Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] DOB field in patron accounts

2015-02-16 Thread Holly Brennan
There is an issue with requiring DOB if you don't already have a DOB entered for every user. We added a dummy DOB to each user who didn't have one (01/01/1901) when migrating to Evergreen. That way no one was blocked for not having a DOB, and we were still able to make the switch and require

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] DOB field in patron accounts

2015-02-16 Thread Rogan Hamby
That's fairly straightforward. If you wanted to make sure every user was at least 18 years old you could do something like update actor.usr set dob = now() - interval '18 years' where dob is null; On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Holly Brennan haderh...@ci.homer.ak.us wrote: There is an

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] DOB field in patron accounts

2015-02-16 Thread Pippin, Johnnie
Good morning, Our system is looking at making the DOB field within patron accounts required in order to save their information. We feel that this helps at the granular scale of distinguishing multiple patrons with the same name. At patron registration, the DOB field is yellow shaded. However,

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] DOB field in patron accounts

2015-02-16 Thread Jackson, Robert
The local administrator should be able to use the Admin-Local Administration-Library Setting Editor to accommodate this. Filter on DOB and Edit the Require dob field on patron registration setting. - Robert J. Jackson Systems Administrator Int. Indiana State Library

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Electronic title - search filter

2015-02-16 Thread Hardy, Elaine
Don, As others have said, the search filter is for the MARC fixed field Form (008/23). I don’t know if the 006/06 is also included in the filter or if it can be added. Are you adding an 856 to a record for another format rather than using a MARC record for the e-resource? Elaine J.

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Mac Cient

2015-02-16 Thread Rogan Hamby
Periodically I see folks ask about a Mac client. I just built a new 2.7.3 client you can grab here if you want one: https://www.dropbox.com/s/giyo8s5wbigtsz8/Evergreen_2_7.zip?dl=0 I've only tested it on my own machine so now warranty express or implied. :) -- Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA