Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] url checker

2011-07-01 Thread Ben Ostrowsky
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Duimovich, George george.duimov...@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca wrote: ** It works pretty well but there's lots of room for improvement. A few sites (e.g. Sciencedirect.com) detect the url checker and don't like robots so will return a bad request instead of something

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Utilities to make zips.txt from your patron database

2011-05-11 Thread Ben Ostrowsky
elect_zips will find the most popular city/state combination for each ZIP code in your database. enrich_zips will add county names (given a copy of the Geonames database, which is at http://download.geonames.org/export/zip/US.zip) and spit out data in zips.txt format, warning you about mismatches

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Functions for updating the call number label or owning_lib associated with a copy

2011-04-14 Thread Ben Ostrowsky
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Thomas Berezansky tsb...@mvlc.org wrote: Hopefully without the HTML wrapping? ;) Oh, for heaven's sake... yes. The Google netbook is pretty awesome, but leads to some wacky workarounds. -- Two functions for updating copy information (call number label and

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Functions for updating the call number label or owning_lib associated with a copy

2011-04-13 Thread Ben Ostrowsky
I needed these functions and they didn't exist in Evergreen, so I made them. Now, if y'all approve, they *will* exist in Evergreen. Attached as a SQL script to create them. Ben !-- saved from url=(0058)http://www.esilibrary.com/~ben/volume_update_functions.sql -- htmlheadmeta

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Website Redesign Patch

2011-04-08 Thread Ben Ostrowsky
It looks pretty clean! Chrome on OS X (10.5) seems to have a quirk with the Community Blog Posts box overlapping the Evergreen News shaded areas ( http://plixi.com/p/90547328), but the text is still visible in both areas, so that's all good. Thanks! Ben

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Apache redirection with skins

2011-04-05 Thread Ben Ostrowsky
trunk for OpenILS::WWW::Redirect and eg_vhost.conf. I've tested this on a 2.0.2 system and it seems to redirect as desired. I'm looking forward to hearing what y'all think. Regards, Ben Ostrowsky redirect_patch.diff Description: Binary data

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Correction to alt_holds_print.html

2011-04-04 Thread Ben Ostrowsky
Hi folks, Here's a minor correction to alt_holds_print.html that will reduce the number of 404s in your Apache logs and may also add functionality. Regards, Ben Ostrowsky alt_holds_print.html.diff Description: Binary data

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] reingest all records

2010-09-24 Thread Ben Ostrowsky
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Grant Johnson fgjohn...@upei.ca wrote: What's the best practice to re-ingest ALL records that are not deleted=true? http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=scratchpad:random_magic_spells#reingesting_bib_records ...but modify the SQL to 'select id from

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] reingest all records

2010-09-24 Thread Ben Ostrowsky
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Grant Johnson fgjohn...@upei.ca wrote: Sending these to request open-ils.ingest open-ils.ingest.full.biblio.record re-reads biblio.record_entry.marc and updates metabib.full_rec and metabib.real_full_rec. I believe you're right; the most reasonable course of

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Setting focus to the search box

2010-09-07 Thread Ben Ostrowsky
I'm not sure whether this would break anyone's expectations, but I suspect it might gratify more than it confuses: Index: Open-ILS/web/opac/skin/default/xml/body.xml === --- Open-ILS/web/opac/skin/default/xml/body.xml (revision

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Fixing 123 Anywhere St null in selfcheck receipts

2010-08-17 Thread Ben Ostrowsky
Hi all, The attached patch will let EG (1.6 and trunk, I believe) correctly handle both one-line and two-line org unit mailing addresses in selfcheck receipts. Regards, Ben selfcheck-address-fix.diff Description: Binary data

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] A minor bit of clarification in eg_vhost.conf

2010-08-09 Thread Ben Ostrowsky
This change will make it a bit more clear that we're not looking for a patron barcode/PIN in the Selfcheck Login screen (and make the wording consistent across similar login pages). Regards, Ben eg_vhost.conf.diff Description: Binary data

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Fixing a typo in 950.data.seed-values.patch (I think)

