Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Towards more consistent terminology in the web client

2018-08-08 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All – I would prefer the ITEM and ITEM LOCATION designators – and consistency across all functions / buttons / screens / views etc would be very welcome. As Dan and Lynn point out below, there have been VAST inconsistencies and also problems with function.If we stick with item (which

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Reports - Item Source - Parent circulation?

2018-08-01 Thread Walz, Jennifer
ssociate III | CW MARS jamund...@cwmars.org<mailto:jamund...@cwmars.org> | 508-755-3323 x322 http://www.cwmars.org<http://www.cwmars.org/> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 3:16 PM, Walz, Jennifer mailto:jlw...@asbury.edu>> wrote: All – I’m trying to get a report to run with the LAST ci

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Reports - Item Source - Parent circulation?

2018-07-31 Thread Walz, Jennifer
ars.org<http://www.cwmars.org/> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 3:16 PM, Walz, Jennifer mailto:jlw...@asbury.edu>> wrote: All – I’m trying to get a report to run with the LAST circulating patron on items currently checked out. Is that the Parent Circulation?What IS the parent ci

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Reports - Item Source - Parent circulation?

2018-07-31 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All - I'm trying to get a report to run with the LAST circulating patron on items currently checked out. Is that the Parent Circulation?What IS the parent circulation? If not, what is the data point in the Item Source to help me get to that information? I want a report with this

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

2018-05-15 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All – I will have to strenuously agree with Diane on this one. If this is non-functional in the web version, it will be a no-go for us. Thanks! Jennifer From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Diane Disbro Sent: Monday, May 14,

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Weird error message

2018-05-02 Thread Walz, Jennifer
bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1235458 On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 7:22 PM, Blake Henderson <bl...@mobiusconsortium.org<mailto:bl...@mobiusconsortium.org>> wrote: Jennifer, I've seen that. I believe autogen fixes it (maybe). On Tue, May 1, 2018, 4:02 PM Walz, Je

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Weird error message

2018-05-01 Thread Walz, Jennifer
What does this message mean in the Holdings Maintenance?? TypeError: acn_tree_list is null Thanks! Jennifer -- Jennifer Walz, MLS - Head of Research & Distance Services Kinlaw Library - Asbury University One Macklem Drive, Wilmore, KY

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Holdings View in Web Client

2018-03-29 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All - From a 'end user' / power user standpoint (and the admin) PLEASE PLEASE don't get rid of the Holdings Maintenance view / screen / option!!Oh my. We use that for so many things. It just helps visually to know where a volume is, if it is labeled correctly, if it has copies

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Billing notices?

2018-03-13 Thread Walz, Jennifer
Area Public Library Bethlehem Pa On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 10:24 AM, Walz, Jennifer <jlw...@asbury.edu<mailto:jlw...@asbury.edu>> wrote: Terran, Thanks! That gets a bit closer. I am TRYING to use that trigger for the notices. It seems like a good fit, but I don’t see that i

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Billing notices?

2018-03-13 Thread Walz, Jennifer
Jason and those he mentions - Thanks!I would be grateful for ANY information about how to set this up. I CAN set up the trigger notice in the system IF I have some solid information about how make it work.What triggers? What hooks? What defaults? Etc. Can someone from

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Billing notices?

2018-03-13 Thread Walz, Jennifer
Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, GA 30345 404-235-7138 tmcca...@georgialibraries.org<mailto:tmcca...@georgialibraries.org> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 9:58 AM, Walz, Jennifer <jlw...@asbury.edu<mailto:jlw...@asbury.edu>> wrote: Al

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Billing notices?

2018-03-13 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All - So far I have received no response from anyone regarding billings.Are you telling me that NO LIBRARY out in Evergreen land ever sends out a bill to their patrons? Surely this is not true.And then, if you DO send out a notice, what form does it take and how do you do it from

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Billing notices - anyone use them?

2018-03-09 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All - I really want to have a notice go out to our patrons when they exceed the penalty threshold. Has anyone done this??How do I set this up? Details please! Also, it would be great to maybe have an additional notice go out at certain intervals AFTER the initial notice. How is

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Billing notices

2018-02-01 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All - I think we are having trouble with our 'billing' notice. I am not sure we have it set correctly with the right trigger and so forth. Patrons do not seem to be getting these, even when we think the conditions have been met. What we want is for when a patron goes past the $5.00 limit

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Are folks still interested in Evergreen for Academics?

