>: >>> >>>> Jason, do you think there will be much of a conflict with release >>>> day if we hold off on merging any of the tests until after tomorrow? >>>> The patches from the August test writing day weren't merged until >>>> last week, and, I don't see why it would be a problem waiting a few >>>> days to merge this batch. >>> >>> For monthly releases, I doubt that it would be a huge deal. I don't >>> think the tests would normally get back ported to the release branches. >>> >>> I just recall that 2.9.0 release day was a bit of a pain because >>> people kept pushing documentation commits after I had already >>> started working on the release. >>> >>> I still think it would be a good idea to have test writing day or >>> any other day involving code or documentation to fall on days other >>> than release days. >>> >>> It is tough enough to get releases together without the added >>> distractions. >>> >>> (Particularly difficult for me since our release schedule seems to >>> fall on the day after my consortium's Executive and/or Membership >>> meetings, so I have a day full of meeting the day before the >>> release.) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Jason >>> -- >>> Jason Stephenson >>> Assistant Director for Technology Services Merrimack Valley Library >>> Consortium >>> 4 High ST, Suite 175 >>> North Andover, MA 01845 >>> Phone: 978-557-5891 >>> Email: jstephen...@mvlc.org >> >> >> > > -- > Kathy Lussier > Project Coordinator > Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative > (508) 343-0128 > kluss...@masslnc.org > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Browse Indexes - 710
Appreciate the reply….oddly our 700 (non-t) tags didn’t need any work.
I made the 710 (non-t) tags work by adding
creator
since it looks like it requires a role for the index but the 700’s seems to
indicate the same thing but they work without a role.
Needless to say it is a bit confusing from where I stand.
So your 710’s with a subfield “t” show in your Author browse index without any
tweaking?
Jim
From: Open-ils-general
[mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Blake
Henderson
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2015 4:45 PM
To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Browse Indexes - 710
Jim,
We had this same issue. Be design, the mods32 xlst from LOC contains this line:
(we addressed the 700 instead of the 710 but the solution is probably the same)
We updated that line in the xlst to:
This makes it match the stock Evergreen indexes even with the presence of the
subfield "t".
Furthermore, we wanted to include the 700t in our title index. So we created an
index:
INSERT INTO config.metabib_field ( field_class, name, label, format, xpath,
search_field, authority_xpath, browse_field, browse_sort_xpath ) VALUES
('title', 'alternative_700t','Title Alternative (700t)', 'marcxml',
$$//marc:datafield[@tag='700']/marc:subfield[@code="t"]$$, TRUE, null, TRUE,
null);
Hope this helps!
-Blake-
Conducting Magic
MOBIUS
573-234-4513
877-312-3517
On 10/8/2015 4:23 PM, Jim Taylor wrote:
I am wondering if there is anyone using the Browse Indexes and, if so, have you
verified that the 710’s with a subfield “t” and without (they are handled
differently) are working. As far as I can tell they will not work as
configured in Evergreen right out of the box. I have gotten the 710, without
a “t”, to work, with a little tweaking, but still no luck with the 710 with a
“t”. I am reasonably sure this isn’t limited to the 710’s but am working
down the list trying to make sure all the indexes are working and are
configured correctly and this is the current problem.
So, if, you know, your 710 browse indexes work and you are willing to share the
mod32 xslt from the config.xml_transform table I would greatly appreciate it.
Unless you know of some other reason the indexes aren’t working by default…I
supposed Evergreen could be configured by default to not have the 710’s work
but that doesn’t seem likely since they are part of the mod2 transformation and
the index configuration seems appropriate???
In any event, any information that could point me in the right direction would
be appreciated. Thank you.
Jim
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OpenSearch Question
Before I give up, after much searching and reading, and assume the answer is No.Is there a way to restrict a search like the one below to a particular library or library Node? http://evergreen.server.xxx/opac/extras/opensearch/1.1/-/marcxml-full/title/ faith+hope+love?count=100 Thanks. Jim
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OpenSearch Question
Just to report back on my experience.the shortname is the only thing that works for me, which is fine and preferred and it does seem to include the Children which is also preferred. I had tried something along this line before but apparently got something out of order. All is good now. Thanks again to all for responding and putting me back on a productive path. Jim From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Kathy Lussier Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 3:52 PM To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OpenSearch Question Hi Jim, I think if you can do so in this format: http://evergreen.server.xxx/opac/extras/opensearch/1.1/ORGID/marcxml-full/ti tle/faith+hope+love?count=100 http://evergreen.server.xxx/opac/extras/opensearch/1.1/-/marcxml-full/title /faith+hope+love?count=100 where ORGID is the id of the org unit you are restricting to. It seemed to work on one of our systems. Kathy On 06/19/2015 04:37 PM, Jim Taylor wrote: Before I give up, after much searching and reading, and assume the answer is No.Is there a way to restrict a search like the one below to a particular library or library Node? http://evergreen.server.xxx/opac/extras/opensearch/1.1/-/marcxml-full/title/ faith+hope+love?count=100 Thanks. Jim -- Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 343-0128 kluss...@masslnc.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Upgrade error
Thanks, everything from 2.7.1-2.7.2 on ran without a hitch.
