Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Acquisions: Enriched EDI

2014-12-08 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hi Codey, https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1297967 is definitely part of the issue. Another piece is the action/trigger template itself that gets processed when a PO is created. Make sure yours matches the template as input here: http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=Evergreen.git;a=blob;f

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Oversight Board Meeting Minutes Available

2014-11-20 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hello all, The minutes from today's Evergreen Oversight Board meeting are now available: http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=governance:minutes&#minutes There was one action taken: - The Board voted to issue a letter of support for Michelle Purcell to proceed with her research proposal r

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Corrupt files? Can they be reloaded?

2014-11-11 Thread Sharp, Chris
Jennifer, Just to rule out permissions completely, can you verify that your "admin" user has the super_user flag marked true? That would be discoverable with this direct query to the database: SELECT super_user FROM actor.usr WHERE id = 1; If that returns true ('t'), and you know that's the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Retrieving no results using Bib Call Number search

2014-10-21 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hi Jayaraj, The Bib Call Number search is searching the MARC record (082 field, if I'm not mistaken) for a dewey call number, so that search is entirely dependent on your catalogers adding that field for each of your items' bib records. Does that help? Chris - Original Message - > Fro

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 10/16/2014 Evergreen Oversight Board Meeting Minutes Posted

2014-10-16 Thread Sharp, Chris
Good Afternoon all, The minutes for today's Evergreen Oversight Board (EOB) meeting have been posted at http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=governance:minutes. Topics discussed included the following: - 2015 Evergreen International Conference report from Buzzy Nielsen - Draft FAQ conten

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 9/18/2014 Evergreen Oversight Board Meeting Minutes Posted

2014-09-22 Thread Sharp, Chris
Good Morning all, The minutes for last Thursday's Evergreen Oversight Board (EOB) meeting have been posted at http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=governance:minutes. A streamable MP3 file of the meeting is also available there. No votes were taken during the meeting, but the following to

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Reg: installation of evergreen in ubuntu saucy

2014-09-17 Thread Sharp, Chris
Myra, Only LTS version of Ubuntu are supported. There are a few known bugs with Ubuntu 14.04, so I would recommend installing Ubuntu 12.04. Hope that's helpful, Chris - Original Message - > From: "supraja reddy" > To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org > Sent: Wednesday, Sept

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposed change in Vendor Listing Policy

2014-09-15 Thread Sharp, Chris
Rogan, > We drew a lot on the Koha policy when we made it and while I think > looking at other communities is useful at this point we've had the > policy in place for a year and I think it's more important to look > internal to our own community and our experiences. Maybe it would be > useful to d

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposed change in Vendor Listing Policy

2014-09-15 Thread Sharp, Chris
As someone pointed out before, this language was a holdover from the Koha site policy that was the model for our own. Here is their wording (from http://koha-community.org/support/paid-support/how-to-get-listed/): "Companies must show their support of the Koha Community by adding a visible lin

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposed change in Vendor Listing Policy

2014-09-13 Thread Sharp, Chris
Kathy, > I was surprised to see that we were already requiring an Evergreen > offering page, which is a bit embarrassing since I was the person > who pulled together that original policy. I suspect this is an > accident of language that was used in making the link-back > requirement. I think this

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposed change in Vendor Listing Policy

2014-09-12 Thread Sharp, Chris
For the record, +1 Chris - Original Message - > From: "Jason Etheridge" > To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" > Sent: Friday, September 12, 2014 2:08:38 PM > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposed change in Vendor Listing Policy > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Lazar, Alexey Vladim

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposed change in Vendor Listing Policy

2014-09-08 Thread Sharp, Chris
Thanks again, Rogan, for the continued discussion on this. I'm glad we're able to air our respective opinions. > There was some discussion during the meeting about it being suggested > versus required. To me those elements that make it more user > friendly should be required or we start diluting

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposed change in Vendor Listing Policy

