[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 3.5.0 Released

2020-07-01 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi Everyone, I'm excited to announce the release of Evergreen 3.5.0! Galen has kindly posted a blog update with all the juicy details: https://evergreen-ils.org/evergreen-3-5-0-released/ Thanks again to everyone who helped make this release happen while simultaneously juggling chainsaws of

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 3.5 RC1 Released

2020-06-15 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi All, As Co-RM for Evergreen 3.5, I'm proud to announce the first release candidate for version 3.5 is available for download on the Evergreen downloads page: https://evergreen-ils.org/egdownloads/ As you know, this release was delayed quite a bit, but in the meantime we were able to create

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] REST API with Libro by Conversight

2020-05-27 Thread Bill Erickson
Mike, I just rechecked some earlier conversations and confirmed they are using JSON. I don't know if they are using the IDL as a stone tablet or a living document, though. -b On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 6:18 PM Bill Erickson wrote: > Hi Mike, > > I can't say for sure what they're doing.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] REST API with Libro by Conversight

2020-05-27 Thread Bill Erickson
iative > | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) > | email: mi...@equinoxinitiative.org > | web: http://EquinoxInitiative.org > > On Wed, May 27, 2020, 5:14 PM Bill Erickson wrote: > >> Hi Lynn, >> >> We've done some work with Conversight at KCLS. In

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] REST API with Libro by Conversight

2020-05-27 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi Lynn, We've done some work with Conversight at KCLS. In our case, they are using standard Evergreen APIs via the osrf-gateway-v1 and a Supercat feed for MARC records. This should not require any local changes. We did create one small API tweak to support a certain work flow for them

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hold Targeter - Ignore Closing logic change?

2020-04-30 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi Josh, Jason, The change in behavior was not intentional. Thanks for trouble shooting! -b On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 11:05 AM Jason Stephenson wrote: > Josh, > > I don't know what the intention was when the new hold targeter was > written, but I think it is potentially a bug. > > Would you

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Heads up for Angular translators

2020-03-09 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi Eva, On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 6:00 AM Cerninakova Eva wrote: > Hi Bill, > > I have two questions about Angular translations > > 1) Would it be possible to provide some feedback like comments or > explanation to strings containing variables or part of code (preferably > right in Poeditor) which

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 3.3 hold targeter usage

2020-03-05 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi Josh, Another benefit of soft retargeting is that it updates the hold copy maps for all holds within the soft retarget interval, regardless of whether a new target is needed. This allows you to more frequently add newly cataloged items to the hold copy maps, making them available for

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 3.5 Beta1 released

2020-03-04 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi All, I'm proud to announce the first Beta release of Evergreen 3.5. Files, changelogs, and release notes are available on the Evergreen downloads page: https://evergreen-ils.org/egdownloads/ Some feature highlights for the release: * PostgreSQL 10 support * New Action/Trigger reactor for

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Heads up for Angular translators

2020-03-03 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi All, The latest batch of user interface strings are now uploaded to our PO Editor site and are available for translation. (LP 1862395 -- https://poeditor.com/projects/view?id=218177). There may be a few stragglers that are added soon as well. We typically freeze string translations around

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] EG 3.5 feature freeze reminder

2020-02-26 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi All, Just a friendly reminder tomorrow, Wednesday 26th (in a time zone of your choosing), will be the last day to merge new features (Wishlist bugs) for Evergreen 3.5. Starting Thursday, we'll begin preparations for cutting the Beta release, due out mid next week. Thanks, -b

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 3.5 Development Check-In

2020-01-29 Thread Bill Erickson
developer meeting next week. This will be the last regularly scheduled developer meeting before the feature freeze, so it's a good time to bring up any feature-related topics that might require group discussion or voting. Thanks, Bill Erickson, 3.5 Co-RM.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Custom column configuration

2020-01-17 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi Beth, Yes, this is possible (with caveats). It's still a manual process, though. The gist is this: 1. Create a config.org_unit_setting_type which has the same values as the config.workstation_type you want to replace. 2. Populate the actor.org_unit_setting for the new org unit setting from

