Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Epson TM-T88IV and USB Compatibility?

2018-10-26 Thread Bill Ott
I know we're using them and I don't recall any specific port issues on machines with 3.0 ports. Seems like long ago we needed to change the default USB settings in the printer. The following describes how to make these changes, and I'll note below the specific changes we've made.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bills Paid by Staff Login

2018-08-28 Thread Bill Ott
Check out: Administration > Local Administration > Cash Reports That will give you daily summaries (or whatever days you select). If you're looking for more detail, then a custom report may be in order. On 8/27/18 3:14 PM, scott.tho...@sparkpa.org wrote: We just migrated a library that is

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Disabling SSL in Evergreen ILS

2017-03-30 Thread Bill Ott
For single server implementations, there are also free certificates available from organizations like StartSSL. On 03/30/2017 10:04 AM, Rogan Hamby wrote: While SSL on an intranet may not be necessary it still isn't harmful. I may be of a paranoid bent but you can have security issues even

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

2017-03-20 Thread Bill Ott
Do you have a proper SSL cert for your host? What you describe is exactly what happens if you attempt to login when using a hostname that does not match the certificate being used. The login page is displayed correctly, but the user is not authenticated. On 03/20/2017 08:03 AM, nawras ali

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] patron registration

2015-05-29 Thread Bill Ott
If it’s handy, do you have a link to a product page for the signature pad you use? -Holly *From:*Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] *On Behalf Of *Bill Ott *Sent:* Friday, May 29, 2015 11:34 AM *To:* open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] patron registration

2015-05-29 Thread Bill Ott
Years ago, we started storing a signature electronically, in the unused actor.photo_url field. A hex string is generated by an outside application and encoded with a key that's required to decode the data back into a graphical representation of the signature. There was some overhead in

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Do you trim database tables?

2014-03-27 Thread Bill Ott
On 03/27/2014 09:33 AM, Martha Driscoll wrote: We have been on Evergreen for nearly 2 years. Recently it has been taking significantly longer to load patron records than it used to. We load files just about weekly for our college libraries and the files contain thousands of records. I

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Wishlist for future development by someone smarter than me

2013-09-24 Thread Bill Ott
Perhaps it was the turtle implication that turned our staff against him as well. The clip art we ended up with are much like what Elizabeth describes. Hold: https://github.com/grpl-eg/rel_2_1/blob/master/web/xul/rel_2_1/server/skin/media/images/hold.gif Transit:

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Wishlist for future development by someone smarter than me

2013-09-23 Thread Bill Ott
FWIW, We've done this for years. It's just a matter of uploading a couple images and changing the filenames in one file. No, there's no easy interface, but it's a simple change. https://github.com/grpl-eg/rel_2_1/commit/4255e90ba320ae9db7a910b884ec4fcf25595684 On 9/23/13 5:04 PM, Deana

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] MARC templates to share?

2013-07-18 Thread Bill Ott
I did a quick/dirty dump of ours. I think these should be accessible, please let me know if they're not. I can't say I know what each is, some names are relatively explanatory, others not so much, but you're welcome to browse. You'll need to download, or in a browser click on the link and

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Removal of time on checkout receipt--any thoughts?

2013-04-15 Thread Bill Ott
On 04/15/2013 03:04 PM, Tony Bandy wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know if there is a way to *remove* the time due on checkout receipts? MassLNC has an example here: http://masslnc.cwmars.org/node/2528#To_strip_the_11:59_PM_off_of_a_due_date This link,

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Mobile catalog?

2012-11-08 Thread Bill Ott
On 11/08/2012 09:06 AM, Ben Shum wrote: I think you're thinking of the Bill Erickson's Beanstalk simple TPAC that was a sample mobile catalog. http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/collab/berick/beanstalk Also, I guess Bill Ott, GRPL took that code

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SQL help needed

2012-09-11 Thread Bill Ott
On 9/11/12 7:18 PM, Mary Llewellyn wrote: I see 2 ways to go: find and export all the bibs involved, delete the obsolete 856s in a third-party MARC editor, then load the bibs back in and replace the bibs in the database. Or, develop some backdoor way to remove the 856s using SQL, just for the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Floating Collections

2012-08-08 Thread Bill Ott
Hi Tim, We ran into the same issue, but because we only want collections to float to/from certain locations. The following is how we handled it in the short-term. Basically, ignoring floating unless it was within a short list of org units.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Password reset uses phone number fails: EG2.2

