Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Call for nominations for release manager — Evergreen 3.0

2017-03-21 Thread Dan Wells
Dear Evergreen Community, I am writing to offer myself as release manager for the upcoming 3.0 release. Our library is an independent academic installation, and having recently celebrated 7 years on Evergreen, a fairly early adopter. I served as release manager for 2.5 and 2.6, release cycles

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] PostgreSQL version support

2016-03-03 Thread Dan Wells
+1, support this 100%. Thank you, Galen. Dan -Original Message- From: Open-ils-dev [mailto:open-ils-dev-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Galen Charlton Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 10:16 PM To: Evergreen Development Discussion List

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Library card number via OSRF gateway?

2016-01-21 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Ken, Unfortunately, I think your average patron won’t have access through PCRUD even to their own data. You get empty payloads in PCRUD if you make a requests you don’t have permission to view. You can use the user API instead, as it has a method to retrieve the fleshed user with an

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Questions about security bugs/process

2015-03-13 Thread Dan Wells
they don't want to feel that burden anymore. I want more people to feel that burden. It shouldn't just be placed on the shoulders of our small developer community. Have a nice weekend everyone! Kathy On 03/13/2015 02:32 PM, Dan Wells wrote: Hello Kathy, I appreciate the concern expressed here

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Fine Generation Code Question

2014-11-21 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, I've been mucking about in the fine code and getting a bit frustrated, so I'm looking for input before I move ahead. As it stands, fine generation is part of the storage API. As such, when it is called during checkin, it runs in its own transaction (independent of the circ/copy

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Fine Generation Code Question

2014-11-21 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Liam, Thanks for the input. One thing I do want to clarify is that fine generation even in case #1 would still be functionally independent of the checkin code. (It has to be, since fine generation for most installations is set to happen continually, or at least daily.) Plan #1 would

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Suggestion for New Upgrade Script Policy

2014-05-30 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, I know that eventually we want to move toward a more fluid DB upgrade model, but leaving that plan aside for the moment, I'd like to suggest a new policy for maintenance releases. My sense is that, as Evergreen matures, people are staying on the previous version for longer periods,

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Errors Upgrading Evergreen 2.4.4 to 2.5.4

2014-05-22 Thread Dan Wells
is greatly appreciated. Jesse McCarty City of Burlington IT Technical Assistant -Original Message- From: open-ils-dev-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-dev-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Dan Wells Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 10:50 AM To: Evergreen Development

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Errors Upgrading Evergreen 2.4.4 to 2.5.4

2014-05-21 Thread Dan Wells
...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-dev-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Dan Wells Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 10:56 AM To: Evergreen Development Discussion List Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Errors Upgrading Evergreen 2.4.4 to 2.5.4 Hello Jesse, You want to comment

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Errors Upgrading Evergreen 2.4.4 to 2.5.4

2014-05-21 Thread Dan Wells
much appreciated. Jesse McCarty City of Burlington IT Technical Assistant -Original Message- From: open-ils-dev-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-dev-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Dan Wells Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 9:27 AM To: Evergreen Development

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Errors Upgrading Evergreen 2.4.4 to 2.5.4

2014-05-20 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Jesse, You want to comment everything from the failing SELECT evergreen.upgrade_deps_block_check... up to (but not including) the next SELECT evergreen.upgrade_deps_block_check You may need to do this several times before you find them all. Those checks exist precisely to cause

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] browser client update 2014-05-01 / feedback requested on catalog integration

2014-05-01 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Bill, Thanks for the update. I know others feel differently, but I don’t think we should rule out using iframes for catalog integration. Iframes are actually pretty close in many respects to the way the catalog “integrates” into the current (XUL) staff client. The usual problems with

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] browser client update 2014-05-01 / feedback requested on catalog integration

2014-05-01 Thread Dan Wells
Struggling with some connectivity issues and lost part of my message. This: That said, I believe we could rework some bits of the TPAC (and it might not take much at all) to essentially use the same templates to dynamically fetch a frameless TPAC “core” for displaying inline in the staff

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Ejabberd error

2014-04-10 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Glenn, Have you checked that ejabberd is actually running? Some subsystems do not (by default) restart when the system restarts. On many distros, you can check the status of ejabberd using 'ejabberdctl status' (run as root or use 'sudo' as appropriate). What Linux distro are you using?