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 3.5 Roadmap and Schedule

2019-11-19 Thread Bill Erickson
for part of March which could impact my availability. If this schedule is agreeable, I'll follow up with feedback fest proposal times and add all of this to the general roadmap page: https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=faqs:evergreen_roadmap Thanks, -b Bill Erickson

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Angular staff catalog 3.4 project docs update

2019-11-04 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi All, Just a heads up that I've updated the Angular Staff Catalog wiki page to reflect the state of the project after all the good 3.4 stuff was added. https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=dev:browser_staff:angular_staff_catalog Except where otherwise noted, this document reflects

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Call for Release Manager nominations - Evergreen 3.5

2019-10-24 Thread Bill Erickson
. Thanks to Galen for mentioning this at the hackaway. Thanks for the opportunity, -b Bill Erickson On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 6:09 AM Chris Sharp wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to throw my hat in the ring for co-release manager for the > Evergreen 3.5 release. > > About

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Web Client and Load Balancer

2019-09-03 Thread Bill Erickson
On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 10:52 AM Jason Stephenson wrote: > On 9/3/19 10:11 AM, Bill Erickson wrote: > > > After some poking around I made 2 changes > > > > 1. Use an IP address (e.g. 127.0.0.1) in the proxy_pass configuration > > instead of a hostname to bypass

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hatch and Java

2019-04-18 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi Bob, We're in the process of migrating to OpenJDK and OpenJFX for Hatch. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1817932 Part of this change, once merged, will be that we package the Java bits into the installer, which means sites will not be required to install Java separately from

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Translations in Angular 6+ (Was Evergreen 3.3 Release Update)

2019-03-20 Thread Bill Erickson
Correction, we export XMB but re-import XTB. Dan, I have opened https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1821067 to make the changes needed for supporting XMB/XTB files. On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 1:47 PM Bill Erickson wrote: > Dan, > > Let's be sure to export the current translations b

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Translations in Angular 6+ (Was Evergreen 3.3 Release Update)

2019-03-20 Thread Bill Erickson
Dan, Let's be sure to export the current translations before any changes are made. IIRC, we want .xmb format, though it's probably a good idea to export a few more formats to be safe. Once you select a locale, the export option is the first/top tool in the toolbar along the right. I'll go

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Angular staff catalog dev update / demo server

2019-03-12 Thread Bill Erickson
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 12:16 PM Jennifer Bruch wrote: > Hi Bill, > question about the staff catalog functionality. How would one go about > opening up one or more records from a results list in a new tab? When I try > to right click on one, the new tab opens but fails to load. > > Good

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Angular staff catalog dev update / demo server

2019-03-11 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi All, I just wanted to give an update on the staff catalog work that started back in 3.2. As of 3.3, it's possible to enable the "experimental" catalog in the browser client via library setting. When enabled, a new menu option will appear in the Cataloging menu called "Staff Catalog

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Developers' Meeting for Today Postponed

2018-12-12 Thread Bill Erickson
Replying to thread as a reminder we have a meeting today... -b On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 8:03 AM Goben, Anna wrote: > I've added an entry to the Dev meeting agenda for setting the 2019 > Hack-A-Way dates. We have a bit of flexibility with our preferred site at > the moment, so we can try to

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Angular Discussion During Hack-A-Way

2018-11-06 Thread Bill Erickson
And here's my slides: http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/random.git;a=blob_plain;f=ang6-toturial.html;hb=refs/heads/collab/berick/ang6-tutorial#(1) On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 4:30 PM Rogan Hamby wrote: > I'd like to thank everyone for bearing with us while we work out some > kinks with the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] 3.2 Getting back on schedule

2018-09-18 Thread Bill Erickson
ugs. > > Kathy > > -- > Kathy Lussier > Project Coordinator > Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative > (508) 343-0128kluss...@masslnc.org > > > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 3:13 PM Galen Charlton > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Sep 17, 2018

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 3.2 Getting back on schedule

