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05:09 pinesol_green Incoming from qatests: Test Success - http://testing.evergreen-ils.org/~live/test.html <http://testing.evergreen-ils.org/~live/test.html>
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08:34 jl- dbs: morning
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09:41 jeff morning!
09:41 kmlussier Good morning jeff!
09:47 Dyrcona GOOOOOD MORNING, EVERGREEN!
09:47 dbs jl-: moin!
09:47 * dbs shaved with hot water this morning, thanks
09:56 Dyrcona So, if I am reading things correctly, I can stop patrons from placing new holds for pickup at a given location, and I can stop a location's copies from filling holds.
09:56 Dyrcona However, what I can't do is stop already placed holds from being targeted for fulfillment, without freezing them.
09:58 Dyrcona And if I do freeze them, the patron can just unfreeze them.
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10:24 jl- or scope" -- I'm not sure because both vufind and apache solr are both closely related to library services
10:24 jl- wops
10:25 jl- beg your pardon
10:25 Dyrcona jl-: It happens. :)
10:25 jl- Dyrcona: :)
10:33 kmlussier I have a question about sending along a PO name via EDI. I'm looking at the docs at http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.6/_ordering.html (written by me), and they say I need to use an xpath of //*[@tag="962"]/*[@code="p"]
10:34 kmlussier But in looking at one of our production systems where this is working, the xpath is //*[@tag="962"][1]/*[@code="p"][1]
10:34 kmlussier Are those bracketed 1's required in the xpath?
10:35 Dyrcona kmlussier: It returns the first matching element if more than 1 match, so yes, they might be needed.
10:36 kmlussier Dyrcona++ Thanks!
10:36 * kmlussier will add that change to her documentation to-do list.
10:41 Dyrcona You should be able to  replace the first * with datafield and the second with subfield to get a more precise XPath expression that still works.
10:48 kmlussier Dyrcona: OK, thanks. I think I got the first example from notes in the original LP bug
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11:32 RoganH my launchpad fu is failing me.  Isn't there a bug about copy location searching not working at the system org unit level?
11:32 kmlussier RoganH: I haven't seen a bug report on that, but I can confirm it's a problem. :)
11:33 RoganH kmlussier: same here so I assumed there was a bug.  I'll try again and if I can't find it I'll file it.
11:33 kmlussier RoganH: I just went through a year's worth of LP bugs last week, so most of them are fresh in my memory.
11:33 RoganH kmlussier: I'll just file it then.
11:39 Dyrcona Sometimes, when I can't find a bug the normal way, I try creating a new bug, and that often finds the bug I was looking for in the first place with its duplicate search.
11:51 berick RoganH: kmlussier: that's by design.  i'll comment in the ticket..
11:52 RoganH I need to wishlist it then.
11:52 * kmlussier suspects it has something to do with branches not all owning the same copy locations.
11:55 kmlussier RoganH: Your message to the list is confusing me. At first, it looks like you picked the week of September 22, but then you put out Oct.2 and 3 as the dates.
11:56 RoganH That's because it is confusing.  I got interrupted while typing and it suffered for it.  Hold on.
11:57 kmlussier @coffee RoganH
11:57 * pinesol_green brews and pours a cup of Nicaraguan Maragogipe Light Roast, and sends it sliding down the bar to RoganH
11:58 RoganH It's rainy here, I could use coffee.  I always get sleepy with weather like this.
12:04 jboyer-isl I suppose it’s too much to hope for that the most popular week was mistyped. :) I guess I get to visit SC twice in 3 weeks.
12:05 RoganH Where are you headed the second (or first) time?
12:06 berick RoganH: what's the name of your town, again?  checking on driving time from Durham...
12:06 jboyer-isl I’ll be at Murrell’s Inlet the 4th-11th.
12:06 jboyer-isl October 4th-11th, that is.