--
Jim Raney
On 5/20/2015 9:06 PM, Blake Henderson wrote:
Jim,
Take a peak at the sql file and on line 6 you will find:
SELECT evergreen.upgrade_deps_block_check('0892', :eg_version);
That function call attempts to insert into config.upgrade_log.
The config.upgrade_log table has a primary key constraint on the
column version
Meaning, only one row is allowed to have the version value set to
'0892'. This is to ensure the sanity of the database.
That value was set when you ran this script: 2.6.3-2.6.4-upgrade-db.sql
Looking through our upgrade scripts, we don't have a proper script to
upgrade from 2.6.4 to 2.7.0. This came up before. Take a look at the
discussion:
http://georgialibraries.markmail.org/search/?q=Upgrade+Script+for+2.6.4+to+2.7#query:Upgrade%20Script%20for%202.6.4%20to%202.7+page:1+mid:iddjybejzbczs45d+state:results
The 2.6.4 script would have brought your database up to '0895'
(
from line 157 inside of 2.6.3-2.6.4-upgrade-db.sql
SELECT evergreen.upgrade_deps_block_check('0895', :eg_version);
)
Compare the two files:
2.6.3-2.6.4-upgrade-db.sql
2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql
and you will find them to be exactly the same with the header comment
changed.
So your database already has all of the changes from 2.7.0-2.7.1 applied.
You can skip that file and start with
2.7.1-2.7.2-upgrade-db.sql
-Blake-
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On 5/20/2015 6:36 PM, Jim Raney wrote:
Hello all,
I'm test-upgrading a snapshot of a live evergreen system running
2.6.4 to 2.8.1. I've successfully run 2.6.3-2.7.0-upgrade-db.sql. I
then get the following:
root@evergreen:/home/opensrf/Evergreen-ILS-2.8.1/Open-ILS/src/sql/Pg#
psql -U postgres -f version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql evergreen
BEGIN
INSERT 0 1
psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:6: ERROR: duplicate
key value violates unique constraint upgrade_log_pkey
DETAIL: Key (version)=(0892) already exists.
CONTEXT: SQL statement INSERT INTO config.upgrade_log (version,
applied_to) VALUES (my_db_patch, my_applied_to)
PL/pgSQL function upgrade_deps_block_check line 22 at SQL statement
psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:19: ERROR: current
transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block
psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:108: ERROR: current
transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block
psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:112: ERROR: current
transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block
psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:149: ERROR: current
transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block
psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:152: ERROR: current
transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block
psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:154: ERROR: current
transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block
psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:157: ERROR: current
transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block
psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:159: ERROR: current
transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block
psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:160: ERROR: current
transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block
psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:161: ERROR: current
transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block
psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:162: ERROR: current
transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block
psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:163: ERROR: current
transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block
psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:164: ERROR: current
transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block
psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:166: ERROR: current
transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block
psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:167: ERROR: current
transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block
psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:168: ERROR: current
transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block
ROLLBACK
Did I make a mistake running 2.6.3-2.7.0-upgrade-db.sql? Or do I
have something else going on?
--
Jim Raney
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Upgrade error
Hello all, I'm test-upgrading a snapshot of a live evergreen system running 2.6.4 to 2.8.1. I've successfully run 2.6.3-2.7.0-upgrade-db.sql. I then get the following: root@evergreen:/home/opensrf/Evergreen-ILS-2.8.1/Open-ILS/src/sql/Pg# psql -U postgres -f version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql evergreen BEGIN INSERT 0 1 psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:6: ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint upgrade_log_pkey DETAIL: Key (version)=(0892) already exists. CONTEXT: SQL statement INSERT INTO config.upgrade_log (version, applied_to) VALUES (my_db_patch, my_applied_to) PL/pgSQL function upgrade_deps_block_check line 22 at SQL statement psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:19: ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:108: ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:112: ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:149: ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:152: ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:154: ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:157: ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:159: ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:160: ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:161: ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:162: ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:163: ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:164: ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:166: ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:167: ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block psql:version-upgrade/2.7.0-2.7.1-upgrade-db.sql:168: ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block ROLLBACK Did I make a mistake running 2.6.3-2.7.0-upgrade-db.sql? Or do I have something else going on? -- Jim Raney
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] undo-ing copy location edits
Entirely possible…I believe Symphony can do that so already have an example. One thing they didn’t account for, at the time anyway, was what happens if you change an item after that. Say you decide to pull it from Fossils and put it in “Really Old Guys” instead. What happens? Surprisingly, everybody in the group discussion at a conference seemed to think I was silly for even being concerned even though they admitted it might be a problem. Just something, seemingly obvious, but , apparently not, to take into account if you pursue development of such a feature. Jim From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Dan Scott Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 9:52 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] undo-ing copy location edits On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Holly Brennan haderh...@ci.homer.ak.us wrote: We just started using a shelving location of ‘Display’ for items that have been pulled from their normal locations in order to be… you guessed it… on display. (Currently it’s *Fossils*) Using a copy bucket to change the locations is SO much easier than it was with our former ILS. We love that. So, of course, it made me greedy. What if it was just as easy to return items to their former locations? I thought, what if, when we’re done with the display, we could click a button to change the location of the items from ‘Display’ back to the 7 or so locations where the individual items regularly live. That would be cool. No, MAGIC. If we held onto the copy bucket with all these items, it seems possible (to me). The change could be a temporary location change. Something like, Please change to this new location, but remember your old one, because you’re going back there someday. Has anyone else dreamed of this? Any developers want to chime in whether it’s possible? Yep, dreamed of it long ago for a slightly different context: putting items on reserve (which could change their location and call number, too). One possibility that now leaps to mind is to make use of the auditor tables that track every change to a given copy and call number (and many other entities in the database... at least until those auditor tables are purged). We could whip up a batch action along the lines of Reset copy location to previous location pretty easily, I think.
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Import MFHD Records
I am trying to move some serials from one system to Evergreen and everything I find seems to imply, if not outright say, I can import MFHD records but I cannot find anything that explains the process and not finding anything in Evergreen itself so thought I would throw myself on the mercy of the list.If I have the following, can I import the BIB and the MFHD info into Evergreen? If so, can you point me to documentation that explains the process or at least point me in the right direction? Thanks. Jim Taylor =LDR 00957cas a2200289 4500 =001 472274 =005 20050211075400.0 =008 840626\1977kyubr1p\\\u\\\a\eng\d =010 \\$asc79-3175 =022 1\$a0272-7226 =035 \\$a(Sirsi) THEO131629 =040 \\$aBTI$cBTI$dDLC$dNSD$dKAT =049 \\$aKATT =090 \\$aBX8201 =099 \\$aPeriodical. =222 \0$aCandle$b(Wilmore) =245 00$aCandle. =260 \\$a[Wilmore, KY :$bTask Force on Women in the Church],$c1977- =300 \\$av. ;$c28 cm. =362 0\$aVol. 1 (Sept. 1977)- =500 \\$aEquipping evangelical women within the United Methodist Church. =650 \0$aMethodists$vPeriodicals. =710 2\$aForum for Scriptural Christianity.$bTask Force on Women in the Church. =936 \\$aSept. 1977 (surrogate) =948 \\$a01/26/1995$b02/11/2005 =950 \\$a131629 =999 \\$aPeriodical.$wLCPER$c1$i1131629PER$d8/6/2009$e8/6/2009$kMI$lARCHIVES$mATS $rM$sY$tJOURNAL$u8/6/2009$zSSEPA =LDR 00563ny a2200169zn 4500 =001 26254 =035 \\$a(Sirsi) THEO131629 =008 006u8\\\0001uaund0091009 =852 \\$bATS$cPERIODI =853 \\$81$i(Month)$j(Day of Mon.)$k(year)$xz =866 31$81.1$av. 1 no. 1-6 - (1977-1978)$zBox 363 =866 31$81.2$av. 2 no. 1,3-4 - (1978-1979)$zBox 363 =866 31$81.3$av. 3 no. 1-5 - (1980-1981)$zBox 363 =866 31$81.4$av. 4 no. 1-3 - (1981)$zBox 363 =866 31$81.5$av. 5 no. 1 - (1982)$zBox 363 =866 31$81.6$av. 6 no. 1 - (1983)$zBox 363 =901 \\$aTHEO865
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Feature request : staff-client alert for patron account due to expire
Library directors have requested a feature that will alert staff at the circ desk that a patron account is due to expire. The color coding of the box around the patron name indicates different issues; however, staff don't always know what the colors mean. Some sort of message/alert or color coding to prompt staff to renew the patron's account would be helpful . Making it configurable so that consortium/libraries can set the time frame at which the alert appears would also be useful. Jim Frey Systems Emerging Technology Librarian Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Voice: (585) 394-8260 Fax: (585) 394-1935
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Alert flag appears with no alert
Not sure if this is a feature request or a bug -- a patron record was flagged for an alert even though there was no visible alert text. The 'alert' consisted of 3 spaces which went undetected by the staff. Deleting the spaces removed the flag. Evergreen v2.2.1 Jim Frey Systems Emerging Technology Librarian Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Voice: (585) 394-8260 Fax: (585) 394-1935
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Password reset uses phone number fails: EG2.2
PLS is testing Evergreen 2.2 and the password reset using the last four digits of the patron's telephone number is not working. It always responds with 4 random numbers regardless of whether true, false or unset. I was wondering if anyone else has encountered this problem or if there's some dependency I'm missing. Details of the environment are available at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1032387 Thanks, Jim Frey Systems Emerging Technology Librarian Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Voice: (585) 394-8260 Fax: (585) 394-1935
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Feature request: library settings to diferentiate views of Patron Registration and Patron Edit screens
Evergreen v2.2 has a library setting to select All Fields (the default) or Suggested Fields as the view for patron data (Default showing suggested patron registration fields ). In this version, it applies to both the patron registration screen and the patron edit screen. The ability to mask unnecessary fields (such as barred, active, claims-returned, etc) from the Patron Registration process is a valuable feature -- users shouldn't have to work around superfluous fields/widgets. However, when updating patron information, viewing all the fields as the default is best. As it currently stands, making the default Suggested Fields Only will probably confuse new users attempting to edit an existing patron's data. The general approach is good; just needs more settings/configuration. Jim Frey Systems Emerging Technology Librarian Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Voice: (585) 394-8260 Fax: (585) 394-1935
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Feature request/bug? : Remove time-of-day from patron DOB
In Evergreen 2.2 (final version), the patron Date Of Birth displays as 5/31/04 12:00AM in the patron search results list. The time-of-day is unnecessary, clutters the screen, and should be removed. Incidentally, this might have some connection to Timestamp on dob can make date appear off by a day (https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/838525). Jim Frey Systems Emerging Technology Librarian Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Voice: (585) 394-8260 Fax: (585) 394-1935
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Can Evergreen do this
At the moment I am researching for my church. Our library (small) is looking for different software. Evergreen and Koha would both work well. Additionally, our Heritage Committee is looking for a database for our historical material. Our congregation is 175 years old, that's a lot of stuff! What the committee wants to know is if Evergreen has a Special Collections kind of usage? If so, could we use Evergreen for both projects? I'm sorry to be so vague, but I don't know what questions I need to ask. If we can have a dialog, I may be able to get more specific. Thank You