2014-09-08 Thread Sharp, Chris
Rogan, Thanks for your feedback to my questions. I'll respond in-line: - Original Message - > From: "Rogan Hamby" > I'm only speaking for myself here but I don't think it's necessary > but nor is the listing itself. It's a nice thing to do as a > community to help people find resources

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposed change in Vendor Listing Policy

2014-09-08 Thread Sharp, Chris
(I just posted this separately to the EG Oversight Board list and Rogan asked me to share my comments here.) Hi all, I wasn't officially on the Board when this subject was discussed, so I didn't feel that it would be appropriate for me to speak up during the last meeting. However, I do have a

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Oversight Board Meeting Minutes Posted

2014-08-22 Thread Sharp, Chris
Good Morning all, The minutes for yesterdays Evergreen Oversight Board (EOB) meeting have been posted at http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=governance:minutes&#minutes. Actions taken at the meeting included the following: - a vote to allocate community funds to sponsor one intern throu

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Statistical Categories

2014-06-25 Thread Sharp, Chris
essage - > From: "Elisabeth Keppler" > To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" > Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 11:29:39 AM > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Statistical Categories > > > I heard about the Flattened MARC Fields at the conference

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Statistical Categories

2014-06-25 Thread Sharp, Chris
Lise and Don, In the reports interface, you can take the following path from the Item source: Item -> Call Number/Volume -> Bib Record -> Flattened MARC Fields That source gives you the means to filter on/display MARC Fields and subfields. Hope that's helpful! Chris - Original Message ---

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Two new problems (just noticed)

2014-06-17 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hi Deana, > We have three Express Libraries in our system - lockers where patrons > can pick up books they put on hold. When we were running Evergreen > 2.3.2 everything worked fine with these locations. However, we > upgraded to 2.5.1 awhile back and I just now noticed that the > Express librarie

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] circulation policies set up problems

2014-06-16 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hi Janice, > Still struggling with set up questions: > 1. How can you "delete" a policy you set up and think you don't need? I usually just set "Active?" to false. That way it's not live, but you are able to turn it back on if you decide you need it later. > 2. If the default policy was delete

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Running authority_control_fields.pl

2014-05-02 Thread Sharp, Chris
I can verify that it took a very very long time for us too. I used Jason Stephenson's "disbatcher.pl" script (description here: http://blog.mvlcstaff.org/2012/09/howto-batch-authority-control.html), which allowed me to run them in batches overnight. Hope that's helpful! Chris - Original

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Call for vote: Release Manager 2.7

2014-04-21 Thread Sharp, Chris
+1 - Original Message - > From: "Jeff Godin" > To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" > Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 12:01:45 PM > Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Call for vote: Release Manager 2.7 > > > Greetings! > > > I'd like to call for a vote on Ben Shum's proposal to be Release > Manage

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Unconference/Extra Meeting Space at the 2014 Evergreen Conference

2014-03-12 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hello all, There will be two rooms available at the 2014 Evergreen International Conference venue for meetings, impromptu sessions, and spillover from interest group meetings. A couple of ground rules: * The rooms are not be used for the purpose of selling or demonstrating products or services

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Sys Admin Interest Group at the 2014 Evergreen International Conference

2014-03-10 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hi all, The Sys Admin Interest Group will be meeting at 2:15 on Thursday, March 20th (next week!) at the Evergreen Conference in Boston (Room TBA). This is intended to be a highly technical discussion about Evergreen administration at all levels (server and local library systems). Everyone is

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] browser support

2014-01-22 Thread Sharp, Chris
Jim, In the good old JSPAC days we had maintained a page on the PINES website titled "Browser Issues" with descriptions and workarounds for whatever the browser problem of the moment was. We would then link to that page from our OPAC footer for easy access for patrons and staff. Hope that hel

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ubuntu desktop i386

2013-12-12 Thread Sharp, Chris
Meme, I would recommend asking your Evergreen system administrator to build a Linux client for you. Instructions here: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=mozilla-devel:building_the_staff_client Alternatively, you can install Wine on Ubuntu ('sudo apt-get install wine') and install

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] A new problem with reports

