Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Trying to do Overdues.

2011-10-26 Thread Joan Kranich
Thanks Liam for the great information. Joan Joan Kranich C/W MARS Member Services jkran...@cwmars.org 508-755-3323 ext. 21 From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Whalen, Liam Sent: Tuesday,

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Publication patterns

2011-10-26 Thread Mieke Stroo
Hi all, At the IISG in Amsterdam we are busy making publication patterns (in EG 2.0.3) for our serials collection. I read somewhere that patterns which were already made, would be made accessible for all. I've been searching for them, but could not find anything on the website. We already

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Trying to do Overdues.

2011-10-26 Thread Jonathan Field
Two points on this particular issue. 1) Is there a way to narrow down your email notifications by Permission Group? For example, you may want to send email notifications to patrons but not staff. Cannot see any way of doing it right now. 2) I went down the Action Triggers route for overdues

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Trying to do Overdues.

2011-10-26 Thread Whalen, Liam
-Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Dan Wells Sent: October 25, 2011 17:59 To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Trying to do Overdues.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Trying to do Overdues.

2011-10-26 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Jonathan, For point 1, I'm not sure how to set it up to exclude certain groups either. Though now that you mention it, that would be worth learning more about... For point 2: On our system, we have crontab entries that handle all the action/trigger running. Our entries look something

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Reshelving

2011-10-26 Thread Tim Spindler
Thanks, Dan. I made the suggested change and it still does not seem to be doing anything. The cron log reads Oct 26 10:05:01 eg-training /USR/SBIN/CRON[3179]: (opensrf) CMD (cd /openils/bin ./reshelving_complete.srfsh) If I try and run the file issuing logged in with opensrf

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Summary method in serials

2011-10-26 Thread Kathy Lussier
Hi all, I just noticed the summary method field that is available when setting up a serials distribution in 2.1. According to the 2.1 release notes, the available options for this field are * Add to record entry * Merge with record entry * Use record entry only *

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Trying to do Overdues.

2011-10-26 Thread Geoff Brown
Hi Liam, This is great. Already this is a great improvement! Is there anyway to have the Title of the overdue item appear in the report? I can't seem find it buried in the source - if you have any suggestions - it would be appreciated. Thanks, Geoff Brown Library Technician - eResources, NC

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Getting network failure errors when saving large MARC files (EG master, post 2.1)

2011-10-26 Thread Brian Greene
Yamil, You are not alone - many libraries in the Sage consortium regularly encounter a network failure when trying to save large bib records. Likewise, the error message window we get is often too tall for typical screen resolution. Thanks, Brian Columbia Gorge Community College Library

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Trying to do Overdues.

2011-10-26 Thread Whalen, Liam
-Original Message- From: Geoff Brown [mailto:gebr...@niagaracollege.ca] Sent: October 26, 2011 12:09 To: Whalen, Liam Cc: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Trying to do Overdues. ... Is there anyway to have the Title of the overdue item appear in the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Getting network failure errors when saving large MARC files (EG master, post 2.1)

2011-10-26 Thread Justin Hopkins
Are these on screen messages also in the logs? That might help. Regards, Justin Hopkins Coordinator, IT Web Services MOBIUS Consortium Office c: 573-808-2309 --sent from a mobile device-- On Oct 26, 2011, at 11:30 AM, Brian Greene bgre...@cgcc.cc.or.us wrote: Yamil, You are not alone - many

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Trying to do Overdues.

2011-10-26 Thread Whalen, Liam
-Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Whalen, Liam Sent: October 26, 2011 12:31 To: Geoff Brown Cc: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Trying to

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] FW: Summary method in serials

2011-10-26 Thread Kathy Lussier
Hi all, I just want to clarify my previous question. I'm wondering which values should be entered when using the alternate serials control view. I get a blank text entry box in this interface. I now see that I'm given a list of options when using the Serials Control View, but we have a number of

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Getting network failure errors when saving large MARC files (EG master, post 2.1)

2011-10-26 Thread Yamil Suarez
On Oct 26, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Brian Greene wrote: Yamil, You are not alone - many libraries in the Sage consortium regularly encounter a network failure when trying to save large bib records. Likewise, the error message window we get is often too tall for typical screen resolution.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Getting network failure errors when saving large MARC files (EG master, post 2.1)

2011-10-26 Thread Yamil Suarez
On Oct 26, 2011, at 12:32 PM, Justin Hopkins wrote: Are these on screen messages also in the logs? That might help. Regards, Justin Hopkins Coordinator, IT Web Services MOBIUS Consortium Office c: 573-808-2309 --sent from a mobile device-- I have found copies of the error in the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Getting network failure errors when saving large MARC files (EG master, post 2.1)

2011-10-26 Thread Brian Greene
We try a few things: reduce the size of the record until it will save (leaving an incomplete record); ask someone at a different location (i.e. another city) to try saving it and/or try saving it at a later time. Sometimes saving from a different location or waiting until the next morning

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Getting network failure errors when saving large MARC files (EG master, post 2.1)

2011-10-26 Thread Brian Greene
Some more background on our experiences with these issues and a couple of workarounds for the oversized error messages: A couple of months ago I painstakingly went over a handful of problem records and was pretty convinced the issue manifested when a given record had 70 or more fields. But then

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Truncating fields in reports

2011-10-26 Thread John Morris
Ok, all this talk of overdue reports got me back to tinkering with the EG graphical report generator. The couple of reports we have now I banged out as perl scripts because I couldn't figure out that fancy schamancy graphical thing at the time and we needed the reports. But I'd really rather do

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Truncating fields in reports

2011-10-26 Thread John Morris
On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 18:46 -0500, John Morris wrote: I currently truncate long fields like title or author on reports so that it can fit in a nice tabular format. Can't find a way to do that with the generator. Replying to myself is bad form but I totally forgot to mention that I already