2018-09-17 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi All, Evergreen 3.2 Beta1 was released just over a week ago followed by a successful bug squashing week. In that time, bugs have been found and bugs have been squashed, as is the way, but I have not seen any new issues arise that warrant delaying the 3.2 release schedule any further. A few

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen 3.2 Beta available for download

2018-09-10 Thread Bill Erickson
gt; by all of the current mechanisms during the transition, but to ensure the > most prompt response, please use the Help Desk: > https://help.georgialibraries.org > > > On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 8:02 PM, Bill Erickson wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Just a quick heads

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 3.2 Beta available for download

2018-09-09 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi All, Just a quick heads up the first beta release of Evergreen 3.2 is available for download on the Evergreen downloads page: https://evergreen-ils.org/egdownloads/ . I'll post a more substantive blog entry tomorrow about the release. For now, I wanted to be sure this week's bug squashers

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 3.2 Release schedule extension (was: feature freeze and more)

2018-08-29 Thread Bill Erickson
te (and subsequent patching if approved) Sept 17th. Remaining milestones TBD. -b > Just my two cents. > > Dan > > ____ > From: Open-ils-general > on behalf of Bill Erickson > Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 6:11:01 PM > To: Public Op

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 3.2 Release schedule extension (was: feature freeze and more)

2018-08-28 Thread Bill Erickson
week. Comments welcome. -b On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 6:11 PM Bill Erickson wrote: > Breaking this message out specifically to discuss extending the 3.2 > release schedule. > > We have a lot of competing priorities at the moment. This week really > should be about wrapping up

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 3.2 Release schedule extension (was: feature freeze and more)

2018-08-28 Thread Bill Erickson
> (508) 343-0128kluss...@masslnc.org > > > > On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 6:47 PM Bill Erickson wrote: > >> Hi Scott, >> >> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 5:24 PM scott.tho...@sparkpa.org < >> scott.tho...@sparkpa.org> wrote: >> >>> Hi Bill, &g

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 3.2 feature freeze and more

2018-08-27 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi Scott, On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 5:24 PM scott.tho...@sparkpa.org < scott.tho...@sparkpa.org> wrote: > Hi Bill, > > I have two questions about this: > > > > 1. You mentioned a vote. Who is the “we” that votes? > Good question. This would be a core developer vote. I started typing

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 3.2 feature freeze and more

2018-08-27 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi All, We have a busy few weeks ahead. This Friday is our feature freeze deadline. All new non-bug features need to be merged by this time if they are to be included in 3.2. Note, however, I will not be paying very close attention to the code until after the Sept 3rd (US) holiday. So,

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 3.2 Feature slush date moved

2018-08-10 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi All, As discussed in the IRC developer meeting this week, I'm pushing the 3.2 feature slush date back from Friday Aug 17th to Wednesday Aug 22nd, since I'll be traveling during that time and will be generally unavailable to participate in the festivities. As a reminder this is the date where

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] standalone interface

2018-08-06 Thread Bill Erickson
On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 3:00 PM Terran McCanna wrote: > We're using it with PINES. Our local instructions are here: > > https://pines.georgialibraries.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=circ:circulation:offline > > We disabled the button to download the offline patron list because it > would not work, so

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] 3.2 Notes on browser client settings moving to server

2018-08-03 Thread Bill Erickson
On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 3:13 PM Kathy Lussier wrote: > Hi Bill, > > 2. A workstation setting can be turned into a user setting by creating a >> matching user setting type (same setting name) and removing the workstation >> setting type. Such settings will follow the logged user account instead

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 3.2 Notes on browser client settings moving to server

2018-08-03 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi All, With special thanks to Kathy Lussier (and Chris Sharp), https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1750894 was merged to master today. This change moves persistent browser client preferences / settings out of the browser (localStorage / Hatch) to the server. With this, preferences and

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 3.2 July Report

2018-07-30 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi All, We're entering the final few weeks of feature development for Evergreen 3.2, so I thought I'd send a round up of what's been going on. It's a large info dump, so here's the... * Executive Summary At the current rate, I suspect we'll have quite a few last-minute feature merges.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Keeping similar hatch settings for multiple windows users

2018-06-12 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi Jane, There should be a file called hatch.properties in the Hatch installation directory. The file contains a single property called data.directory which is used for specifying where the Hatch data should be stored. (It defaults to the users's home folder). If you set the value to a shared

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Final Day of Bug Squashing Week!

