John, I'll share this, since I don't know of anything better that has superseded it. In 2008, PINES/GPLS staff, with assistance from a volunteer from a PINES library, created a basic and an advanced reporting guide that applied to Evergreen 1.2, but is still somewhat useful since the basics of Evergreen report operation still apply:
http://pines.georgialibraries.org/pines/pines-evergreen-reports-documentation It doesn't include information on nullability selection, and I'm sure the reports sources have changed, but it might be a good basis for creating up-to-date documentation. While it is not marked as such, we tend to share our documentation under the CC BY-SA license. If anyone needs that explictly noted on those documents for copying's sake, just let me know and I'll work to get that done. Hope that's helpful, Chris ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Mundy" <jmu...@tcpclibrary.org> > To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" > <open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org>, "Yamil Suarez" > <ysua...@berklee.edu> > Cc: "Documentation discussion for Evergreen software" > <open-ils-documentat...@list.georgialibraries.org> > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 11:11:15 AM > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Need community suggestions for back-filling > EG documentation > > > Broadly, the reports module needs better documentation. Specifically, > what the fields are, what they do, and how they relate. > > When I used to work with Millennium you had Item records, Bib > records, Patron Records, and Order records (and that was it). > > You could use Bib records connected to item and order records, Patron > records connected to item records, I don't recall what order records > connected to, Item records connected to Bib records and Patron > records. > > I still am pretty new to Evergreen and as I create or modify reports > I find myself often puzzled about how the different fields fit > together. Maybe even a comprehensive list of which fields are where > with definitions. > > Thanks, > John > > Director > Perry County Public Library > 812-547-2661 > fax 812-547-3038 > jmu...@tcpclibrary.org > http:// www.tcpclibrary.org/ > > Check out our new databases: > > http://gold.greyhouse.com/library . > > Nations of the World 2013 > > > Constitutional Amendments > Mental Health Directory > From Suffrage to the Senate > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Yamil Suarez <ysua...@berklee.edu> > To: General Evergreen List > <open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org> > Cc: Documentation discussion for Evergreen software > <open-ils-documentat...@list.georgialibraries.org> > Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 10:51:28 -0400 > Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Need community suggestions for > back-filling EG documentation > > > Hola, > > I am part of the Evergreen Oversight Board (EOB) and the > Documentation Interest Group (DIG), and would like to get some > suggestions from the EG community relating to documentation. The EOB > would like to fund the creation of non-existing EG documentation. > The EOB would like to get suggestions from the EG community of what > area, workflow, or feature that currently completely lacks > documentation the EOB should target in this project. > > With your suggestions the EOB will be able to finish formalizing a > proposal based on the size and complexity of the documentation area > selected for this proposal. My expectation is that for this project > only one specific documentation target will be addressed, but > depending on the success of this approach, we may try again in the > future. > > Please let me know what areas that have never been documented you > would like addressed. > > Thanks in advance, > Yamil > > > > > -------------------------------- > > Yamil Suarez, MCS > Library System Administrator > > Stan Getz Library > Berklee College of Music > 1140 Boylston St > Boston, MA 02215 > > ysua...@berklee.edu > 617-747-2617 > > -- Chris Sharp PINES System Administrator Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, Georgia 30345 (404) 235-7147 csh...@georgialibraries.org http://pines.georgialibraries.org/