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On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 12:30 PM, Bill Ott <b...@grpl.org> wrote:
I'm not sure this if this is a bug, as I haven't totally wrapped my mind
around it, but we've had some bizarre behavior that I wanted to put on the
I'm not sure this if this is a bug, as I haven't totally wrapped my mind
around it, but we've had some bizarre behavior that I wanted to put on
the radar.
Ever since we upgraded to 2.11 in Dec., we've had occasional situations
where our automated book drops would start reporting the wrong OU
Please excuse the cross posting.
I'll be brief here, please see the link for more information.
The Grand Rapids Public Library is seeking a Systems
Administrator/Developer to join our team.
http://www.grpl.org/work-at-grpl-library-systems-administrator/
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On 1/26/12 9:36 PM, David Busby wrote:
Bill,
You're running them with the action-trigger-runner.pl correct?
The beauty of 'circ.missing_pieces.letter.print', is that it happens
immediately, regardless whether action_trigger_runner.pl is being run.
In fact, the start_time happens even
I'm trying to create an action/trigger event, nearly identical to
'circ.missing_pieces.letter.print', in fact I've started by cloning
that. I have everything setup the same as that event_definition, but am
using the hook for 'checkout.damaged'. The event is created, but it's
never processed.
On 8/18/11 10:31 AM, Ben Shum wrote:
Short follow-up, just tested our script on a freshly restored test copy
of our DB and hit this error twice now:
psql:Evergreen-ILS-2.1-RC2/Open-ILS/src/sql/Pg/2.0-2.1-upgrade-db.sql:6003:
ERROR: function force_unicode_normal_form(text, unknown) does not
On 5/12/11 4:18 AM, John H wrote:
Hello again Anoop
Thanks for all your time yesterday. I'm afraid I had to spend another
hour this morning fixing OpenSRF back to the stage we were at
yesterday - the Server returned no data error was back when I tried
the math.add test, although I was able to
Bill Erickson said the following on 12/06/2010 11:03 AM:
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Bill Ott b...@grpl.org
mailto:b...@grpl.org wrote:
We sometimes encounter disputes over when exactly a new library
card was issued. Particularly when it comes to lost cards and
checkouts
We sometimes encounter disputes over when exactly a new library card was
issued. Particularly when it comes to lost cards and checkouts on
reportedly lost cards. While we can gleen much of the information from
the auditor tables, it's still not an exact science.
Long ago I mentioned the
Grant Johnson said the following on 09/10/2010 01:42 PM:
Hey,
We have just opened up out DVD's and Video's to allow them to
circulate.
Is there anyway to tell the system to restrict the total number of
items checked out by typ
Are you using in DB circ rules? If not, there is a Javascript
Attached is a very minor patch replacing a missing apostrophe in
rdetail.js. This is against rel_1_6_0
Index: Open-ILS/web/opac/skin/default/js/rdetail.js
===
--- Open-ILS/web/opac/skin/default/js/rdetail.js (revision 16493)
+++
With the 856 URI display options in 1.6, we're having issues when a
library system purchases a batch of new online resources. If a record
already exists for a title, we'd like to simply bring in the required
856 tag(s) and add them to the record, keeping the existing tag(s)
unchanged. For a
Mike Rylander said the following on 05/05/2010 12:34 PM:
Thanks to Dan Scott's great presentation on BibTemplate at the
Evergreen conference,
If anyone missed it, the video is now available:
http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=eg10
More session videos coming soon...
