[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Select combo in Fixed Fields
Good morning. Hi All. Can we think of a possibibility that in staff client, actually in the Create New Marc Record section, the fixed fields could display a select combo with the available options from marc coded value maps, instead of type each value one by one. Can we integrate this feature in the coming versions of Evergreen ILS? Thanks for your time. Regards. Atentamente. I.S.C.Francisco Javier Guel Mendoza Desarrollador de sistemas - Tecnologías de Información Instituto Potosino de Investigación Cientifica y Tecnologica A.C.
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Select combo in Fixed Fields
Francisco, Equinox recently started working on precisely that, and we'll be offering it for inclusion in the next major release. We'll announce more details -- the proposed implementation plan, etc -- here as they become available. -- Mike Rylander | Director of Research and Development | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: mi...@esilibrary.com | web: http://www.esilibrary.com On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Francisco Javier Guel M. xaviers_jor...@hotmail.com wrote: Good morning. Hi All. Can we think of a possibibility that in staff client, actually in the Create New Marc Record section, the fixed fields could display a select combo with the available options from marc coded value maps, instead of type each value one by one. Can we integrate this feature in the coming versions of Evergreen ILS? Thanks for your time. Regards. Atentamente. I.S.C.Francisco Javier Guel Mendoza Desarrollador de sistemas - Tecnologías de Información Instituto Potosino de Investigación Cientifica y Tecnologica A.C.
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Newsletter / Sept-Oct 2013
EVERGREEN NEWSLETTER - September / October 2013 EVERGREEN HACK-A-WAY by Rogan Hamby The 2013 Hack-A-Way was held this year in Grand Rapids, Michigan hosted by Calvin College on September 17th - 19th and sponsored by Equinox Software. Participants came to write code and discuss major issues facing community development. Perhaps the single largest issue that had to be discussed was the future of the staff client. With a lot of input and points for consideration put forward by those physically and electronically present the eventual decision was made to start moving away from dependency on our current platform and look at new frameworks. While we will have to live with the current staff client for a while and cannot afford to stop updating it, a rough game plan was put into place for moving to new frameworks that may allow us to eventually move to a web based staff client. Actual code produced covered areas as diverse as MARC exporting, serials, enriched content and the proof of concept for a simple web based check out interface. However, the most dramatic work came from those who worked hard on moving the TPAC to a mobile friendly interface - work that has continued aggressively over IRC since the hackfest. Additionally, a major topic of discussion was selecting a 2.6 release manager and reviewing the 2.5 process. As the community grows and an increasing focus is made on stable tested releases this can sometimes put a large burden on the release manager. With a lot of ideas thrown out for consideration no release manager was chosen, but the need is clear, for a large pool of good testers and several projects are underway to educate and encourage new participants. An agenda and list of participants can be found on the Evergreen community wiki. With a big success on only the second year of the Hack-A-Way we are finding that having this chance for a gathering mid-year between the conferences, without distractions, is very productive. Next year we will extend our tele-presence options after having a big demand for them this year. Groups interested in hosting next year should start considering and inquiring now. We will take submissions for hosting immediately after the 2014 conference. EVERGREEN RELEASES Evergreen 2.6 Grace Dunbar of Equinox provided the following feature update, planned for the upcoming release of 2.6: Dynamic MARC Fixed Fields Editor The current Evergreen Fixed Fields grid offers some support for showing and hiding fields based on the selected record type. This development plans to enhance and extend this concept to a fully dynamic, data-driven fixed fields editor for the MARC leader, 008, and 007. The interface will be a combination grid/list and wizard-style interface. Sponsored by Statistics Canada Enhancements to the Billing Interface - The Balance Owed, Total Billed, and Payment Pending columns should sort numerically instead of asciibetically. - Different colors should be used to highlight overdue items still checked out, long overdue items still checked out, and lost items. The distinct colors will make it easier for staff to distinguish among the different statuses. The colors should highlight the entire row, not just the title. - For negative bills on a patron's bill: in addition to the refund option on the shortcut menu, which accounts for any refunds in the Cash Report, there should also be a clear negative balance option, which clears the refund without impacting the Cash Report. - A library setting should be available to remove the Convert Change to Patron Credit option from the Bills interface. - A setting should be available allowing a workstation to choose to have all bills deselected when loading the bills interface. The intent of this option is to minimize errors in applying payments to the wrong bill. Sponsored by MassLNC Equinox has a contract out to a client for OPAC accessibility compliance work. Equinox has quotes out for the following but they are not completely funded: Inventory Module - if interested on co-funding, please contact Rogan Hamby. MVF/CRA (Multiple Value Formats and Composite Record Attributes), though there are many benefits to this project, it is fondly known as the icons in the OPAC project. If interested in co-funding, please contact Kathy Lussier. Prototype (proof of concept) Staff Client Browser Build. If interested in co-funding, please contact Rob Herrmann at Equinox. rherrm...@esilibrary.com Evergreen 2.5, etc. Grace Dunbar has provided another update, including features that made it into 2.5: Equinox has worked with NC Cardinal and COOL to bring two more library systems on board their respective systems. We also welcomed new customers Historic Deerfield Library, Rodgers Memorial Public Library, and PaILS' SPARK consortium. Equinox worked with GPLS to research and eliminate the patron search memory leaks and the printing memory leaks that were introduced in Evergreen 2.3.
