[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Wrong cover attached to record

2010-10-01 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Deanna, My best guess is that maybe the order of the 020 fields makes a difference on how the book cover appears. We've encountered this problem before on our system where the first 020 field is used to generate a book jacket but it might be an incorrect one. All subsequent ones are ignored

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Draft rules of governance for Evergreen Software Foundation - for discussion

2010-10-06 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Dan, Under Section 2.2 (Eligibility), Part (b) states: An individual library may become a Member even though it is part of a consortium that is a Member if the library demonstrates that it contributes to Evergreen in a significant and sustained way, other than being a member of the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Draft rules of governance for Evergreen Software Foundation - for discussion

2010-10-07 Thread Ben Shum
Thanks Dan and Galen for the lively answers to my question! Hmm, based on the clarifications, I'm reading that it is possible for someone to hold their own individual membership, but also be the representative of their library institution's membership at the same time. Is that correct? As for

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Reminder: Developer IRC Meeting, Tuesday October 19

2010-10-15 Thread Ben Shum
Time for another developer meeting! The next Evergreen development IRC meeting will be held at: * 11:00:00 a.m. Tuesday October 19, 2010 in America/Los_Angeles * 02:00:00 p.m. Tuesday October 19, 2010 in Canada/Eastern * 06:00:00 p.m. Tuesday October 19, 2010 in UTC This is a public

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Unexpected results changing Organisational Units through Staff Client in EG 2.0 alpha4

2010-10-22 Thread Ben Shum
I think the new modifications to the org unit structure specifically the org unit address changes also limit your ability to delete or remove org units from the sample tree found in the stock install of Evergreen. It's complicated because the two parts of the table reference each other and so

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Unexpected results changing Organisational Units through Staff Client in EG 2.0 alpha4

2010-11-02 Thread Ben Shum
Repke brings up a solid point about scaring off new users trying out Evergreen with the awkwardness experienced with trying to change org units in the current defaults of Evergreen. I bring this up again because the issue with changing/deleting the default org units has come up again on the IRC,

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Open-ils-general Digest, Vol 53, Issue 13

2010-11-08 Thread Ben Shum
Might be me, but this part might need to read localhosts, rather than loclahosts. -- Ben On 11/08/2010 09:53 AM, chigwag...@msu.ac.zw wrote: {hosts, [loclahosts, private.localhost, public.localhost}

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Setting up a two library consortia system between US and Europe

2010-11-18 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Yamil, Wow, that sounds like it would be pretty cool to implement! I'd definitely be careful about how your policies were configured, circ transits and hold requests across the ocean might come off a bit complicated, heh... I would worry about latency over such a great distance, wherever

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hello!

2010-12-15 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Jose, One of our libraries had someone willing to translate Evergreen into Spanish. Because they only wanted to focus on OPAC translation to give patrons a Spanish version of the OPAC, we gave them a copy of the opac.dtd file from /openils/var/web/opac/locale/es-ES to work with. Once we get

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hello!

2010-12-16 Thread Ben Shum
December 2010 14:47, Ben Shum bs...@biblio.org wrote: Hi Jose, One of our libraries had someone willing to translate Evergreen into Spanish. Because they only wanted to focus on OPAC translation to give patrons a Spanish version of the OPAC, we gave them a copy of the opac.dtd file from /openils/var

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Reminder: Evergreen Community IRC Meeting for Tuesday Dec 21

2010-12-17 Thread Ben Shum
Greetings! This is a reminder that our next Evergreen community IRC meeting will be held at: * 11:00:00 a.m. Tuesday December 21, 2010 in America/Los_Angeles * 02:00:00 p.m. Tuesday December 21, 2010 in Canada/Eastern * 07:00:00 p.m. Tuesday December 21, 2010 in UTC This is a public

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Reminder: Evergreen Community IRC Meeting for TOMORROW Tuesday Jan 25

2011-01-24 Thread Ben Shum
Greetings! This is a reminder that our next Evergreen community IRC meeting will be held at: * 11:00:00 a.m. Tuesday January 25, 2011 in America/Los_Angeles * 02:00:00 p.m. Tuesday January 25, 2011 in Canada/Eastern * 07:00:00 p.m. Tuesday January 25, 2011 in UTC This is a public meeting

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] RELEASE TEAM: The beginning!

