[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

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 -

[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

[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

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 supraja0...@gmail.com To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org

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

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

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 ja...@esilibrary.com To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Friday, September 12, 2014 2:08:38 PM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposed change in Vendor Listing Policy

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

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 rogan.ha...@yclibrary.net 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

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

[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

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] Evergreen Statistical Categories

2014-06-25 Thread Sharp, Chris
-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Statistical Categories I heard about the Flattened MARC Fields at the conference in March but have had no success with them, either at the field or subfield level. Any guidance, Chris? Thanks, Lise On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Sharp, Chris csh

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 libraries

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 deleted, how

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 jgo...@tadl.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org 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

[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

[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

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

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 any

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 jus...@mobiusconsortium.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group

[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] 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 drisc...@noblenet.org To:

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 - Language

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 lori.a...@galecia.com To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Cc: Chris Sharp csh...@georgialibraries.org Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2013 12:57:34 PM

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.

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 b...@evergreener.net To: Evergreen Discussion Group

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

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] 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

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 csn...@columbiasc.edu To:

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

2013-01-10 Thread Sharp, Chris
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 in fact running and processing hold requests? Chris - Original Message - From: Fiona Borthwick

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

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:

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

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 bs...@biblio.org To:

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

2012-09-14 Thread Sharp, Chris
up via Chris Sharp. Chris Sharp csh...@georgialibraries.org , Lor =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // lori.a

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Weeding Report

2012-09-13 Thread Sharp, Chris
...@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 Report Rebecca, If I were you, I would use the Classic Item List source, which contains all the fields you're looking to display (including use

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Weeding Report

2012-09-13 Thread Sharp, Chris
for these views. Thomas Berezansky Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Quoting Sharp, Chris csh...@georgialibraries.org: Rebecca, I gave it a shot, and got the following error message when I went to output: DBD::Pg::st execute failed: ERROR: relation reporter.classic_item_list does

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Weeding Report

2012-09-13 Thread Sharp, Chris
...@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 Report Rebecca, If I were you, I would use the Classic Item List source, which contains all the fields you're looking

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Weeding Report

2012-09-12 Thread Sharp, Chris
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: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 3:50 PM To: Evergreen Discussion

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Weeding Report

2012-09-12 Thread Sharp, Chris
-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 Report Rebecca, If I were you, I would use the Classic Item List source, which contains all

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] 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 rebecca.laroc...@cityofnorthbay.ca To: Open-ILS General Listserv

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:

[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

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:

[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.

[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
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

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

2012-05-02 Thread Sharp, Chris
: [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 discuss the best way to address these newfound needs. My assumption

[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

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 jbondhar...@rosaryhs.com To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Wednesday,

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

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 you

[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

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 csh...@georgialibraries.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org, Evergreen Development

[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

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

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 the

[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

[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:

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 g...@esilibrary.com To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org 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

[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

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Homebound?

2011-05-27 Thread Sharp, Chris
- Original Message - From: Kate Sheehan kshee...@biblio.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org 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

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:

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

2011-05-23 Thread Sharp, Chris
- Original Message - From: Brenda Boyd bb...@statelibrary.sc.gov 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.

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

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

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
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 a

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 same

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 my password --hostname localhost --port 5432 --admin-user evergreen

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Open-ILS email list archives - an unusual request

2011-04-05 Thread Sharp, Chris
Good morning, Evergreen Community folks, Apologies for the long-winded email here. I co-administer the Open-ILS lists and I received a request from a former list member to delete an archived message. This particular person discovered that a Google search of her/his name brings up an archived

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Open-ILS email list archives - an unusual request

2011-04-05 Thread Sharp, Chris
As far as what we *can* do goes, we can edit our own copy of the archived message(s), but that would not affect the other copies of the message that exist on the web. I don't *think* there's an option to strip names from archived messages, but I probably wouldn't want it to work that way

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Open-ILS email list archives - an unusual request

2011-04-05 Thread Sharp, Chris
, On Apr 5, 2011, at 9:22 AM, Sharp, Chris wrote: 1) My first concern is whether it should be obvious that the Open-ILS lists are public, that that it's obvious what public means. In our case it means that whatever you send to our lists is received by all list subscribers and is archived on our

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Open-ILS email list archives - an unusual request

2011-04-05 Thread Sharp, Chris
- Original Message - From: Niles Ingalls nil...@zionsville.lib.in.us To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2011 1:26:25 PM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Open-ILS email list archives - an unusual request Unless you are