2012-08-03 Thread Bill Ott
I wrote a local change that will indeed reset to the last 4 of the day_phone. See line 554: https://github.com/grpl-eg/rel_2_2/blob/e68b155664a0046c8bc0cba4953e936993aff8d2/web/js/ui/default/actor/user/register.js On 08/03/2012 09:20 AM, Thomas Berezansky wrote: As I just pointed out on that

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.2 sites

2012-07-31 Thread Bill Ott
Grand Rapids Public Library is currently testing, but has publicly available: http://216.120.186.123/eg/opac/home On 7/31/12 1:26 PM, Buzzy Nielsen wrote: Sage Library System of Eastern Oregon, up since mid-July. http://catalog.sage.eou.edu/ Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen Library Director

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Ldirector Setup

2012-05-02 Thread Bill Ott
On 05/02/2012 10:16 AM, Martha Driscoll wrote: In the interest of starting some sysadmin discussion, I'm looking for some help on setting up a load balancer. I'm trying to get ldirector setup to load balance four bricks. I think I'm trying to do something a bit unusual in that I'm only using

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Online vs Staff Holds

2012-03-13 Thread Bill Ott
On 3/13/12 7:14 AM, Fiona Borthwick wrote: Hello, I am hoping that someone may be able to help me with this. One of our customers needs to be able to distinguish between holds placed via the opac and holds placed by library staff. We have spent considerable time looking at options within

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problems with export

2011-08-10 Thread Bill Ott
acn.record-bre.id Unless that's a typo only in email and not a copy/paste, you need an = not -. On 08/10/2011 07:12 AM, Armen wrote: Dear Evergreen staff I am from the Fundamental Scientific Library of Armenia. We use Evergreen 2.0.5 and now we need toimport a database of bibliographic

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] QR Codes in Evergreen -- Living example

2011-07-07 Thread Bill Ott
On 7/7/11 10:00 AM, Thomas Berezansky wrote: I personally feel it would be better to use a perl module, rather than farming it off to Google. Perhaps GD::Barcode::QRCode ? Following the initial thread, I threw something together using HTML::QRCode, which works fine for on-screen display,

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen - Send by Text OPAC Button

2011-06-08 Thread Bill Ott
On 06/08/2011 10:27 AM, Geoff Brown wrote: Hi All, Has there been any development in a Send via Text Message option in the Evergreen catalogue? I have noticed that there was some discussion (Oct 31 2007) in the OPEN-ILS-DEV [OPEN-ILS-DEV] entitled Send call number to SMS feature + licensing

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Show me the data! (can't find title info using View Page Source)

2011-01-21 Thread Bill Ott
Kevin Kierans said the following on 01/21/2011 01:35 PM: Hi all, Using Firefox 3.6.13. When I do a search (Evergreen 1.6) and then use ViewPage Source and then search for title information (using Ctrl-F) nothing shows up! I'm guessing that the actual _data_, the titles returned as hits, are

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] circulation

2010-12-30 Thread Bill Ott
On 12/30/10 8:10 PM, Jesse Ephraim wrote: If I wanted to pull a list of all items that were checked out between two dates, would I look at the table action.circulation? Yes. Is each entry in that table an indication of an item being checked out, or does it also include check-ins?

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** ***SPAM*** Re: ***SPAM*** Re: Holds fulfillment enhancement

2010-06-09 Thread Bill Ott
Here in Grand Rapids, we wrote something, which we affectionately call Holds go Home. After a designated interval (e.g. 6 weeks), if an item has not been checked in at it's shelving library, it checks back to see if there are any holds waiting at that location. If so, it sends the item home.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Zipcode Problem

2010-05-18 Thread Bill Ott
On 5/18/10 8:42 PM, Joel Harbottle wrote: snip Is there an ultra-easy way in Evergreen to fix this post code problem, to allow Evergreen to accept a 4 digit postcode, such as 7250. Might depend on your definition of ultra-easy, but it's certainly possible without a major change. Locate

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] patron self-serve holds pick up

2010-04-15 Thread Bill Ott
Melissa Lowenberg said the following on 04/15/2010 02:52 PM: Hi all, I'm wondering if any site has patron self-serve holds and how you use Evergreen to help? For example, at check-in, are you printing a slip with 3 letters of patron surname and last 4 digits of patron barcode? Have you built

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Cataloging resources

2010-04-09 Thread Bill Ott
Here are a few bits of documentation that I know of, each having a variety of information. Michigan Evergreen User Manual - DRAFT http://mlcnet.org/wiki/index.php/Michigan_Evergreen_User_Manual Patron-based User Documentation http://www.grpl.org/wiki/index.php/Evergreen_tutorial Indiana State

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] BibTemplate infrastructure: how does changing rdetail_summary take effect (and what does it effect)

2010-03-18 Thread Bill Ott
Mike Rylander said the following on 03/15/2010 03:49 PM: For chapters belonging to books and for articles belonging to higher levels of journal descriptions, we would like to try a few things with the MARC 773 field. - the need for dummy barcodes (dummy copy records) has been discussed here

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Evergreen Conference: Now More Value for your Money!