2011-01-26 Thread Ben Shum
-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev:evergreen:release_checklist Keep your eyes peeled for more information to come as the official 2.0.0 is cut and released. Thanks to all the volunteers who will be helping as we use the release checklist. Cheers and good luck! -- Ben Shum

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] RELEASE TEAM: so ... is that it?

2011-01-26 Thread Ben Shum
Staff Client is rolled and available from http://ur1.ca/2yjyo If that works, can put it on the Evergreen downloads area. -- Ben On 01/26/2011 12:33 PM, Mike Rylander wrote: I've placed the 2.0.0 tarball, md5 and changelog in the usual spot. Looking at the checklist, next up is Staff Client,

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] RELEASE TEAM: Wiki / downloads page updated for 2.0.0

2011-01-27 Thread Ben Shum
http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads.php has been updated to reflect current stable releases of 2.0.0 and 1.6.1. Thanks Dan Scott! Associated wiki pages have been updated for 2.0.0 installation. -- Ben

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] RELEASE TEAM: Wiki / downloads page updated for 2.0.0

2011-01-27 Thread Ben Shum
that one is missing yet. -- Ben On 01/27/2011 11:32 AM, Ben Shum wrote: http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads.php has been updated to reflect current stable releases of 2.0.0 and 1.6.1. Thanks Dan Scott! Associated wiki pages have been updated for 2.0.0 installation. -- Ben

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Can you answer these questions three?

2011-02-08 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Rebecca, I'll make an attempt at trying to explain how the circ/hold behavior might work. You asked: I guess what my question is whether or not it's possible to limit holds by age while not limiting circulation (i.e. adults can take out material with a collection code of JFIC, but they can't

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OS platforms - Ubuntu 10.04 Debian squeeze

2011-02-14 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Chris, Our current system is single server environment with Debian 5.0 with 1.6.1.3/4. Next week, we are moving to multi-server configuration using Ubuntu 10.04 and Evergreen 2.0.1. We initially decided to use Ubuntu 10.04 for our nextgen production environment because Squeeze was still in

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Reminder: Evergreen Community IRC Meeting for TOMORROW Tuesday March 1

2011-02-28 Thread Ben Shum
Greetings! This is a reminder that our next Evergreen community IRC meeting will be held at: * 11:00:00 a.m. Tuesday March 1, 2011 in America/Los_Angeles * 02:00:00 p.m. Tuesday March 1, 2011 in Canada/Eastern * 07:00:00 p.m. Tuesday March 1, 2011 in UTC This is a public meeting for the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question about circulation limits

2011-03-09 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Vicki, I think this refers to the Group Penalty Thresholds in Evergreen. DIG has some 1.6 pages about that here: http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/1.6/draft/html/lsa-group-penalty.html -- Ben On 03/09/2011 01:56 PM, Vicki Reeves wrote: Most of our patrons are in a 'regular' group which is

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Hashtag

2011-03-16 Thread Ben Shum
Right, unofficially between Kate Sheehan, Kathy Lussier, and myself, we started using #evgils as the hashtag for Evergreen-related activities/events. It was never officially decided on a public forum. Plain #Evergreen leads to too many odd things. -- Ben On 03/16/2011 11:49 AM, Kathy Lussier

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Hashtag

2011-03-16 Thread Ben Shum
Social media thingies dbs++ Looks like the ! signifies a group link in Identi.ca. When I mentioned #evgils, that's the hashtag that I employ on Twitter. -- Ben On 03/16/2011 12:01 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote: You know, Dan...official like a common law marriage is official. ;) I haven't seen

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Permission Problems

2011-03-21 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Tim, Looking at the permissions, I think you have to add one for the network staff for general all users: group_application.user If they don't have that, they won't be able to create any user who's a child of the primary users group (i.e. every other group). Probably also need to have

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Permission Problems

2011-03-21 Thread Ben Shum
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Ben Shum bs...@biblio.org mailto:bs...@biblio.org wrote: Hi Tim, Looking at the permissions, I think you have to add one for the network staff for general all users: group_application.user If they don't have that, they won't be able

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OCLC Connexion port for Evergreen?