2013-12-06 Thread Sharp, Chris
Deana, I would have your IT staff check the following: 1) whether clark-kent.pl is running on your server - can be done with 'ps aux | grep -i clark'. You should see a process that says "Clark Kent, waiting for trouble", which is the daemon process waiting for reports to run. If there are an

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question regarding item records

2013-10-23 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hi Deana, Those values are not item attributes, but are defined by circulation policies (Admin -> Local Administration -> Circulation Policies). In turn, circulation policies are often based on item attributes, especially circulation modifier and/or MARC type. I would make sure the items have

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2.5-rc1 Released [RM2.5]

2013-10-16 Thread Sharp, Chris
Dan, We will also be upgrading our test server to 2.5-rc1 from 2.5-beta1 some time this week. I'll report back with any problems. Hope that helps! Chris - Original Message - > From: "Justin Hopkins" > To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 2:54:35 PM >

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Need community suggestions for back-filling EG documentation

2013-10-16 Thread Sharp, Chris
John, I'll share this, since I don't know of anything better that has superseded it. In 2008, PINES/GPLS staff, with assistance from a volunteer from a PINES library, created a basic and an advanced reporting guide that applied to Evergreen 1.2, but is still somewhat useful since the basics of

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: ***SPAM*** Importing bib and holdings data into Evergreen 2.4.2

2013-10-15 Thread Sharp, Chris
ps (from ESI migration tools) work for bibliographic > records almost fine. Cca 50 mins for full import (from start SQL > injection to searching in staff OPAC). > > It's my second migration to EG (previous in EG 2.0 times). > > Thanks for advance > > Vaclav Jansa >

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Importing bib and holdings data into Evergreen 2.4.2

2013-10-15 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hi Linda, This appears to be the problem: ERROR: could not extend file "base/42287/42883": No space left on device HINT: Check free disk space. You can verify disk space with the bash command 'df -h', but it looks like you need to increase your disk space before continuing. Note that this is

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Blockers for 2.5 RC1 [RM2.5]

2013-10-07 Thread Sharp, Chris
Dan, I tested the 2.4.2-2.5-beta1-upgrade-db.sql script on PINES test data (from our production instance) and it worked as expected. So far, so good! Chris - Original Message - > From: "Dan Wells" > To: "open-ils-general" > Sent: Monday, October 7, 2013 12:26:37 PM > Subject: [OPEN-I

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] test message -please disregard

2013-09-25 Thread Sharp, Chris
Testing. -- Chris Sharp PINES System Administrator Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, Georgia 30345 (404) 235-7147 csh...@georgialibraries.org http://pines.georgialibraries.org/

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Patron Family Groups and Cloning

2013-09-12 Thread Sharp, Chris
unction between grouping and not grouping the > copied record. Just thinking out loud here. > > Martha Driscoll > Systems Manager > North of Boston Library Exchange > Danvers, Massachusetts > www.noblenet.org > > On 9/11/2013 11:15 AM, Sharp, Chris wrote: > > Marth

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Patron Family Groups and Cloning

2013-09-11 Thread Sharp, Chris
Martha, This feature was created for the PINES consortium as a way to ease the registration of families. With that use case in mind, it makes sense that grouping would accompany cloning. Does that help? Chris - Original Message - > From: "Martha Driscoll" > To: "Evergreen Discussio

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] circulation report

2013-09-10 Thread Sharp, Chris
Pasi and Päivi, The MARC fixed-field "Lang" code is available via this path in the reports UI: Choose "Item" source. Item -> Call Number/Volume -> Bib Record -> Fixed Field Entry -> Lang -> Language Code There's also: Item -> Call Number/Volume -> Bib Record -> Fixed Field Entry -> Lang -> La

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Looking for help!

2013-09-05 Thread Sharp, Chris
Thanks, Lori. I replied to Deana off-list. ;-) - Original Message - > From: "Lori Bowen Ayre" > To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" > Cc: "Chris Sharp" > Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2013 12:57:34 PM > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Looking for help! > > > Sounds like Chris Sharp to me

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Status of Evergreen Community Servers

2013-09-01 Thread Sharp, Chris
Joel and Jason, > Joel, try http://lupin.georgialibraries.org/ as an alternative to the > normal URL. > > My understanding is that everything is back up, except we still need > to update DNS. Correct. The webserver is up at the lupin address and the git server is up at http://64.57.241.16.