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2, 1, 1 server cannot provide pages for 2.1.1 client
Sharp, Chris csharp@... writes: Can you paste it in a pastebin and share the link (better than attachment anyway for archival reasons)? http://paste.lisp.org/ Back again - I pasted a listing of all of the input I typed in during the OpenSRF and Evergreen installations at http://paste.lisp.org/+2Q2W. As I thought about this over the weekend, I think the problem is likely to be in the set of the opensrf_core.xml configuration. Here is what I want to have happen: Library is on A.library.local Staff client is on B.library.local Right now, login is fine if I am on A, where opensrf and evergreen are installed. And I technically log in (according to log entries) from B, but I don't get any of the EG web pages. In all of the configurations, I always specified localhost and public.localhost and private.localhost. Should I have specified A.library.local in one or more of those configuration files? I can paste the configuration files themselves, if that would help. I figure someone can compare mine to their working configuration, and let me know where I went off the rails. Thanks in advance. Jim Bond-Harris
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2, 1, 1 server cannot provide pages for 2.1.1 client
Jason Etheridge jason@... writes: No obvious errors in the logs, other that the 404 code indicating the file was not found. Are you doing any symlink trickery besides the link for the /openils/var/web/xul/server/? One possible gotcha is trying to put a particularly stamped version of the XUL files in a differently named directory. For example, let's say your client isn't actually stamped for rel_2_1_1, but for rel_2_1_0, and you took an existing /openils/var/web/xul/rel_2_1_1/ and renamed it to /openils/var/web/xul/rel_2_1_0/ to try to get things to match. However, there would then be files within the rel_2_1_0/ folder that have rel_2_1_1/ paths hard-coded. So your client might load rel_2_1_0/server/main/data.xul, which then tries to embed rel_2_1_1/server/main/ws_info.xul and fails. I don't think this matches what you've described so far, but it is one way to get a 404 for ws_info.xul. No, no symlinks except what was asked for in the install instructions. How would I tell if my staff client is 2.1.0 or 2.1.1? In the install, I specified 2.1.1, but looking at the client on the Windows side, all I see is 2.1. Then again, it would appear to be requesting rel_2_1_1 files, and that is how the directories are set on the server. One other little note: in the eg_conf file, I see the DocumentRoot value being **quoted** in the secure case (port 443), but **unquoted** for port 80! I think the quotes should not be there, but it did not seem to make a difference after I removed the quotes and restarted Apache. Does that detail sound suspicious to anyone else? Thanks, Jim
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Bug Tracking and Enhancment Requests
Hi Tim, We used to use the Drupal project module for this but it's not really well-supported anymore. I hear a lot of people use Storm but I don't have any personal experience: http://drupal.org/project/storm Do you do any CCK/Views work in-house? If you already have a Drupal user base, building your own simple ticket system using CCK, Views, Actions, and Triggers isn't too hard. HTH, Jim On 09/16/2011 09:50 AM, Tim Spindler wrote: We are beginning to look at software to track bug reports within our consortium and enhancement requests for potential future development by our member libraries. We are looking for something that would be fairly user friendly for our member libraries and allow us to easily group requests and report back to member libraries what actions might have been taken on the requests. I appreciate whatever suggestions you might have. We do run a Drupal site on wamp so if it can integrate with Drupal (with an eye for the ability to run on future versions of Drupal would be helpful.) -- 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 http://www.cwmars.org/ *P** Go Green - **Save a tree! Please don't print this e-mail unless it's really necessary.*
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Bug Tracking and Enhancment Requests
Hi Tim, One other suggestion - if you don't need Drupal integration, check out Redmine: On 09/16/2011 09:50 AM, Tim Spindler wrote: We are beginning to look at software to track bug reports within our consortium and enhancement requests for potential future development by our member libraries. We are looking for something that would be fairly user friendly for our member libraries and allow us to easily group requests and report back to member libraries what actions might have been taken on the requests. I appreciate whatever suggestions you might have. We do run a Drupal site on wamp so if it can integrate with Drupal (with an eye for the ability to run on future versions of Drupal would be helpful.) -- 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 http://www.cwmars.org/ *P** Go Green - **Save a tree! Please don't print this e-mail unless it's really necessary.*
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Bug Tracking and Enhancment Requests
Whoops! Sorry, a little too quick on the Send trigger this morning :) The link for Redmine is http://www.redmine.org/ It's RoR and I haven't deployed it, but I've used it as a developer on several dev projects over the past year or so. It's clean, simple, customizable, and has good email notification. And I'd +1 Galen's mention of investigating RT -- I've used that as a system administrator and was pretty pleased with its functionality, but that was several years ago. Good luck! Jim On 09/16/2011 09:50 AM, Tim Spindler wrote: We are beginning to look at software to track bug reports within our consortium and enhancement requests for potential future development by our member libraries. We are looking for something that would be fairly user friendly for our member libraries and allow us to easily group requests and report back to member libraries what actions might have been taken on the requests. I appreciate whatever suggestions you might have. We do run a Drupal site on wamp so if it can integrate with Drupal (with an eye for the ability to run on future versions of Drupal would be helpful.) -- 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 http://www.cwmars.org/ *P** Go Green - **Save a tree! Please don't print this e-mail unless it's really necessary.*