2018-01-11 Thread Walz, Jennifer
Jane, I'm up for it. For precisely the things that I just posted on the general list. Stuff that differs in how we do business than public libraries. Like how we do holds and how we want the display in the public catalog to appear. I can probably list a bunch of other things like

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Holds in the public catalog

2018-01-11 Thread Walz, Jennifer
. As long as staff are able to place unfillable holds, then the place hold link will always show up in the staff client. HtH, Jason On 01/10/2018 05:37 PM, Walz, Jennifer wrote: > Jason, > > Thanks. Good to know. We have set this and I think it will be fine as > being remove

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Holds in the public catalog

2018-01-10 Thread Walz, Jennifer
old matrix for instance. HtH, Jason On 01/10/2018 04:12 PM, Walz, Jennifer wrote: > Dan, > >   > > Is this the real fix? The link will then go away on every screen? > >   > > That would be wonderful! > >   > > Thanks! > >   > > Jennifer >

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Holds in the public catalog

2018-01-10 Thread Walz, Jennifer
Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Holds in the public catalog I think you want to try "ctx.holds_block.enabled = 'true';" in config.tt2 in your public catalogue configuration file. On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:31 PM, Walz, Jennifer <jlw...@asbury.edu<mailto:jlw...@asbury.

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Holds in the public catalog

2018-01-10 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All – IS there a way to prevent the “place a hold” link from showing up in the public catalog, everywhere?? We want it so ONLY show up on items that fill our hold requirement – those items that are checked out or NOT available. We have set the proper condition in the Library Settings to

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] changing shelving location of multiple items at one time

2017-11-27 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All – This is very very bad. The ONE very great thing about the current Evergreen IS the batch item editor. Bar none. If it goes away, or is unusable, that is a disaster! Please make sure this is fixed. It is such a great tool and we rely on it almost weekly for this purpose.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Label Printer Context and spine labels

2017-10-05 Thread Walz, Jennifer
Check your settings in Firefox and or IE. I have noticed that Evergreen pulls the defaults from browser settings. Causes all kinds of trouble if you don't know how they are set. Change those and you will find it will be better. :) Jennifer

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] FROM field in the action trigger notices?

2017-08-24 Thread Walz, Jennifer
wouldn't always just be able to hit Reply, but at least the information would be accurate. Terran McCanna PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, GA 30345 404-235-7138<tel:(404)%20235-7138> tmcca...@georgialibraries.org<mailto:tmcca...@georg

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] FROM field in the action trigger notices?

2017-08-23 Thread Walz, Jennifer
for each item? Terran McCanna PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, GA 30345 404-235-7138 tmcca...@georgialibraries.org<mailto:tmcca...@georgialibraries.org> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Walz, Jennifer <jlw...@asbury.edu&l

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] FROM field in the action trigger notices?

2017-08-23 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All - We are having some issues with our notices. When they go out, they have this in the template: From: [%- params.sender_email || helpers.get_org_setting(user.home_ou, 'org.bounced_emails') || default_sender %] However, we would like the FROM field to have the CIRCULATING Library as

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Billing / Pay Bills UI

2017-07-20 Thread Walz, Jennifer
Josh, Oh yes!You are so right. The bill paying screen is a DISASTER! We hate it. Our student workers are always having trouble. And for the LONGEST time we could not figure out even how to SELECT the items to be paid. And along with this, I would really like to see MORE options

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Is this a bug?

2017-05-08 Thread Walz, Jennifer
/comments/12 > > has a more comprehensive fix. > > I suppose someone should review this and get it committed... ;) > > Jason > > On 05/05/2017 03:47 PM, Walz, Jennifer wrote: >> All - >> >> >> >> We are getting permission e

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Is this a bug?

2017-05-05 Thread Walz, Jennifer
ug/1378829/comments/6 Jeff's branch, linked from comment #12 https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1378829/comments/12 has a more comprehensive fix. I suppose someone should review this and get it committed... ;) Jason On 05/05/2017 03:47 PM, Walz, Jennifer wrote: > All - > >

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Is this a bug?

