[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Action Triggers
We have been trying to get these to run but are getting nothing and I have a feeling we are missing something simple. First, Ben Shum had provided information about a month or two ago on what he was doing and we set this up but no notices are being generated. Yesterday, I manually ran the following commands logged in as opensrf and no error messages were generated but no notices sent out. ./action_trigger_runner.pl --osrf-config /openils/conf/opensrf_core.xml --run-pending ./action_trigger_runner.pl --osrf-config /openils/conf/opensrf_core.xml --process-hooks We have only the defaults installed for Trigger Even Definitions, Hooks, and Reactors. I have enabled 3 Day Courtesy Notice, 7 Day Overdue Email Notification, Hold Ready for Pickup Email Notification, Holds Pull List, among others and we have set up things so that a 7 day overdue email notification should be generated and maybe some other notices. We have one EDI order we are testing with Ingram that should have uploaded to Ingram's test site and nothing has happened (PO HTML, PO JEDI enabled and I have put the edi_pusher.pl and edi_fetcher.pl in the /openils/bin/ directory. We have not done anything on the server other than set up cronjobs to run. The following is what Ben originally posted __ Part 1 - Action/Trigger cron jobs... For our case, our cron entries looks more like this: # Nightly action/trigger passive hook event generator 0 3 * * * cd /openils/bin /usr/bin/perl ./action_trigger_runner.pl --osrf-config /openils/conf/opensrf_core.xml --process-hooks # Run pending A/T events. 0,15,30,45 * * * * cd /openils/bin /usr/bin/perl ./ action_trigger_runner.pl --osrf-config /openils/conf/opensrf_core.xml --run-pending While not necessary to follow this exact style (I think we're doing it differently than say the default crontab.example that ships with Evergreen), I think it does matter to use the --osrf-config option with the action_trigger_runner.pl script. We split up the --process-hooks and --run-pending options because we only planned to process passive events nightly vs. running the pending much more often (once every 15 minutes currently). Part 2 - EDI and Acq... We were just testing EDI yesterday (got great advice from Galen Charlton via IRC) and we were finally able to send .EPO files to Ingram's FTP site by day's end. It involved setting up theedi_pusher.pl script and running it after we had finished A/T processing. The edi_pusher.pl and edi_fetcher.pl scripts should be in the Open-ILS/src/support-scripts/ directory and we copied them to /openils/bin for easy access. It was also necessary to setup and start the edi_translator pieces. For that, you turn to the files in the directory Open-ILS/src/edi_translator. In that directory, there's an install script that will install the necessary prerequisites for something called webrick(?). The script says it was written for Debian Lenny, but we've tested it successfully with Ubuntu Lucid (our OS). We copied that whole directory to /openils/bin (though you could put it anywhere really), installed the prereqs with the install script, and then started up the program by calling the edi_webrick.bash script in that directory. Hopefully we can work out some sort of installation guide (if one doesn't already exist) and that can be added to the 2.0+ Documentation. We may contact you later about importing a selection list / order information from Ingram, though I'm unsure if our catalogers have already pieced that together or not. -- Ben --- -- Tim Spindler Manager of Library Applications 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 *P** Go Green - **Save a tree! Please don't print this e-mail unless it's really necessary.*
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Star SP200
Thank you for the information Aaron. We are using a USP to Parellel printer cable so we’ll keep trying. Joan Joan Kranich C/W MARS Member Services jkran...@cwmars.org From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Zsembery Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 12:00 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Star SP200 There was a bug for the SP200s with Xulrunner 1.9 (which is used in EG 2.x). See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/491537 In 1.6.x, we have ONLY been able to use the SP200 series printers via parallel (The SP200 series printers do not handle HTML and EG will only send plaintext (DOS Mode) to LPT1). We had a library who was using USB to Parallel adapters. They ended up sharing their SP200s (to the network) and mapping them to LPT1 (from the same computer) with NET USE, but it was flaky and they ended up replacing their SP200 printers with SP512s. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 From: Joan Kranich jkran...@cwmars.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 10:39:23 AM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Star SP200 Hello, Is anyone printing to a Star SP200 receipt printer using Evergreen 2.1? If you can print successfully to the SP200 from Evergreen can you tell me the driver you are using? We have tried the sp212 driver but have not had success. The printer uses a USB connection. Thanks. Joan Joan Kranich C/W MARS Member Services jkran...@cwmars.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] sheet label printing?
