Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How do other systems handle print notices?
Hi, On 01/12/2012 12:12 PM, Jonathan Field wrote: I've spent some time looking at this. I used the ESI scripts as a excellent starting point. We used generate_circ_notices.pl and then adapted the xsl so that it split the files up by org unit and also added some conditionals to allow different notice text for adults and juniors. Also managed to make it send different notices at different periods for different consortia members. It's a lot of xsl but is almost doing the job and produces PDF output. Next step is printed hold notifications. Anyone done anything with them as I can't see a way of doing it right now? Here's one way of doing it, briefly: create an action/trigger event definition using the hold.available hook, the HoldIsAvailable validator, and the ProcessTemplate reactor, and set up the template to emit XML akin to what generate_circ_notices.pl does for overdue notices. A daily cronjob could then gather up generated event output, stitch it into an XML file, then use adapted versions of the ESI overdue notice XSL and fop to produce PDFs. One of the nice things about this approach is that you can mix it up to suit your inclinations: - Don't like to process XML? Set up the A/T template to produce JSON, or YAML, or plain old CSV. - Don't like FOP? Use your preferred language to generate PDFs. - Are you so old-school that you'd rather use LaTex? Go for it! - Don't want to print your print notices yourself? Ship the data off to a third-party print-and-mail service. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Director of Support and Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web:http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org http://evergreen-ils.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How do other systems handle print notices?
Hi Aaron, I've spent some time looking at this. I used the ESI scripts as a excellent starting point. We used generate_circ_notices.pl and then adapted the xsl so that it split the files up by org unit and also added some conditionals to allow different notice text for adults and juniors. Also managed to make it send different notices at different periods for different consortia members. It's a lot of xsl but is almost doing the job and produces PDF output. Next step is printed hold notifications. Anyone done anything with them as I can't see a way of doing it right now? Thanks Jonathan On 11/01/2012 13:46, Aaron Zsembery wrote: We have some libraries who have us print multi-part mailers, others who use PDF letters and a few who use stickers (which go on postcards). I am not sure exactly how ESI handled it, but I think they set up a script to run the various notifications and put a list of what library gets each type of notification in the script. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 *From: *Steve Wills swi...@beyond-print.com *To: *Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org *Sent: *Tuesday, January 10, 2012 5:20:29 PM *Subject: *Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How do other systems handle print notices? I've also been working on this issue for Balsam and will second the call for info. I was thinking of adding a parmeter to take circ_lib from the command line, insert it into the QUERY in generate_notice_set() and feed it different templates for each respective library that needs it's own formatting. Right now I think we have a couple that want to stuff window envelopes but not everyone is asking for that. so def bump! Stev3 -Original Message- *From:* Kathy Lussier [mailto:kluss...@masslnc.org] *Sent:* Tuesday, January 10, 2012 03:37 PM *To:* ''Evergreen Discussion Group'' *Subject:* [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How do other systems handle print notices? Hi all, I've been exploring print billing notices and was wondering if others could share how they are handling print notices. I'm aware that print notices can be set up in opensrf.xml, but any template created here will be global. I've also been looking at some scripts based on the ones available at http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS-Contrib/browser/ESI-Examples/trunk/notices to provide some level of customization for different. Are there other ways multi-site consortia are handling print notices? Thanks in advance for your feedback! Kathy Lussier - Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 756-0172 (508) 755-3721 (fax) kluss...@masslnc.org IM: kmlussier (AOL Yahoo) Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier -- Jonathan Field Technical Director, PTFS Europe Limited Content Management and Library Solutions http://www.ptfs-europe.com
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How do other systems handle print notices?