2010-03-12 Thread Bill Ott
We've lined up not one, not two, not three, but *four developers for our Meet with the Developers*, also part of hackfest day. Spend an hour chatting with Mike Rylander, Bill Erickson, Bill Ott, and Dan Scott as part of the Hands-On Coding for Developers Hackfest. All of them

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Last Few Issues for small Library

2009-11-23 Thread Bill Ott
open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] *On Behalf Of *Richard Maloley II *Sent:*

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Report for Holds

2009-09-26 Thread Bill Ott
Coleman, Marlene wrote: Can someone tell me the field (data) other than Capture date, that would be a timestamp for when an item actually is given the status of on holds shelf. In a multibranch system, and consortium environment, the capture timestamp may change the status to intransit and

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen Keyboard Shortcuts on Mac

2009-09-23 Thread Bill Ott
Karen Collier said the following on 09/23/2009 11:52 AM: We're running the Evergreen (1.4) staff client mostly on PCs, but we're also running it on a few Macs, and we've noticed that neither the Alt or F-key keyboard shortcuts work on the Macs. Does anyone know of any add-ons or workarounds

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Two questions related to a consortium running Evergreen

2009-08-28 Thread Bill Ott
John Clark said the following on 08/28/2009 09:10 AM: Good day, We are in the process of setting up a consortium here in Maine and the following questions were posed by a member library. I would be most appreciative of any answers from those further along in the process. Thank you in

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] how to attach note to a copy as it goes outwith override?

2009-08-17 Thread Bill Ott
Ah, so it sounds like an infrequent thing? In that case, we might better be served with a simple Actions - Edit Alert Message menu option in the Items Out and Item Status and Holdings Maintenance interfaces. Have that wrapped in a specific permission and staff won't need to go through the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Exports question

2009-08-11 Thread Bill Ott
Karen Foster said the following on 08/11/2009 11:52 AM: Hi all ~ just wondering what methods others might be using to extract big chunks of bibs + item info. from Evergreen. I'm talking bigger chunks than Vandelay can handle. I use a modified version of the original Exporter

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] autogen error

2009-07-23 Thread Bill Ott
Bill Erickson said the following on 07/23/2009 02:21 PM: Mess: JPeer could not load all necesarry values from config This means there is something wrong with /openils/conf/opensrf_core.xml. This is where Jabber configs live. Did the file also change? Is the file valid XML? -b On Thu,

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Missing vs. Lost

2009-03-25 Thread Bill Ott
Chris Caughey wrote: I’m wondering two things: 1. How do other Evergreen users think about the categories of “Missing” and “Lost”? At what point do you mark an item as either one? We consider missing, something that appears to be Available, but can't actually be located. Lost is an

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Reshelving status

2008-06-02 Thread Bill Ott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Folks, This problem didn't seem appropriate to the DEV list so am posting it here. I have added a bib record/volume/copy to my library. Then checked it in as per the documentation at the bottom of:

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SIP checkout error

2008-05-05 Thread Bill Ott
I've set my test self-check machine back up and was running it through its paces. I'm using basically the example oils_sip.xml config file, and the RAW transport. All starts out well, but upon checkout, I receive the following. The item is checked out, but the ACS session promptly dies.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SIP checkout error

2008-05-05 Thread Bill Ott
Bill Erickson said the following on 05/05/2008 12:21 PM: On Monday 05 May 2008 11:03 Bill Ott wrote: I've set my test self-check machine back up and was running it through its paces. I'm using basically the example oils_sip.xml config file, and the RAW transport. All starts out well

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OpenSRF Gateway Question

2008-04-18 Thread Bill Ott
You will need to specify each method paramater as a unique HTTP param: http://blade8.grpl.org/gateway?format=xmlinput_format=jsonservice=open-ils.actormethod=open-ils.actor.user.fleshed.retrieve_by_barcode param=acc7fb7a0236e35377a76e6a61e101f2param=1234 I could have sworn I tried that