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] question about background color in the staff client (1.6.1.7)

2011-03-25 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hi all, I've been running 1.6.X.X on a test server for the past few months, and this has always been a details schmetails issue while testing functionality, but now that we're close to going live, and any little change would cause possible confusion, I'd like to know how this is controlled.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] User Surveys Question

2011-03-21 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hi Bronwyn, PINES uses the survey feature primarily to record voter registration information by recording each patron's response to Would you like to register to vote today? and reporting those responses to the Georgia Secretary of State's office (as required by state law). Libraries out

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Show the Last Few Circulations / Age Overdue Circs

2011-03-16 Thread Sharp, Chris
Geoff, I have got two easy questions that I can't find a definitive answer for, maybe someone out there has a quick answer for us: 1. On the Staff/Client side of Evergreen in Item Status when the Show the Last Few Circulations function is selected what are the definitions of the colored

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Show the Last Few Circulations / Age Overdue Circs

2011-03-16 Thread Sharp, Chris
Sorry - my attempt to paste via the keyboard sent the message somehow :-/ Here is the link to the old color coding diagram: http://open-ils.org/documentation/color_coding/ - Original Message - From: Chris Sharp csh...@georgialibraries.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Hashtag

2011-03-16 Thread Sharp, Chris
I'm afraid I'm reading #egils as e-gills. eeevil or not ;-), I vote for #evgils, because it reads EVerGreen ILS to me. Just my two cents! Chris - Original Message - From: Grace Dunbar gdun...@esilibrary.com To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Wednesday, March 16,

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] client download for 2.0.2

2011-03-15 Thread Sharp, Chris
http://www.open-ils.org/downloads/evergreen-setup-rel_2_0_2.exe should be a link to the 2.0.2 staff client. The downloads page is only showing the latest staff client package link, unlike the 1.6.1.x section of the page which has links to older versions of 1.6.1.x. Perhaps this should be

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OPAC: Craftsman skin

2011-03-09 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hi Tara, I'm wondering if the craftsman skin is being maintained. I recall Equinox contracted another company to make it (for GPLS?) but I don't see it used on production at GPLS (though I'm not sure if each library has a custom skin). Just to clarify, the Craftsman skin was funded by GPLS

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] DIG version of Acq docs (was: Acquisitions and Serials Documentation Drafts Now Available)

2011-03-06 Thread Sharp, Chris
- Original Message - From: Lori Ayre loria...@gmail.com To: Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net Cc: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org, Lori Bowen Ayre lori.a...@galecia.com, open-ils-documentat...@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Sunday, March 6, 2011

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Acquisitions and Serials Documentation Drafts Now Available

2011-03-04 Thread Sharp, Chris
Grace - yes this was an oversight - PINES staff are in meetings today, but I will add the other document ASAP. Thanks for pointing this out! - Original Message - From: Grace Dunbar gdun...@esilibrary.com To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Friday, 4 March, 2011

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Acquisitions and Serials Documentation Drafts Now Available

2011-03-04 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hi all, Sorry again about overlooking the workflows document when posting. I have added MS Word 97-2003 versions of each document to the Dokuwiki start page: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=start Please let me know if there are more questions or concerns. Thanks, Chris -

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] documentation for acquisitions

2011-03-01 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hi Tara, I've heard that GLPS (?) is working on documentation for 2.0 acquisitions. GPLS has contracted with Equinox Software to produce documentation for Evergreen 2.0 serials and acquisitions. I'm messing about with it and it looks super flexible and that it will support various

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Using an Ubuntu (or KTL) server for Evergreen

2011-02-17 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hi Don, At my library, I've been pushing for many months to get an Evergreen installation up and running, so that we can give it a test drive. At one point we were told that a dedicated server would become available this month, but a new use has been found for it. Now the proposal from our

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Need help with reporting process

2011-02-16 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hi Beth, This is my first post as the system manager of a newly migrated Evergreen consortium. We had to do a reboot of all Evergreen servers last week and ever since then I've been unable to see our saved report templates and reports. I've restarted the clark kent process on what I thought

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Permission Groups

2011-02-15 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hey Tim, The goal is to prevent library staff from creating, deleting, editing network staff accounts and academic patron records. I have listed below my setup. However, when I give the permission group_application.user.patron.publics and remove the permission group_application.user the

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