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] browser staff feedback request / integration

2014-04-07 Thread Dan Wells
I'm fine with the decision and consensus, but want to add one thing. I've met a fair number of users who have a difficult time managing multiple windows in an ongoing way (call them the closers). We obviously don't have any such folks responding to this thread, but I think we should be open

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] browser staff feedback request / integration

2014-04-07 Thread Dan Wells
Galen, I was deliberately vague in my earlier email, and hope you will understand if I continue to be :) I think it is fine to proceed with a separation mindset and see how it turns out. Thanks, Dan Daniel Wells Library Programmer/Analyst Hekman Library, Calvin College 616.526.7133

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] installation problems

2014-04-01 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Glenn, No, Business::ISBN would not be related to the error you are getting. I'd first try the following command: osrf_ctl.sh -l -a restart_c then try running autogen.sh -u once more. If that doesn't work, try and see if the 'restart_c' command is giving any errors in the logs

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Hackfest 2014 Ideas Page [Cf. Browser client dev log update / feedback request on grids]

2014-03-13 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Bill, Thanks for bringing this up! I think this is absolutely the linchpin for getting the web staff client rolling. Since this code is still so fresh, it seems ripe for hacking, so I've created a conference Hackfest page and added this there.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Shared Maintenance Account for Launchpad?

2014-03-11 Thread Dan Wells
...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Galen Charlton Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2014 2:02 PM To: Evergreen Development Discussion List Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Shared Maintenance Account for Launchpad? Hi, On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Dan Wells d...@calvin.edu wrote: Here's an idea I

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Shared Maintenance Account for Launchpad?

2014-03-11 Thread Dan Wells
...@masslnc.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier On 3/11/2014 1:26 PM, Dan Wells wrote: Thanks for +1, Galen. To help others better evaluate this idea, I've gone ahead and created a new account and used it for a test run (setting 2.5.3 bugs from 'Fix Committed' to 'Fix Released

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] a request regarding development communication in the bug tracker

2014-03-05 Thread Dan Wells
Dan, thanks for adding this. I was curious about this point exactly, since he states rather bluntly “the bug tracker is a pretty cumbersome place to have a discussion”, which had me scratching my head a bit. I’ve always been slightly partial towards forum-like environments since they have a

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Shared Maintenance Account for Launchpad?

2014-03-05 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, Here's an idea I had a while back which I think would make the Launchpad email system more useful. As it stands, the system sends out an email for every little change, and, from my perspective, the more meaningful changes sometimes get lost in the noise. I think we would benefit

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Staff Client Prototype - General Feedback

2014-01-27 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, I've spent a fair number of hours over the last week getting more familiar with Bill's prototype code. I still have a *lot* more studying to do before I can fully appreciate what is happening, but I have at least read through all of the code involved, and wanted to share a few

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Features and defaults and navigation (was: [Bug 1261939] Re: Add per-library TPAC pages with schema.org structured data support)

2014-01-22 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, Thanks, Dan, for bringing this to the list. It is a better place to have the discussion, I think. I don’t have a lot to add beyond the original post, but do wish to clarify a couple of my views. As far as I know slam dunk criteria has never been formally applied to any previous

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Vote Needed: Release Manager 2.6 Approval

2013-12-19 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, Back at the dev meeting on Nov. 12, I made an offer to continue as RM for an abbreviated 2.6 release. In the meeting, the discussion concluded with Galen suggesting that voting the same day as the proposal seems rushed -- I propose that we give a week, then assent via email if no