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Select combo in Fixed Fields
Hi Mike. Thanks for your response, Will be great having this feature in Evergreen, Regards! Atentamente. I.S.C.Francisco Javier Guel Mendoza Desarrollador de sistemas - Tecnologías de Información Instituto Potosino de Investigación Cientifica y Tecnologica A.C. francisco.g...@ipicyt.edu.mx From: mrylan...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 13:18:02 -0400 To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Select combo in Fixed Fields Francisco, Equinox recently started working on precisely that, and we'll be offering it for inclusion in the next major release. We'll announce more details -- the proposed implementation plan, etc -- here as they become available. -- Mike Rylander | Director of Research and Development | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: mi...@esilibrary.com | web: http://www.esilibrary.com On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Francisco Javier Guel M. xaviers_jor...@hotmail.com wrote: Good morning. Hi All. Can we think of a possibibility that in staff client, actually in the Create New Marc Record section, the fixed fields could display a select combo with the available options from marc coded value maps, instead of type each value one by one. Can we integrate this feature in the coming versions of Evergreen ILS? Thanks for your time. Regards. Atentamente. I.S.C.Francisco Javier Guel Mendoza Desarrollador de sistemas - Tecnologías de Información Instituto Potosino de Investigación Cientifica y Tecnologica A.C.
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OpenSRF 2.2.1 released
OpenSRF 2.2.1 is now available for download and use. This is a small enhancement and bugfix release, and includes the following major changes: * Due to Mozilla withdrawing support for multipart XHR responses from Firefox as of version 22, multipart message support is now disabled for all clients except the Evergreen staff client. * A method was added to get and/or set the locale used by all new client sessions for the current process. This is primarily useful for clients that wish to make a series of OpenSRF calls and don’t wish to set the locale for each new AppSession object. * Minor fixes to improve support for the current Debian testing release as well as resolving some unitialized variable warnings. For a complete list of the changes, please consult the release notes [1] and change log. [2] Links to the installation tarball, release notes, and installation instructions can be found on the OpenSRF downloads page. [3] Share and enjoy. [1] http://evergreen-ils.org/documentation/release/OpenSRF/RELEASE_NOTES_2_2_1.html [2] http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads/OpenSRF-ChangeLog-2.2.1 [3] http://evergreen-ils.org/opensrf-downloads/ -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web:http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org http://evergreen-ils.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Welcome Panel at EG2014
Hi John, I am writing the proposal for our Welcome Panel, and one of the questions they ask is for the job title of each participant. May I please have your current title? Thank you :) A. Andrea Buntz Neiman, MLS Librarian II, Public Services Kent County Public Library 408 High Street Chestertown, MD 21620 410-778-3636 x2115 www.kentcountylibrary.org On 10/24/2013 7:14 PM, John Clark wrote: Hi Andrea, I'll be attending and would be happy to be a panel member. My library (Hartland Public) is a member of the Maine Balsam Libraries Consortium, a group of just over 20 libraries that has public, school, academic and health science libraries among the members. Regards, John Clark
