Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] HTML entities in MARC Record editor

2018-03-20 Thread Dan Scott
Hi Josh: Quick question: XUL or web staff client? And version? In theory, what you see is what you should get - MARC has no idea what HTML entities are, so "" in the editor should be displayed as "" (properly escaped, of course) in the catalogue. If you see amp; in the biblio.record_entry.marc,

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] HTML entities in MARC Record editor

2018-03-20 Thread Josh Stompro
Hello, could someone give me some pointers in regards to html entities in marc data? Sometimes I see used in 490a data and displayed as in the evergreen marc editor, and in the catalog it is displayed as and not as &. We also see things like a 520 that contains but it does get displayed as

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] discouraged

2018-03-20 Thread Diane Disbro
Good afternoon - This is an excellent discussion. We do need to be careful not to develop separate groups while at the same time facilitating discussion in whatever language each of us speaks. I'm with Scott. I receive notifications for bug reports and scan them to see if they contain anything

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 3.1 RC

2018-03-20 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello all, Time marches on, and preparations for the 3.1 release candidate are already underway. Please note, due to a personal scheduling conflict, I am delaying the official cutoff for the RC by one day. You now have until 2:00pm (EDT) on Thursday, March 22, to push reviewed bugfixes freely

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Logo Options

2018-03-20 Thread mememarlow . 1986
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Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Reports Training

2018-03-20 Thread Terran McCanna
Hi Glen, Our documentation hasn't been updated for the web client yet, but the concepts haven't changed in some time. Feel free to refer to what we have at: http://pines.georgialibraries.org/reports Terran McCanna PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Reports Training

2018-03-20 Thread Glen Modell
Hello, this is Glen at the Ann Arbor District Library. We have been on Evergreen since January, and I would like to know if anyone has developed training documents for generating reports. Thanks. -- Glen. * Glen Modell Library Automation Specialist Ann Arbor

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] discouraged

2018-03-20 Thread Kathy Lussier
Hi all, To add to what Rogan and Terran said, I love seeing this discussion on the list just as I love seeing discussions like this in IRC. Anything that gets us all talking about ways to improve the software will lead to seeing those improvements implemented in the software. But Rogan is

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] discouraged

2018-03-20 Thread scott.tho...@sparkpa.org
Rogan, I agree, and we need people like you to serve as the translator for those of us who do not speak programming. When I see things like egStartup.go().then(), I feel like I’m back in Algebra 2. What I would like to do (and encourage others to do) is post issues here first because

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] discouraged

2018-03-20 Thread Rogan Hamby
And I'd like to caution people about creating boundaries between parts of the community. I know that the technical and front line staff seem to often speak different languages. I worked on the front line of libraries for two decades including as a circulation and reference manager as well as

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] discouraged

2018-03-20 Thread Terran McCanna
I agree that this list is a good venue to discuss problems, solutions, and workarounds, but want to stress that any bugs that are identified need to be put into launchpad with as much detail as possible. Terran McCanna PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] discouraged

2018-03-20 Thread scott.tho...@sparkpa.org
Hi Diane, I agree completely. I only use IRC to attend the Evergreen Oversight Board Meeting because that is the venue of choice for those meetings. Otherwise, I avoid it. I find it to be difficult to use, and it seems to lean more towards the programmer side of things. Launchpad, while a

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Unexected report writer behaviour.

2018-03-20 Thread Mike Rylander
Steve, The HTML output of every report has a link at the top (intentionally made dimmer than others) that says "Debugging Info". If you click that, you'll see the actual SQL that ran. Your problem comes from this path: Circulation -> Item :: Circulations That goes from one circ (presumably

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Unexected report writer behaviour.

2018-03-20 Thread swills beyond-print.com
Chris asked me to post this problem.  It was surprising to me that he gets the report results that he does.  As an aside, i'd like to be able to see the report writers actual query at some point.  Is there a debug trap for that? Anyway, here is his problem. have an interesting Evergreen “Reports”