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Web site updates: Copyright notice and Donation links
Hi Dan, Sorry, I didn't mean those as things to resolve *before* implementing your suggested changes but instead as conversation starters for discussions going forward *after* those changes are made. Updated copyright info and a donation button -- go for it, let the donations commence! :) I like your suggestions about what additional content might go on that page in the future, too! Thanks, Jim ---Original Message--- From: Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net To: Jim Craner j...@chicagotech.org, Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils- gene...@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Web site updates: Copyright notice and Donation links Sent: 17 Jun '11 09:58 On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 02:32:37PM -0600, Jim Craner wrote: Hi all, First, congratulations to all of you in the community who have been working on the fiscal sponsorship and organizational sustainability issues -- I think that's a huge milestone, so way to go! The copyright/intellectual property status of website content is something that the Website Planning Team (http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=webteam) has started discussing recently. We want to encourage creation and contribution of content from as many community members as possible and encourage distribution and sharing of that content in the most user-friendly manner possible while respecting existing copyright and Creative Commons licensing provisions. Currently, we've bounced this issue to the greater Communications Committee for further discussion. If you have any thoughts or questions or would like to get involved, you can check out our Website Planning Team home page linked above or contact me off list. Great, I think I found the pertinent part of the wiki where the subject was raising; I'm glad people are thinking about explicit licensing of the content. Do you have any objections in the mean time to correcting the current statement on the Web site so that it's 1) not laughably outdated and 2) reflects that copyright over the content is held by more than GPLS? The donation button/content/process is great news and it's not something that the Website Team has discussed *at all* yet, but I have some conversation starters that I'd like to share. * We don't just want to slap a Donate button up on the site, tell folks *how* to donate, and call it a day. We need to tell folks *why* they should donate, *what* the EG community will do with the donations, and recognize *who* is donating. Okay. But there are people who have already indicated in this thread that they would like to donate to the project, presumably because they trust that the project will do something good with their donations, and presumably with no strings attached with respect to recognition. In all honesty, it will probably take quite some time to draft policies around all of these areas; do you have any objections in the interim to support opportunistic donations by slapping up a donation page (via a link under Contribute) with an introductory statement like: Funds donated to the Evergreen project will be directed by the Evergreen Oversight Board link to Board description in accordance with the goals of the Board, which are to: i. promote, support, and advance the development of the Evergreen software; ii. support and facilitate the growth of the international community of Evergreen users; and iii. foster and protect the Evergreen assets. So, in the interim, it would come down to trusting the Evergreen Oversight Board to allocate the donations wisely. Which seems reasonable to me. As you suggest below, there are annual expenses that we have to cover that until now have been covered by the good graces of various organizations like GPLS and Equinox - domain name renewals, servers, etc. * With donors comes the need for donor management. Donor recognition, donor cultivation, etc. are all issues that may not be recognized as important now, but will be in the future, so we should be careful to preserve as much information about our donors and their donations as we can. Although in the absence of an explicit privacy policy, in the interim we should perhaps be discarding as much information about our donors and their donations as we can, no? That said, a number of projects have a donor page listing donors in descending chronological order, with the option of being listed anonymously; that seems like enough to me, if we were to state that as a policy for now. Thoughts? Large-scale donations may be something different entirely; some projects recognize platinum / silver / bronze donors via icons links on the donation page. In the interim, in the happy event that an individual or organization wanted to donate some large amount (say, $500 or more) and get explicit
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Web site updates: Copyright notice and Donation links