2011-04-01 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Donna, We've been curiously exploring this link between Connexion and Evergreen as well this past week. Our current line of thought has been to use the port specified when running the marc_stream_importer.pl script (which we've been told is used to create the import into Evergreen). This

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Expired Patrons Notification

2011-04-05 Thread Ben Shum
This might be something similar, Mike Peters from Evergreen Indiana had this sent out to the mailing lists awhile back: http://georgialibraries.markmail.org/thread/ojbm5wnl4awlv33h The mail message indicates that an A/T event to remind patrons about to expire was written for 1.6 but should be

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Offline Circ error

2011-04-13 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Sue, We encountered an error similar to your reported one with one of our new libraries that used offline circulation for a brief time during their transition to go-live a couple weeks ago. I found that in the archive results file, there appeared to be instances where some extra brackets

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] end of semester due date

2011-04-18 Thread Ben Shum
as far as I know. -- Ben On 04/18/2011 04:14 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote: I believe this is the subject of development sponsor at least in part by Bibliomation. You might jump on the IRC channel and ask Ben Shum about the status. Lori On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Gordana Vitez gvi

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] DIY Sys Admin Hackfest Session

2011-04-20 Thread Ben Shum
Hello fellow sys admins, This is a reminder that we will be having a dedicated time for Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Sys Admin Interest Group during Wednesday's Hackfest session. Several of us have begun some thoughts on broad topics to help get the ball rolling, but we're sure there will be plenty

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] getting brick_ctl.sh to work

2011-05-10 Thread Ben Shum
Hmm, I've never had to directly modify the brick_ctl.sh control script or use /etc/profile as Chris describes. Only have the two paths to the opensrf user's .bashrc. Perhaps it's only balking that error because they don't have the ssh-key entry setup between head and drones and so it can't

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Installing OpenSRF

2011-05-17 Thread Ben Shum
Hi there, The opensrf_core.xml file is created based on the opensrf_core.xml.example in the next step of the OpenSRF install (step 9). Creating the ejabberd users and passwords (step 8) is required to define what you want those accounts to be when you configure them in the next step. Those

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] IRC Client for Windows?

2011-05-18 Thread Ben Shum
Hi June, I love and highly recommend Pidgin to all my office coworkers. :) http://pidgin.im/ -- Ben On May 18, 2011, at 8:04 AM, Rayner, June wrote: Hi Folks Can anyone recommend an IRC Client that’s compatible with Windows XP and Windows 7? Thanks! June Rayner ILS

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Removing z39.50 servers

2011-05-24 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Tim, Sounds like you did all the right things to me so far. I once saw this happen with several of our workstations at the office. The z39.50 server listing gets stuck on the staff client side and requires a cache clearing in order to have the list properly reflect reality. Try clearing

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Action/Triggers

2011-06-22 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Tim, 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

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Scheduling next Community meeting (suggested: Friday, July 8 @ 2:00 PM Canada/Eastern)?

2011-06-26 Thread Ben Shum
+1 for me -- Ben On 06/26/2011 10:31 PM, Dan Scott wrote: According to the minutes of the last Evergreen Community meeting, on April 1 (many thanks to Amy Terlaga for taking minutes at http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=community:meetings:2011-04-01), We will schedule the next

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ALERT: Evergreen 2.0.7 and locales problem

2011-06-29 Thread Ben Shum
Hi everyone, We've received reports of problems using the latest release of Evergreen 2.0.7 with locales other than en-US and have traced it back to a problem with one of the locale files being empty (circ.properties). This also affected the Evergreen 2.1-RC1 as well. Mike Rylander is

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ALERT: Evergreen 2.0.7 and locales problem

2011-06-29 Thread Ben Shum
New server tar.gz has been uploaded (thanks Mike!) and new staff clients built for 2.0.7. Links on downloads page are pointed at the corrected files. Thank you for your understanding. -- Ben On 06/29/2011 12:25 PM, Ben Shum wrote: Hi everyone, We've received reports of problems using

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Scheduling next Community meeting (suggested: Friday, July 8 @ 2:00 PM Canada/Eastern)?