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Status of Evergreen Community Servers

2013-08-30 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hello all, Due to a hardware failure, the following Evergreen community servers are currently unavailable: evergreen-ils.org list.evergreen-ils.org git.evergreen-ils.org GPLS IT staff are working to get access to these servers restored. I will notify this list again when they are back up. Th

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problems with circulation notices and gmail

2013-08-14 Thread Sharp, Chris
Pam, You should be able to verify that these are sent using your Evergreen mail server's logs. The log messages should provide a reason if they are being refused by the email provider's server. We actually pool all of our logs together (including postfix, in our case) and arrange them by year

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Patrons cannot change their user name

2013-07-31 Thread Sharp, Chris
Ben, Thanks for sharing this information - this question was brought up to me this week and now I can cross something else off my to-do list! Cheers, Chris - Original Message - > From: "Ben Shum" > To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" > Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 8:52:49 PM > Subject:

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Epson TM-T88IV with Windows 7 USB

2013-07-25 Thread Sharp, Chris
George, I would look for the TM-T88IV drivers on this page: http://www.posguys.com/drivers.asp >From what I understand, the TM-T88V drivers (the latest from Epson) don't work >with the TM-T88IV. I hope that's helpful! Chris - Original Message - > From: "George Rodgers-Clark" > To: o

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Difference between Consortium owned copy location and...

2013-07-16 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hi Srey, Having the copy locations owned locally (that is, by each branch rather than by the consortium) allows for local control of attributes such as whether the items in that location circulate, are holdable, or are visible in the OPAC. That feature is especially handy if, say, a library cl

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen web page for paid support vendors

2013-07-10 Thread Sharp, Chris
Kathy and all, Reading the first paragraph on the vendor page on the wiki: "The following companies are currently listed in alphabetical order. This is by no means an exhaustive list, and appearance on this list does not necessarily mean that the Evergreen community has endorsed each company on

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Axis 360 and Evergreen

2013-06-19 Thread Sharp, Chris
Tanya, We have two library systems in PINES who are using that service successfully. We at the GPLS office haven't gotten reports of problems, so I assume all works as expected. Have you been speaking to people who didn't get it working? Hope that's helpful, Chris - Original Message ---

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Computer management system integration

2013-06-11 Thread Sharp, Chris
David, I know there are libraries in PINES using SAM sucessfully. As we tell our libraries who are considering what we refer to as "third-party" software or services that connect to Evergreen via SIP2, it's important for the vendor of the third-party product to demonstrate its capabilities wit

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

2013-05-15 Thread Sharp, Chris
Bill, Are you verifying that your email server has sent the notices? We have found that there are times when email providers mark our sent emails as spam and patrons need to contact those providers to let them through. The email server's own logs would probably show this. I would start there

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Match Point Error

2013-02-05 Thread Sharp, Chris
Cindy, Can you share the text of the network failure error? (Be sure to check that it doesn't include confidential information such as a patron barcode before sharing.) Thanks, Chris - Original Message - > From: "Cindy Snell" > To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org > Cc: "G

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Fwd: Hold alerts problem

2013-01-10 Thread Sharp, Chris
es seem to be doing its job and > indeed > the pull list for onshelf holds is being updated. > > Fiona > > > On 10/01/2013 12:33, Sharp, Chris wrote: > > Fiona, > > > > How often is your hold targeter running? Have you verified that it > > is i

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Fwd: Hold alerts problem

2013-01-10 Thread Sharp, Chris
Fiona, How often is your hold targeter running? Have you verified that it is in fact running and processing hold requests? Chris - Original Message - > From: "Fiona Borthwick" > To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 7:14:21 AM > Subject: Re:

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hi all, I'm not sure the numbering scheme matters that much to most people currently using Evergreen, but I do have a couple of responses to points made so far: > Issues with the current versioning scheme: > * The current scheme is code-centric, complicated and not generally > useful: http://www

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] JSPAC removal blockers, what and which are they?