Hi all, First, congratulations to all of you in the community who have been working on the fiscal sponsorship and organizational sustainability issues -- I think that's a huge milestone, so way to go! The copyright/intellectual property status of website content is something that the Website Planning Team (http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=webteam) has started discussing recently. We want to encourage creation and contribution of content from as many community members as possible and encourage distribution and sharing of that content in the most user-friendly manner possible while respecting existing copyright and Creative Commons licensing provisions. Currently, we've bounced this issue to the greater Communications Committee for further discussion. If you have any thoughts or questions or would like to get involved, you can check out our Website Planning Team home page linked above or contact me off list. The donation button/content/process is great news and it's not something that the Website Team has discussed *at all* yet, but I have some conversation starters that I'd like to share. * We don't just want to slap a Donate button up on the site, tell folks *how* to donate, and call it a day. We need to tell folks *why* they should donate, *what* the EG community will do with the donations, and recognize *who* is donating. * With donors comes the need for donor management. Donor recognition, donor cultivation, etc. are all issues that may not be recognized as important now, but will be in the future, so we should be careful to preserve as much information about our donors and their donations as we can. * A donate button gets better results if it's part of a larger call to action. Maybe it's one part of an overall drive to have everyone contribute as they can - whether that's code, money, documentation, testing time, etc. Maybe it's a drive for a specific fundraising target -- pre-paying for ten years of evergreen-ils.org and related domain registrations, or paying the internship salary for a Google Summer of Code intern. Maybe it's just telling the story of an awesome scrappy open source ILS project that is growing rapidly and is seeking funds to build a solid organizational infrastructure to support future growth. Maybe it's a way folks can get a free T-shirt and a warm fuzzy feeling for a $30 PayPal donation. Anyway, congrats again to all of you who have worked on the organizational issues! Thanks, Jim ---Original Message--- From: Steve Wills steve.wi...@lyrasis.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Web site updates: Copyright notice and Donation links Sent: 16 Jun '11 13:24 I too am anxious to help test the donate button. My cats have offered some of their kibbies as well! A link to a donation page with the various options makes the most sense to me for sure. Happy to help flush out links as needed! Congratulations you Evergreenies From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [open-ils-general- boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Lori Bowen Ayre [lori.a...@galecia.com] Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 3:24 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Web site updates: Copyright notice and Donation links Thanks, Dan. I'm in favor of the footer changes you recommend. And I'd like to see the same thing on the Evergreen OPACs. Shall we have one Donate button link to a webpage that provides all of the options available for donating (with an explanation of why one might choose one option over another). Lori On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.netmailto:d...@coffeecode.net wrote: Hi, I'd like to suggest the following changes to the Evergreen web site. 1) Change the footer of the web site from © 2008 GPLS | Partially funded by the Library Services Technology Act through the Institute of Museum and Library Services. to © 2008-2011 GPLS and others as there have been many contributors from outside of GPLS to the current web site - at the same time, this enables us to recognize GPLS for originating the Evergreen project. Ideally and others would actually list who holds copyright over the website content, but that's probably a crazy pipedream that only a lawyer would chase :) 2) Now that the fiscal sponsorship agreement with the Software Freedom Conservancy is official, replace the getting-long-in-the-tooth Conference logo with Donate links, per the following information from Bradley Kuhn, director of the Software Freedom Conservancy: You can begin soliciting donations via your website (and elsewhere). Here are the methods we support: (a) Online services: PayPal and Google Checkout
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Website Updated
Hi Anoop, The site looks great! Many thanks to you and the rest of the website improvement team who helped out on the overhaul! -jc ---Original Message--- From: Atre, Anoop S anoop.a...@mnsu.edu To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Website Updated Sent: 02 May '11 12:44 Hope everyone had a great conference! Just wanted to make a note that the website has been updated and you will find things a bit different from yesterday, hopefully for the better. I noticed that I had to clear my cache to get the menu working so some of you might see the same glitch. Other than that everything seems to be working fine, the main page now pulls the latest two articles from the official blog and the right side features the latest community blog posts. In addition there has been a major over-haul of the downloads page, other changes are mostly content revision and additional menu links. You might be interested to know that the search on the main pages (not the dokuwiki pages) searches multiple sources, it has been for a while but some of us hadn't noticed it right away : ) Feel free to post your thoughts/suggestions or if you find any issues to the list. Cheers - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Anoop Atre IS Developer Integrator, MnPALS PH: 507.389.5060 OF: 3022 Memorial Library (Office-ML 3022) -- Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens ~ Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** RE: Using an Ubuntu (or KTL) server for Evergreen