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] 2.5 client issues

2013-12-02 Thread Dan Wells
Hello, I can't reproduce this, but here is something you could try which might shed some light on your problem. First, login using srfsh to get a auth token: srfsh# login admin YOUR_PASSWORD Next, use the returned token (the long hex value after Login Session:) to try running the

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Question About Translation Process

2013-11-26 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, I've become a little more familiar with the translation setup, and based on that limited understanding, I have a concern about how we use translation files in older versions. Right now, it seems like our practice is to (occasionally) run update_pofiles on older branches. However,

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Questions About Query Parser

2013-11-13 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, Having made the leap from 2.3 to 2.5, we have run into a few issues with the updated query parser, and rather than dig into something I know from the surface to be very complex, I am hoping someone might shed some light on what is going on. The issues I am finding *seem* like bugs,

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Release Manager for 2.6

2013-11-12 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, Now that 2.5.0 is officially out the door, we can turn our attention toward establishing a release manager for 2.6. At the Hack-a-Way, I took a few minutes to reflect on how I felt 2.5 had gone, and at one point joked about my desire to stay on for 2.6. During that talk, and in

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] NEW Hack-a-Way Dates - Sept. 17-19

2013-05-24 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, The Hack-a-Way is now scheduled for Sept. 17-19. Thank you to everyone for your patience as we sorted out the details. As I stated before, we will put out a call for firm commitments later on this summer. Sincerely, Dan --

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Notice: Hack-a-Way Dates Being Reconsidered, Stay Tuned

2013-05-17 Thread Dan Wells
Hello again, I apologize for my lack of event juggling skills, but we are being forced to reconsider the Hack-a-Way dates due to some issues with the facilities. Please disregard my prior announcement, and expect a final determination early next week. Thanks, Dan --

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Hack-a-Way Dates - Sept. 24-26

2013-05-16 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, Thank you to everyone who replied to the Doodle poll. Based on those results, the Sept. 24-26 dates have been selected. Later on this summer we will put out a call for firm commitments, but in the meantime, if you didn't reply to the poll and think you will attend, please let me

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] 2.5 Release Manager Proposal

2013-04-23 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, I wish to offer myself to be the release manager for Evergreen 2.5. Since we have neither any guidelines nor any history of release manager proposals, I will try to outline in broad strokes how I would guide the development process. A release cycle is fairly short, so I think a

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] OpenSRF 2.1.3?

2013-03-25 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Galen, Thanks for pointing out this thread to me. Since I was personally confused by #799 showing up in only 2.2 but badly affecting my 2.1 install, I am also highly in favor of a 2.1.3 release. Thank you, Dan --

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Define the hold pickup location based on the physical location of the workstation

2013-02-15 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Simon, I think ctx.user.ws_ou() is what you are looking for. Dan -- * Daniel Wells, Library Programmer Analyst d...@calvin.edu Hekman Library at Calvin College 616.526.7133 On 2/15/2013 at 5:27 PM, Mai,

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Request for installation assistance

2012-10-15 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Larry, Based on what I see here, step 9 was successful. The 'admin'/'open-ils' credentials are old values which used to be hard-coded into the install, so your 'egadmin' test is what is relevant here, and it looks fine. I have updated step 9 of the 'checking_for_errors' page to better

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] adding library hours of operation to fine accrual

2012-08-30 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Peter, This has been on our wish-list for a long time, but at present has not yet made it onto the do-list. I am interested in collaborating, but given my current project list, my contribution would likely be confined to a testing/code-review role. Dan --

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] 2012 Hack-A-Way - Sign up and Dates

2012-08-24 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Hack-A-Way Folks, I am planning my travel times and budget, and have one question: Does the subsidized hotel rate apply to the night of Oct. 9 and/or Oct. 13? I would think 'yes' for the 9th at least, but want to be sure. Thanks, Dan On 8/10/2012 at 11:20 AM,

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Feature proposal: Detailed serials-view in OPAC

