Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] RFID feedback

2019-02-07 Thread John Morris
On Thu, 2019-02-07 at 13:24 -0700, Beth Longwell wrote: > Fellow Evergreen libraries, > > We have a library in our consortium that is looking at implementing RFID > technology. If any of you are currently using RFID with Evergreen I would > love to hear about your experiences. We are on version 3

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Solid State Drive

2014-07-23 Thread John Morris
On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 16:20 +, Sue Ciani wrote: > Has anyone implemented solid state drives on their database servers? If so, > what was your experience? Did it increase response time? Did you put them > only on your database server? We implemented on SSD from the start in March 2011 for b

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] browser client update for 2014-04-23

2014-05-01 Thread John Morris
On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 17:32 -0400, Bill Erickson wrote: > Hi John, > > Comments inline... > > 2. Java either CAN or CAN'T do the deed, either one of which is BAD. > > If it can't then the same problem exists. And if it can it really must > > be reported as a security bug and thus will soon be fi

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] browser client update for 2014-04-23

2014-05-01 Thread John Morris
On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 09:18 -0400, Bill Erickson wrote: > JFYI, when all is said and done, it may be best to replace native Java > print dialog with a series of custom settings the user simply enters > directly into the browser print configuration interface. Before we do > that, though, I'd like

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] EG 2.0 network errors

2011-12-15 Thread John Morris
Hi, having some wierd problems with random network errors. Cut over to 2.0.10 Monday morning and things appeared to go well, but then the random glitches started hitting. Would occasionally get one of these on 1.6.0.8 but rare enough folks just worked around it, now it is really hampering getting

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Circ Modifiers not working as expected

2011-11-03 Thread John Morris
Obviously I'm missing some basic assumption about how circ modifiers work. Up until now we didn't need them, as we managed to get all of our policies implemented without them. But we are just starting to circulate laptops and they can't be shoehorned in. So in addition to the default policy the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Truncating fields in reports

2011-10-27 Thread John Morris
On Thu, 2011-10-27 at 09:03 -0400, Whalen, Liam wrote: > > > > I currently truncate long fields like title or author on > > reports so that it can fit in a nice tabular format. Can't > > find a way to do that with the generator. > > The tabular form of output that Evergreen uses for its repo

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Truncating fields in reports

2011-10-26 Thread John Morris
On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 18:46 -0500, John Morris wrote: > I currently truncate long fields like title or author on reports so that > it can fit in a nice tabular format. Can't find a way to do that with > the generator. Replying to myself is bad form but I totally forgot to mention

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Truncating fields in reports

2011-10-26 Thread John Morris
Ok, all this talk of overdue reports got me back to tinkering with the EG graphical report generator. The couple of reports we have now I banged out as perl scripts because I couldn't figure out that fancy schamancy graphical thing at the time and we needed the reports. But I'd really rather do t

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem with yaz, debian-squeeze and Net::Z3950-SimpleServer

2011-10-07 Thread John Morris
On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 21:11 -0400, Dan Scott wrote: > You have to install a previous version of Net::Z3950::SimpleServer > from CPAN. There were hopes that the maintainers would realize that it > would be nice if their package would install on the most recent stable > Debian release and make the d

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem with yaz, debian-squeeze and Net::Z3950-SimpleServer

2011-10-06 Thread John Morris
Trying to install 2.0.10 and have hit an odd problem. Made it to install the prerequisites and can't do it. The problems seem to be two. The first is Net::Z3950::SimpleServer won't install from cpan. Squeeze doesn't have yaz and libyaz4 doesn't seem to be compatible. Although it does install a

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Installing OpenSRF on RHEL5

2011-08-10 Thread John Morris
On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 17:13 -0400, Thomas Berezansky wrote: > I highly recommend not using RHEL for Evergreen, due to their general > policy of using older "stable, fully tested internally" versions of > packages. Evergreen tends to use a lot of newer features. Some people consider stable a fe

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] What now? Again.

2011-04-17 Thread John Morris
On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 14:53 -0400, Dan Scott wrote: > Sounds like a good guess: > http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/changeset/15772/branches/rel_1_6_0/Open-ILS/src/extras/ils_events.xml > is the pertinent change that fixed the reported problem a year ago. Not > sure whether that change made it into

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] What now? Again.