I would assume they are talking about installing Ubuntu Linux in VirtualBox, then installing Evergreen on that. Installing VirtualBox and Ubuntu on a PC should take all of 30 minutes, but I have no idea how difficult installing Evergreen would be as I know little about it. I would think it would give you a good idea about the features and functions of Evergreen, but depending on the speed of the PC may not give you a clue about overall functionality. http://www.virtualbox.org/ --Jim Maroon Head of Public Services Dynix Administrator Lawton Public Library Lawton, OK -Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org on behalf of Don Butterworth Sent: Thu 2/17/2011 12:40 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Using an Ubuntu (or KTL) server for Evergreen Hi Everyone, At my library, I've been pushing for many months to get an Evergreen installation up and running, so that we can give it a test drive. At one point we were told that a dedicated server would become available this month, but a new use has been found for it. Now the proposal from our IT department is to use an Ubuntu (or TKL) virtual server which apparently cannot be put in place until the Summer or Fall of this year. As a cataloger, I interpret the phrase use an Ubuntu (or TKL) virtual server as wawa wawa wa wa wa wawa. So here are my questions. Does the use of a virtual server make sense? Are there problems we need to know about before moving this direction? How much time would it take for an IT professional to create this installation? How much IT time would be involved in maintaining the system? Will this give a realistic test of Evergreen's capabilities? What alternate methods are available that might minimize IT involvement so we can start testing in a more timely manner with our own settings, parameters and live data? Please don't get the wrong impression. Our IT group is terrific. They are just under tremendous pressure and a lot of their time has to be spent putting out fires. Even though this might start out as a test, if it is successful, I am hoping to move the technical services components directly into full production. So if it is possible, it would be good to start out with a testing environment that can become a permanent environment. But that is not a deal breaker. Depending on the cost, at some point we might be interested in a cloud solution. The bib records we have on our server now is probably in the 700,000 range. Any insights you might have would be very much appreciated. If the answers are too technical for me, I do have access to some interpreters. Besides, I did once stay at a Holiday Inn Express. Don Don Butterworth Faculty Associate / Librarian III B.L. Fisher Library Asbury Theological Seminary (859) 858-2227 don.butterwo...@asburyseminary.edu winmail.dat
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Web team user stories
Hi everyone, Thanks to everyone who contributed new user stories for the Web Team's strategic planning effort! The breadth of suggestions - and your alliterative names - were fantastic. I believe I've added all of the suggestions so far to our wiki page: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=webteam.visitor_analysis Please take a look and see if there are any additional user roles you can think of, or any additional possible stories for the existing roles (or anything I missed from the list). The Web Team and Communications Committee will be jointly reviewing this page during our January 5th conference call. Thanks again and Happy New Year! -Jim
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen web site strategic go als and user stories
Hi Steve, Thanks for the ideas! I've added them, as well as Elizabeth McKinney's Vanessa Vendor example, to the wiki page on the Evergreen-ILS site that we're using to track suggestions: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=webteam.visitor_analysis I'll be trying to keep the page updated with everyone's suggestions over the next couple of weeks. Thanks again! Jim ---Original Message--- From: steve sheppard ssh...@gmail.com To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen web site strategic goals and user stories Sent: 22 Dec '10 12:39 Kathy Lussier and all, Per Kathy's request for more Personas and User Stories, I hereby submit the following for comment: ** Dora Documentor works in a regional public library system that uses Evergreen ILS. She is a potential volunteer for reviewing and updating Evergreen documents. Dora is knowledgeable about Evergreen and is familiar with the available documentation. Dora has a sharp eye: she has issues with the existing documentation, has noticed various errors, and even made notes about needed corrections. Dora would like to help but doesn't know how to get her updates into Evergreen. Dora has access to the usual set of Microsoft Office tools. ** Tara Translator works in a regional public library system that uses Evergreen ILS. She is a potential volunteer for translating Evergreen documents. Tara is proud to be multilingual and is fluent in English, and Elbonian, and even a little Slobbovian. Tara is knowledgeable about Evergreen and is familiar with the available documentation. Tara believes she could translate parts of the documentation into Elbonian, and could even help with Slobbovian. Tara has never written technical documentation before, though she is familiar with the process of translating written documents. Tara would like to help but doesn't know how to get her updates into Evergreen. Tara has access to the usual set of Microsoft Office tools. Cheers! Steve Sheppard
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem with rscel.evergreen- ils.org redirecting to www.rscel.evergreen-il s.org
It appears that our host has changed the way DNS redirects are handled. I'll investigate tomorrow. Thanks for letting us know, Jim ---Original Message--- From: Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem with rscel.evergreen-ils.org redirecting to www.rscel.evergreen- ils.org Sent: 12 Nov '10 02:32 http://rscel.evergreen-ils.org/ currently redirects to http://www.rscel.evergreen-ils.org/, which is bad because that then 404s. I'm not sure who can fix the redirect but it would be great to get it resolved.