2012-08-20 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Olli, First, I am really glad to see you will be building on Lebbeous's current code. It's certainly the best public view we have of the managed serials data, and I would love to see it enhanced to the point that it can integrate more fully with the summary statement view (something

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] 2.2 upgrade from rc1

2012-08-14 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Martha, Yes, you will want to add that line between the UPDATE and the first ALTER TABLE. Since 0706 and 0710 are two versions of the same idea, the upgrade file probably combines the two (so that is where the line came from). To help explain what is happening, some of the constraints

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] 'My Account' vs. 'Your Account'

2012-07-31 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, Apologies if I missed any prior discussion, but as I am working on implementing TPAC for my library, I noticed that the 'My Account' link from JSPAC is now labeled as 'Your Account Log in'. I have no problem with either wording, and it isn't a huge deal, but I want to make sure we

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Scheduling the next developer's meeting

2012-05-21 Thread Dan Wells
Hello, I guess I was too late in filling out the survey, as that is the only slot I cannot make. Since there aren't any better slots in terms of overall availability, I don't think there is anything to be done, so this is just an FYI concerning my absence. Thanks, Dan --

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] After 2.2 naming / schedule

2012-05-17 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, To answer the most immediate questions, I certainly agree that the next version should be called 2.3 and come out in September. Beyond that, I think I prefer traditional version numbering over Ubuntu style. I think Rogan is dead-on with his anxiety comment, but it can also work the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Interesting in contribute to the create android client(s) for ever green project

2012-03-30 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Gayan, Thank you for your interest in the GSoC Evergreen project. I apologize for not replying sooner, but our answers are pretty generic at this point, so maybe you figured things out from other questions being asked. There is currently one week left in the GSoC application timeline.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Reshelving

2011-10-25 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Tim, Cron can be tricky for a number reasons, but one thing which stands out to me here is the '/usr/bin/perl'. The 'reshelving_complete.srfsh' script is not a perl script but a SRF Shell script, so we don't need to call the Perl interpreter in this case. Assuming you can successfully

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Printing reciepts from Evergreen with extended charset

2011-09-14 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Vaclav, Please open a bug for this at https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen so that we can keep better track of this issue. The attached diff is at least a possible avenue for fixing this problem. I am not very familiar with this code, but what I have done so far is set the encoding for

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Call for votes to merge template toolkit opac to master (was: template toolkit master merge branch)

2011-08-19 Thread Dan Wells
+1 I'm excited. Dan On 8/17/2011 at 1:20 PM, Bill Erickson erick...@esilibrary.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 03:02:57PM -0400, Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley wrote: Bill's merge seems to work well to me. I haven't come across any features that don't work in this branch. Let's do this! Hi

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] installation issue with Evergreen 2.0.8 on Ubuntu 11.04

2011-08-17 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Jp, I think your original message got through, so no need to worry. As for your problem, I think it is likely that you are running into this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/826844 I hit it myself a few days ago installing 2.0.8. It can effectively prevent INSERTs into

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Export/re-import of bib records as part of an external clean-up process

2011-07-27 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Jeff, We do something like this annually (in our case, using LTI for authority cleanup). I can't say our methods are particularly advanced, but I would be happy to share what we have done. Are you on 2.0, or an earlier version? Dan On 7/27/2011 at 9:57 AM, Jeff Godin jgo...@tadl.org

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Extending Authentication

2011-07-27 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, This email is meant to get the ball rolling again concerning alternate authentication schemes for Evergreen. What follows is some rough ideas (most borrowed from the original thread and other software), not a complete plan, so all input is highly encouraged. The original thread

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Extending Authentication

2011-07-27 Thread Dan Wells
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. - Eric Hoffer On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Dan Wells d...@calvin.edu wrote: Hello all, This email is meant to get

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Security Notice: Serials Module in Evergreen 2.0

2011-05-12 Thread Dan Wells
Evergreen Users, In the course of adding various improvements to the Serials module, it was found that permissions had not been correctly applied to the Serial Control View interface. This affects Evergreen versions 2.0.0 thru 2.0.6. If you are using the Serials module in Evergreen 2.0, it is

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] bug in 1.6 client if very long 856?

2011-05-09 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, I spent a few more minutes boiling this down today, and it looks like the problem is in the OSRF gateway itself. This can be seen very simply by sending a fake test url to any OSRF gateway which includes the trouble sequence. For instance: (and note: %25 in the following examples

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] bug in 1.6 client if very long 856?

2011-05-06 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, I have done some experiments and made some interesting findings. 1) to get around the massive error box, we have success with Tab-Tab-Tab-Space-Tab-Tab-Space :) I think we are checking a box, then hitting ok, and there may be a simpler way, but that works. 2) This problem persists

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Normalization Concerns, Present and Future

2011-03-08 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, We have recently accelerated our timetable to moving to 2.0, and this sudden immersion is what is causing our recent increase in bug reporting. Yesterday morning I was exploring a problem with ISSN normalization, and I have spent the last day trying to understand not only the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Normalization Concerns, Present and Future

2011-03-08 Thread Dan Wells
-- * Daniel Wells, Library Programmer Analyst d...@calvin.edu Hekman Library at Calvin College 616.526.7133 On 3/8/2011 at 12:57 PM, Mike Rylander mrylan...@gmail.com wrote: The drawbacks you mention in both of

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Normalization Concerns, Present and Future

2011-03-08 Thread Dan Wells
I understand that the specific searches will work in any case, but it makes me more than a little uncomfortable that adding normalizers to a specific field will silently break searches at the class level. For instance, using the default config, *any* identifier which contains a '-' but is

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Display due date on brief display

2011-02-18 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Grant, Dan's solution looks great, but I wanted to add that in 2.0 only there is also a 'open-ils.circ.copy.due_date.retrieve' method which will get just the due date and nothing else, which could save on some overhead if you really just need the date. Let us know if you want to try it

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Apparent MARC import problem in 2.0.x

2011-02-17 Thread Dan Wells
Hello John, You're example data got me thinking, as in EG the 901 tag is almost always the last tag, while yours is not. We are still working out the details, but it seems in fact that a database trigger meant to strip out the 901 is in fact stripping out all the datafield tags starting at 901.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Monograph Parts

2011-02-16 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Mike, On 2/16/2011 at 12:37 PM, Mike Rylander mrylan...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Dan Wells d...@calvin.edu wrote: Hello Mike, At first glance I think this is a very welcome development, and I have a just a few comments. First, I would advocate for some kind

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] BibTemplate and Opera Compatibility

2011-02-15 Thread Dan Wells
Thanks for the feedback. Attached is a patch against trunk with a couple of changes based on these suggestions. First, the quote removal code is integrated a little more cleanly and also now wrapped in a dojo.isOpera condition. Second, the bib.documentElement is now directly inside the

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] BibTemplate and Opera Compatibility

2011-02-14 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, I spent some time recently trying to get some typical rdetail BibTemplate code to work in Opera, and made a few discoveries worth sharing. The attached patch (against the rel_2_0 file, but with no path) is not at all complete code, and in particular the 'if (1)' lines are just

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Call Numbers for Serials in 2.0

2011-01-11 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, I have been reluctant to send this message, mostly due to my hope that things would somehow work themselves out in time, but with 2.0 just around the corner, I think it would be a mistake to not reach an agreement pre-release on how call numbers relate to the serials data. At this

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Call Numbers for Serials in 2.0

2011-01-11 Thread Dan Wells
-- * Daniel Wells, Library Programmer Analyst d...@calvin.edu Hekman Library at Calvin College 616.526.7133 On 1/11/2011 at 12:43 PM, Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley lebbe...@esilibrary.com wrote: On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:13:15 -0500, Dan Wells d...@calvin.edu wrote: Hello all, I have

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Call Numbers for Serials in 2.0

2011-01-11 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Mike, Thanks for weighing in. I think there is overwhelming agreement about *what* data is needed for a sensible serials display. There is mild disagreement about how best to store that data for optimal usability. I strongly feel that an analytic (for lack of a better term, and e.g.