2011-07-06 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Karen, I've moved that link from the main page to the newly created agenda page for the community meeting that's located here: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=community:meetings:2011-07-08. Reviewing the mailing lists, I see 12 +1 votes, and an entry has been created on the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen EDI Setup

2011-07-14 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Tim, I saw that error when I ran the edi_fetcher.pl script on its own as a test. Filed a bug on the issue here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/801961 For me, the fix was to change that part of the perl file to be dir instead of is_dir. I wondered if it was system specific

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Regarding the Windows 2.0.7 client

2011-07-15 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Victoria, For me, the 2.0.7 installer prompts with a choice of language - English (by default), Czech, and French. Perhaps for some reason your computer is forcing to French by default. If others can confirm this though, perhaps my Windows machine is weirdly loyal to English and isn't

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] apostrophe in title search causing problems (Bug #744513)

2011-07-19 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Gordana, We're using 2.0.6, but we've applied by hand several patches from 2.0.7 and the upcoming 2.0.8. Trying a search on our system for a title with an apostrophe such as boys don't cry worked just fine without any change to the search terms. I tested this in our staff client and OPAC and

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Alert pop up messages on item records at checkout

2011-08-05 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Janet, I believe our consortium is also using the alert field of the item record to store this information presently. When we went live, our libraries using self-check machines also noted the problem you're describing for item checkout. I reported the issue to the Evergreen community and

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Next community meeting?

2011-09-02 Thread Ben Shum
Thanks for putting out a reminder on this Dan. I'm also +1 for a middle or end of September meeting, next week is a bit swamped. September 16th at 2 pm EST? Or September 23rd. (Fridays most recently, but we can pick any available day of the week too) -- Ben On 09/02/2011 11:43 AM, Dan Scott

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Metarecords and copy numbers

2011-09-10 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Elizabeth, Unfortunately, I can confirm that this bug is known to exist for awhile now. It started when some new code was added to the OPAC in 2.0 to display copy info in the results summary page. I can't remember if there's an active bug ticket on the issue yet but will check Launchpad

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Metarecords and copy numbers

2011-09-10 Thread Ben Shum
pm, Ben Shum wrote: Hi Elizabeth, Unfortunately, I can confirm that this bug is known to exist for awhile now. It started when some new code was added to the OPAC in 2.0 to display copy info in the results summary page. I can't remember if there's an active bug ticket on the issue yet

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Next community meeting?

2011-09-13 Thread Ben Shum
Alright, I'm going to change my +1 vote for a meeting date of September 23rd. There has not been too many replies yet (only two +1's for 16th). Let us know when you think we should have the next community meeting and then come to participate! -- Ben On 09/02/2011 11:47 AM, Ben Shum wrote

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Scheduled: Evergreen Community IRC Meeting for Friday Sept 23

2011-09-20 Thread Ben Shum
Greetings! This is an announcement that our next Evergreen Community IRC Meeting will be held at: * 11:00:00 a.m. Friday Sept 23, 2011 in America/Los_Angeles * 02:00:00 p.m. Friday Sept 23, 2011 in Canada/Eastern * 07:00:00 Friday Sept 23, 2011 in UTC This is a public meeting for the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Jabok Library (Czech Republic) now live with Evergreen

2011-10-02 Thread Ben Shum
Congratulations and welcome! Based on the details provided, I've added a new entry for your library on the wiki. It is now listed on the Evergreen Libraries page. Not too sure about the Google map, I think that's Bob's area of expertise. In any case, wonderful to have new additions. :)