2018-05-25 Thread Bill Erickson
Wow, that's a lot of people. Thanks everyone, thanks Terran! On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 11:36 AM, Terran McCanna < tmcca...@georgialibraries.org> wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I'll keep up the tracking chart through the end of today, but this has > already been the most successful Bug Squashing

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] AngularJS to Angular Transition

2018-05-16 Thread Bill Erickson
Ooops, message sent mid-typing... I think I made my points, though. -b On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 2:34 PM, Bill Erickson <beric...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have created an AngularJS to Angular migration summary page on the wiki: > > https://wiki.evergree

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] AngularJS to Angular Transition

2018-05-16 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi All, I have created an AngularJS to Angular migration summary page on the wiki: https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=dev:browser_staff:angjs_to_ang_migration The high-level summary of the transition is we have ~3 years to make the move, we can do it in chunks over time, and the process

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 3.2 Preparing for XUL client removal / browser client blockers

2018-05-09 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi All, We had a discussion at the Evergreen conference hackfest about our plans for removing the XUL staff client from Evergreen, effective with the release of version 3.2. I wanted to recap some of that here and open the door to any questions or concerns about the process. The key point of

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Conference slides and handouts page

2018-05-09 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi Terran, Here are the links to the HTML versions of my slides: Angular slides: http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/random.git;a=blob_plain;f=ang2-preso.html;hb=collab/berick/eg2018#(1) Hatch slides:

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 3.2 Schedule and Call for Roadmap Entries

2018-04-26 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi, I have added the following dates to the Evergreen community calendar [1] for the 3.2 release schedule: Aug 17: Feature slush Aug 31: Feature freeze / string slush Sep 5: Beta release Sep 19: RC release / string freeze Sep 25: General release Later I'll post a poll for selecting a

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Call for Release Manager nominations - Evergreen 3.2

2018-04-20 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi, I'd like to toss my hat in the ring as the Evergreen 3.2 release manager. I have served as release manager in the past for Evergreen 2.8. It's been a little while and the process has evolved, but I look forward to the challenge. Evergreen 3.0 and 3.1 marked the transition period from the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] metabib.browse_entry unused cleanup?

2018-04-03 Thread Bill Erickson
en-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general- > boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] *On Behalf Of *Bill Erickson > *Sent:* Monday, April 02, 2018 3:31 PM > *To:* Evergreen Discussion Group <open-ils-general@list. > georgialibraries.org> > *Subject:* Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] metabib.browse_ent

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] metabib.browse_entry unused cleanup?

2018-04-02 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi Josh, I clean these up about once a year. It's never been a problem, though. I just like cleaning things. -b On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 4:10 PM, Josh Stompro wrote: > Hello, I’ve been changing around some indexing rules and applied the fix > to the full stop/rda

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposed Change to LP Bug Tracking

2018-03-30 Thread Bill Erickson
I like it, Dan. Thanks for the proposal. -b On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 10:08 AM, Terran McCanna < tmcca...@georgialibraries.org> wrote: > I think that's an excellent plan. > > Terran McCanna > PINES Program Manager > Georgia Public Library Service > 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 >

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hatch installer can't detect java

2018-01-03 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi, I have copied the latest Hatch Windows installer (the same as the Mobius link) to /var/www/open-ils.org/downloads/Hatch-Installer-0.1.3.exe on evergreen-ils.org. https://evergreen-ils.org/downloads/Hatch-Installer-0.1.3.exe If someone could please update the downloads page to use this new

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Paypal Link

2017-09-01 Thread Bill Erickson
orize.net API server. The card data may not be stored in > Evergreen's database, but traversing the network alone is enough to require > a hefty amount of PCI compliance work. Stripe is the only option where the > data never touches the EG server network." > > Bill Erickson > > 5:

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Self-Check and locking media cases

2017-08-11 Thread Bill Erickson
I'm late to the thread, but wanted to chime in that we at KCLS make heavy use of the self checkout interface. It's heavily modified, primarily for look and feel, but we are also testing a locally coded version of bug #1512171 (My OPAC-style renewals). Unfortunately the code is not easily

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Heads up & feedback for LP #1635737 (circ duration calculation changes)

2017-05-19 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi All, I wanted to give bug #1635737 [1] some publicity, since it could lead to unexpected results once merged. The bug started as a way to ensure that time changes were taken into account when calculating due dates for circulations. The end result, apart from fixing the bug, is an interesting

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Credit Card - Stripe Vs Paypal & PCI

2017-05-09 Thread Bill Erickson
On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 5:14 PM, Jason Stephenson wrote: > Josh, > > Using PayPal is similar to Stripe, since the transaction is completed > via PayPal and the CC data is not stored in Evergreen. > PayPal (including PayFlowPro) and Authorize.net both require CC data to pass

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] What does the "Holds Expire Alert Interval" library setting do?

2017-05-04 Thread Bill Erickson
On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 11:57 AM, Diane Disbro wrote: > Good morning - > > This is interesting. Patrons at my branch usually pick up holds before > they expire but I know that isn't true everywhere. An email or text > reminder would be helpful. > > Hi Diane, I believe

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Notes from Wait Wait Do Tell Me conference session

2017-04-10 Thread Bill Erickson
t; > > > Thanks! That is so very helpful! > > > > Can this be done to set certain notice action triggers for different > OU? > > > > Jennifer > > > > *From:* Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general- > boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] *On Behalf

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Notes from Wait Wait Do Tell Me conference session

2017-04-10 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi, As promised at the session, here's a quick rundown of limiting notices to specific profile groups. 1. Create a custom filter file with a profile limiter. Here's an example overdue notice filter limited to users with profile ID ( permission.grp_tree.id) values 35, 1002, or 1003. The

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] WEbby Staff Client

2017-03-24 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi Stuart, When you say "not even an error message", do you mean in the interface or the JavaScript console? What happens when you go to https://webby.evergreencatalog.com:7682/ ? You should (quickly) get a "Not Found" page. If the browser hangs, the WebSockets port may be blocked by your

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Web-Client

2016-11-16 Thread Bill Erickson
Also beware the web browser needs to access the server on (nonstandard) port 7682. If you are behind a firewall, it may be blocking the port. FYI work is under way to avoid the requirement for using a nonstandard port: https://bugs.launchpad.net/opensrf/+bug/1638651 -b On Wed, Nov 16, 2016

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Staff Client - TypeError: document.getElementById("commonStrings") is null

2016-09-26 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi Dan, In my experience, this error can occur for all manner of reasons, which generally have nothing to do with the specific code mentioned in the error. I think this code just happens to be among the first to fail when the staff client is unable to load. (It may as well say "Uh oh, something

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Error when upgrading from 2.9.3 to 2.10.0

2016-05-01 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi Linda, On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Linda Jansova wrote: > This time we experienced the same error (but involving a different copy of > the same serial): > > psql:version-upgrade/2.9.3-2.10.0-upgrade-db.sql:4578: ERROR: insert or > update on table "usr_circ_history"

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] opensrf.xml changes required for master and (pending) 2.10

2016-02-26 Thread Bill Erickson
.evergreen-ils.org/?p=Evergreen.git;a=blob;f=Open-ILS/examples/opensrf.xml.example;h=59f737a921cc77a2ab39bf82e9f03283c483a007;hb=722338616034d1be24603ef193cc775fbbe08307#l412 -b Bill Erickson

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Self-Registration and Immediate Access to Services

2016-01-29 Thread Bill Erickson
KCLS is interested in this as well. I haven't given it much thought yet beyond, "wouldn't it be nice if...". -b On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:25 PM, McCanna, Terran < tmcca...@georgialibraries.org> wrote: > I would also be interested in hearing if anyone else has done something > like this. We