Hi Jason, That little utility (desperate hack, really) came out of us having no desire or money to buy new printers, since our previous ILS supported sheet labels. So a few hours of my time was better than buying several new printers. Presently I don't have any time at all for exploring how this could be integrated into Evergreen proper, though I hope that changes. But I also don't see us moving to single labels, either. Oh, and the utility does allow you to choose an arbitrary starting point, not just a column. I never expected anybody else but us to use it...very happy that others found it useful, though. -John John Rucker Assistant Director/Systems Administrator Branch District Library 10 E. Chicago St. Coldwater MI 49036 automat...@branchdistrictlibrary.org http://www.branchdistrictlibrary.org 517-278-2341 ext. 15 FAX 517-279-7134 On Jul 12, 2011, at 12:16 PM, Jason Etheridge wrote: Hi, I'm asking on behalf of an Evergreen user and would like to revisit the topic of sheet labels. What are folks doing here, given that Evergreen currently doesn't have explicit support for such? I know some folks are printing to PDF and using this program to print a given column of labels: http://www.branchdistrictlibrary.org/professional/labels/ I wonder if that program would be better if it could print an entire sheet from a given starting point rather than just a column? Re-working the existing label interface to support sheeting could be a large undertaking depending on the exact specs; any itches to do/support that? Or does someone have some report or A/T template that they feed into Word/etc? Has anyone seen a smart print driver that understands labels and does the correct thing on form feeds? Or maybe it's just better to move to feed labels? Thanks! -- Jason Etheridge | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: ja...@esilibrary.com | web: http://www.esilibrary.com
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] sheet label printing?
Oh, and the utility does allow you to choose an arbitrary starting point, not just a column. I never expected anybody else but us to use it...very happy that others found it useful, though. You know, I totally ignored the arrangement of the numbers and assumed it would print horizontally, and my sample size was too small to spread across multiple columns so I misunderstood how it worked. So if you started at label #7, and printed 12 labels, it should print #7 through #18 as listed on that table, eh? Sweet. -- Jason Etheridge | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: ja...@esilibrary.com | web: http://www.esilibrary.com
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Action Triggers
This is akin to do you have it plugged in? which is about how useful I can be on this issue but I'll ask just in case.have you set up your SMTP server to run (or whatever it is that actually sends out the notices?) On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 5:15 AM, Tim Spindler tspind...@cwmars.org wrote: We have been trying to get these to run but are getting nothing and I have a feeling we are missing something simple. First, Ben Shum had provided information about a month or two ago on what he was doing and we set this up but no notices are being generated. Yesterday, I manually ran the following commands logged in as opensrf and no error messages were generated but no notices sent out. ./action_trigger_runner.pl --osrf-config /openils/conf/opensrf_core.xml --run-pending ./action_trigger_runner.pl --osrf-config /openils/conf/opensrf_core.xml --process-hooks We have only the defaults installed for Trigger Even Definitions, Hooks, and Reactors. I have enabled 3 Day Courtesy Notice, 7 Day Overdue Email Notification, Hold Ready for Pickup Email Notification, Holds Pull List, among others and we have set up things so that a 7 day overdue email notification should be generated and maybe some other notices. We have one EDI order we are testing with Ingram that should have uploaded to Ingram's test site and nothing has happened (PO HTML, PO JEDI enabled and I have put the edi_pusher.pl and edi_fetcher.pl in the /openils/bin/ directory. We have not done anything on the server other than set up cronjobs to run. The following is what Ben originally posted __ Part 1 - Action/Trigger cron jobs... For our case, our cron entries looks more like this: # Nightly action/trigger passive hook event generator 0 3 * * * cd /openils/bin /usr/bin/perl ./action_trigger_runner.pl --osrf-config /openils/conf/opensrf_core.xml --process-hooks # Run pending A/T events. 