Luca Iacono said the following on 03/31/2010 08:11 AM:
How do I set up user and password for accessing z39.50 servers ? thanks
While OCLC requires an account, there are many free servers you can
utillize. The following describes the setup to add additional targets,
as well as a link to an
On 3/28/10 6:36 PM, Dan Scott wrote:
I had a few minutes to pull together some thoughts on what we might want
from a self-serve password reset service and how it would be implemented
relatively securely at
http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev:proposal:self_serve_password_reset
This
Benjamin Shum said the following on 03/10/2010 04:11 PM:
Hey Grant,
We've seen that error pop up on our Mac staff clients (and Linux ones) as well
since 1.6.0.0. Our current Mac client users are using a 1.6.0.2 that I
packaged together using a fresh source from our production server before
Bill Ott said the following on 03/10/2010 04:15 PM:
Benjamin Shum said the following on 03/10/2010 04:11 PM:
Hey Grant,
We've seen that error pop up on our Mac staff clients (and Linux
ones) as well since 1.6.0.0. Our current Mac client users are using
a 1.6.0.2 that I packaged together
Sue Hopkins said the following on 03/05/2010 11:46 AM:
Is there a default username and password that I can seem to find?
Since I cannot run the client, I can't find a way to add users and/or
user groups.
The default user/password for a clean install is: admin / open-ils
On 3/2/10 6:38 PM, Sharp, Chris wrote:
Hey all,
I just upgraded my VirtualBox instance of Evergreen 1.6.0.2 to 1.6.0.3 and
noticed the new /openils/etc directory, which *seems* to mirror the contents of
/openils/conf... Could someone please explain the difference and maybe some
thinking
On 3/2/10 6:55 PM, Sharp, Chris wrote:
Heh. Yep - that's what happened :-). I got rolling and didn't follow the
upgrade instructions to the letter...
So, the follow-up question, then... I've synced the /openils/conf and
/openils/etc directories so their contents are identical. Will that
with it, including my sign-off) is
maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
this project or the open source license(s) involved.
Signed-off-by: Bill Ott b...@grpl.org
Index: result_common.js
Mike Rylander said the following on 02/01/2010 10:57 AM:
I've gone back through my pending-patch list, and I believe I've
applied all that are safe to apply. There are 3 or 4 remaining, but I
don't feel safe applying them without a chance to test, and we're
already past critical mass on bug
This seems like the perfect place to mention that Mike will be
presenting Evergreen SQL 101 at the 2010 Evergreen Conference
(http://www.evergreen2010.org). Look for a full schedule of
presentations coming out in the very near future!
Dan Wells said the following on 01/19/2010 09:45 PM:
On 1/14/10 4:46 PM, Dan Wells wrote:
Hello all,
We have noticed a small bug in the optional automatic voiding of Lost Fees.
The transaction is not marked as finished, as I believe it should be if there
are no other billings (it still shows in the LOST area on the user's account).
I am
Josh Stompro said the following on 12/15/2009 03:06 PM:
Joe Atzberger wrote:
In the course of integrating Asterisk telephony with Evergreen's
action/trigger notice structure, we have encountered a problem that
you may have already come across, or possibly even solved. The
question is
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Bill Ott b...@grpl.org
mailto:b...@grpl.org wrote:
Josh Stompro said the following on 12/15/2009 03:06 PM:
Joe Atzberger wrote:
In the course of integrating Asterisk telephony with Evergreen's
action/trigger notice structure, we have
Josh Stompro wrote:
Hello, Back in Feb 2008 there were a couple messages by Bill Ott and
Niles Ingalls about telephone notification.
http://markmail.org/message/ja22gm3tvgvqxk5t
http://markmail.org/message/cm45uy2g2waxxvo7
I'm curious if any progress has been made in this area.
We've been
Melissa Belvadi said the following on 10/28/2009 11:43 AM:
This is also high on our dev list. We would like not just the call
number but also location and status, so patrons don't waste time
looking on the wrong set of shelves, or for a book that's checked out.
I've done some work in this
Wills,Steve said the following on 10/02/2009 12:41 PM:
I am having trouble getting my staff client to see new Org Types and
Unit I have setup. I am disappointed but understanding of bib records
that appear orphaned by my change, but how can I get my staff client to
accept the new world order?