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Self-Registration and Immediate Access to Services

2016-01-29 Thread Bill Erickson
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Justin Hopkins  < jus...@mobiusconsortium.org> wrote: > To go off on a bit of a tangent (it's related, I promise) there is also > the issue of Evergreen offering a way to validate users without them being > physically present at the library. > > As more and more

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Acquisitions Funds question

2016-01-04 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi Janet, When a fund's "active" field is set to false, the fund will no longer appear in these lists. This is typically done in batch via the fiscal / year-end rollover process (in the funds admin interface), but you can also mark individual funds as inactive by editing each fund directly (also

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Hack-A-Way 2016 Selection

2015-10-13 Thread Bill Erickson
Ditto Ben's comments. I see no reason they (or anyone) can't bid every year, assuming we go through the usual selection process to choose the best site. If we agree (and I think we do) that moving the site each year is a good thing, we could stipulate up front that a site gets bonus points for

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Upgraded to 2.8.3 - Book covers no longer loading

2015-08-25 Thread Bill Erickson
Jesse, Beware there is no added content module for Novelist, at least not in the same sense as the OpenLibrary, ContentCafe, and Syndetic modules. Novelist is only used within the templates and in the Apache configuration. If you have Novelist set as your added content provider in opensrf.xml

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Deleting (partial) credit card data

2015-07-14 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi All, I've opened Launchpad bug for preventing Evergreen from storing credit card data when credit card payments are made via the TPAC. Similarly, I'm proposing that all existing credit card information be deleted as well. Storing this data is a bad idea for various reasons. However, since

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] presentations

2015-05-16 Thread Bill Erickson
Oh CRUD, My API Has a Flesh Wound: HTML Page: http://goo.gl/NmKlWv Asciidoc: http://goo.gl/B1pPb7 -b On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Grace Dunbar gdun...@esilibrary.com wrote: Slides from my talk Badges? We don't need no stinking badges! or Encouraging participation in Evergreen.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Resetting karma in IRC

2015-05-16 Thread Bill Erickson
+1 On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Galen Charlton g...@esilibrary.com wrote: Hi, On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Kathy Lussier kluss...@masslnc.org wrote: I would like to suggest that we reset the karma points in the #evergreen channel by the end of next week (to give adequate time for

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.8.1, 2.7.5, and 2.6.8 Released

2015-05-01 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi All, On behalf of the Evergreen contributors, the 2.8 release manager (Bill Erickson), the 2.7 release maintainer (Ben Shum) and the 2.6 release maintainer (Dan Wells), we are pleased to announce the release of Evergreen 2.8.1, 2.7.5, and 2.6.8. The new releases can be downloaded from: http

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Action Trigger Opt-In Settings

2015-04-28 Thread Bill Erickson
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Josh Stompro stomp...@exchange.larl.org wrote: Hello, I’m working on updating the action trigger documentation to make sure it covers everything, and I want to make sure I understand the Opt-In settings. Please tell me if I have this correct or not. If

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.8.RC1 posted

2015-03-17 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi, 2.8.RC1 files have been pushed to evergreen-ils.org: http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads/previews/ChangeLog-2.7.4-2.8.0 http://evergreen-ils.org/documentation/release/RELEASE_NOTES_2_8.html http://evergreen-ils.org/documentation/install/README_2_8.html

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2.8.beta Released

2015-03-04 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi Everyone, I've uploaded the 2.8.beta release files to evergreen-ils.org: http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads/previews/ChangeLog-2.7.3-2.8.beta http://evergreen-ils.org/documentation/release/RELEASE_NOTES_2_8.html http://evergreen-ils.org/documentation/install/README_2_8.html

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2.8 beta pending security releases

2015-02-26 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi All, I wanted to give everyone a heads up that the 2.8 beta release will be cut after a batch of security releases are cut. 2.8 will contain the fixes, so I'd like to wait until the usual security announcements are wrapped up before publishing the code. We hope to have the new versions cut

