Hi, Jeremy!
On 3/14/22 15:23, Miller, Jeremy via Evergreen-general wrote:
Generally speaking, once a system is back up I want to do a little bit
of testing first to be sure of the complete status of everything, before
telling staff to go ahead. Wouldn’t want clients auto-dumping
transactions
With an automatic “seamless” sort of solution, I would want the ability to
exercise some control over it.
Just because it can manage to talk to the server for a moment, doesn’t
necessarily mean it should be considered up and ready to start accepting
inbound offline transactions.
Generally
I think I would side towards staff either needing to click through a warning
that they are entering offline mode or having to open a separate program, as I
basically agree with what Michele Morgan said earlier. I think either would be
a useful reminder that this isn't something that should be
Occasionally, staff can't get offline to connect from the desktop shortcut.
Then they use an Excel sheet. I'm not sure what is going on when the
connection to the shortcut fails. Anyway, we appreciate the work everyone
does to improve an already great product.
Diane Disbro
Pronouns: she/her
Just to clarify one point, staff can access the current Evergreen offline
interface at any time. The PC does not have to be offline. Just go to
Circulation => Offline Interface and select one of the action tabs
(Checkout, Renew, etc.). They work fine.
-b
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 1:31 PM Diane
Thanks for all the input, everyone.
JFYI, I chose JavaFX for my experiments because:
1. Hatch uses it, duh, specifically for HTML rendering of print content.
2. It's cross-platform
3. JavaFX has its own markup language (FXML), which comes with a handy
"scene builder" for quickly creating/editing
I do like the idea of an installed application. If there is any issue getting
the offline webapp to work staff generally use Excel or Notepad anyway, so
something purpose built would be a big step up from that. These (tried and
true, long-term battle tested, heh) alternatives show that a
Hi everyone!
This week (March 14-18) is Evergreen Feedback Fest, focused on getting new
features and upgraded interfaces fully tested and ready to roll into
Evergreen 3.9.
There are 6 test servers (thanks to Galen & Jason from Equinox and Tiffany
from PINES and Blake from MOBIUS!) that are