2017-05-05 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All - We are getting permission errors for LongOverdue items when trying to check them in. The error says that there is a permission issue with the override. However, here is the permission as it is set: "COPY_STATUS_LONGOVERDUE.override"This is set in the permission group that is

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Acquisitions interest group request for dedicated Acquisitions Listserv

2017-05-02 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All – Please do not disregard the recent request for the Circulation group. Thank you! Jennifer From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Christine Burns Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2017 3:07 PM To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem with update_volume permissions

2017-04-24 Thread Walz, Jennifer
Massachusetts mmor...@noblenet.org<mailto:mmor...@noblenet.org> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Walz, Jennifer <jlw...@asbury.edu<mailto:jlw...@asbury.edu>> wrote: Chris, Thanks for that information. Currently we have the permission groups set up in a pretty flat tree: S

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem with update_volume permissions

2017-04-24 Thread Walz, Jennifer
e that's helpful! Chris On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Walz, Jennifer <jlw...@asbury.edu<mailto:jlw...@asbury.edu>> wrote: All – We have set up a new permission group where we would like to combine the functions / permissions of the acquisitions and cataloging all in

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem with update_volume permissions

2017-04-24 Thread Walz, Jennifer
ample). That might help you sort things out. Hope that's helpful! Chris On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Walz, Jennifer <jlw...@asbury.edu<mailto:jlw...@asbury.edu>> wrote: All – We have set up a new permission group where we would like to combine the functions / permissions of the a

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem with update_volume permissions

2017-04-24 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All - We have set up a new permission group where we would like to combine the functions / permissions of the acquisitions and cataloging all into one. So, I created a new permissions group, and added all the permissions to that new group that looked like it dealt with both acq and cat

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

2017-04-10 Thread Walz, Jennifer
Bill, 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 Of Bill Erickson Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 2:44 PM To: Evergreen

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Error message on a workstation - what does it mean?

2017-03-09 Thread Walz, Jennifer
e this option but do not have a MFHD for the title. This is just a guess, though. I haven't tried to test this yet. As I mentioned, I have never seen that error before. Beth On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Walz, Jennifer <jlw...@asbury.edu<mailto:jlw...@asbury.edu>> wrote: Beth,

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Error message on a workstation - what does it mean?

2017-03-07 Thread Walz, Jennifer
be mistaken, but are meant to replace MFHDs. I didn't answer before because I dont' serial that well to help you with your problem. Jason On 03/07/2017 01:38 PM, Walz, Jennifer wrote: > Beth, > > > > Thanks for this info! No one else replied and I was getting worrie

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Error message on a workstation - what does it mean?

2017-03-07 Thread Walz, Jennifer
entry refers to the MFHD (MARC Format for Holdings Data) records. Do your serial titles have MFHD records? Beth On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Walz, Jennifer <jlw...@asbury.edu<mailto:jlw...@asbury.edu>> wrote: All – We are getting this error message. I believe it has to do

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Error message on a workstation - what does it mean?

2017-02-28 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All - We are getting this error message. I believe it has to do with serials. But what does it mean? An error message regarding "build sre maps" pops up when trying to check in serials.What are those and how can we build them and why are we seeing that message? Thanks! Jennifer

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Payment types?

2017-02-08 Thread Walz, Jennifer
Library Initiative phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) email: ro...@equinoxinitiative.org<mailto:ro...@equinoxinitiative.org> web: http://EquinoxInitiative.org On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 7:47 PM, Walz, Jennifer <jlw...@asbury.edu<mailto:jlw...@asbury.edu>> wrote: Kathy, I d

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Payment types?

2017-02-07 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All - I think I have asked this before. Just asking again. Can we ADD payment types to the list? The ones there are great, but we need one more. We are an academic institution and we can send our fines to Student Accounts to be paid through the cashier's office. We want to mark

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Finding records in Evergreen that have no items attached?

2017-01-18 Thread Walz, Jennifer
then go through and delete any "stuck" empty volumes. Andrea On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Walz, Jennifer <jlw...@asbury.edu<mailto:jlw...@asbury.edu>> wrote: Blake, Thank you! I will take a look at that. Jennifer From: Open-ils-general [mailto

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Finding records in Evergreen that have no items attached?

2017-01-18 Thread Walz, Jennifer
ug/1582354 -Blake- Conducting Magic MOBIUS 573-234-4513 877-312-3517 On 1/17/2017 6:16 PM, Walz, Jennifer wrote: All – We need to find out if we have ‘empty’ records. IS there a report template that I can modify that will show me all our records with no items attached? Maybe there i

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Finding records in Evergreen that have no items attached?