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Export error

2011-10-03 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Araik, That error is coming from attempting to run the script as root instead of being the opensrf user. The Can't locate OpenILS/Application... part of the error is usually a sign that whatever you're trying to run needs to have the right environment paths set (which is usually the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Covers and ISBNs

2011-10-06 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Brian, As far as I know, the first ISBN entry of a record will always be used to retrieve added content images. I'm not familiar with any workarounds other than editing the records to order the information in them accordingly, but maybe someone is working on this? Otherwise, I think

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS] EDI Problems

2011-10-12 Thread Ben Shum
Not sure if it makes a difference or not, but maybe check in case it matters whether you set the environment variables in crontab up. In our opensrf user's crontab, we have the following at the top: USER = opensrf PATH = /openils/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin PERL5LIB = /openils/lib/perl5

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

2011-10-25 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Michelle, In our consortium, we've implemented both email and print notices for overdues (and other types of notices, pre-overdues, holds, etc.) Depending on which version of Evergreen you're using at your library, I think that may alter what method is best to use to implement notices. I

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

2011-10-26 Thread Ben Shum
--osrf-config /openils/conf/opensrf_core.xml --run-pending or even perl /openils/bin/action_trigger_runner.pl --osrf-config /openils/conf/opensrf_core.xml --process-hooks Feels like I'm missing one piece of the puzzle! All on 2.0.10 Thanks Jonathan On 25/10/2011 21:36, Ben Shum wrote: Hi

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Pull list fields

2011-10-27 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Deanna, In 2.0 (and presumably 2.1+), the pull list display in the staff client seems pretty dynamic, allowing you to sort and add many other columns to view information about hold requests. When it comes to printing that information though, the template for the printed pull list remains

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Fwd: RELEASE TEAM

2011-11-16 Thread Ben Shum
Forwarding to general mailing list so that members of the web team and communications can see that the new 2.1.1 and 2.2-alpha1 have been cut and marked for release. Some of us are already working on the downloads page. -- Ben Original Message Subject:[OPEN-ILS-DEV]

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] odd problem

2011-11-16 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Jesse, What version of Evergreen is your consortium running? It may be unrelated to your issue, but I know there's a bug ticket explaining a potential crash issue that comes when trying to use the Browse Hold Shelf option on certain Evergreen systems. Potentially, there may be a need to

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] newbie evergreen server build

2011-11-23 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Bryan, If you do pick Ubuntu as your server OS, then I just want to say upfront that your best bet will be to use the LTS 10.04 version of Ubuntu. That's the one most heavily used by different Evergreen sites that adopt Ubuntu, ours included. Other versions may work, but may require some

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Community Meeting for Friday Dec 2

2011-11-28 Thread Ben Shum
Greetings! This is an announcement that our next Evergreen Community IRC Meeting will be held at: * 11:00:00 a.m. Friday Dec 2, 2011 in America/Los_Angeles * 02:00:00 p.m. Friday Dec 2, 2011 in Canada/Eastern * 07:00:00 Friday Dec 2, 2011 in UTC This is a public meeting for the Evergreen

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Seperate Servers for OPAC and ILS?

2011-11-28 Thread Ben Shum
We've done this before where we have two different hostnames pointing at two different Evergreen servers, but both servers end up pointing at the same database backend. In a scenario like that, Server A could be opac-only where you tell users to use for opac stuff, and then Server B could be

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] What is the best OS for installing Evergreen-ILS?

2011-11-29 Thread Ben Shum
I'm still a relatively new to Linux server administration, but I'll throw in my two cents. When we first setup Evergreen 1.4, we used Debian Lenny, as that was the recommendation at the time. Shortly thereafter, Evergreen 1.6 came out, and we continued using Debian Lenny since we had become

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Increasing the number of patron shown in Last Few Circulations

2011-12-02 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Geoff, That is a library setting, at least in 2.0 for us. It's named Maximum previous checkouts displayed and can be set granularly per library. I'm not sure what issues might come from having that set higher though. But let us know ;) -- Ben On 12/02/2011 11:24 AM, Geoff Brown

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bar Code Readers, ISBN, and Amazon

2012-03-13 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Ted, I think I've played with the program you've described, it ran on my Macbook, but cost money so I didn't get as far as I would have liked. It probably stores basic item information (simple stuff like title, author, etc.) in a non-MARC format of some kind if it's generating data from

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How to apply translation???

2012-03-15 Thread Ben Shum
Hi there! So I can see that you've made some edits on the Launchpad site for Evergreen, specifically in the Korean language files (https://translations.launchpad.net/evergreen/master/+lang/ko). From what I know, that's the official way of getting a locale translation applied to Evergreen's

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Movies and Z39.5

2012-03-27 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Chauncey, Yay, welcome aboard Ohio! I'm not sure what they have, but Evergreen Indiana made their Evergreen database available as a z39.50 source for other Evergreen libraries last year. You can check the original mailing list message http://markmail.org/message/ymyl7ln7bnkkyl2a for more

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] adding a page to the wiki

2012-03-27 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Gordana, Just to clarify, you and Lori are referring to the navigation menu options on the main Evergreen website? I think it's a great idea to modify those areas to include references to a User Group page including the one you've started up. Curious to hear feedback from others on

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Anyone using Syndetics enriched content on EG 2.x?

2012-03-29 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Yamil, We're using Syndetics right now with 2.0, and have tested them lightly as working with master (future 2.2). The only concern I have is that they could be a little better about the potential identifiers used (right now it's just whichever is the first ISBN listed in the MARC), but

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [Evergreen-web-team] adding a page to the wiki

2012-03-30 Thread Ben Shum
lori.a...@galecia.com mailto:lori.a...@galecia.com wrote: Yep, Ben. That's the idea. Some of the Web Team folks have also already +1'd the idea. Anyone object? Lori On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Ben Shum bs...@biblio.org mailto:bs...@biblio.org wrote

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [Evergreen-web-team] adding a page to the wiki

2012-03-30 Thread Ben Shum
Course after I hit send, I realize that the wording was altered to Donate to Evergreen instead for the specific example I selected of a missing link. Sorry about that, my mistake. -- Ben On 03/30/2012 04:13 PM, Ben Shum wrote: Neat this sounds great! But curious on some technical details

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Canceled holds notices?

2012-04-18 Thread Ben Shum
It should be possible to notify patrons via email if a hold is canceled, though I'm not sure it does this automatically. At the very least, there appear to be hook events that make sense in this case, such as: hold_request.cancel.expire_holds_shelf - A hold is cancelled because it was on the

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Should we have a systems administrators list?

2012-05-01 Thread Ben Shum
I'm -1 to this proposal. For many years, I've mused with other Evergreen system administrators on the issues facing our particular role and areas for discussion. The idea of making our own mailing list seemed like a good idea at many points in those discussions, and if you asked me a few

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Setting to allow patrons to change username

2012-05-09 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Tim, Another library setting that may cause havoc for you down the road is the option for patron barcode format. You should set a regex there to identify patron barcode type so that things don't break for patrons if they try to use their barcode vs. their username. For some reason in

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Changes to Primary Nav on Evergreen-ILS.org

2012-05-09 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Lori, One small problem: It'll be easy enough to create an additional drop down menu choice for User/Regional Groups under the current menu options, but we do not seem to have an end point to direct that link to in any of the email correspondence so far. I found on the dokuwiki, this

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Bibliomation has planted a seed - look at what's growing in Evergreen now!

2012-05-10 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Lori, Good point about Launchpad. Fortunately, the original problem was reported publicly back in April and discussed in IRC and other areas at length. This is a link to the existing bug ticket on the subject: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/984963 Notably, that bug ticket

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: ***SPAM*** Permission groups

2012-05-24 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Glen, I believe the application_perm entry is used to define whether another given group has the ability to edit users of the group with the perm. So say for example, you create a patron group called Child, if you set that group with an application_perm like group_application.user.child

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] State of the map of Evergreen libraries?