2011-04-16 Thread John Morris
Not having a happy time with EG. Unexplained/unexplainable things go wrong on a daily basis. Most of the time waving a chicken gets us going again but this one is really strange. The latest is that every time we check out we are getting the message below. Our primary hardware went mad last week

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] RHEL support

2011-03-23 Thread John Morris
On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 15:26 +0530, m3th0d . wrote: > How to install EVERGREEN server on RHEL 5x machine , I am having > following errors , (have tried some changes to makefile.install file) > > yum -yq install postgresql-8.4 postgresql-contrib-8.4 > postgresql-plperl-8.4 postgresql-server-dev-8.4

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Update on Beauregard Parish Library

2011-03-15 Thread John Morris
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 09:51 -0500, Anoop Atre wrote: > Vicki, > > Congratulations! I noticed that you are still setting up an SSL > certificate, we've been using StartSSL [ http://www.startssl.com/ ] and > have had a very good experience. They have a free certificate option > (class 1) that jus

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Organization Unit codes

2011-03-10 Thread John Morris
On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 14:55 +0100, Marjolein Kremer wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to use the same name for Organization Unit Name (in SYS1), > Organization Unit Name (in Branch) and the Organization Unit Policy Code > (Branch)? While it would be possible to stuff that into the tables and most

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Ongoing conversion effort

2011-03-06 Thread John Morris
On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 08:41 -0500, Dan Scott wrote: > On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 10:45:26PM -0600, John Morris wrote: > > ARGH! Found it. You submitted a bug report (#727595) and someone > > responded to the 'problem' by nuking the whole page from the docs! So > >

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Ongoing conversion effort

2011-03-05 Thread John Morris
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 11:48 -0500, Dan Scott wrote: > On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 11:26:00PM -0600, John Morris wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 23:41 -0500, Dan Scott wrote: > > > > > > So is there some nightly process I should be starting or have I somehow > > >

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Ongoing conversion effort

2011-03-01 Thread John Morris
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 23:41 -0500, Dan Scott wrote: > > So is there some nightly process I should be starting or have I somehow > > imported the circulation in such a way it is silently failing somewhere? > > Short answer, yes, you need to run scripts (at least nightly, and > possibly more often

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Ongoing conversion effort

2011-03-01 Thread John Morris
Ok, I have managed to get most of the way through importing data now and have some new questions. Bib and holdings are in. Circulation is hopefully in. Think I understand enough to have billing records imported in the next day or so. The big question now is what causes fines to be generated? I

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Suppressing the view of volumes in OPAC

2011-02-16 Thread John Morris
On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 15:48 -0500, Geoff Brown wrote: > > Does anyone know how to set up the OPAC view to suppress the display > of items in the catalogue (ie: volumes of periodicals)? You can edit > the item attributes to not be visible in the OPAC when creating > individual items, however is th

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Importing holdings data

2011-01-13 Thread John Morris
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 21:42 -0500, Dan Scott wrote: > On 13 January 2011 21:13, John Morris wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 20:36 -0500, Jason Etheridge wrote: > > > >> > fingerprint: Eh? So how would I generate this? > >> > >> There should be a tr

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Importing holdings data

2011-01-13 Thread John Morris
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 20:36 -0500, Jason Etheridge wrote: > > fingerprint: Eh? So how would I generate this? > > There should be a trigger to handle this for you (maybe depending on > your version of EG). It's used for grouping records with similar > titles into metarecords (think FRBR-ish, but

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Importing holdings data

2011-01-13 Thread John Morris
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 15:39 -0500, Dan Wells wrote: > The trickiest part is probably getting the proper > biblio.record_entry_id values for each item being imported. We had > the somewhat clever idea of hard-coding biblio.record_entry_id values > to be identical to the internal ids of our old sys

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Importing holdings data

2011-01-13 Thread John Morris
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 15:39 -0500, Dan Wells wrote: > Hello John, > > I haven't kept up on the very newest tools, but we successfully migrated > around a year ago using customized versions of (and/or ideas from) this: > > http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS-Contrib/wiki/ImportDemo > > and this: >

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Importing holdings data

2011-01-13 Thread John Morris
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 08:59 -0500, Dan Wells wrote: > Hello John, > > Before I offer any specific suggestions, can you point me to the > documentation you are using at this point? Mostly reading here: http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/1.6/draft/html/migratingdata.html The details of the schema in t

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Importing holdings data

2011-01-13 Thread John Morris
Ok, trying to import data. Users was pretty easy. Reading the official manual on the subject of holdings reminds me of South Park's underpants gnomes. Step one, put your information in a table. Step two Step Three, run your script, Yay! Profit! No real decription of what happens in step tw

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problems with the org chart

2010-12-16 Thread John Morris
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 23:06 -0500, Dan Scott wrote: > So, given the readily available virtual images and the ability to > install as many copies of Evergreen wherever you want, the idea is that > you should be able to practice these steps and gain knowledge before you > go into production. But I

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problems with the org chart

2010-12-16 Thread John Morris
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 19:39 -0500, Sharp, Chris wrote: > Evergreen works this way because it was initially designed for PINES, in > which this is the setup. I'm honestly not sure what sorts of improvements > have been added in the last couple of versions that might accommodate the > setup you'

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problems with the org chart

2010-12-16 Thread John Morris
Vicki already posted about this problem we are having, but I have been banging on it a bit longer and have more details to post that might help. Seems the whole org chart bit is VERY brittle, anything goes wrong and evergreen is just dead and apparently unfixable by mortals. What we want for an o