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Placeholder Auto-barcodes, Take Two

2010-12-14 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, Way back in March I sent a message to the list about adding an auto-barcode database trigger which didn't get a whole lot of traction, so this is a second, simpler attempt at the same idea. To be clear, I am not talking about functionality where we auto-generate *real* barcodes

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Placeholder Auto-barcodes, Take Two

2010-12-14 Thread Dan Wells
Hello again, This topic was discussed at the IRC developer's meeting today. Here is an updated version of the function for review: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION asset.autogenerate_placeholder_barcode ( ) RETURNS TRIGGER AS $$ BEGIN IF NEW.barcode LIKE '@@%' THEN

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Help with expected valuesinvandelay.import_item_attr_definition?

2010-12-09 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Michael, I am unsure why some parts of the process are not working for you, but I can say that our working 949s use the Org Unit short name (e.g. BR1) for both the owning_lib and circ_lib fields, and also that status and location simply use the 'name' field (e.g. '3rd floor'). It looks

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Help with expected valuesinvandelay.import_item_attr_definition?

2010-12-09 Thread Dan Wells
email - mrpet...@library.in.gov -Original Message- From: open-ils-dev-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-dev-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Dan Wells Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 12:01 PM To: Evergreen Development Discussion List Subject

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Serials Schema Tweaks for Alpha2 Release

2010-09-15 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Mike, Sorry for my slow reply, things are pretty hectic around here with the Fall semester starting last week. Can you describe the purpose of these? Some seem obvious, but some are not (to me). I will start with the changes which I think are straightforward. First,

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Serials Schema Tweaks for Alpha2 Release

2010-09-13 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, I am hoping the attached changes to the serials schema can make it in before the alpha2 cutoff (unofficially yesterday-ish). The schema patch is against trunk, but it should work for any recent branches, and the upgrade file will need a real upgrade sequence number (currently 'XXX'

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Proposed upgrade to serial schema

2010-07-27 Thread Dan Wells
: The attached is a draft of an upgrade script for the serial schema. Please review before I commit it (along with the corresponding changes to the schema itself and its install script). This script is designed to bring the trunk version of the serial schema into sync with Dan Wells' most recent

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Upcoming changes to the serial schema

2010-07-26 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Scott, Despite the fact that some of the other tables have existed for some time now, AFAIK, only the serial.record_entry table has been used in any stable release of Evergreen. So I would say it doesn't matter much (the serial.record_entry table hasn't changed). Thanks, Dan On

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] New work in the serials integration branch

2010-07-19 Thread Dan Wells
Fogle-Weekley 07/15/10 2:15 PM Aha! My bad for jumping the gun a bit. Looks like it will be cool. Lebbeous Dan Wells wrote: Hello, There are still some commits forthcoming. The problem you are experiencing has most to do with the fact that the interface defaults to the 'Items' tab

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] New work in the serials integration branch

2010-07-15 Thread Dan Wells
to spend a couple more days on the Items tab to get basic predicting/receiving functional again, and will surely let everyone know when I *think* all the initial pieces are in place. Thanks, Dan On 7/15/2010 at 11:04 AM, Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley lebbe...@esilibrary.com wrote: Dan Wells has recently

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] ***SPAM*** Re: ***SPAM*** Problem with utf8 and MARC Edit

2010-06-09 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Alan, Mostly just a stab in the dark, but maybe this is another form of the Encode.pm bug mentioned here?: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/525069 In a different post Dan Scott recommends: Basically, ensure that you have the libencode-perl module installed to get a working

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] ***SPAM*** Overhaul of serial schema

2010-06-02 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Scott, Thanks for moving this forward. I have just one small concern (which I will immediately drop if I am alone in thinking this). IMHO, the IDL class ids are a bit on the short side. For instance, in my development code (which I *really* expect to get out there soon now that things