2012-12-20 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hi Yamil, I don't see any reason to limit voting. I think this poll is meant to be a "finger on the pulse" type measure rather than anything officially binding. One of my GPLS colleagues and I have already voted and she and I probably don't even have the same perspective on the ranking, for i

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Need Help Billing type: Circulation

2012-11-05 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hi Jayaraj, The fines are generated by a utility that is run periodically using Linux's cron service. An crontab example is provided with the Evergreen source code. Here is the version that comes with 2.0.9: http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=Evergreen.git;a=blob;f=Open-ILS/examples/crontab.exam

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Installing and Running Linux Staff Client Version 2.0.9

2012-11-02 Thread Sharp, Chris
On Ubuntu 10.04, you should bet able to do 'sudo apt-get install xulrunner', then copy/rsync the "build" directory from your source directory located at OpenILS/xul/staff_client (or should be after you've built the server) to your client machine. Then you can do 'xulrunner /path/to/build/dir/ap

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen and Apple

2012-10-30 Thread Sharp, Chris
Yes, we have confirmed that Safari 6 on Mac OS X and Safari on iOS 6 do not work with the JSPAC. We are recommending alternative browsers (Firefox or Chrome on Mac OS X, Chrome or Opera on iOS 6) until we're able to upgrade to a version that can run TPAC. - Original Message - > From: "

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] testing

2012-09-27 Thread Sharp, Chris
test - please ignore -- Chris Sharp PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, Georgia 30345 (404) 235-7147 csh...@georgialibraries.org http://pines.georgialibraries.org/

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] pgAdmin usage?

2012-09-21 Thread Sharp, Chris
> Of course, depending on your permissions, you can accidentally change > data in tables, so one should be careful when clicking around too. Which is why it's a great idea to create a read-only user for such connections. - Original Message - > From: "Ben Shum" > To: open-ils-general@lis

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Newsletter, Sept/Oct - Need News Items

2012-09-14 Thread Sharp, Chris
can get an account set up via > Chris Sharp. > > > "Chris Sharp" < csh...@georgialibraries.org >, > > > Lor > > > > > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > Lori Bowen Ayre // > Library Technology Cons

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Weeding Report

2012-09-13 Thread Sharp, Chris
1H1 > Phone: (705) 474-4830 x2821 > Fax: (705) 495-4010 > http://www.cityofnorthbay.ca/library > > -Original Message- > From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org > [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On > Behalf Of Sharp, Chris > Sent: Wedne

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Weeding Report

2012-09-13 Thread Sharp, Chris
or at least > commenting > out, the IDL entries for these views. > > Thomas Berezansky > Merrimack Valley Library Consortium > > > Quoting "Sharp, Chris" : > > > Rebecca, > > > >> I gave it a shot, and got the f

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Weeding Report

2012-09-13 Thread Sharp, Chris
fnorthbay.ca/library > > -Original Message----- > From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org > [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On > Behalf Of Sharp, Chris > Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 8:28 AM > To: Evergreen Discussio

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Weeding Report

2012-09-12 Thread Sharp, Chris
t; > -Original Message- > From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org > [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On > Behalf Of Sharp, Chris > Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 8:28 AM > To: Evergreen Discussion Group > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Weeding

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Weeding Report

2012-09-12 Thread Sharp, Chris
Information Services > North Bay Public Library > 271 Worthington St. E, North Bay ON > P1B 1H1 > Phone: (705) 474-4830 x2821 > Fax: (705) 495-4010 > http://www.cityofnorthbay.ca/library > > -Original Message- > From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org > [

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Weeding Report

2012-09-11 Thread Sharp, Chris
Rebecca, Would you be willing to share the Generated SQL from your Debugging Info? It's possible someone can make a recommendation based on that. Thanks, Chris - Original Message - > From: "Rebecca Larocque" > To: "Open-ILS General Listserv (open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Circulation Statistics