12:06 RoganH berick: Rock Hill
12:06 berick ah, yes, thanks
12:07 kmlussier Oh good. I can attend the hack-a-way without missing my kids' school open houses like I did last year. A win for me! :)
12:07 kmlussier RoganH++
12:07 RoganH jobyer-isl: that's a fairly popular vacation spot but I have to admit I've never been there
12:08 RoganH kmlussier: yay!
12:08 jboyer-isl I’ve been there and to Garden City a few times, but the off-season is definitely the way to go.
12:11 * Dyrcona spent the night in Fort Mill on the way home during the vacation in June.
12:12 RoganH Dyrcona : you were a couple miles up the road then.
12:12 Dyrcona Yep.
12:19 RoganH berick: I'm trying to understand the issue you describe in the ticket and it may be because our use case is very different that I'm not groking something.
12:21 RoganH berick: why would you get multiple copy locations with the same name, from child org units?
12:22 jboyer-isl RoganH: It depends on how your locations are set up initially. We have some libs where every location is system-owned (my favorite style) and some systems where every location is branch-owed, regardless of name.
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12:22 jboyer-isl And since they can’t be deleted… :(
12:24 RoganH jboyer-isl: in our scenario we're all system based libraries and even where we have a single library we put it under a system to keep it consistent which has been long term very useful
12:25 jboyer-isl Oh, we have systems for single-location libs, it’s just that their systems don’t own their locations. It sounds like this set up would work fine for your system, but some of us would have rather a mess.
12:26 RoganH That sounds really awkward.
12:26 jboyer-isl If there was a single settting that just specified the minimum depth that the feature would operate at, that would likely keep things moving smoothly everywhere. (you could set it to 1, we could set it to 2, etc.)
12:27 jboyer-isl RoganH: A bit! It is also from before my time. :/
12:27 RoganH Yeah, I was just thinking along those same lines.
12:29 jboyer-isl I wonder if it should be global vs and OUS though. I would lean toward global but I don’t have a very strong argument either way.
12:30 RoganH jboyer-isl : someone will have a scenario that needs YAOUS.  That's why I preface most of my discussions with "this is how I'm looking at it for SCLENDS" because there is so much diversity.
12:32 kmlussier Being able to specify a depth would be nice. I know we have people who want to see it at the system level, but I'm not so sure about the consortium level.
12:33 kmlussier We have another problem with the copy location filter. We have on consortium that never uses that top "Stacks" copy location because all of their libraries use copy locations owned at the system level.
12:34 kmlussier But the Stacks copy location shows up in the limiter, even though nobody is using it. It would be nice if there were a way to set a copy location to not display in the dropdown.
12:34 * kmlussier should probably file a wishlist bug on that one.
12:35 RoganH kmlussier: agreed. I can see a use within SCLENDS for that as well with our "to a good home" consortium level location
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14:00 tspindler I was wondering if I could poke some people to take a look at this fix from dpearl https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/827442
14:00 pinesol_green Launchpad bug 827442 in Evergreen 2.6 "Z39.50 will split the total cap between locations when multiple locations selected. " (affected: 2, heat: 10) [Low,Confirmed]
14:01 kmlussier Anyone else want to fill out the July dev meeting poll? http://doodle.com/2iqbmun3f7daeedg It's looking like 4 p.m. EDT next Monday is the best time slot so far.
14:02 kmlussier bshum: ^^ You should probably be there. :)
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14:36 bshum kmlussier++ # indeed.
14:37 kmlussier bshum: Thanks!
14:40 kmlussier Anyone else want to put in their available times before we set a dev meeting time? jeff? dbs? tsbere? gmcharlt?  http://doodle.com/2iqbmun3f7daeedg
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14:44 jeff kmlussier++ done
14:44 kmlussier Thank you jeff!
14:44 asimon * Where would I enter the system administrator email address referenced in the line "Please contact the system administrator, [no address given] and inform them ..." on the Internal Server Error screen?