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Re: Serials Schema Proposal - Further De-emphasis of MARC as Record Format

2010-05-27 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Mike, Thanks for the detailed reply. It helps to know we are still not on the same page :) First, I want to be clear about what the serial.caption_and_pattern table actually contains (in my mind). The confusion seems to have been brought about by my hastily naming a column 'marc' in

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Serials Schema Proposal - Further De-emphasis of MARC as Record Format

2010-05-27 Thread Dan Wells
Hello again, pattern_code: ['2','0','a','v.','b','no.','u','12','v','r','c','pt.','u','3','i','(year)', 'j','(month)','k','(day)','w','j'] ] OK, so just an terminology mismatch so far. That's pretty much what I was thinking too (though we'd want to use JSON in the pattern_code column,

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] ***SPAM*** ***SPAM*** Re: ***SPAM*** Re: Serials Schema Proposal - Further De-emphasis of MARC as Record Format

2010-05-26 Thread Dan Wells
AM, Scott McKellar m...@swbell.net wrote: --- On Mon, 5/24/10, Dan Wells d...@calvin.edu wrote: On 5/24/2010 at 12:25 PM, Scott McKellar m...@swbell.net snip 1-3. Sorry for not being more clear, but I think serial.base (or whatever it is called) will be a direct replacement

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Serials Schema Proposal - Further De-emphasis of MARC as Record Format

2010-05-24 Thread Dan Wells
, this is getting longish, so I'm going to stop there and hopefully get the first reactions I am seeking. Thank you very much for your time and thoughts. Sincerely, Dan Wells -- * Daniel Wells, Library Programmer

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] ***SPAM*** Re: Serials Schema Proposal - Further De-emphasis of MARC as Record Format

2010-05-24 Thread Dan Wells
Scott, Thanks for the reply. See responses below. On 5/24/2010 at 12:25 PM, Scott McKellar m...@swbell.net wrote: Questions: 1. What does serial.base look like? For example, will it link to biblio.record_entry? 2. Using last week's proposed schema as a baseline, how will the new

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] ***SPAM*** Craftsman Bookbag Patch

2010-05-13 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, Attached is a simple patch to fix the bookbag menu not showing up in Craftsman. This patch is against the 1_6_0 branch. All it does is ID the correct node for unhiding purposes. Dan = Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1 By making a

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] MFHD Commit to Serials Branch

2010-05-03 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, I have committed my MFHD code changes to the new Serials branch for review and comment from anyone interested. You can see the changeset (with more details) here: http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/changeset/16373 At this point I cannot guarantee that the interface is 100% stable,

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] ***SPAM*** ***SPAM*** Re: MFHD Commit to Serials Branch

2010-05-03 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Bill, 1. I'd recommend keeping the seials-integration [sic] branch up to date with trunk. It will make the final merge much simpler. I've used svnmerge [1] in the past with success. Sounds good, I'll do my best to keep up. 2. I'd like to offer our assistance getting the serials

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] ***SPAM*** EverGreen 1.6.0.4 on Ubuntu 9.04, installation almost finish, but failed on the last test steps.

2010-04-23 Thread Dan Wells
Hello, I just did a quick line-by-line comparison with one of our test systems, and your log was functionally identical to ours up until the point where it ends. Is that the actual end of the log? If you grep for ERR in the log directory, do you find anything in any of the other logs? Your

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Well, it's that time again ...