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Holding Subfields

2015-01-27 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi Leslie, Purchase order IDs and lineitem IDs are included in EDI messages by default. That's the primary mechanism for synchronizing data between Evergreen and the vendor. Item (copy) IDs are not included by default, but can be with a change to the EDI template. What problem are you trying

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2.8 release scheduling

2014-12-18 Thread Bill Erickson
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Mike Rylander mrylan...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Bill Erickson beric...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Mike Rylander mrylan...@gmail.com wrote: Bill, First, thanks for putting out a timeline. I am a little

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2.8 release scheduling

2014-12-13 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi All, I'm attempting to sketch out the release schedule for Evergreen 2.8, so I'd like to run some dates/thoughts by everyone. For starters, unless someone requests it, I'm not planning to cut an Alpha release. I've never seen anyone install one :). I'm happy to cut one if desired, though.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Acq - Copy location UI scoped to registered workstation

2014-12-12 Thread Bill Erickson
This is probably a limitation within AutoFieldWidget. It has a special handler for copy locations to avoid loading all perm-visible locations, which can be many thousands in some consortia. This seems like a good candidate for a typeahead box -- openils.widget.PCrudAutocompleteBox in this

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Acq - Copy location UI scoped to registered workstation

2014-12-12 Thread Bill Erickson
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Blake Henderson bl...@mobiusconsortium.org wrote: Bill, This is the same conclusion that I was coming to. As I was saying before, I didn't want to jump to a launchpad bug because it seemed odd that something this fundamental wasn't already fleshed out and

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2.8 release manager planning

2014-11-14 Thread Bill Erickson
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Jayaraj JR jaya...@iisertvm.ac.in wrote: Hello, It would be a nice feature if can add the patron image in the coming version of Evergreen ILS. This provision may be incorporated while registering the patron. When opening the patron account it should be

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2.8 release manager planning

2014-11-13 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi All, At Wednesday's developer meeting I volunteered and was elected the (provisionally named) Evergreen 2.8 release manager. I'd like to discuss my goals for this release and open the floor to others who may wish to offer suggestions and feedback. Areas of interest for me personally: *

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Web Client (Sprint 1) demo server

2014-09-18 Thread Bill Erickson
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 2:22 AM, Liam Whalen liam.wha...@bc.libraries.coop wrote: snip I am getting the following error when I try to login via Firefox on the Windows VM: webby.evergreencatalog.com:7682 uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because no issuer

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Web Client (Sprint 1) demo - initial testing results

2014-08-26 Thread Bill Erickson
Thanks for testing, Terran. I've added a couple of comments inline... On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 3:32 PM, McCanna, Terran tmcca...@georgialibraries.org wrote: Hello Grace and all, I have begun testing the work on Sprint 1 and here are my notes so far: MAIN SCREEN OF INTERFACE: - Register

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] browser client dev update July 18 2014

2014-07-22 Thread Bill Erickson
expect. What am I missing? Aha! IFrame navigation works as desired in Chrome on my Mac, but not in Chrome on Linux. Are you by any chance using Windows, Terran? Thanks for testing, -b -- Bill Erickson | Senior Software Developer | phone: 877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: ber...@esilibrary.com

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] browser client update for July 2 2014

2014-07-22 Thread Bill Erickson
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich alexey.la...@mnsu.edu wrote: On 2014-07-21, at 09:47 , Bill Erickson ber...@esilibrary.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich alexey.la...@mnsu.edu wrote: On 2014-07-11, at 12:37 , Bill

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] browser client update for July 2 2014

2014-07-21 Thread Bill Erickson
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich alexey.la...@mnsu.edu wrote: On 2014-07-11, at 12:37 , Bill Erickson ber...@esilibrary.com wrote: In the interest of speed, we're only porting interfaces over without modifications for now. I would suggest opening an Launchpad

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] browser client dev update July 18 2014

2014-07-18 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi All, Today's topic is integrating existing HTML interfaces: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev:browser_staff:dev_notes#section20140718 Cheers, -b -- Bill Erickson | Senior Software Developer | phone: 877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: ber...@esilibrary.com | web: http

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] browser client update for July 2 2014

2014-07-11 Thread Bill Erickson
, at 15:01 , Bill Erickson ber...@esilibrary.com wrote: That's correct. The patron edit UI will be practically unchanged. The only changes we're making for this project are to integrate it with the new browser interface, which will not have any material affect on its behavior. I would really like

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] browser client update for July 2 2014

2014-07-02 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi All, It's been a while. I've been waist deep in circulation and lived to tell the tale. In the end, it's not much of a tale, but there's other stuff in here too http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev:browser_staff:dev_notes#section20140702 -b -- Bill Erickson | Senior

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Simple self check

2014-06-19 Thread Bill Erickson
also am looking at Ben and Buzzy's discussion here as well: http://list.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-general/2014-January/009481.html . Indeed, it was developed specifically for Firefox. The fact that it works in Chrome is a happy accident. -b -- Bill Erickson | Senior Software

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Acquisitions: dealing with cancelled/backordered line items

2014-06-06 Thread Bill Erickson
://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1270289 -b -- Bill Erickson | Senior Software Developer | phone: 877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: ber...@esilibrary.com | web: http://esilibrary.com | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Interface Ideas Mockup

2014-06-06 Thread Bill Erickson
to be applied broadly to every interface? If not, how can we improve it further? Does it solve more problems than it causes? And, perhaps the biggest question of all, is it worth the necessary effort? I'm really liking these so far and the mockup helps a lot. Thanks, Dan! -b -- Bill Erickson | Senior

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] staff client dev 2014-05-19 / feedback requests

2014-05-23 Thread Bill Erickson
, prompts, dialogs, etc. appear along the top center of the page as pop-up (modal) windows. For example, type a string of random characters into the checkin box: https://bill-dev2.esilibrary.com/eg/staff/circ/checkin/index -b -- Bill Erickson | Senior Software Developer | phone: 877-OPEN-ILS (673

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] staff client dev 2014-05-19 / feedback requests

2014-05-22 Thread Bill Erickson
, ctrl-click this link if you want to retain your work in progress, otherwise click as usual. Thanks for all your thoughts and input, Dan. Making the behavior obvious will be a huge usability win. -b -- Bill Erickson | Senior Software Developer | phone: 877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: ber

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] staff client dev 2014-05-19 / feedback requests

2014-05-22 Thread Bill Erickson
-- Bill Erickson | Senior Software Developer | phone: 877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: ber...@esilibrary.com | web: http://esilibrary.com | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] staff client dev 2014-05-19 / feedback requests

2014-05-20 Thread Bill Erickson
looking links up to the web browser? So folks can use whatever they're used to in the environment they're used to, whether it's using context menus or keyboard shortcuts. Yes, exactly, no custom context menus or hard-coded target=_blank attributes. They're just links. -b -- Bill Erickson

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] staff client dev 2014-05-19 / feedback requests

2014-05-19 Thread Bill Erickson
http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=dev:browser_staff:dev_notes#section20140519 I have feedback requests for patron horizontal vs. vertical display and link (a) behavior. Thanks, -b -- Bill Erickson | Senior Software Developer | phone: 877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: ber

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] browser client update 2014-05-09 / UI lists for sprint 1; packaging, etc.

2014-05-09 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi All, I don't have any specific feedback requests this time, but feedback is of course always welcome / appreciated. http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=dev:browser_staff:dev_notes -b -- Bill Erickson | Senior Software Developer | phone: 877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: ber

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] browser client update 2014-05-01 / feedback requested on catalog integration

2014-05-05 Thread Bill Erickson
[mailto: open-ils-dev-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] *On Behalf Of *Bill Erickson *Sent:* Friday, May 02, 2014 10:20 AM *To:* Evergreen Discussion Group *Cc:* Evergreen Development Discussion List *Subject:* Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] browser client update 2014-05-01 / feedback

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