2017-01-17 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All – We need to find out if we have ‘empty’ records. IS there a report template that I can modify that will show me all our records with no items attached? Maybe there is a source that is particularly helpful if I need to start from scratch? Can someone advise me on how to find out this

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem with overdue notices all of a sudden going out - on items already checked in!

2016-11-17 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All - All of a sudden we have had numerous notices going out to our faculty for items that were due, but have since been turned in. What on earth!? Here are our triggers / notices: [cid:image001.jpg@01D240D9.F48EB600] Is anything wrong here??Is there a hook or a validator wrong?

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Where do the MARC templates come from?

2016-10-10 Thread Walz, Jennifer
and/or checking irc logs assuming you've already searched email histories. As for why that function doesn't exist in the staff client? The short answer is that no one has prioritized it high enough to commit the development resources to it. On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Walz, Jennifer <

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Where do the MARC templates come from?

2016-10-10 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All - We are having some problems with two of our MARC templates. They will not load. Where are they housed? How are the created? What would make them go away? *** Can we create more? It seems odd to me that I cannot do this within the staff client. Why not? Where is it if I can?

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Clark Kent - the reporter - keeps quiting - why?

2016-09-20 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All - We are having enormous problems with Clark. He keeps getting stuck and quitting. Constantly needs to be restarted. I mean every five minutes it seems. At least every day. What would be causing this? This cannot be normal. Any suggestions?What should we be looking for?

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Getting OCLC numbers out of the Reports

2016-09-13 Thread Walz, Jennifer
! Chris On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Walz, Jennifer <jlw...@asbury.edu<mailto:jlw...@asbury.edu>> wrote: Rogan, Do I have to do BOTH the tag and the subfield? And is 035 the only place in the marc where the oclc number is? I was told it was in 001. And this is h

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Getting OCLC numbers out of the Reports

2016-09-12 Thread Walz, Jennifer
. Display the normalized value. That's it. Add that onto your existing report for the others values to get the 035. One downside is that if a record doesn't have a 035 it won't display though. On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 6:41 PM, Walz, Jennifer <jlw...@asbury.edu<mailto:jlw...@asbury.edu>>

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Getting OCLC numbers out of the Reports

2016-09-12 Thread Walz, Jennifer
if you go to Flattened MARC Fields you can filter by Subfield / Tag etc... to get the 035 if you want. The rest of what you mentioned (title, author, pub date) I would grab from the Simple Record Extracts. On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Walz, Jennifer <jlw...@asbury.edu<mail

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Getting OCLC numbers out of the Reports

2016-09-12 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All - I would like to run a report to get some basic bibliographic info (title, author, pub date) PLUS the oclc number. Which source is best? And then how to I get the OCLC number to show up in the output? I cannot seem to find the right fields and such to get to that data.How do I get

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] FW: Evergreen Acquisitions

2016-08-18 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All - >From our acquisitions person. A plea for help. Can the PO list be sorted? > We just upgraded to 2.10.5. Any advice is very welcome. Thanks! Jennifer -- Jennifer Walz, MLS - Head of ILS Troubles Kinlaw Library - Asbury University 1

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] All permission groups deleted?

2016-07-05 Thread Walz, Jennifer
system you need to contact someone who does to investigate what is happening. On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Walz, Jennifer <jlw...@asbury.edu<mailto:jlw...@asbury.edu>> wrote: Thomas, Very interesting! And completely confusing. What I think you are saying is that it

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] All permission groups deleted?

2016-07-05 Thread Walz, Jennifer
-Original Message- From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Walz, Jennifer Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2016 11:54 To: Evergreen Discussion Group <open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org> Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] All permission groups d

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] All permission groups deleted?

2016-07-05 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All – So, what happens when all the staff permission groups are deleted?How is it that people can still login to the system? Staff with “cataloger” permissions and “circ” permissions and so forth? What happens when they try to login with that account? Does evergreen ‘assign’ them

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Help with reports - need end of year stats - can't get data - blank report

2016-06-30 Thread Walz, Jennifer
Elizabeth, Thanks! This is very helpful. Jennifer From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Thomsen, Elizabeth Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2016 11:18 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Help with reports - need

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Help with reports - need end of year stats - can't get data - blank report

2016-06-30 Thread Walz, Jennifer
reports. [cid:image001.png@01D1D2B9.59AE1A60] -Brent - Brent Mills Systems Librarian | Sage Library System email: br...@hoodriverlibrary.org<mailto:br...@hoodriverlibrary.org> tickets: https://sagesupport.eou.edu phone: 541.610.8384 On Jun 29, 2016, at 1:47 PM