14:46 Dyrcona asimon: Mostly likely in the Apache configuration.
14:46 jeff asimon: an Apache ServerAdmin directive.
14:46 asimon Dyrcona: TY
14:46 jeff asimon: see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/​2.2/mod/core.html#serveradmin
14:47 asimon jeff: TY
14:47 jeff it can be set at the server or virtualhost level. often in close proximity to ServerName/ServerAlias
14:57 Dyrcona Y'know, I'm having a hard guessing things that MVLC, C/W MARS, and NOBLE won't have many copies in common.
14:57 Dyrcona hard time that is.
14:58 * kmlussier needs more coffee.
14:59 kmlussier Dyronca: You're trying to think of a title that the three networks don't have in common?
14:59 Dyrcona Well, an author title, whatever, where 1 might have a lot of stuff and the others not so much.
15:00 Dyrcona I'm trying to test dpearl's z39.50 branch.
15:00 Dyrcona I either get hundreds of things or nothing.
15:00 kmlussier I would shoot for a title that an academic might own.
15:01 Dyrcona good idea!
15:02 Dyrcona Something by Slavoj Zizek, maybe.
15:03 Dyrcona Well, that isn't good.
15:03 Dyrcona 4 results all from MVLC.
15:03 Dyrcona Bet the accented Z isn't working...
15:03 kmlussier If I do a search in the C/W MARS catalog, I get a bunch.
15:04 Dyrcona I'm going over z39.50.
15:04 Dyrcona I may try a title instead of the author.
15:05 Dyrcona Well, z39.50 really mangles the UTF-8.
15:06 Dyrcona I think I've seen that before, because its going through evergreen and yaz, its getting double decoded or rencoded or something like that.
15:06 tspindler Thanks for looking at this Dyrcona, Janet tested it before on our end
15:06 Dyrcona tspindler: I'm just trying to find something that resembles the original problem.
15:07 Dyrcona The changes look good to me, and I get well distributed results with them.
15:08 Dyrcona One thing that has changed for me with the code is before I loaded the branch when I had 400 or so hits for 'harry potter' as title, I got 12 results in the window, with 4 from each consortium.
15:09 Dyrcona No, I get just 10, with 3 from c/w mars, 3 from native evergreen catalog, and 4 from noble.
15:09 Dyrcona It seems to like NOBLE for some reason. :)
15:09 bshum FYI, assuming that berick's patch for make_release works for me, I'd like to cut off stuff for alpha after that point to roll it out.  When I do I'll set the next milestone for beta.
15:11 Dyrcona bshum: gotcha.
15:12 Dyrcona I can't search z39.50 successfully with utf-8 characters, and without them, I don't find anything remote for Slavoj Žižek.
15:12 bshum So anything anyone wants to push before I wrap up later tonight, please feel free.
15:12 Dyrcona I don't think that is related to dpearl's code, though.
15:12 Dyrcona Slavoj Zizek doesn't work either.
15:13 * jeff watches a report fill, waits for the java exception
15:15 dbs Dyrcona: maybe try searching SRU directly, first, to take the yaz portion of the toolchain out of the debugging process?
15:15 Dyrcona jeff: jcamins wants to rewrite Koha in JAVA. Maybe we should rewrite Evergreen in JAVA, too?
15:15 dbs If SRU works, then we can focus on the az config :)
15:16 Dyrcona dbs: I'm making screen shots for now. I'll try searching the remote catalogs with SRU after.
15:16 jcamins Dyrcona: for a project as large as Evergreen, it would have to be *JAVA!*
15:16 Dyrcona The search works fine on the local catalog.
15:17 Dyrcona jcamins: One amazing trick to improve your checkin performance!
15:19 jeff oh hey. 200+ page report with barcodes was more than this poor VM could handle. it wasn't an error in my report, it was OOM-killed. :-)
15:19 Dyrcona OOM is a dangerous dude. ;)
15:19 jeff OOM vs JVM
15:20 jeff grr. occasionally unless i've disabled the built-in chrome pdf viewer, I find myself unable to save a PDF that I am viewing.