Karen Collier said the following on 09/23/2009 11:52 AM:
We're running the Evergreen (1.4) staff client mostly on PCs, but we're also
running it on a few Macs, and we've noticed that neither the Alt or F-key
keyboard shortcuts work on the Macs. Does anyone know of any add-ons or
workarounds
Continuing to look for our anomalous reshelving times...
Should the AND circ.id IS NULL, in the second portion of the query, be
part of the WHERE instead? Isolating and running only this portion, the
JOIN seems to add a null circ row to every item.
SELECT cp.id
snip
I also just located 37 copies that have never circulated (i.e. no
action.circulation record), but have a status of reshelving. I would
think that these should have been caught as newly created items.
Those that I've looked at seem to be reference items that were
apparently checked in
We've found some oddities in the times at which items would go from
reshelving to available. I've located a couple issues, and am wondering
what others think about the process.
I've found some items selected by the query that I can't explain. It's
a pretty complex query, but I believe the
Mike Rylander wrote:
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Bill Ott b...@grpl.org wrote:
We've found some oddities in the times at which items would go from
reshelving to available. I've located a couple issues, and am wondering
what others think about the process.
I've found some items
Dan Scott wrote:
2009/9/2 John van Rassel jvanras...@innisfil.ca:
I have tried running this, and it still doesn't find anything. The search just
sits and spins.
I also did do the autogen.
Hmm. Any errors being reported in the PostgresSQL server log or in the
Evergreen logs? It's
Mike Rylander said the following on 07/15/2009 08:21 PM:
The advanced search form, being (partly) static, gets populated by the
browser when you hit back (that's the first set). However, the code
also parses the URL to populate the search form when coming from a
basic search result. Thus,
In both the staff client and Firefox (I'm sure that's not a coincidence)
using the back button (or Go Back) from an Advanced search, results in
the search rows being double populated. I've been able to replicate
this in pretty much every skin, from PINES, to Conifer, to UPEI, to
TADL. The
Grant Johnson said the following on 05/27/2009 08:42 AM:
Where might I find the AUTO-GENERATED string for auto-generated TCN's during
Z39-50 import.
Can't find it with a grep...
Is it in the database?
Indeed it is, assuming you're looking for the following.
Found in:
Grant Johnson said the following on 03/17/2009 01:01 PM:
Simple question,
Can I hide the Place Hold link for items that are not checked out in search
results screen?
Or just remove it completely?
Nothing comes to mind to remove the link from titles based on copy
attributes, but you can
Bill Erickson wrote:
Bill,
I'd like to look at incorporating this code into the repository. Are the
various attachments to the previous emails still accurate? Better yet,
would it be possible to get a unified diff of your changes (against 1.2 is
fine)? :)
Attached is the diff against the
Dan Scott wrote:
I think it'll need more than just I18n, unfortunately. It's currently
set up to blow away the excerpt added content that other AC modules
provide,
I don't remember seeing any excerpts provided by Syndetics so far - if
they do provide excerpts, perhaps they are few and
Bill Ott said the following on 01/22/2009 08:35 PM:
Oh, and a final note. I don't have it worked in here yet, but
originally I
mentioned the voided charge by date. For us, we only accept the
item back
for 1 year post due-date. After that, you can give it back, but we
still
charge
Jason Etheridge wrote:
I'm back to plugging away at this, and I have it cleaned up a bit and
tested. All seems to be working except for this call:
OpenSRF::Utils-noo_es_time($circ-due_date)
Hey Bill, where is that? I see no reference to it at all in trunk.
Line 195.
Jason Etheridge wrote:
I'm back to plugging away at this, and I have it cleaned up a bit and
tested. All seems to be working except for this call:
OpenSRF::Utils-noo_es_time($circ-due_date)
Hey Bill, where is that? I see no reference to it at all in trunk.
Oh, maybe I just
Mike Rylander said the following on 01/14/2009 10:06 AM:
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Brandon W. Uhlman
brandon.uhl...@bclibrary.ca wrote:
Hi, all.