2010-04-02 Thread Ben Ostrowsky
I think the attached patch fixes an unintentional duplication. If I've misunderstood, please ignore me. :) Ben -- Please join us for the Evergreen 2010 International Conference! It is being held April 20 - 23, 2010 at the Amway Grand Hotel and Convention Center, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Setting default of 2 on asset.copy.loan_duration and asset.copy.fine_level

2009-12-11 Thread Ben Ostrowsky
Since 'normal' is a sane default, this patch sets the defaults for asset.copy.loan_duration and asset.copy.fine_level. It also adds brief comments explicating what the integer values mean. Ben -- Please come by and visit the Equinox team and learn more about Evergreen at booth 2064, ALA

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] The most trivial patch ever

2009-12-11 Thread Ben Ostrowsky
Ah, I forgot to include the README patch as an attachment. Here we go. Ben -- Please come by and visit the Equinox team and learn more about Evergreen at booth 2064, ALA MidWinter, January 15-18, 2010. README.patch Description: Binary data

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] The most trivial patch ever

2009-12-11 Thread Ben Ostrowsky
Actually, the README was a bit out of date anyway, so here's a better patch that now mentions ubuntu-karmic among other options. Ben -- Please come by and visit the Equinox team and learn more about Evergreen at booth 2064, ALA MidWinter, January 15-18, 2010. Index: README

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] The most trivial patch ever

2009-12-10 Thread Ben Ostrowsky
Index: README === --- README (revision 15131) +++ README (working copy) @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Issue the following commands as the root user to install prerequisites using the Makefile.install prerequisite installer,

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] generate_circ_notices.pl patch (bugfix in handling ampersands in patrons' first names; making profile name available in print-notice XSLT)

2009-11-23 Thread Ben Ostrowsky
This change allows using [% user.profile.name %] in the overdue_combined_xml template, which in turn makes it easier to use different language when addressing various kinds of users, such as students (who might care about their transcript being held) and faculty (who might not). It also

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] In-DB documentation for actor.hours_of_operation

2009-10-23 Thread Ben Ostrowsky
Since this wasn't obvious to me at first, here's a patch spelling out what dow_0, dow_1, etc. refer to on the calendar. Ben 005.schema.actors.sql.patch Description: Binary data

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] what is the latest version of Evergreen

2008-10-21 Thread Ben Ostrowsky
Hi Vijay, We've got a release candidate for 1.4, but the newest released version is 1.2.3.1. Regards, Ben

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Error when trying to create a new patron record

2008-10-12 Thread Ben Ostrowsky
I'm trying to create a new patron record, and I get the Postgres error 'duplicate key violates unique constraint usr_address_pkey'. The relevant entries from /var/log/messages (with postgres query logging turned on) are at http://paste.lisp.org/display/68371. Any thoughts? We recently

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Typo in rdetail_copyinfo.xml

2008-04-20 Thread Ben Ostrowsky
/openils/var/web/opac/skin/default/xml/rdetail/rdetail_copyinfo.xml includes the text nowrap='nowarp' as an attribute of the td that holds the name of the status (as a column header). I haven't found a browser that fails to render it properly as a result, but just in case there's a browser that

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Trivial update to opac.dtd

2008-02-13 Thread Ben Ostrowsky
I'm guessing that !ENTITY footer.copyright Copyright #xA9; 2006 Georgia Public Library Service now ought to be !ENTITY footer.copyright Copyright #xA9; 2006-2008 Georgia Public Library Service Ben

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Updates for 1.2.0 install wikidocs

2007-10-25 Thread Ben Ostrowsky
I'm installing 1.2.0 on Ubuntu 7.10 and have these notes: In the general 7.04 instructions, the latest version of libjs is now 1.7.0, and it unpacks into a directory called js (not libjs). It seems to work just fine, though. In

Re: SPAM: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Full OpenSRF over HTTP

2007-10-19 Thread Ben Ostrowsky
This new setting would tell the server process that it should ignore that error condition, and use the new client ID as the endpoint at which it should spew results. I'm still not sure what to call it, but I don't think portable hit's the nail on the head. However, thanks, and keep the

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Should the Feature Tree use the RFP Writer's Guide?

2007-10-09 Thread Ben Ostrowsky
to http://open-ils.org/listserv.html, which is no longer accurate. If I should happen to earn wiki access, I'd be able to change that to http://open-ils.org/listserv.php. Regards, Ben Ostrowsky