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Help with reports - need end of year stats - can't get data - blank report

2016-06-30 Thread Walz, Jennifer
phone: 541.610.8384 On Jun 29, 2016, at 1:47 PM, Walz, Jennifer <jlw...@asbury.edu<mailto:jlw...@asbury.edu>> wrote: And there is a ‘canned’ report from Equinox that is Count Items Added by Date Range.But nothing ever comes out. I just get a blank. I’ve tried all kinds of

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Help with reports - need end of year stats - can't get data - blank report

2016-06-29 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All – I am not sure if this is the report acting weird, or something else wrong with our system. My boss wants this: need one total number of physical items added to the collection between 7/1/15 and today (last 12 months). And there is a ‘canned’ report from Equinox that is Count Items Added

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Circ Stats - in house use? Report to use?

2015-11-09 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All - We are trying to work out a report that will give us the stats by month for IN house use. How do I do that? Thanks! Jennifer -- Jennifer Walz, MLS - Head of ILS Report generation Kinlaw Library - Asbury University 1 Macklem Drive,

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Circ Stats - in house use? Report to use?

2015-11-09 Thread Walz, Jennifer
Chris, Excellent! I forget about the sources dropdown.That is a good place to start. Any suggestions for which items I should select from that source that are the most helpful? Anyone have a great template they would like to share? I have no idea how in house use works, so I am

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Information requests- websites - catalog widgets on page

2015-10-30 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All – I don’t know if I sent this after we set this up. But here is a link to our libguide where we are using a search form to search our evergreen catalog. http://asbury.libguides.com/c.php?g=65748=424091 We have one of these on every subject libguide that we have. Jennifer

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Billing types - why can't I see them?

2015-10-26 Thread Walz, Jennifer
M. Morgan, Technical Assistant North of Boston Library Exchange, Danvers Massachusetts mmor...@noblenet.org<mailto:mmor...@noblenet.org> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Walz, Jennifer <jlw...@asbury.edu<mailto:jlw...@asbury.edu>> wrote: Jason, Ok. So, can you confi

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Billing types - why can't I see them?

2015-10-23 Thread Walz, Jennifer
Jason, Ok. So, can you confirm for me that ALL of the ones I listed are system generated – even those that seem to be for ATS? And the two that I created from scratch are then the only ones I should actually see – because I created them?What is the purpose of the OU listed in the other

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Spine & Pocket label printing - Circulation Sets THERMAL printer

2015-10-14 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All – In case anyone wants to know. I think we get them now from this vendor: http://www.bayscan.com/spine-label-printing/labels/ Cheaper per roll. http://www.bayscan.com/dynlabttpbls.html I believe that they also sell the thermal transfer tape. This company sells them as sets –

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] System rules for hold?

2015-08-27 Thread Walz, Jennifer
, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Walz, Jennifer jlw...@asbury.edumailto:jlw...@asbury.edu wrote: Rogan, When you have a bare minimum setting in the hold policies, what does it look like? In other words, which fields can you leave blank and which HAVE to be filled in? It is possible that I have missed

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Holds one more time

2015-08-27 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All - Sorry to be so dense. I think that we are getting close. Not sure what this means: This item could fulfill a hold request but capture has been delayed by policy. Where is that set and what should it be set to? Too short? Too long? What policy? Thanks! Jennifer

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Deleting Patron Accounts - AND books?

2015-08-06 Thread Walz, Jennifer
, -- Mike Rylander | President | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: mi...@esilibrary.commailto:mi...@esilibrary.com | web: http://www.esilibrary.com On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Walz, Jennifer jlw...@asbury.edumailto:jlw

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Deleting Patron Accounts - AND books?

2015-08-05 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All – I completely understand! This is a valuable option for those folks who need this. But there should ALSO be an option for completely and utterly obliterating the record – if you need to.We just REMOVED about 600 books from our collection (remember that we are an academic library)

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Deleting Patron Accounts - AND books?

2015-08-04 Thread Walz, Jennifer
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Deleting Patron Accounts - AND books? Like delete the bib records and let it caascade down and delete all associated volumes and copies? On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Walz, Jennifer jlw...@asbury.edumailto:jlw...@asbury.edu wrote: All – Boy, it sure would be nice

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Deleting Patron Accounts - AND books?