2012-06-07 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Bob, As one of the website folks, I'll take a look at updating the KML files on the Evergreen website to include information for your libraries. I've been meaning to try doing more work on those files anyways. Will try to resolve as soon as possible.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problems with downloaded Evergreen Virtual Image

2012-06-30 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Joel, I have not tested this much recently, but I tried it just now. My problem with the virtual image revolved mainly in setting up the networking options properly. With my virtualbox, it did not detect the default host-only adapters that were set on import of the OVF. I ended up

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Action triggers

2012-08-03 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Alexey, I didn't get a chance to read through all the documentation links being shared thus far, but I can tell you that we are still using the exact same process for action_trigger_runner.pl since 2.0. There's a few new options that we're still experimenting with, such as granularity and

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Printing in Evergreen

2012-08-07 Thread Ben Shum
For whatever it's worth, based on Dan's advice a couple years ago, our libraries also use the Dymo 450 for spine label printing. We ran Evergreen 2.0 from 2.0.1 through 2.0.10-ish before we upgraded to 2.2 and beyond. As Dan notes, those printer setting options do exist in 2.0. So, safe to

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] holds not picking up

2012-08-08 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Anne, Which version of Evergreen are you using? In more recent versions (since 2.1.0 and upwards, I think), it's possible to use a special check-in modifier (lower right corner of the check-in screen) to enable the re-targeting of holds upon check-in of items. This special modifier is

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] holds not picking up

2012-08-08 Thread Ben Shum
the added effect of slowing down the check-in event (since you take more time to process all the holds, etc.) but one would only be using the option during the cataloging of brand new items. -- Ben On 08/08/2012 07:36 AM, Ben Shum wrote: Hi Anne, Which version of Evergreen are you using

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Floating Collections

2012-08-08 Thread Ben Shum
How timely Tim, we just had a case where we found an item with floating set to yes, misbehaving when it was returned to another library and not transiting back to its home system. I think you're right that this is not possible to work within system only at this time. But I know folks have

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] holds not picking up

2012-08-08 Thread Ben Shum
, 2012, at 06:43 , Anne Murray wrote: We're using 2.1.0 - I think it may well be the statuses - I will look in to this. Thanks for the info on the check-in modifier too - all very useful! Anne On 8 August 2012 12:38, Ben Shum bs...@biblio.org wrote: Oops, hit send too fast. The reason I

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Error accessing demo catalog

2012-08-08 Thread Ben Shum
and that it has grown so useful to have all the information located there, but welcome others to participate as well. -- Ben On 08/08/2012 07:18 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote: Interesting issue. It is a wiki and yet it has been the work of Ben Shum thus far and the approach we've been taking on the Web

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Content ownership on web site

2012-08-14 Thread Ben Shum
. It is a wiki and yet it has been the work of Ben Shum thus far and the approach we've been taking on the Web Team is to have content owners (well, people responsible for content areas) so I was feeling more inclined to treat that page as Ben's. Can you talk a little more about how you and the web team

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: permissions and editing patron records

2012-08-20 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Erik, I think what Thomas was trying to say in his reply is that you need to grant the associated user permission to the staff patron group you're setting up. So for example, 'group_application.user.patron' is the name of the 'application_perm' for the default 'Patrons' group. So that

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Reminder! Fill out Evergreen Community Meeting Poll

2012-08-21 Thread Ben Shum
Hi everyone, This is a reminder that there's an open poll being conducted to determine the date and time for the next Evergreen Community Meeting, planned for September. Please take some time out to fill out the Doodle poll: http://doodle.com/k6x759dc8xi7vhm9 Thanks! -- Ben

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OPAC questions

2012-08-21 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Lori, I'll give it a shot... On 08/21/2012 03:02 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote: Can someone tell me the answers to the following questions related to the OPAC? Maybe. Can patrons can print a list of the items they have checked out with respective due dates from their library account.