0,15,30,45 * * * * cd /openils/bin /usr/bin/perl ./ action_trigger_runner.pl --osrf-config /openils/conf/opensrf_core.xml --run-pending While not necessary to follow this exact style (I think we're doing it differently than say the default crontab.example that ships with Evergreen), I think it does matter to use the --osrf-config option with the action_trigger_runner.pl script. We split up the --process-hooks and --run-pending options because we only planned to process passive events nightly vs. running the pending much more often (once every 15 minutes currently). Part 2 - EDI and Acq... We were just testing EDI yesterday (got great advice from Galen Charlton via IRC) and we were finally able to send .EPO files to Ingram's FTP site by day's end. It involved setting up theedi_pusher.pl script and running it after we had finished A/T processing. The edi_pusher.pl and edi_fetcher.pl scripts should be in the Open-ILS/src/support-scripts/ directory and we copied them to /openils/bin for easy access. It was also necessary to setup and start the edi_translator pieces. For that, you turn to the files in the directory Open-ILS/src/edi_translator. In that directory, there's an install script that will install the necessary prerequisites for something called webrick(?). The script says it was written for Debian Lenny, but we've tested it successfully with Ubuntu Lucid (our OS). We copied that whole directory to /openils/bin (though you could put it anywhere really), installed the prereqs with the install script, and then started up the program by calling the edi_webrick.bash script in that directory. Hopefully we can work out some sort of installation guide (if one doesn't already exist) and that can be added to the 2.0+ Documentation. We may contact you later about importing a selection list / order information from Ingram, though I'm unsure if our catalogers have already pieced that together or not. -- Ben --- -- Tim Spindler Manager of Library Applications 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 *P** Go Green - **Save a tree! Please don't print this e-mail unless it's really necessary.*
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] July Evergreen Reports Meeting
Reminder: Evergreen Reports Meeting this afternoon (7/13) at 2:30 Eastern on the IRC! -Original Message- From: Turner, Jennifer M Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 9:18 AM To: evergreen-repo...@list.evergreen-ils.org; Evergreen Discussion Group (open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org) Subject: July Evergreen Reports Meeting Hello Evergreen Reporters, Last week, the Evergreen Reports group conducted a poll to determine the format of our upcoming meeting. The majority of poll participants selected the #evergreen IRC format. The next Reports meeting will be held via IRC (http://evergreen-ils.org/irc.php) on Wednesday, July 13 at 2:30pm Eastern. A tentative agenda has been posted: http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-reports:meetings:2011-07-13-agenda. All who are interested in reports in Evergreen are invited to participate. I look forward to chatting with you soon! Jennifer Turner | PALS, A Program of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities | 507-389-2000
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Star SP200
I can send you the program I put together to share the printer and map it to LPT1 if you are interested. I have it as a VB project (made in Visual Basic 2010 Express), and a packaged executable. The basics can be found at: http://geekswithblogs.net/dtotzke/articles/26204.aspx Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 - Original Message - From: Joan Kranich jkran...@cwmars.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 8:38:49 AM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Star SP200 Thank you for the information Aaron. We are using a USP to Parellel printer cable so we’ll keep trying. Joan Joan Kranich C/W MARS Member Services jkran...@cwmars.org From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Zsembery Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 12:00 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Star SP200 There was a bug for the SP200s with Xulrunner 1.9 (which is used in EG 2.x). See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/491537 In 1.6.x, we have ONLY been able to use the SP200 series printers via parallel (The SP200 series printers do not handle HTML and EG will only send plaintext (DOS Mode) to LPT1). We had a library who was using USB to Parallel adapters. They ended up sharing their SP200s (to the network) and mapping them to LPT1 (from the same computer) with NET USE, but it was flaky and they ended up replacing their SP200 printers with SP512s. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 - Original Message - From: Joan Kranich jkran...@cwmars.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 10:39:23 AM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Star SP200 Hello, Is anyone printing to a Star SP200 receipt printer using Evergreen 2.1? If you can print successfully to the SP200 from Evergreen can you tell me the driver you are using? We have tried the sp212 driver but have not had success. The printer uses a USB connection. Thanks. Joan Joan Kranich C/W MARS Member Services jkran...@cwmars.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] inventory question