2015-08-04 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All – Boy, it sure would be nice if we had the same options with books. (i.e. bib records, item records, copy records, and the like) ☺ Please? Thanks! Jennifer -- Jennifer Walz, MLS - Head of Ebsco Irritations Kinlaw Library - Asbury

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Staff login - multiple windows logins

2015-08-04 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All - I think I have asked this before - or a variation thereof. I was just wondering if maybe someone has come up with a creative solution since before. So, we have student workers in another department in our building, who will be checking in and out equipment. Each student will be

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem with Edit Items / Volumes per Bib function?

2015-07-27 Thread Walz, Jennifer
Assistant North of Boston Library Exchange, Danvers Massachusetts mmor...@noblenet.orgmailto:mmor...@noblenet.org On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Walz, Jennifer jlw...@asbury.edumailto:jlw...@asbury.edu wrote: All - Here is where I don't understand the current construct and wouldn't it make

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem with Edit Items / Volumes per Bib function?

2015-07-24 Thread Walz, Jennifer
of Boston Library Exchange, Danvers Massachusetts mmor...@noblenet.orgmailto:mmor...@noblenet.org On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Walz, Jennifer jlw...@asbury.edumailto:jlw...@asbury.edu wrote: All - Here is where I don't understand the current construct and wouldn't it make more sense to have

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem with Edit Items / Volumes per Bib function?

2015-07-23 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All - Here is where I don't understand the current construct and wouldn't it make more sense to have the call number and the barcode be at the item level for each record? Like this: Title blah blah blah etc, author and owning library and so on. - 345.0998 B58a 1908987293 -

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem with Edit Items / Volumes per Bib function?

2015-07-23 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All - We are experiencing what we think is a bug, but maybe we are just mis-understanding something. When we edit an item with the edit items / Volumes per bib function, it ADDS a second, empty call number record. (We can see it via the Holdings Maintenance screen). All we want to

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] what data do I pull from for a circ by subject report

2015-07-20 Thread Walz, Jennifer
think you'll need to pull from the MARC for this. On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Walz, Jennifer jlw...@asbury.edumailto:jlw...@asbury.edu wrote: All – I need help from the Evergreen Wisdom. My boss wants “count circs by subject -- in our case, Dewey class.”I am pretty good so far

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hours of library open / close

2015-07-14 Thread Walz, Jennifer
this to be a worthy contender for feature development in future Evergreen releases. Certainly sounds like a good wishlist idea anyways. -- Ben On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Walz, Jennifer jlw...@asbury.edu wrote: All – We are an academic library and the library hours change from

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] what data do I pull from for a circ by subject report

2015-07-14 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All - I need help from the Evergreen Wisdom. My boss wants count circs by subject -- in our case, Dewey class.I am pretty good so far at working with the templates and even creating a completely new report. Problem is, I am not sure what data source to pull from.And will I have

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hours of library open / close

2015-07-13 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All - We are an academic library and the library hours change from during the semester to summer to holiday hours. Is there any way to have several Org unit calendars where we can switch easily between these things? Our general open / close times are during the semester and that does

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Circulation history for patrons?

2015-07-09 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All - Ok, while I'm on this kick... I'm playing with the items in the My Account for our patrons, and I am curious about the button for Check Out History in the Items Checked Out tab. Where does that information come from? Is there a toggle for each patron to keep track of their items?

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Patron change email in My Account? how to dis-allow?

2015-07-09 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All - I am just not remembering if this is an option and I have completely forgotten where to fix this. How do I NOT allow patrons to change their email address in the OPAC My Account?? We do not want our students to change their email addresses from what we have entered into their patron

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Patron guides to the OPAC

2015-06-26 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All - Before I try searching the vast web and coming up empty, I was wondering if anyone has created OPAC user guides for Evergreen for your location? It would be great to look at some examples before I plunge into creating my own from scratch. We have one for our former online catalog

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Patron guides to the OPAC

2015-06-26 Thread Walz, Jennifer
...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Walz, Jennifer Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 11:37 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Patron guides to the OPAC All - Before I try searching the vast web and coming up empty, I was wondering if anyone has created OPAC user guides for Evergreen

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SQL Library

2015-06-15 Thread Walz, Jennifer
+1 I second that. Post it all! Everything is fodder for a new idea - or copying an old one. :-) Thanks! Jennifer -- Jennifer Walz, MLS - Head of Research Distance Services Kinlaw Library -  Asbury University One Macklem Drive,

