Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-14 Thread Jason Etheridge
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Kathy Lussier wrote: > I'm curious to know which pop-ups are suppressed using the "Suppress > popup-dialogs during check-in." Is it all pop-ups (including holds and > transit, which we really need to see) or just the missing, lost, and claims > returned pop-ups th

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-14 Thread McCanna, Terran
>> MassLNC had recently come up with some development requirements >> (http://masslnc.cwmars.org/node/2764) that would give Evergreen sites more >> granular control over which alerts display.<< Great! I add my vote to revisiting that once the web client is complete. Terran McCanna PINES Pr

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-14 Thread Holly Brennan
-Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of McCanna, Terran Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 12:56 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not check

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-14 Thread Kathy Lussier
-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org> [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org <mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org>] On Behalf Of McCanna, Terran Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 4:12 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject:

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-14 Thread McCanna, Terran
7138 tmcca...@georgialibraries.org - Original Message - From: "Buzzy Nielsen" To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 4:32:40 PM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in? There are a few popups that we've deemed unnecessary. For i

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-14 Thread Ruth Frasur
ibraries.org [mailto: > open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of McCanna, > Terran > Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 4:12 PM > To: Evergreen Discussion Group > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in? > > Most of those alerts are important, are the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-14 Thread Betty Massie
ailto:tmcca...@georgialibraries.org> - Original Message - From: "Jason Etheridge" mailto:ja...@esilibrary.com>> To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" mailto:open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org>> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 4:02:49 PM Subject: Re: [OPEN-

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-14 Thread Betty Massie
Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in? Most of those alerts are important, are they not? It's been a little while, but when I've covered Circ and done check-ins, I don't recall getting anything that I regarded as an unnecessary alert - I only recall things tha

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-14 Thread Buzzy Nielsen
There are a few popups that we've deemed unnecessary. For instance, there's a pop up that appears at checkin for a "bad status", requiring staff to affirm that they do indeed want to check in the item. Two of those statuses are "Lost" and "Missing". Our staff

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-14 Thread Ruth Frasur
cca...@georgialibraries.org > > - Original Message - > From: "Jason Etheridge" > To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" < > open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org> > Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 4:02:49 PM > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Item

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-14 Thread Jason Etheridge
> It may be time to rethink this behavior from the ground-up, or at the > very least, better document it (I had forgotten all about that library > setting, despite having wrote it, and I bet a lot of folk would love > to have it enabled). For those wanting to experiment, try enabling both the "Sup

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-14 Thread McCanna, Terran
om: "Jason Etheridge" To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 4:02:49 PM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in? > Evergreen has lots of alerts - we tracked them for a week once. One thing I want to mention is that it was an intentional

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-14 Thread Jason Etheridge
> Evergreen has lots of alerts - we tracked them for a week once. One thing I want to mention is that it was an intentional design decision that certain workflows got "halted" by pop-up alerts, and there was a great fear of users accidentally "scanning through" an alert without noticing. It seems

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-14 Thread Vickie Turcotte
Hello all, I usually just lurk here, I learn a lot of things by following the discussions. But I wanted to speak up, as one of those front line EG users (after looking up PEBKAC). Circ is very busy, as already mentioned. They need to go fast to get the work done. Evergreen is slow. There may b

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-11 Thread Ruth Frasur
Rogan definitely wins the internet today. On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Michele Morgan wrote: > Just wanted to add one more thought to this thread. > > Our libraries deal with checkin errors as well. The same was true in our > previous library systems, but we had a LOT of questions about item

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-11 Thread Michele Morgan
Just wanted to add one more thought to this thread. Our libraries deal with checkin errors as well. The same was true in our previous library systems, but we had a LOT of questions about items not getting checked in after we migrated to Evergreen. As others have mentioned, we have encouraged

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-11 Thread Holly Brennan
il 11, 2014 12:23 PM To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in? I think they're enabled by default. If you plug speakers in to the computer or turn up the sound, you should hear them. I will say, however, that the default confirma

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-11 Thread Buzzy Nielsen
I think they're enabled by default. If you plug speakers in to the computer or turn up the sound, you should hear them. I will say, however, that the default confirmation sound for a successful checkin is pretty soft, so our systems staff replaced it with

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-11 Thread Holly Brennan
o:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Buzzy Nielsen Sent: Friday, April 11, 2014 11:23 AM To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in? And Rogan wins the Internet for today. In addition to turning off the sc

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-11 Thread Buzzy Nielsen
And Rogan wins the Internet for today. In addition to turning off the scanner beep, which helps, we've also turned on Evergreen's sounds on checkin workstation. That has also helped quite a bit. Thanks for your comments, folks!

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-11 Thread Holly Brennan
! -Holly From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Buzzy Nielsen Sent: Friday, April 11, 2014 9:02 AM To: Evergreen general listserv Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in? Hi folks, We hav

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-11 Thread Rogan Hamby
>> 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 >> Atlanta, GA 30345 >> 404-235-7138 >> tmcca...@georgialibraries.org >> >> - Original Message - >> From: "Elisabeth Keppler" >> To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" < >> open-ils-general@l

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-11 Thread Ruth Frasur
quot; < > open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org> > Sent: Friday, April 11, 2014 1:59:37 PM > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in? > > > Our cases of check-ins not going through seem to be almost always because > staff was going faster than Evergreen c

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-11 Thread Andrea Buntz Neiman
On 4/11/2014 2:28 PM, McCanna, Terran wrote: Agreed. Staff going too fast and not watching the screen has been an issue with every ILS in every library I've ever worked at, and it's not surprising if they're at the desk because they are so often trying to multitask. Exactly this. Plus, if yo

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-11 Thread McCanna, Terran
ibrary Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, GA 30345 404-235-7138 tmcca...@georgialibraries.org - Original Message - From: "Elisabeth Keppler" To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" Sent: Friday, April 11, 2014 1:59:37 PM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not c

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-11 Thread Elisabeth Keppler
Our cases of check-ins not going through seem to be almost always because staff was going faster than Evergreen could handle. Because of the beep, they think the scan was accepted and aren't always as vigilant about watching the screen as they could be. This has also happened at check-out. The r

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-11 Thread Joan Kranich
...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Tony Bandy Sent: Friday, April 11, 2014 1:07 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in? Hi Buzzy, folks, We’ve experienced this a bit in our consortium as well and can’t seem to really track down a persistent identifying cause….best

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-11 Thread Tony Bandy
April 11, 2014 1:02 PM To: Evergreen general listserv Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in? Hi folks, We have libraries in our consortium that are claiming that Evergreen is not properly checking in items, i.e. that they're scanning the items for check in but the system isn&#

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-11 Thread Jason Etheridge
> We have libraries in our consortium that are claiming that Evergreen is not > properly checking in items, i.e. that they're scanning the items for check > in but the system isn't taking the item off the patron's account. We're > running 2.5.1. Buzzy, is it a case of items lingering in Items Out

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

2014-04-11 Thread Buzzy Nielsen
Hi folks, We have libraries in our consortium that are claiming that Evergreen is not properly checking in items, i.e. that they're scanning the items for check in but the system isn't taking the item off the patron's account. We're running 2.5.1. Personally, I'm pretty sure we've got PEBKAC g