15:21 jeff i suspect it may have to do with cache-related headers. not certain.
15:23 Dyrcona Now, to run through some documentation and remember how to craft a SRU query.
15:26 Dyrcona Sorry, mmorgan, et. al.
15:26 Dyrcona Got an internal server error.
15:27 jcamins Dyrcona: yeah!
15:28 Dyrcona And on my server, too.
15:28 Dyrcona [Mon Jul 21 15:27:26.134547 2014] [perl:error] [pid 6639] [client 10.0.5.100:47574] Can't call method "toEvergreen" on an undefined value at /usr/local/share/perl/5.18​.2/OpenILS/WWW/SuperCat.pm line 1910.\n
15:29 dbs http://example.com/opac/extras/sru/CON​S/holdings?version=1.1&amp;operation=s​earchRetrieve&amp;query=eg.author=smit
15:29 dbs (substitute hostname, CONS, and smit accordingly)
15:30 Dyrcona dbs: I did this, and it worked: http://jasondev.mvlcstaff.org/opac/extras/sru?ve​rsion=1.1&amp;operation=searchRetrieve&amp;query​=eg.author=%C5%BDi%C5%BEek&amp;maximumRecords=0
15:32 Dyrcona If I do Slavoj+ in the query it blows up.
15:32 Dyrcona That sounds vaguely familiar.
15:33 Dyrcona Not that I am a particular fan of Zizek, I just figured academics would have more of his titles than do publics.
15:35 Dyrcona And it works via SRU with or without the haceks over the Zs.
15:47 bshum berick: I'm contemplating https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1346421 and wondering why we don't just leave the existing function for the barcode the same and just add the "edit" link to spawn the editor.  Rather than having to actually put more words on the screen for the "view"
15:47 pinesol_green Launchpad bug 1346421 in Evergreen "TPAC copy edit links" (affected: 2, heat: 10) [Wishlist,In progress] - Assigned to Bill Erickson (erickson-esilibrary)
15:47 bshum Is it for usability reasons?
15:47 * bshum might just be getting old and stubborn
15:48 kmlussier bshum: Yes, it's for usability reasons. So that you know what the link does.
15:49 berick kmlussier++
15:49 bshum kmlussier: Hmm, I suppose I can work with that.
15:50 * bshum waits to see how it turns out before he passes further judgements :)
15:50 kmlussier I'm still struggling with PO name issues. If we add the PO name as a mappable field in the Provider's attribute definitions, that PO name should be sent as part of the EDI order, right? Or does the PO JEDI template need to be adjusted to do so.
15:53 berick kmlussier: the JEDI template variable INC_PO_NAME has to be turned on
15:54 berick i think it is by default only for ingram
15:56 kmlussier berick: Ok, thanks, I'll look. It was Ingram we had the problem with.
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16:10 kmlussier berick: So to make this work for B&T, we want to add IF VENDOR_BT; INC_PO_NAME = 1; to the JEDI template, right?
16:10 jeff report output with codabar barcodes? check. report doesn't crash when copy barcodes have invalid-for-codabar characters? check. human readable barcodes always present, and can be copied and pasted (not just part of the barcode image)? check. yay progress!
16:18 Dyrcona Whee! Four screenshots on a bug report.
16:18 Dyrcona jeff: Much congratulation! Very report!
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16:30 Dyrcona Does anyone ever get Z39.50 results from biblios.net?
16:30 Dyrcona I don't.
16:32 kmlussier It looks like Monday, July 28, 3 p.m. EDT is the winner. I'll add it to the dev calendar.
16:52 pinesol_green Incoming from qatests: Test Success - http://testing.evergreen-ils.org/~live/test.html <http://testing.evergreen-ils.org/~live/test.html>
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