We have handled this in two different manners. Kathy is likely somewhat aware of both already, but for the benefit of everyone else: For the first, we started with consortia-wide printing at our central site. Generally, everyone got the same formatted output with minor changes. We handled that with the generate_circ_notices.pl script generating a single XML file for output that we then parsed with a PHP script for formatting on our ancient printers. Issues with that method included the catch that all notices were going out as the circ library, and we wanted billing notices to go out as the item owning library (but overdue to continue to use the circ library). The newer one, that we are officially doing a test run of today, uses a heavily modified generate_circ_notices.pl script to not only output the circs but a handful of OU settings. A PHP script then reads that XML file and generates PDF and/or CSV files based on the OU settings, followed by sending emails about the generated files. We are still limited to specific (in this case hard-coded) intervals, but libraries can customize their output greatly just by editing the OU settings. I was planning on doing the newer one entirely in perl (with no XML output needed), but found it easier to make PDF files in PHP, so I went back to using PHP to parse the XML file. Thomas Berezansky Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Quoting Aaron Zsembery azsemb...@pls-net.org: We have some libraries who have us print multi-part mailers , others who use PDF letters and a few who use stickers (which go on postcards). I am not sure exactly how ESI handled it, but I think they set up a script to run the various notifications and put a list of what library gets each type of notification in the script. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 - Original Message - From: Steve Wills swi...@beyond-print.com To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 5:20:29 PM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How do other systems handle print notices? I've also been working on this issue for Balsam and will second the call for info. I was thinking of adding a parmeter to take circ_lib from the command line, insert it into the QUERY in generate_notice_set() and feed it different templates for each respective library that needs it's own formatting. Right now I think we have a couple that want to stuff window envelopes but not everyone is asking for that. so def bump! Stev3 -Original Message- From: Kathy Lussier [mailto:kluss...@masslnc.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 03:37 PM To: ''Evergreen Discussion Group'' Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How do other systems handle print notices? Hi all, I've been exploring print billing notices and was wondering if others could share how they are handling print notices. I'm aware that print notices can be set up in opensrf.xml, but any template created here will be global. I've also been looking at some scripts based on the ones available at http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS-Contrib/browser/ESI-Examples/trunk/notices to provide some level of customization for different. Are there other ways multi-site consortia are handling print notices? Thanks in advance for your feedback! Kathy Lussier - Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 756-0172 (508) 755-3721 (fax) kluss...@masslnc.org IM: kmlussier (AOL Yahoo) Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How do other systems handle print notices?
Hi all, I've been exploring print billing notices and was wondering if others could share how they are handling print notices. I'm aware that print notices can be set up in opensrf.xml, but any template created here will be global. I've also been looking at some scripts based on the ones available at http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS-Contrib/browser/ESI-Examples/trunk/notices to provide some level of customization for different. Are there other ways multi-site consortia are handling print notices? Thanks in advance for your feedback! Kathy Lussier - Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 756-0172 (508) 755-3721 (fax) kluss...@masslnc.org IM: kmlussier (AOL Yahoo) Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How do other systems handle print notices?
I've also been working on this issue for Balsam and will second the call for info. I was thinking of adding a parmeter to take circ_lib from the command line, insert it into the QUERY in generate_notice_set() and feed it different templates for each respective library that needs it's own formatting. Right now I think we have a couple that want to stuff window envelopes but not everyone is asking for that. so def bump! Stev3 -Original Message- From: Kathy Lussier [mailto:kluss...@masslnc.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 03:37 PM To: ''Evergreen Discussion Group'' Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How do other systems handle print notices? Hi all,I've been exploring print billing notices and was wondering if others couldshare how they are handling print notices. I'm aware that print notices canbe set up in opensrf.xml, but any template created here will be global. I'vealso been looking at some scripts based on the ones available athttp://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS-Contrib/browser/ESI-Examples/trunk/noticesto provide some level of customization for different.Are there other ways multi-site consortia are handling print notices?Thanks in advance for your feedback!Kathy Lussier-Kathy LussierProject CoordinatorMassachusetts Library Network Cooperative(508) 756-0172(508) 755-3721 (fax)klussier@masslnc.orgIM: kmlussier (AOL Yahoo)Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
