Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] TSP100 Printing Setup for Mac

2014-08-07 Thread Aaron Zsembery
view/Evergreen/EvergreenReceiptPrinterInstallation#For_Receipt_printers_ie_SP500_SP for our Windows instructions Aaron Zsembery Library Systems Analyst Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 x111

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Macros

2014-01-22 Thread Aaron Zsembery
settings editor as needed. We have those "includes" in our default template on the server, that way one template works for 98% of the libraries. Aaron Zsembery Library Systems Analyst Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 x111

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Verification of Patron Data

2013-05-22 Thread Aaron Zsembery
One other comment, it appears that one of the options when creating a action trigger is to create a patron penalty. I don't know what the options are there, but that might do the same as a SQL command and be easier to manage Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Verification of Patron Data

2013-05-16 Thread Aaron Zsembery
We have a pre-expire email (run from an action trigger) that gets sent 30 days before the account expires to let the patron know that their privileges will expire in 30 days. I will have to look in the morning, but IIRC ~70% of those who were emailed had renewed vs ~50% last time I checked the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 3 day Courtesy Notice not being received

2013-05-16 Thread Aaron Zsembery
Meme, It can be done, the code is there in Evergreen back to at least version 2.2 to do this and we are doing this now for us and our 42 member libraries. It sounds like there is a problem with Bill's system where something perhaps isn't set correctly to make it work, but it can be done now on a

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 3 day Courtesy Notice not being received

2013-05-15 Thread Aaron Zsembery
If you have SQL access, you can check if Evergreen is actually running the trigger. You would look in action_trigger.event (for when the trigger runs) and action_trigger.event_output (for the actual text of the sent message). Below is the query I use to look this up in our system (as set it will

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] What should be done during unexpected library closings?

2013-04-24 Thread Aaron Zsembery
On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 3:21:05 PM chtrot...@ocrl.org wrote: > I am not sure if the closed date can be entered the same day and fines > not accrue. IIRC, in our install the fine generator runs at 23:59 to generate daily fines, so as long as the entry gets in, it should theoretically work. I

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] What should be done during unexpected library closings?

2013-04-24 Thread Aaron Zsembery
On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 2:08:28 PM "Yamil Suarez" wrote: > Thank you everyone for their reponses. Could someone share their > workflow for back dating checked out items on the list, since I > assume > other would benefit. Is this something that is done en masse or > individually? Our documen

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] What should be done during unexpected library closings?

2013-04-24 Thread Aaron Zsembery
We also backdate. Adding closed dates for weather closings will not effect the actual due date in the system as that is computed at the time of checkout. It might help with fines, but using a backdated check-in works just as well. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 St

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Wireless Barcode Scanners

2013-04-18 Thread Aaron Zsembery
On 17 April 2013 at 2:58PM "Tatiana H Prokrym" wrote: > Does anyone have recommendations for wireless barcode scanners that > work well with Evergreen. We are running v2.3.1. We are about to > purchase quite a few. We have a library which is using wireless Honeywell 3800g (this appears to be the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question regarding Evergreen and transit between libraries

2013-04-12 Thread Aaron Zsembery
On April 12, 2013 at 1:28:57 PM "Deana Cunningham" wrote: > Does anyone deal with a similar situation? Can anyone tell me if > Evergreen can handle multiple transit times appropriately? In Evergreen, you scan the item to put it into "In transit" status at the sending library and then it gets sca

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SQL question

2013-04-11 Thread Aaron Zsembery
You want the action.circulation table. I would use the following query: SELECT COUNT(action.circulation.id) AS Circs FROM action.circulation WHERE DATE(xact_start) BETWEEN '2012-01-01' AND '2012-12-31' AND circ_lib = XXX /*Put your library ID in here, it can be found in actor.org_unit.id*/

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] paypal credit card payment

2013-04-05 Thread Aaron Zsembery
On April 5, 2013 at 12:06:38 PM "Tim Spindler" wrote: > We have another question, can you have separate paypal accounts for > different libraries (so libraries use their own accounts). I'm not > sure we want to do this but the question has come up. IIRC (not sitting in front of EG right now), the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Notifications Emails that Bounce are bounced back to the default email

2013-03-28 Thread Aaron Zsembery
On 28 Mar 2013 at 12:30:04 PM "Wolf Halton" wrote: > Rather than being bounced back to the originating branch email, > messages that are un-deliverable are bouncing back to the default > notifications email in an upgraded from 2.2.0 => 2.3.4 EG instance. > Debian Squeeze, and Postgresql 9.1 There

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SMS setup for consortium--all at once?

2013-03-07 Thread Aaron Zsembery
On 7 March 2013 at 4:14:15 PM "Alexey Vladimirovich Lazar" wrote: > Unless the SMS settings are tied to patron's home library/branch, > perhaps, where if a user has SMS enabled at their home library, they > would get an SMS option even if checking out material from a > different library/branch th

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SMS setup for consortium--all at once?

2013-03-07 Thread Aaron Zsembery
On 7 March 2013 "Kathy Lussier" wrote: > However, if you have a different tpac template for the library that > wants SMS, maybe you can hide the SMS options in the template for > your other libraries? Off the top of my head, I'm thinking there are > three places where you would need to hide SMS: t

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

2012-11-08 Thread Aaron Zsembery
On Thursday, November 8, 2012 at 2:30:59 PM "Buzzy Nielsen" wrote: > I think it's a lot more accessible, and less hassle, > for our patrons if we don't require them to go out and download a > separate app to access something that can be made accessible without one. It also includes those (like my

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Moving to Evergreen

2012-11-05 Thread Aaron Zsembery
On Monday, November 5, 2012 at 3:01:34 PM "Donald Butterworth" wrote: > But, when I enter the Username: egsa / Password: egsa, a Login > failed message pops up. The Workstation message is: Not yet > configured for the specified server. > So ... like ... what do I do now? ... Do you have an option

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How to remove previously used hostnames in EG client?

2012-11-05 Thread Aaron Zsembery
On Monday, November 5, 2012 11:32:20 AM "Yamil Suarez" wrote: > I have several EG 2.2 workstations that were registered with both our > production server and our test server hostnames. Automatically the EG > client remembers previously used server hostnames/IPs. In this case I > would like to rem

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Courtesy report

2012-10-30 Thread Aaron Zsembery
On Monday, October 29, 2012 at 5:06:32 PM "Yeisa Fredrickson" wrote: > I have been struggling with creating a recurring report for items due > 2 days from now. We send emails, but not all of our patrons have an > email address or may not regularly check it. Has anyone else created > a report that

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Importing from ISBN

2012-10-16 Thread Aaron Zsembery
On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 1:18:10 PM "Cassondra Vick" wrote: > According to my research, ISBNs are unique. > http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/isbn/us/major.asp In an ideal world, yes. In the real world? It happens, see: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/975488-isbn-duplication www.ama

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Circulation Statistics

2012-09-11 Thread Aaron Zsembery
On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at 9:33:37 AM "Chauncey Montgomery" wrote: > So, I am beginning to suspect that perhaps TLC counted things > differently than Evergreen. I have never used or heard of TLC, but here are two things that I have noticed in our migration from Unicorn to Evergreen: 1.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] permissions and editing patron records

2012-08-20 Thread Aaron Zsembery
On Monday, August 20, 2012 at 1:51:57 PM "Erik Stevens" wrote: > I feel like the fact that I put the Volunteer permission group as a > child of the Patron permission group may have something to do with > it. I do not want to put it under the Staff group because that > parent already has more perm

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Date Checked Out Macros

2012-08-16 Thread Aaron Zsembery
On Thursday, August 16, 2012 at 10:43:28 AM "Geoff Brown" wrote: > Niagara College is trying to add the Date Checked Out to our overdue > notices however we are unable to find the macros for this. I have > searched the Evergreen documentation and there is no list for the > notice macros. Would

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Spine label printer recommendations

2012-08-01 Thread Aaron Zsembery
On Wednesday, August 1, 2012 at 11:39:50 PM "Dan Scott" wrote: > I think this has always been a mistaken notion, perhaps based on one > library's inability to configure printer drivers. At least that's > been > the case since 2008, when we first started testing Evergreen with our > (then) Dymo 33

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Standalone Pending Transactions

2012-08-01 Thread Aaron Zsembery
On August 1, 2012 at 11:54:11 AM "Jennifer M Turner" > Thanks for the response! Unfortunately, the transactions were > uploaded and the directions for exporting/importing transactions > were - as far as I know - followed. Once they do the export, there is a popup that comes up and says: " Your

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Standalone Pending Transactions

2012-08-01 Thread Aaron Zsembery
On August 1, 2012 at 10:21:13 AM "Jennifer M Turner" wrote: > Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Standalone Pending Transactions > We asked a library to test standalone circulation in 2.2 last week. > It went pretty well, however they are have one workstation that > “still shows the red box with Standal