2012-09-11 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hi Chauncey, >From the technical end, if you are willing to share your "Debugging Info" >(available from the reports result screen), particularly the "Generated SQL" >section, several of us could verify that your report is actually counting what >you intend it to. Chris - Original Message

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Relais & Evergreen

2012-07-06 Thread Sharp, Chris
Andrea, So they need an export of your holdings in MARCXML? That can be done with the marc_export command line tool that's included in Evergreen. Here's a link to the script in Evergreen 2.0.5 - note the "help" section for usage instructions: http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=Evergreen.git;a=bl

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] GPLS Server Maintenance - Thursday, June 21, 9:15 pm EDT

2012-06-19 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hello all, The Georgia Public Library Service will be performing some necessary server maintenance on the night of Thursday, June 21, beginning at 9:15 p.m. The following Evergreen Community servers will be affected by this outage: evergreen-ils.org, which also hosts pinesol_green, the #evergr

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How to Export Authority Records

2012-05-24 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hi Arayik, I honestly don't know if this would work with a 1.4.0.4 database, but you might try using the latest version of the built-in MARC export script that comes with more recent versions of Evergreen: http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=Evergreen.git;a=blob_plain;f=Open-ILS/src/support-scripts

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] System Administration Interest Group IRC Meeting, Friday, May 18, 1:00 p.m. EDT - Reminder

2012-05-17 Thread Sharp, Chris
Good afternoon, everyone, This is a reminder that there will be a meeting of community members interested in Evergreen system administration tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. EDT in the #evergreen IRC channel. All are welcome! Please let me know if there's anything you're hoping to specifically cover. Tha

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] System Administration Interest Group IRC Meeting, Friday, May 18, 1:00 p.m. EDT

2012-05-04 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hi again all, There were 11 respondents to the Doodle poll and everyone was free on the afternoon of Friday, May 18th, so I've scheduled a 1:00 p.m. (EDT) meeting. I will construct a loose agenda based on the discussions we've had here on the list, in IRC, and in person at the conference last

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Should we have a systems administrators list?

2012-05-02 Thread Sharp, Chris
8:40:54 AM > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Should we have a systems administrators list? > > Hi, > > On May 2, 2012, at 8:01 AM, Sharp, Chris wrote: > > So I'd like to propose a virtual meeting of people interested in > > Evergreen sys admin issues where we can disc

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Should we have a systems administrators list?

2012-05-02 Thread Sharp, Chris
Good morning all, I think rather than starting with a mailing list that we might want to start with a meeting. This topic has spawned a great discussion and I think there are very valid points on either side of whether or not to create a mailing list. The larger takeaway for me here is that w

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Credit Card Processing in Evergreen 2.1

2012-03-13 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hi all, PINES is investigating the possibilities of implementing internal credit card processing in Evergreen 2.1.1, and before we start any testing runs with our libraries, I wanted to make sure we have a full understanding of what it does and doesn't do. Here are my questions: 1) We are usi

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Download link for Evergreen 1.6.1.9 is missing

2012-02-13 Thread Sharp, Chris
Nathanael, Evergreen 1.6.1.9 was immediately superseded by Evegreen 1.6.1.9a to address a critical security flaw. I have corrected the link to refer and point to that version and its md5 checksum. Thanks for pointing that out! Chris - Original Message - > From: "Nathanael Schilling"

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2, 1, 1 server cannot provide pages for 2.1.1 client

2012-01-11 Thread Sharp, Chris
Can you paste it in a pastebin and share the link (better than attachment anyway for archival reasons)? http://paste.lisp.org/ Hope that helps, Chris - Original Message - > From: "Jim Bond-Harris" > To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org > Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 4:4

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Opening the OPAC

2012-01-03 Thread Sharp, Chris
Also, please note that if you're wanting each library's in-house OPACs to default to that location, see the "(OPTIONAL) IP Redirection" section here: http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/1.6/draft/html/serversideinstallation.html#serversideinstallation-postinstallation (docs are for 1.6, but that featu

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] What is the best OS for installing Evergreen-ILS?