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Fine notices

2015-03-12 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All – Is there such a thing as a fine notice in Evergreen? Does anyone do this? How does this happen? When the patron goes over the max fine threshold, does a notice automatically generate? If not, how do I set that up? I would like to set up a billing notice for BEFORE they reach

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Fine notice language

2015-03-09 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All – Maybe this is for the academic libraries out there, I am not sure. But I need help with setting up the “trigger event definition” for sending out emails for fines / bills. I don’t have any examples to draw from and I am not certain how to set them up. If someone has a good

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2016 Conference - Site Selection

2015-03-04 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All – I will just make a suggestion for someplace in the middle of the country. Maybe Nashville or Memphis or St. Louis? Jennifer -- Jennifer Walz, MLS - Head of ILS Kinlaw Library Asbury University 1 Macklem Drive, Wilmore, KY 40390

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Due date conundrum - time due is weird

2015-02-26 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All – I have a conundrum with our due date / times. When we currently check out an item to a student, it give them the normal three week due DATE, but adds a time which is 7:59pm.Where is it getting the time from?? We are open until 11:59 each day of the week (m-f) and a due TIME of

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Due date conundrum - time due is weird

2015-02-26 Thread Walz, Jennifer
:05 PM, Walz, Jennifer jlw...@asbury.edumailto:jlw...@asbury.edu wrote: All – I have a conundrum with our due date / times. When we currently check out an item to a student, it give them the normal three week due DATE, but adds a time which is 7:59pm.Where is it getting the time from

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Electronic title - search filter

2015-02-12 Thread Walz, Jennifer
Don – All, Why not search by Circ Modifier? Or copy location?Wouldn’t that be better? Just curious. Especially if you have items attached to the MARC with unique copy locations and circ modifiers already in place. Jennifer -- Jennifer

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] user passwords for accounts - default?

2015-02-04 Thread Walz, Jennifer
passwords, which is a bit more secure than using a phone number or another number that might be easily obtained. Kathy On 02/03/2015 11:17 AM, Walz, Jennifer wrote: All - Ok. I do appreciate that Evergreen has built in security measures. They are very good. However, I am unclear about

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] user passwords for accounts - default?

2015-02-04 Thread Walz, Jennifer
, Walz, Jennifer wrote: Kathy, That is what I believe is happening now when you register a new user. But that is a random number. But the instructions on the web page say use your phone number. That is incorrect. And what I really want to know, is instead of generating a random number

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] user passwords for accounts - default?

2015-02-03 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All - Ok. I do appreciate that Evergreen has built in security measures. They are very good. However, I am unclear about how we can change some of those settings to better match our needs. It appears to me that the default for user accounts passwords is the last 4 digits of the

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Search URL's for evergreen opac

2015-02-03 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All - I had asked previously for help with a search form / widget for our web page. THANK YOU for the guidance. Now we need to link our OCLC / Firstsearch interface. They ask for search strings. Is there a standard format for query strings? ISBN Search Results URL: Enter the URL for

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Results list of the Call Number (Shelf Browse) list

2015-01-21 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All – Beautiful! Both of those look really like what I think most people (catalogers and regular patrons) would find useful. Do you have a Dewey example? Just to add some more icing on that cake. +1 for that. Thanks! Jennifer --

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Real mystery - is it a bug?

2015-01-21 Thread Walz, Jennifer
to reshelving even if the item was not checked out to a patron. For example, if the item was listed as available, it will change to reshelving if you scan it in the checkin interface. Kathy On 01/21/2015 03:55 PM, Walz, Jennifer wrote: All - Ok. I have a real mystery for you. We are still trying

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Real mystery - is it a bug?

2015-01-21 Thread Walz, Jennifer
with the Deleted checkbox marked appropriately? From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.orgmailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Walz, Jennifer Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 11:55 AM To: open

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Results list of the Call Number (Shelf Browse) list

2015-01-16 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All - If anyone wants to see how our previous ILS catalog did the call number browse: http://library.asbury.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/?ps=PMnTOlJylx/AC/270510061/61/78/X Is it possible to recreate something similar in Evergreen? And make it better of course! And for other examples:

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Books on Reserve in Evergreen

2015-01-13 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All – The other alternative is to do what we have done. Just change the item / copy record to have a circulation modifier for 1 hour, 2 hour etc and make the coordinating changes in your circulation policies table. We also changed each item to reside in a new location / collection called

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