2010-04-08 Thread Dan Wells
for at least a few weeks :) Thanks, Dan There's the stuff you put in, but in order to make serials work with Acq, and make items circulate using the issuance backend that we've been dreaming of, a ton more will be coming. Dan Wells, expect a lot of discussion soon on your proposed schema! ( http

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Auto-generate Barcodes - Use case, possible patch

2010-03-24 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, This email will explain my library's need for auto-generated barcodes and also provide our currently deployed patch to accomplish them. We are certainly open to alternatives for meeting our peculiar needs. First, concerning the need, as a State and Federal repository, we house tens

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Suggested Patch: Block Renews for Holds

2010-03-10 Thread Dan Wells
Wellsd...@calvin.edu (Dan Wells) wrote: Hello all, The attached patch is a very simple means of allowing an option for the blocking of renews if an item is targeted for a hold. There was some discussion on IRC about the 'best' way to do this, but other ways (in my opinion) ended up as just

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Discussion wanted: Volumes (Parts) in Evergreen

2010-03-01 Thread Dan Wells
this additional layer. Ideally any changes made would augment the current model in an unobtrusive way. I hope that this message can inspire an interesting and fruitful dialog. Sincerely, Dan Wells * (The term copies is also overloaded in this discussion, as it could mean the physical manifestation

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] reshelving_complete 404 error

2010-02-22 Thread Dan Wells
Hello, See bug report comments for more information and a patch: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/525950 Dan On 2/22/2010 at 2:13 PM, Benjamin Shum bs...@biblio.org wrote: Evergreen version: 1.6.0.2 OpenSRF version: 1.2.2 PostgreSQL version: 8.3.8 Linux distribution: Debian

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] So close I can TASTE it

2010-02-01 Thread Dan Wells
Hi Mike, It's a small thing, but any chance of incorporating the fix for MARC21slim2MODS32.xsl which I posted about on 1/15? I understand if it is better to evaluate all the changes to the LOC version and incorporate them at once at a later date. Thanks, Dan --

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] So close I can TASTE it

2010-02-01 Thread Dan Wells
Thanks for the explanation. Waiting on this is fine with me, I just wanted to make sure it was missed intentionally. Dan On 2/1/2010 at 2:27 PM, Mike Rylander mrylan...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Dan Wells d...@calvin.edu wrote: Hi Mike, It's a small thing, but any

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] So close I can TASTE it

2010-02-01 Thread Dan Wells
Another minor bug in 1.6 is the lack of a defined 'MERGE_USERS' permission in the permission.perm_list table (needed for the patron account merging functionality). I had mentioned it on IRC but not officially reported it anywhere, so I have now opened a bug for it. Dan On 2/1/2010 at 10:57

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Vandelay Patch - Resubmit with DCO

2010-01-21 Thread Dan Wells
Resubmit with DCO = 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 and I have the right to submit it under the open source license

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Vandelay Item Import - Patch

2010-01-20 Thread Dan Wells
Hello, I have been doing a lot of experimenting with Vandelay the last few weeks and have traced many of my failures to one distinct bug. I finally noticed yesterday why Item Import worked for the 'admin' user but for nobody else. It turns out there is a bug in one of the database functions

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen SQL Help

2010-01-19 Thread Dan Wells
Hello, Let me start by saying SQL is not my strong suit, and Postgres makes it even weaker. What I am trying to do is write a single Postgres query/function which returns all of a user's work_ous and their ancestors without duplicates. I see that actor.org_unit_ancestors() is there, and

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Small Bug in Automatic Lost Fee Void - Circulate.pm - Patch

2010-01-18 Thread Dan Wells
Yes, this appears to be a better solution in all respects. Thanks Bill. -- * Daniel Wells, Library Programmer Analyst d...@calvin.edu Hekman Library at Calvin College 616.526.7133 On 1/18/2010 at 1:07 PM, Bill

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Small display bug - MARC21slim2MODS32.xsl - patch

2010-01-15 Thread Dan Wells
Hello, We were running into a problem with the subject sidebar where part names were displaying with no space. For instance: 630 00 ‡aBible. ‡pO.T. ‡xCriticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish ‡xHistory ‡y19th century. diplays as: BibleO.T This was traced to an error in the XSL file where the

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Small Bug in Automatic Lost Fee Void - Circulate.pm - Patch

2010-01-14 Thread Dan Wells
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 wondering if more logic will be needed for

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