Hi everyone, We're planning inventory for our libraries and I was thinking of using laptops with metrologic scanners to check in items as we go along the shelves. I know this is probably a tough question to answer, but do you think using a wireless connection would be unwise for this task? Would it make more sense to use off-line circ? Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] inventory question
It is going to depend on the strength of your wireless. As long as signal is good you should not have a problem. David M. Daniels Technology Support Director Georgia Download Destination Helpdesk Sara Hightower Regional Library Rome Georgia 706-236-4621 Office 706-409-1082 Cell ddani...@romelibrary.org If they say it cannot be done, then they quit too soon! Quote by me. -Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Gordana Vitez Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 2:42 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] inventory question Hi everyone, We're planning inventory for our libraries and I was thinking of using laptops with metrologic scanners to check in items as we go along the shelves. I know this is probably a tough question to answer, but do you think using a wireless connection would be unwise for this task? Would it make more sense to use off-line circ? Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] inventory question
I use wireless for many tasks when I am in my 4 branches with my laptop. I've never done inventory but I see no reason why that would be any different. We're rebarcoding some of our old materials and we take a wireless laptop into the stacks to do that. Mary Toma South Central Regional Library 160 Main Street Box 1540 Winkler, MB R6W 4B4 204-325-5864 204-822-4092 head...@scrlibrary.mb.ca -Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Gordana Vitez Sent: July 13, 2011 1:42 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] inventory question Hi everyone, We're planning inventory for our libraries and I was thinking of using laptops with metrologic scanners to check in items as we go along the shelves. I know this is probably a tough question to answer, but do you think using a wireless connection would be unwise for this task? Would it make more sense to use off-line circ? Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [Evergreen-reports] July Evergreen Reports Meeting
Here are the notes from today's meeting. Please send any revisions to me and I'll make the needed changes. http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-reports:meetings:2011-07- 13 Amy +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 www.biblio.org -Original Message- From: evergreen-reports-boun...@list.evergreen-ils.org [mailto:evergreen-reports-boun...@list.evergreen-ils.org] On Behalf Of Turner, Jennifer M Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:46 AM To: Evergreen Community Reports Email List; Evergreen Discussion Group (open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org) Subject: Re: [Evergreen-reports] July Evergreen Reports Meeting Reminder: Evergreen Reports Meeting this afternoon (7/13) at 2:30 Eastern on the IRC! -Original Message- From: Turner, Jennifer M Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 9:18 AM To: evergreen-repo...@list.evergreen-ils.org; Evergreen Discussion Group (open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org) Subject: July Evergreen Reports Meeting Hello Evergreen Reporters, Last week, the Evergreen Reports group conducted a poll to determine the format of our upcoming meeting. The majority of poll participants selected the #evergreen IRC format. The next Reports meeting will be held via IRC (http://evergreen-ils.org/irc.php) on Wednesday, July 13 at 2:30pm Eastern. A tentative agenda has been posted: http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-reports:meetings:2011-07- 13-agenda. All who are interested in reports in Evergreen are invited to participate. I look forward to chatting with you soon! Jennifer Turner | PALS, A Program of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities | 507-389-2000 ___ Evergreen-reports mailing list evergreen-repo...@list.evergreen-ils.org http://list.evergreen-ils.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/evergreen-reports
