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

2014-08-07 Thread Aaron Zsembery
#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
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

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] 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 ysua...@berklee.edu 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

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] Wireless Barcode Scanners

2013-04-18 Thread Aaron Zsembery
On 17 April 2013 at 2:58PM Tatiana H Prokrym tanya.prok...@ncdcr.gov 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

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 deana.cunning...@granvillecounty.org 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

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 tjspind...@gmail.com 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

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 wolf.hal...@gmail.com 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

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

2013-03-07 Thread Aaron Zsembery
On 7 March 2013 Kathy Lussier kluss...@masslnc.org 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

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 alexey.la...@mnsu.edu 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

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

2012-11-08 Thread Aaron Zsembery
On Thursday, November 8, 2012 at 2:30:59 PM Buzzy Nielsen bu...@hoodriverlibrary.org 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

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 ysua...@berklee.edu 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

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Courtesy report

2012-10-30 Thread Aaron Zsembery
On Monday, October 29, 2012 at 5:06:32 PM Yeisa Fredrickson yfredrick...@egf.mn 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

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 cassondra.v...@kentonlibrary.org 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:

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Circulation Statistics

2012-09-11 Thread Aaron Zsembery
On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at 9:33:37 AM Chauncey Montgomery montg...@oplin.org 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

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 technol...@haineslibrary.org 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

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 gebr...@niagaracollege.ca 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

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 jennifer.tur...@mnsu.edu 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

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 jsarapaulk-w...@gmx.com 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

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 blong...@eou.edu 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

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

2012-05-31 Thread Aaron Zsembery
Jessie Bunker-Maxwell je...@santacruzpl.org 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

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

2012-05-31 Thread Aaron Zsembery
Galen Charlton g...@esilibrary.com 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

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

[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 (ItemCirculationsCheckout 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 Library

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

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

2012-01-17 Thread Aaron Zsembery
Original Message - From: Araik Manukyan ar...@flib.sci.am 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:

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

2011-11-03 Thread Aaron Zsembery
www.mcls.org From: Aaron Zsembery azsemb...@pls-net.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Date: 11/02/2011 02:53 PM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Windows 7 64 bit compatibility issues? Sent by: open-ils-general-boun

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] Windows 7 64 bit compatibility issues?

2011-11-02 Thread Aaron Zsembery
From: jcl...@spendmanagementpartners.com To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org 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

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

2011-10-20 Thread Aaron Zsembery
Original Message - From: Thomas Berezansky tsb...@mvlc.org 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

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

2011-10-18 Thread Aaron Zsembery
- Original Message - From: Heidi Florenzen hfloren...@hermiston.or.us 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

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:

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
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] Batch Delete Records

2011-08-24 Thread Aaron Zsembery
(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 azsemb...@pls-net.org 8/24/2011 5:42 AM I am not sure what a TSN is (perhaps you meant TCN

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

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 Behalf Of Aaron Zsembery Sent

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Star SP200

2011-07-13 Thread Aaron Zsembery
-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.x). See: https://bugs.launchpad.net

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

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

2011-06-10 Thread Aaron Zsembery
- Justin Hopkins jus...@mobiusconsortium.org 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

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] ***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 jmcvi...@grpl.org 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