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08:08 kmlussier Good morning!
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09:29 jeff good morning! :-)
09:31 mmorgan Good Morning!
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10:01 Dyrcona kmlussier: Just a warning: I'm going to load the branch from lp 1347774 on my dev machine this morning. You shouldn't notice, but you might get logged out if you're doing anything at the time.
10:01 pinesol_green Launchpad bug 1347774 in Evergreen "Backend logic has leaked into the TPAC (and friends)" (affected: 2, heat: 12) [Wishlist,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1347774
10:04 kmlussier Dyrcona: OK, thanks.
10:05 Dyrcona kmlussier: Actually, this requires a recompile of C code, and I pulled in the latest commit to master, so I'll just do my usual rebuild script which will make a new client.
10:08 Dyrcona Not good: * timed out waiting on open-ils.storage pid=16024 to die
10:08 Dyrcona kmlussier: Were you doing something?
10:09 kmlussier Dyrcona: No, I logged out as soon as you said you were loading the branch. I wasn't doing anything there anyway. I just have a tendency to leave the client open when I'm working on something else.
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10:12 Dyrcona OK. I also built so you won't need to download a new client after all.
10:15 Dyrcona Everything should be running again, if there's anything else you wanted to look at.
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10:29 kmlussier eeevil: Thanks for that clarification. I don't think I put the correct indicator information in the docs, so I'll have to update those.
10:30 eeevil kmlussier: ah, I see. I default to the code :)
10:30 eeevil kmlussier: if there's more info you need that you think I might be able to dig up quickly, just let me know
10:31 kmlussier Is there a reason why we accept an ind1 value of 1 in located URI's and not in the other 856 fields?
10:33 kmlussier If it was just an oversight. I would be willing to make a branch to make the unadorned 856 links consistent with Located URI's.
10:34 eeevil kmlussier: the tpac code was just developed separately, and with more iteration
10:35 eeevil when I did the LURI code I didn't see any reason to not allow FTP urls
10:41 kmlussier Yeah, I don't know that there are many cases where FTP urls would be used in the non-located 856 tags, but I'm a big fan of making things consistent to minimize confusion.
11:07 mmorgan Is UPDATE_HOLD the only permission that applies when transferring a hold from one title to another?
11:11 * tsbere isn't even sure how to move a hold from one title to another without merging things
11:12 mmorgan "Actions for this record" allows marking a bib as the transfer destination.
11:12 tsbere Huh. That sounds dangerous in a parts world.
11:12 mmorgan For certain!
11:13 mmorgan Actions for this record also has "Transfer all title level holds"
11:13 jeff iirc, it'll also happily move bibs that are on-shelf, and reset/retarget them.
11:13 jeff i dug into that a bit ago, but i don't remember if i found something bugworthy or if it ended up being a manual retargeting.
11:13 * jeff makes a note to check notes :P
11:14 mmorgan problem is "Actions for selected hold" has "transfer to marked title", but more than once users have transferred all intending to transfer only some.
11:14 mmorgan much retargeting ensues ...
11:15 kmlussier mmorgan: Is that because they select too many holds from "Actions for selected holds" or because they are using the "Transfer all title level holds" option on the bib record?
11:15 mmorgan kmlussier: They are choosing the wrong option under the record action, instead of the hold action.
11:16 mmorgan the clicks are similar, and for users that do it often, it can happen.
11:16 mmorgan they dutifully select the holds they want to move, but then just click the wrong "actions" button and choose the similar sounding function.
11:16 kmlussier I'm also wondering what the use case is for transferring *all* title level holds from one record to another. I can see it being useful in the case of bib record merges, but since holds are automatially transferred during a record merge, I'm not seeing when it would be desired.
11:18 mmorgan good question. I am not sure I can think of one either.
11:18 tsbere kmlussier: "Ooops, this was supposed to be flagged as a non-holdable electronic resource with no copies, lets move the holds over to the record for the *book*"
11:19 mmorgan tsbere: but you could certainly do that by selecting the holds and transferring the selected ones.
11:27 jboyer-isl jeff: I thought it bugworthy in bug 1312824
11:27 pinesol_green Launchpad bug 1312824 in Evergreen "open-ils.circ.hold.change_title(.specific_holds) APIs cancel previously captured holds at other locations, confusing staff and patrons" (affected: 2, heat: 10) [Medium,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1312824 - Assigned to Jeff Godin (jgodin)
11:28 jboyer-isl I'm not certain if my proposed fix was the best way to do it, but we've been humming along fine with it here for some time.
11:30 jeff jboyer-isl: ah! thanks for the reminder! in my notes, I'm sure I would have found "assigned bug to self for fixing" :-)
11:31 csharp so apparently I *can* run authority imports that run into the workday without issue ;-)
11:31 csharp started 2 files of 10K auth records last night at around 9:30 that are still running
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11:33 hopkinsju Based on the documentation I would think that setting 'Show evening_phone field on patron registration' true would show the field on the patron self registration form. This doesn't seem to be the case. Am I missing something?
11:33 hopkinsju (Repost from yesterday... Hopefully I'm not in the middle of another meeting)
11:33 csharp hopkinsju: STOP INTERRUPTING ME!
11:33 mmorgan jboyer-isl: jeff: That certainly would help matters!
11:34 mmorgan still have the permission question, though...
11:34 csharp hopkinsju: let me test that on our system
11:34 mmorgan hopkinsju: maybe the "Suggest evening_phone..." is what you need? Are you defaulting to suggested fields?
11:36 kmlussier1 I would like to make an argument for removing the "transfer all title level holds" options from the client. It just seems too dangerous, and it's not like there aren't other ways to perform the same operation.
11:36 * kmlussier1 prepares a message to the list.
11:37 * mmorgan agrees with kmlussier
11:37 kmlussier1 mmorgan: Sorry, I don't know the answer your permissions question.
11:38 tsbere mmorgan: My thought was for "why you might want to move them all without a bib merge" that kmlussier couldn't come up with a reason for ;)
11:38 tsbere *how* you move them all is another story entirely
11:38 hopkinsju mmorgan: We are not defaulting to suggested fields. I just set the suggestion of evening_phone - lemme see if that worked.
11:39 hopkinsju That didn't do it.
11:39 tsbere hopkinsju: Those settings are for the staff interface patron registration.
11:39 csharp hopkinsju: I can confirm that show and suggest do not affect the self-reg interface
11:39 * tsbere never rigged anything like that for the self-reg interface
11:39 bshum This came up in IRC another time.
11:40 bshum There's a problem with the DIG docs or the description for the settings I think
11:40 hopkinsju Alright, that's good to know. I think the documentation is incorrect then. Let me re-read - I may have misinterpreted it.
11:40 bshum And we think they ought to be related, but they are not
11:40 * eeevil reads up
11:40 hopkinsju Yeah. http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/de​v/_patron_self_registration.html
11:40 eeevil mmorgan: both manual bib merges and orphaned holds (last copy goes missing) can make use of that action... those are the cases I recall
11:41 * csharp checks out register.tt2
11:42 bshum Yeah, we talked about it on http://irc.evergreen-ils.org/evergreen/2014-05-30
11:44 csharp huh - I've seen that work before, though - where you require/suggest something for the staff client and it affects self-reg
11:44 csharp didn't work for all fields I tested, but some
11:45 * tsbere didn't rig that, but if someone else did...
11:45 tsbere Though it would still likely require that self-reg *have* the field in question
11:45 pastebot "csharp" at 64.57.241.14 pasted "relevant section of register.tt2" (19 lines) at http://paste.evergreen-ils.org/10
11:48 csharp ah - I see how it works now
11:48 csharp if it's not in the list of fields, it's not even processed
11:48 csharp so it's just a matter of learning how to add the desired field to the list
11:49 * csharp assumes "class" there refers to fm_IDL.xml
11:49 tsbere csharp: Which itself will refer to a database table that would likely need to have a field added too
11:50 csharp fortunately, evening_phone *is* already in the fieldmapper file in the stgu class
11:52 csharp hopkinsju: you might try adding '{class => 'stgu',  name = 'evening_phone', label => l('Evening Phone')}' to your list and see if that Just Works™
11:53 csharp hey - it works!