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Magnetic Card Readers

2012-07-30 Thread Aaron Zsembery
This may or may not be helpful, but a few years back I worked for a hotel which changed reservation systems and they had me experiment with their magcard readers to see if I could make them work with the new system. The ones they had output the information in a fixed format such as CARD# NAME

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Barcode scanners

2012-06-25 Thread Aaron Zsembery
On Monday, June 25, 2012 at 4:08:56 PM "J. Sara Paulk" wrote: > thinking of moving to Evergreen - does anyone use Metrologic MS9525 > voyager Bluetooth scanners? As long as they show up as a "keyboard" to Windows, they should work fine. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Recommendations for PC reservation & print management software needed

2012-06-01 Thread Aaron Zsembery
On Friday, June 1, 2012 3:40:16 PM "Elizabeth Longwell" wrote: > Evergreen libraries, > One of our district libraries is looking at PC reservation/time > management/print management software solutions. They have polled our > local consortia but would like to find out what other Evergreen > librar

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Staff Client Interface for Use of Physical Cash Drawers

2012-05-31 Thread Aaron Zsembery
> "Galen Charlton" wrote: > There is no defined interface, but there was some discussion [1] last > year on a possible workaround, involving use of certain models of > printers that can have cash drawers attached to them and using a > control code in the circ receipt as a signal to open the drawer

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Staff Client Interface for Use of Physical Cash Drawers

2012-05-31 Thread Aaron Zsembery
> "Jessie Bunker-Maxwell" wrote: > Has anyone out there replaced their cash registers with cash drawers > and if so, is there an interface that allows the Evergreen Staff > Client to work with the cash drawers? > Scanning posts to this list and the Evergreen documentation, I am > unable to determi

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] receipt problems

2012-05-24 Thread Aaron Zsembery
It sounds like this may be something with the printer. I would check the paper size, zoom settings and header/footer from the printer selection page. If you want to remove all traces of Evergreen from her computer, I use the attached file ( Remove Evergreen.bat.old ) which if renamed as a batch

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Fwd: campus card compatibility with Evergreen Library installation

2012-05-08 Thread Aaron Zsembery
>From my time working for a small hotel that used magnetic key cards and credit >card readers, I can say that (generally speaking): A magcard reader is very >much like a barcode reader . It reads the data from the card and puts it out >as if it was typed into a keyboard. I would get a card and

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Report : Retrieve last patron who circulated item

2012-03-23 Thread Aaron Zsembery
Assuming that you have the rest setup (to find the items), add the circ transaction start date/time (Item>Circulations>Checkout Date/Time) as a Max aggregate filter to the list of filters and it should only return the info the the last checkout. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Librar

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] circ numbers after status change

2012-03-02 Thread Aaron Zsembery
Can you post the query? Hard to tell what you need to do without seeing the query you are working from. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 - Original Message - > From: "Jesse Ephraim" > To: "Ever

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Report View error

2012-01-17 Thread Aaron Zsembery
Original Message - > From: "Araik Manukyan" > However, when we try export ILC Users report, the Evergreen responses > with this error text > - > DBD::Pg::st execute failed: ERROR: column > fe21ca9ecd516f33ec379ecc11aa7051.groups does not exist LINE 2: > "fe21ca9ecd516f33ec379

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How do other systems handle print notices?

2012-01-11 Thread Aaron Zsembery
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 o

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Windows 7 64 bit compatibility issues?

2011-11-03 Thread Aaron Zsembery
are Epson TM-T88IV Model #M129H. The big printer > in > the office is a Zerox Phaser 7400. > Evette M. Atkin > Evergreen Coordinator > Midwest Collaborative for Library Services > 1407 Rensen St., Suite 1, Lansing, MI 48910-3657 > Phone (800)530-9019 ext 152 Fax (517)492-3808 &g

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Windows 7 64 bit compatibility issues?

2011-11-02 Thread Aaron Zsembery
> From: jcl...@spendmanagementpartners.com > To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" > > Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 2:53:51 PM > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Windows 7 64 bit compatibility > issues? > Please remove me from this list. Thanks. I recommend that you visit the link you should have r

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Windows 7 64 bit compatibility issues?