When I load my shiny new 1.4 OPAC, the 'Now searching' display won't display
the name of the org unit I'm searching. However, the orgtree
Before we're completely buried in snow, I thought I'd show my work and
get some initial comments.
Short story:
1) void lost on checkin is in the works (but see below)
2) maybe? ;) depends on what you're looking for
3) they generally are, however, I have an opinion about the
Less-short story:
Void lost on checkin can mean a few different things. There are
normally two different generated charges, lost processing fee and lost
replacement charge, and either one or both might need to stick around
depending on circumstances. So, that's part of what is being taken
In researching some options for handling our billing of lost items, I
was delighted to find the 'circ.void_overdue_on_lost' setting.
I was going to develop a couple similar options, such as:
'circ.void_lost_on_checkin', to remove lost charges if an item was
subsequently returned (perhaps
For training I used a 1.2.2 install that seems to cache the barcode if
placing consecutive holds in the staff client. In production, under
1.2.4.0, this doesn't happen. Staff would like me to put this back, but
I can't seem to figure out what's different or why it's happening in the
first
David Kane wrote:
Has anyone done this?
I see that there is a thread
here: http://list.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-dev/2007-April/000617.html
I am going to give it a shot now, but has anyone got any further? - we
could confer.
Yes, although we pulled the bib records through
Has anyone run reshelving_complete.srfsh from trunk?
I was playing with the circ.reshelving_complete.interval value within
actor.org_unit_setting, under a 1.2.x release, when I received the
following, which doesn't seem version related, but just SQL syntax...(?)
Status: *** Call to
Mike Rylander said the following on 07/18/2008 09:00 PM:
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Karen Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I didn't see anything more about this on the list. So, was wondering if
anything more happened with it if there was a version number to look
for this type of
Brandon W. Uhlman said the following on 07/17/2008 05:53 PM:
Hi, all.
We have a user who is unable to access the Evergreen OPAC on her older
Mac, running OS X 10.3, Safari 1.3.2 on dialup. Has anyone tried using
Safari 1.3 with Evergreen, and experienced either positive or negative
results?
The namespaces in your BRE appear to match the various samples of BRE
that I have on my system, so I don't think it's a problem with
marc2bre.pl. I think that's pretty stock output for yaz-marcdump.
Yep, took them to another server and direct_ingest.pl handles them fine :-(
Too bad. I'm
Is there a good description somewhere of what needs to be restarted
following config file changes, specifically opensrf.xml? For instance
when adding a MARC template or a Z39.50 source.
I generally just do a full stop_all/start_all then bounce apache, but
with more client connections and
Any thoughts on why searching by ISBN would be painfully slow?
In the following srfsh tests, you'll see that it took over 40 seconds to
return a result. I can use other methods, such as
open-ils.search.biblio.tcn, and get results within a second.
srfsh# request open-ils.search
The second one will take a while, and it is possible for it to fail if
there are records with fields greater than 2.7k and Postgres was not
adjusted at compile time to increase the page size.
Doh!
ERROR: index row size 4232 exceeds btree maximum, 2713
HINT: Values larger than 1/3 of a
I believe you noted to me previously that this requires an initdb after the
recompile?
Indeed. The on-disk format will be different
Attached is a patch for Postgres 8.2.9, but it should apply to any
version without any trouble.
Thanks again Mike
...but on a Friday afternoon,
Last question of the week:
If importing a small batch of records into a database with a few hundred
thousand existing records, is there a good alternative to running
quick_metarecord_map.sql?...it can get a bit time consuming.
Strange doings with the offline blocked list.
When running offline-blocked-list.pl, I end up missing one user. I
don't see any rhyme or reason for which user it drops, but it seems
consistent.
For instance, I currently have 4 users set to barred:
evergreen=# select count(*) from actor.usr
Robert said the following on 06/06/2008 10:16 AM:
Originally I was able to permanently accept the self-signed
certificate in the staff client. That certificate was only valid for 1
month and once that month was up it started prompting me for it again.