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] IRC developer meeting: Documentation - more followup
On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 13:21 -0400, Soulliere, Robert wrote: 2) Web committee member needs to email the DIG list requesting a contact. Anything develop on this front? Are the questions from the Web committee more policy or technical questions? Is the Web Committee thinking about finding a permanent home for the documentation or figuring out how to link to it? Could this resolve the integration between evergreen-ils.org and the manual issue which came up at the meeting? Hi Robert, Visiting the official (and authoritative and most up-to-date) documentation is a high priority for EG website visitors, so the Web Team wants to make sure we acknowledge that in our planning efforts. As we plan for a revamped, centralized EG portal, we'd like to support the DIG team's authoring and publication processes in whatever way makes the most sense. Whether that's just linking to your existing documentation repository or providing community authoring/collaboration tools on the primary EG site or something else entirely... What's the best way for me to discuss this with DIG members? Do you have regular conference calls or IRC meetings that I could join in on sometime? Or should we start an email thread on the DIG email list? Thanks! Jim Thanks, Robert This E-mail contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the individual or entity named in the message. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is prohibited. If this communication was received in error, please notify the sender by reply E-mail immediately, and delete and destroy the original message.
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Drupal vs. Joomla
Hilary, For what it's worth, I have been evaluating our options here, and I believe we will be going with Drupal as well. Whether we go with Evergreen or another ILS, Drupal seems to be better-supported interacts with more software than Joomla. Plus, there's plenty of reference material out there to use. Jim Peterson Technology Coordinator Goodnight Memorial Library 203 S. Main St. Franklin, KY 42134 (270) 586-8397 www.gmpl.org Tweet me @GMLGeek Library Technology Blog I'm on Facebook, too! On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 16:38 -0400, Hilary Caws-Elwitt wrote: Hi all, We're one of the Pennsylvania public libraries that are transitioning from III Millennium to Evergreen within the next year. Our website is built on Joomla, which I'm happy with and have been using forever (since it was Mambo!). But I've put off for far too long migrating to J 1.5. Is it worth considering biting the bullet and migrating to Drupal instead? It would be a lot of work, but it seems like the Evergreen community, as well as the library world in general, sees Drupal as the CMS of choice. I saw the Drupal module which authenticates against Evergreen, which could be incredibly useful. Opinions/advice? Thanks in advance!
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] local install for testing
On Apr 14, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Sharp, Chris wrote: Hmm, VirtualBox OSE (open source edition) as packaged in Ubuntu 9.10 has everything that I've needed for creating and testing Evergreen images. I think it's missing sound and USB drivers(?) but those seem pretty useless in this particular context. It has actually been a couple of years since I used OSE - maybe I'll give it another shot. When I tried it before, networking was a huge headache and there were some other limitations that I can't recall at the moment - I was still very much a newbie at the time :-). Thanks for mentioning this. Chris Sharp PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, Georgia 30345 (404) 235-7147 csh...@georgialibraries.org http://pines.georgialibraries.org/ - Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net wrote: On 14 April 2010 11:16, Sharp, Chris csh...@georgialibraries.org wrote: Be aware though that Virtualbox has a free beer version and a free speech version. Unfortunately, I prefer the free as in beer version, which provides a lot of the extras you'll probably want for your project, Lori. Sometimes practicality forces us F/OSS end users to compromise a little bit :-) The biggest problem I've had with it lately is USB printing. I can get Windows XP to recognize the printer install the drivers, but it won't print at all. The job just stays in the queue. This is with Xubuntu 8.04, 9.04 9.10, and XP SP3 + newer updates, using a Citizen thermal printer. Jim Peterson Technology Coordinator Goodnight Memorial Library 203 S. Main St. Franklin, KY 42134 (270) 586-8397 www.gmpl.org Library Technology Blog Twitter: @GMLGeek and on Facebook!
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Cataloging resources
Hello All, I have installed Evergreen on a testing server here at our library, and I am wondering if there are any training resources out there for people new to the Evergreen system. As TLC is the only system I've had to deal with, I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to put some records into our database for testing. Any help would be appreciated as the Evergreen documentation has yet to be written on this subject. Thanks in advance, Jim Peterson Technology Coordinator Goodnight Memorial Library 203 S. Main St. Franklin, KY 42134 (270) 586-8397 www.gmpl.org Tweet me @GMLGeek Library Technology Blog I'm on Facebook, too!