2011-11-29 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hi Wolf, > I understand Evergreen has been tested on Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and RHEL. > From your experience > what are the hurdles or the differences in using one over another. Presume > equal skill in all of > these Distros. Are there other distros that work easier, more dependably? > Have

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] evergreen-ils.org and git.evergreen-ils.org outage

2011-11-01 Thread Sharp, Chris
These services have now been restored. Sorry for any inconvenience the outage may have caused. Thanks again, Chris - Original Message - > From: "Chris Sharp" > To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" > , "Evergreen Development > Discussion List" > > Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2011 6:27:10

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] evergreen-ils.org and git.evergreen-ils.org outage

2011-11-01 Thread Sharp, Chris
Good morning all, There is a problem with the virtual machine host that runs the evergreen-ils.org, git.evergreen-ils.org, and list.evergreen-ils.org servers. Please bear with us at GPLS as we work to get service restored. I will update these lists as soon as that happens. Thank you, Chris

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2013 Evergreen International Conference Site Selection

2011-10-11 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hello all, It is with great excitement that we announce the 2013 Evergreen Conference Site Selection Committee's choice of host for the 2013 conference. We have gladly selected the team of SITKA and the King County (WA) Library System who have offered to jointly host the conference in Vancouve

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Possible Password Stealing Virus on Google's Chrome Website?

2011-09-30 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hi Gary, - Original Message - > From: "Gary Bay" > To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org > Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 12:21:29 PM > Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Possible Password Stealing Virus on Google's > Chrome Website? > Hello Everyone, > > > > I am new to the Everg

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Library Settings

2011-09-30 Thread Sharp, Chris
Tim, Before PINES moved to Evergreen 1.4 in 2009, the "consortium-level" settings were set in a separate interface from the Library Settings Editor (or required configuration file changes on the server). Until then, it was very clear what tasks the library could do and which were left to the P

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] community support policy for Evergreen releases?

2011-09-23 Thread Sharp, Chris
>From the large consortium administration perspective, it's hard to plan around >how quickly the development team might be ready to release. Under the current >policy, 1.6.1.X, to which PINES migrated in April, will be EOL-ed. We plan an >upgrade to something in the 2.X series this fall, so th

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Next community meeting?

2011-09-14 Thread Sharp, Chris
+1 - Original Message - > From: "Kathy Lussier" > To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" > Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 8:07:08 AM > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Next community meeting? > +1 to September 23. > > - > Kathy L

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Site Selection Committee now accepting proposal submissions - FINAL DAY

2011-08-01 Thread Sharp, Chris
Good morning all, This is just a reminder that today at 5:00 p.m. EDT is the deadline for acceptance of proposals to host the 2013 Evergreen International Conference. Please see below for details. Thanks!! Chris - Original Message - > From: "Chris Sharp" > To: "Evergreen Discussion

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] EG 2013 Site Selection Committee now accepting proposal submissions - new deadline - August 1, 5:00 p.m. EDT

2011-07-26 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hello again, all, The EG2013 site selection committee is still accepting proposals from potential hosts. Please note that since July 31st falls on a Sunday, we have extended the deadline to Monday, August 1st at 5:00 p.m. EDT. Please follow the guidelines for submission referenced below and s

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] EG 2013 Site Selection Committee now accepting proposal submissions

2011-07-12 Thread Sharp, Chris
Good afternoon, everyone, The site selection committee for the 2013 Evergreen International Conference is now accepting proposals from candidate locations. We will be evaluating sites based on the criteria listed under item #3 on this page: http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=eg09:confere

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Receipt Templates Quirkiness in 2.0.6

2011-06-30 Thread Sharp, Chris
> We were wondering if anyone else on 2.0.6 has experienced where custom > receipt templates that have been imported and saved locally, randomly > reset themselves back to the Evergreen receipt defaults without > actually clicking the “Default” button. If so what did you do to > resolve this issue.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Scheduling next Community meeting (suggested: Friday, July 8 @ 2:00 PM Canada/Eastern)?