I was able to recreate the certificate
Here, I was so concerned about the patch and that I had the right diff
data included, I forgot about the formalities.
For posterity.
Developer’s Certificate of Origin 1.1 By making a contribution to this
project, I certify that:
(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me
Jason Etheridge wrote:
Huzzah! Applied with thanks to trunk, rel_1_2, and rel_1_2_2. Works
as advertised.
Doh! One small issue. It throws an error if used just following
workstation registration, before you log back in. Too sunny out to
worry about now though.
Mike Rylander said the following on 05/10/2008 08:56 AM:
Actually, because you have your config file in the default location
(not required, but makes it simpler) and you're require'ing the
oils_header.pl example, you already have access to the full
Fieldmapper API, which happens to be what
Thoughts on providing a timestamp column to actor.card? Or is there a
way to find out when a card was marked lost and subsequently replaced
that I'm just not seeing?
We're in the midst of retooling one of our libraries, and we're going
to put a self-check machine in it. What self-check machines do the
production sites (PINES/Sitka whomever else) use? Is any machine that
is SIP2 compliant going to be okay generally?
Not in production (for a few more
Jason Etheridge said the following on 05/09/2008 05:40 PM:
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Bill Ott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My test database has 360,000+ bib records, and only about 20,000 holdings
attached. When performing a simple keyword search from the staff client I
get hundreds
My test database has 360,000+ bib records, and only about 20,000
holdings attached. When performing a simple keyword search from the
staff client I get hundreds or thousands of results in a couple of
seconds. If I limit those to items with holdings or those available, in
either the staff
Right now, open-ils.storage.action.circulation.reshelving.complete,
accepts only an argument for duration (e.g. 24h). We anticipate the
desire to change this duration per location. I believe it would just be
a matter of also shifting in an argument for circ_lib and modifying the
query
Mike Rylander wrote:
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Bill Ott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Right now, open-ils.storage.action.circulation.reshelving.complete, accepts
only an argument for duration (e.g. 24h). We anticipate the desire to
change this duration per location. I believe it would
psql:insert_holdings.sql:1: ERROR: date/time field value out of
range: 12/13/1993
HINT: Perhaps you need a different datestyle setting.
psql:insert_holdings.sql:2: ERROR: current transaction is aborted,
commands ignored until end of transaction block
psql:insert_holdings.sql:3: ERROR:
My bad, Bill. That one has been around for quite a while, as it turns
out - thanks for finding it!
I've updated xul/server/circ/util.js accordingly.
Thank you. And thanks for the note on what cured it. I poked around
for a bit but couldn't track anything down.
After yet another svn update on my machine running trunk.
When selecting Import Record from Z39.50, I receive a dialog noting:
*** Failed to get string staff.circ.utils.owning_lib in bundle:
/xul/20080306.142908/server/locale/en-US/common.properties
undefined
I dumped in some bibs from
Choose Holdings Maintenance (which can be made to come up by default to save
time later).
I've been asked this question, but hadn't looked into it yet. How is
this done?
Hmm...
I setup a custom org_tree re-ran autogen.sh and my problems went away.
Bill Ott said the following on 03/04/2008 10:12 PM:
Something new, again when trying to register a new client. This is
with the latest trunks (EG 8863 / SRF 1251).
[2008-03-04 21:58:19] open-ils.actor [ERR
Something new, again when trying to register a new client. This is with
the latest trunks (EG 8863 / SRF 1251).
[2008-03-04 21:58:19] open-ils.actor [ERR
:9636:EX.pm:66:120468528696012] Exception: OpenSRF::EX::ERROR
2008-03-04T21:58:19 OpenSRF::Application
I'm not being prompted to login in the my account section of the
catalogue.
I didn't go back to read the original post, but this makes me wonder,
did you run autogen? Seems like I've had odd events like this if I hadn't.
Are you interested in receiving bug reports for trunk, or is the code in
so much flux that I should just wait to see what the next batch of
changes brings?
I don't want to slow progress for issues that may be getting addressed
by other changes...
Of course I'd love to submit the fix and
I can't use the client to register new client installs under trunk. I
receive the following:
Call to [open-ils.actor.user.perm.highest_org] failed for session
[1202309547.426312.120230954716702], thread trace [1]:
Can't call method id without a package or object reference at
I've been working on some changes in that area. When was the last time
you updated from subversion?
Just this morning.
At revision 8656.
I've come across a very basic and flexible form of a possible telephone
notification system.
As briefly discussed back in Dec., this is only a piece of what would be
much more useful as a fully interactive telephony information and
renewal system, but for my current situation, it would answer
Is there an easy way for me to merge the acq-experiment and evergreen
trunk branches to get the best of both worlds?
For example, I love the new Z39.50 search screen, and also the
config.z3950_x tables instead of entries in the opensrf.xml file, but
when using these from the acq branch, I
Bill Erickson said the following on 01/31/2008 10:40 AM:
ZOOM error 100 Unspecified error (addinfo: Expected CONSTRUCTED PDU
not found (pdu error: 3002)) from diag-set 'Bib-1'
I don't quite know how to parse this, but the $rs-option() is what
makes the difference. For some reason, fetching
attrs
tcncode12/codeformat1/format/tcn
isbncode7/codeformat3/format/isbn
By the way, you can add extra fields here (like Music_Number) if you
happen to know the code and format,
Speaking of which. The trained eye will notice that the format
Has anyone else added additional Z39.50 hosts to search?
I thought this would be a simple matter of adding the host into the
opensrf.xml z3950 section. However, the few I've tried have failed.
Am I missing something?
My osrfsys.log, it looks like the initial search completes, in this
We may've talked also about re-vamping the whole notification system
to allow easy plugin development as new communication media comes
along (although, this may've been just me dreaming again... I don't
remember). I mean, current notification media might include E-Mail
(already in place),
What I'm doing on my Christmas vacation (aka - vacations, work with
few(er) interruptions).
As I prepare to leave the office for the next week and a half, I'm oddly
enough planning to work on toys for Evergreen. Before I get too deep
into reinventing wheels, I thought I'd ask who might be
There's an option in the Survey Wizard for OPAC Visible. Where does
this become visible in the OPAC?
.
Jason Etheridge said the following on 11/03/2007 01:20 PM:
On Oct 29, 2007 4:08 PM, Bill Ott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interesting things in the world of holds. Holds are placed, but when
trying to get a list of items to fill holds, I don't get any results.
While the hold appears to still
One other thing... The reporter config in opensrf.xml has a setting
called output_base, which defines where the output files are stored
on the local machine (mentioned above). This defaults to
/openils/var/reporter/output
The reporting interface (in the staff client) expects the output to
Interesting. Would you be willing to write up the specific steps you
used on the wiki?
A bit quick-n-dirty, but here it is:
http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=osx_client_install
Cleaning up after myself, I moved this to the place-holder provided for
the Mac install instructions:
I think there's a script that will fix your problem, and which needs
to be added to the documentation.
Run Evergreen/src/extras/import/quick_metarecord_map.sql and the
metarecords will be created for you.
Beats the heck out of making those inserts by hand!
Jason Etheridge wrote:
If anyone wants to buy me a Mac Mini, I'll try my best.
I was about ready to drop it in the mail, but...
XULRunner 1.8.0.4 seems to work. I had all kinds of strangeness with
1.8.1.3. I didn't track down exactly what caused the problems, nor did
I scrutinize the
Interesting. Would you be willing to write up the specific steps you
used on the wiki?
A bit quick-n-dirty, but here it is:
http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=osx_client_install
Should Evergreen run more efficiently with more application servers, or
more processor power?
I've got several blade servers running a test cluster (much prettier
than my franken-cluster of months gone by). I'm running one virtual
brick (VMware w/ one OSRF router/gateway 3 application
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