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Re: Open-ils-general Digest, Vol 74, Issue 41

2012-08-21 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Erik, Have you tried granting the base permission as well, such as 'group_application.user' to the Volunteers group? I can't remember if you need that as well. The editing permission that you see in the Permission Groups Editor refers to the permission for editing that group. So each

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Next community meeting is 14 September 2012, 17:00 UTC+0

2012-08-30 Thread Ben Shum
Historically, the Community Meeting grew out of a need to disseminate information from various groups and committees to a larger group of people and it started as an extension of the Developer meetings conducted regularly in IRC. There was some discussion in those early days about the format

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Circulation stats

2012-09-05 Thread Ben Shum
Seems to me it depends on how your reports retrieve data from Evergreen. In the circulation table, Evergreen records the library where the item was circulated from (the lending branch) but you can also retrieve either the item's circulating library or item's volume's owning library (usually

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] added item to agenda for Community Meeting

2012-09-06 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Lori, As far as I know, everyone is welcome to add any topics for discussion, so sounds good to me. Though some long topics may begin as mailing list discussions too, to save time/begin early. -- Ben Lori Bowen Ayre lori.a...@galecia.com wrote: Hi All, I wasn't sure of the protocol for

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Alert flag appears with no alert

2012-09-07 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Jim, For me, I've seen enough random nonsensical data migrate from our previous legacy systems into Evergreen to not trust that the data is meant to make sense from the get-go. We've done quite a bit of data cleanup in our database post-migrations. That said, are you suggesting that

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Weeding Report

2012-09-13 Thread Ben Shum
I'd agree with Thomas that the hard coded IDs for legacy stat cats would have no real meaning in our system either. I have to review the other fields, but they might be interesting enough to interest our report writers to have them included on our system. We aren't using it in our DB, though

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen trademark policy

2012-09-14 Thread Ben Shum
Question, where do we plan to enforce the trademark EGILS? As far as I knew, this has only been used for the official twitter hashtag #egils, but I wouldn't have imagined one would trademark a hashtag. Or is the intent that we may someday use the acronym EGILS and it's now to be an official

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Staff client software vs. web-based interface

2012-09-20 Thread Ben Shum
I just updated the link for Installing Evergreen on Mac on the downloads page to point at http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=mozilla-devel:building_the_staff_client#building_a_macintosh_staff_client It's a slightly newer set of instructions that Mike Peters recently helped to put

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Need Help

2012-10-25 Thread Ben Shum
Just some guesses that might be problem areas between upgrades... 1) Perhaps you need to use a more up to date opensrf.xml configuration file. Since acquisitions was new in 2.0 vs. 1.6, it's possible that not using the more updated file might mean you're missing key config options that were

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How to set up Syndetic AddedContent in TPAC? (EG 2.2.0)

2012-11-09 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Yamil, Not sure about the default providers, but my opensrf.xml has a line like: base_urlhttp://syndetics.com/index.aspx/base_url Which follows the module definition. I'm guessing that's necessary to perform the lookups too. -- Ben On 11/09/2012 12:19 PM, Yamil Suarez wrote: Hello, I

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How to set up Syndetic AddedContent in TPAC? (EG 2.2.0)

2012-11-09 Thread Ben Shum
another question when I am done researching this more. Thanks again, Yamil On Nov 9, 2012, at 12:22 PM, Ben Shum wrote: Hi Yamil, Not sure about the default providers, but my opensrf.xml has a line like: base_urlhttp://syndetics.com/index.aspx/base_url Which follows the module definition

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Reports Troubleshooting

2012-11-15 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Geoff, I think killing clark-kent is a bit brute force, but I've done it myself on a few occasions for bad runaway reports. I'd also suggest a look over http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=scratchpad:random_magic_spells#cancel_query_report to see how one would cancel a report

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Apostrophe and Title Searches (still an issue?)

2012-11-20 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Tony, Ian's experience with reingesting bib records is exactly what we ended up doing during our upgrade to 2.2 too. We weren't as selective, since we ended up adding new metabib indexes which required us to reingest all of our bib records anyways. I think what happened was that in the

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