2011-06-27 Thread Sharp, Chris
+1 - Original Message - > From: "Galen Charlton" > To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" > Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 11:13:34 AM > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Scheduling next Community meeting (suggested: > Friday, July 8 @ 2:00 PM > Canada/Eastern)? > Hi, > > > So, tentatively, I wou

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2013 Evergreen International Conference Site Selection Committee - call for volunteers

2011-06-21 Thread Sharp, Chris
Good Morning everyone, The 2013 Evergreen International Conference Site Selection Committee will begin convening this month to review applications for potential venues, and we need a set of 5 to 8 volunteers to help evaluate these proposals. If you have an interest in this process and can spar

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Homebound?

2011-05-27 Thread Sharp, Chris
- Original Message - > From: "Kate Sheehan" > To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 10:27:24 AM > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Homebound? > Even what Dan describes is more functionality than I've ever seen with > Homebound designations. In my experience, it's

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Removing z39.50 servers

2011-05-24 Thread Sharp, Chris
Tim, I agree with Ben that it's likely a cache issue. PINES removes the lines from /openils/conf/opensrf.xml. The patch we apply to do so for Evergreen 1.6.1.8 (which also enables the ZIP code file for autocomplete, FYI) is located here, if you'd like to crib from it: https://github.com/gpls

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Open-ils-general Digest, Vol 59, Issue 28

2011-05-23 Thread Sharp, Chris
- Original Message - > From: "Brenda Boyd" > To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org > Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 12:28:40 PM > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Open-ils-general Digest, Vol 59, Issue 28 > Please remove my email for this listserv. bb...@statelibrary.sc.gov > > Than

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Trouble with installing Opensrf

2011-05-19 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hi there, Can you please try the following commands?: osrf_ctl -l -a stop_all rm /openils/var/run/*.pid osrf_ctl -l -a start_all Then try the opensrf.math test again. If you restart your server without first issuing "osrf_ctl -l -a stop_all", the system will not start cleanly and you have to m

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] documentation sites for Evergreen

2011-05-12 Thread Sharp, Chris
Gordana, To answer: > Pines documentation (but I don't think they've upgraded?): > http://pines.georgialibraries.org/pines-evergreen-documentation We upgraded to Evergreen 1.6.1.8 on April 14 and are working to get our documentation updated, just so you and others are aware. -- Chris Sharp PI

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Receipt printers

2011-05-11 Thread Sharp, Chris
>From one of our knowledge base solutions in the GPLS Helpdesk: Problem Description: "We recently installed new workstations at our Circ desk and the receipt printers are spitting out 12” long receipts, no matter how many books are checked out." Proposed Solution: Some of these steps may be

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] getting brick_ctl.sh to work

2011-05-10 Thread Sharp, Chris
nd drones and so it can't locate > > osrf_ctl.sh on the drones due to failure to connect. > > > > Let us know what you discover Sue. > > > > -- Ben > > > > On May 10, 2011, at 6:59 AM, Sharp, Chris wrote: > > > >> Hi Sue, > >> > >&

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] getting brick_ctl.sh to work

2011-05-10 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hi Sue, > I am having problems getting the brick_ctl.sh script to work. When I > issue the command it asked for the password for opensrf on the drones > and then says it cannot find osrf_ctl.sh. I put the PERL5Lib and PATH > at the beginning of .bashrc file on the drones. I have the /openils on >

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Request for installation help

2011-05-08 Thread Sharp, Chris
John, > Thanks. I've tried again and realised that the problem is with the > security certificate. The installation instruction says that I can > ignore warnings about this when trying to connect, but it seems that > the error halts the process. > > > I enter the server name 192.168.0.5 (the sam

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Request for installation help

2011-05-07 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hi John, > Does this mean that I can choose my own admin-user name and password? > Since this is just a test/experimentation installation, can I set > these to the same as the database user - that is, --user evergreen > --password --hostname localhost --port 5432 --admin-user > evergreen --admin

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