2011-11-02 Thread Aaron Zsembery
What is the printer make and model? What version of EG? We have Win7 x64 working with Star SP512 and SP212 printers under EG 1.6.2.4. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 - Original Message -

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen and book groups

2011-10-20 Thread Aaron Zsembery
Original Message - > From: "Thomas Berezansky" > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 11:23:01 AM > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen and book groups > Alternatively, when I try and check an item out to a different > patron, > I get a "Normal Checkin then Checkout" button on the "you

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen & Cassie from Librarica

2011-10-18 Thread Aaron Zsembery
- Original Message - > From: "Heidi Florenzen" > To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org > Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 7:30:00 PM > Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen & Cassie from Librarica > Has anyone successfully paired Cassie with Evergreen? (We're > currently running E

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] patron checkout history

2011-09-23 Thread Aaron Zsembery
Where do you need to access this information? It is not really accessible dynamically through the staff client, but is readily available through SQL or the reporting interface. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (5

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bug Tracking and Enhancment Requests

2011-09-16 Thread Aaron Zsembery
On Friday, September 16, 2011 12:28:21 PM Galen Charlton wrote: > [2] RT (http://bestpractical.com/rt/) > I believe this is being used successfully by at least one other > Evergreen consortium. We use RT here at PLS. I like it, it lets us setup permissions, add requestors to tickets, merge tickets

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Batch Delete Records

2011-08-24 Thread Aaron Zsembery
de us with a > way to delete our copies (our holdings data is in the 856 field) > then your thought about having EG delete the call number/volume > record and then the bib record may be a solution. > Thanks again, > Brian > >>> Aaron Zsembery 8/24/2011 5:42 AM >>&

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Batch Delete Records

2011-08-24 Thread Aaron Zsembery
I am not sure what a TSN is (perhaps you meant TCN?), but if you have a list of barcodes, you can paste them into a text file, import it into "Check Item Status" (rather than scanning the items in) and manage the items from there. Otherwise, I don't think there is any way to batch select items,

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Export patrons

2011-08-11 Thread Aaron Zsembery
What data are you looking to export? What criteria do you want to use? There are two ways to do something like this: 1. Using the Evergreen Reporter (see: http://wiki.mnpals.org/index.php/Evergreen:User_Guide#Reports or look in the Sitka user manual for the basics) 2. Connecting directly to th

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Star SP200

2011-07-14 Thread Aaron Zsembery
does not work. Getting it to > print at all is a big step forward. > Joan > Joan Kranich > C/W MARS Member Services > jkran...@cwmars.org > From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org > [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On >

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Star SP200

2011-07-13 Thread Aaron Zsembery
ilto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On > Behalf Of Aaron Zsembery > Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 12:00 PM > To: Evergreen Discussion Group > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Star SP200 > There was a bug for the SP200s with Xulrunner 1.9 (which is used in > EG 2.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Star SP200

2011-07-12 Thread Aaron Zsembery
There was a bug for the SP200s with Xulrunner 1.9 (which is used in EG 2.x). See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/491537 In 1.6.x, we have ONLY been able to use the SP200 series printers via parallel (The SP200 series printers do not handle HTML and EG will only send plaintext (DOS Mo

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Cash Drawers: How to they work?

2011-06-10 Thread Aaron Zsembery
- "Justin Hopkins" wrote: > Apparently this functionality doesn't exist in Evergreen, but that > seems odd. Some printers (such as the Star SP512) have a place to connect a cash drawer [1], then when you send a specific character (such as CONTROL G (ASCII 7)[2] to the printer, it is sent to

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Deleting items in Evergreen and updatingenteries in WorldCat

2011-06-07 Thread Aaron Zsembery
Sorry about the double post, apparently I hit the "send" shortcut while pasting We have a report that runs weekly which returns the following columns: "Author (normalized)", "Title Proper (normalized)", "Record Creation Date/Time", "Last Edit Data/Time", "Last Editor", "Record ID", "TCN Source",

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] implementing Summon with Evergreen

2011-04-19 Thread Aaron Zsembery
Deleted Records Export: Deleted records are still in the system, they just have the "deleted" flag in the Bib record set to true, so you can run reports on them if needed. Deleted Records Export: We have a report that runs every week which grabs all of the bib records deleted in the last week

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Handling lost books which have been paid for

2011-01-28 Thread Aaron Zsembery
We have patrons who have lost books, paid for them, but are still getting overdue mailers. I am told that this is due to the books having the status of "Lost" and the mailers sending out notices for all items with the status of "lost". We are wondering what other libraries are doing to notify p

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: [Fwd: Re: Printing to a USB receipt printer]

2010-08-24 Thread Aaron Zsembery
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:18 AM, JohnRoy McVicker > wrote: > > Am I going about this the wrong way? Any tips of how to setup a USB > receipt > > printer and use the Mozilla Print strategy? I am a little late to this discussion, do you have a model printer that you are planning on using? We