Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Recalling Circulating Items in 2.2
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:41:43AM -0400, Jason Etheridge wrote: 1. Run `hold_targeter.pl` (to trigger the event, including the change in fine levels and due date) On my master dev system, things work fine and I have no CRON entries for running the hold targeter. Shouldn't the targeter being invoked automatically at time of hold placement suffice? It should, indeed. Or is there a race condition there and the item may or may not get caught at that time? Probably not. Given that things weren't working for Sally out of the box, I looked for the next possible explanation instead of the simplest possible and didn't even bother to check the results after my local test. So maybe somebody with access to Sally's machine -- someone from an Evergreen support company, perhaps? :) -- could poke at her OU settings to see if anything is funky about the recall settings there.
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Recalling Circulating Items in 2.2
So maybe somebody with access to Sally's machine -- someone from an Evergreen support company, perhaps? :) -- could poke at her OU settings to see if anything is funky about the recall settings there. I did, and nothing seemed funky. I'm not ashamed to share my failure with the list. :) I could litter the perl with more log statements or attach a debugger and see what I learn. I may try that. Thanks -- Jason Etheridge | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: ja...@esilibrary.com | web: http://www.esilibrary.com | Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org http://evergreen-ils.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Reports Interest Group Meeting Notes Posted
Notes from the 2012 Evergreen Conference Reports Interest Group meeting have been posted: http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-reports:meetings:2012-04-25. If you have any additions or corrections, please let me know - or just go ahead and make the change! Thanks, Jenny Jennifer Turner | PALS, A Program of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities | 507-389-2000
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Questions about serials
Hello Kathy, -- * Daniel Wells, Library Programmer Analyst d...@calvin.edu Hekman Library at Calvin College 616.526.7133 On 5/17/2012 at 10:44 AM, Kathy Lussier kluss...@masslnc.org wrote: 1. After setting up a subscription, creating a caption/prediction, pattern, etc., we've noticed that when return to the OPAC view of the record, select Actions for this Record MFHD Holdings Edit MFHD record, there is now a MFHD record that appears to be editable (see attached screenshot.) ... My question is whether I am suppose to be able to edit this automatically-generated MFHD statement. If so, I can file a bug report, but I just didn't know what the intended behavior is here. Lebbeous is correct, you are not supposed to be able to edit the generated data directly, so the bug here is that the menu entry is added. This same bug was found and fixed at one point (in JSPAC at least), and should be fairly simple to fix again. 2. My understanding is that special issues can only be created via the alternate serials control view. Is that still the case? Special issues are still problematic for a number of reasons. Creating them manually is cumbersome and error prone, especially if you have a lot of distributions and streams, and they frequently cause havoc when generating summaries. The ability to create them was removed from the Serial Control View sometime during 2.0 alpha with the intention of making sure they worked properly top-to-bottom before including them, but we are going on two years of intending, so maybe pulling what we had at that time (despite its danger) was a little optimistic. At any rate, we are surviving at my library with a workaround. It doesn't solve the bigger underlying issues, but it is pretty easy and helps ensure good data, so I recommend it at this point regardless of which interface you are using. Here are the steps: 1. Make sure you have at least *2* unreceived issuances generated which are chronologically after your special issue. 2. Carefully hijack your *last* predicted issuance, editing it to reflect the special issue data, paying particular attention to the date published. 3. (optional) Edit the 'Date expected' on the individual items attached to the issuance (which generally only matters if you are not receiving it right away). If you use the Serial Control Items tab, you can edit them all at once. That's it. All of your distributions/streams are populated and everything is linked together properly. The prediction code always predicts from the last issuance based on *date published*, so as long as you follow these steps, the issuance you hijacked will be recreated the next time you predict issues, because your current last issuance was (and will be) the one right before it. Hopefully this makes at least some sense! 4. This last question will probably turn into a bug report, but I just want to understand the expected behavior before filing the bug. We have libraries that prefer using something like most recent 5 years as the textual holdings statement. I've been playing with the summary method and have found that I can successfully do so by setting the summary method to Use record entry only. However, I found that the remaining three options (add to record entry, merge with record entry and do not use record entry) generate the same display in tpac. It displays the holdings statement automatically generated by Evergreen followed by the record entry. I'm assuming that do not use record entry should not be displaying the record entry at all. What is merge with record entry supposed to do? To add to what Lebbeous said, in cases where the generated holdings are a direct continuation of the MFHD holdings, the merge setting is meant to detect that and therefore not display the break (that is, to use simple number ranges for example purposes, you should see 1-5 instead of 1-3,4-5). Thanks for the questions and the (coming) bug reports! Dan
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Questions about serials
Thank you Lebbeous and Dan for the quick responses! They were very helpful. I'll be filing bugs in Launchpad soon. Kathy -- Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 756-0172 (508) 755-3721 (fax) kluss...@masslnc.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Questions about serials
Yes, thank you to Kathy for the question and the guys for the answers. We plan to implement serials soon, so I'm squirreling away this exchange for future reference. Mary -Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Kathy Lussier Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 1:25 PM To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Questions about serials Thank you Lebbeous and Dan for the quick responses! They were very helpful. I'll be filing bugs in Launchpad soon. Kathy -- Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 756-0172 (508) 755-3721 (fax) kluss...@masslnc.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] System Administration Interest Group IRC Meeting, Friday, May 18, 1:00 p.m. EDT - Reminder
Good afternoon, everyone, This is a reminder that there will be a meeting of community members interested in Evergreen system administration tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. EDT in the #evergreen IRC channel. All are welcome! Please let me know if there's anything you're hoping to specifically cover. Thanks, Chris - Forwarded Message - From: Chris Sharp csh...@georgialibraries.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Friday, May 4, 2012 3:44:26 PM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] System Administration Interest Group IRC Meeting, Friday, May 18, 1:00 p.m. EDT Hi again all, There were 11 respondents to the Doodle poll and everyone was free on the afternoon of Friday, May 18th, so I've scheduled a 1:00 p.m. (EDT) meeting. I will construct a loose agenda based on the discussions we've had here on the list, in IRC, and in person at the conference last week. Please let me know (either privately or here on the list) if there's anything specific you'd like to cover. The meeting will be held in the #evergreen IRC channel on the FreeNode network. Information about connecting to that channel is here: http://evergreen-ils.org/irc.php Thanks to all who responded! Chris -- Chris Sharp PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, Georgia 30345 (404) 235-7147 csh...@georgialibraries.org http://pines.georgialibraries.org/ -- Chris Sharp PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, Georgia 30345 (404) 235-7147 csh...@georgialibraries.org http://pines.georgialibraries.org/