11:53 csharp for me anyway
11:57 hopkinsju csharp: I'll give it a go
12:01 Dyrcona csharp++ # If you don't watch out, you'll be programming before too long. ;)
12:01 csharp heh
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12:11 hopkinsju csharp++ Yep, that worked. Thanks man.
12:11 hopkinsju The library also wanted to add password, within city limits, and something else - but none of those worked.
12:11 hopkinsju Oh, notification preferences.
12:12 hopkinsju I think that we can expect other libraries to ask for fields that are a part of the patron profile to be a part of the self registration process.
12:38 Dyrcona hopkinsju: You know self-registration isn't meant to be final, right? The patron is expected to show up at the library some time to finish the process.
12:39 hopkinsju Dyrcona: Oh yeah, of course. But I assume the reason for collecting as much information as we do is, at least in part, an effort to save the library staff the time and effort of data entry.
12:39 hopkinsju So it stands to reason that we'd want the ability to include any field.
12:41 * hopkinsju gooes to make chili
12:42 * jeff nods
12:42 jeff i've toyed with the idea of feeding user settings and stat cats for staged users
12:50 jcamins jeff: if you feed stat cats, they will follow you home, and you'll have to share your tuna or put up with an endless chorus of complaining. (p > 0.99)
12:52 Dyrcona :)
12:53 gmcharlt @quote add <jcamins> if you feed stat cats, they will follow you home, and you'll have to share your tuna or put up with an endless chorus of complaining. (p > 0.99)
12:53 pinesol_green gmcharlt: The operation succeeded.  Quote #86 added.
12:56 eeevil jeff: statcats are supported to a degree right now, if the names line up ... at least in the db side (or, they were in my first version...)
12:57 Dyrcona @quote random
12:57 pinesol_green Dyrcona: Quote #71: "< rfrasur> I dunno what that means, but I'll bet it's funny." (added by csharp at 09:48 AM, December 13, 2013)
13:03 kmlussier We have 86 quotes? Wow.
13:04 Dyrcona kmlussier: Not exactly, some have been delted.
13:04 Dyrcona deleted, even.
13:05 jeff eeevil: i think i remember that -- that as far as using the stagin api went, it was just a matter of throwing the correct object in (may have required stat cat ids -- dunno)
13:32 csharp hopkinsju: password is also available in that same stgu source
13:32 csharp just FYI
13:32 csharp the others would probably be more involved
13:37 Dyrcona I don't think you want patrons choosing their stat cats anyway.
13:38 Dyrcona At least, not the way that we use them at MVLC.
13:39 eeevil Dyrcona: oh, surely not :)
13:39 Dyrcona But, then again, we don't use them for much.
13:40 eeevil statcat support was for batch imports from a student system originally
13:40 Dyrcona eeevil: Makes sense
13:51 jeff some stat cats make sense for patron entry, some do not.
13:51 jeff very much a local-practices specific thing :-)
14:19 Dyrcona EDI--
14:19 Dyrcona EDI-- # 'cause once is not enough
14:20 kmlussier Dyrcona: Is this the problem with the EDI invoice?
14:21 Dyrcona I have no idea.
14:21 Dyrcona Vendor says its us. I see nothing.
14:21 Dyrcona EDI is just another crap standard.
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15:49 Dyrcona @quote get 4
15:49 pinesol_green Dyrcona: Error: There is no Quote with id #4 in my database for #.
15:52 jeff Invalid indicators "" forced to blanks in record 8185 for tag 440
16:12 Dyrcona berick: Do you think you need more work on the latest branch on lp 1308239 ?
16:12 pinesol_green Launchpad bug 1308239 in Evergreen "Support targeting and fulfillment of precat copy holds (for ILL)" (affected: 2, heat: 10) [Wishlist,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1308239 - Assigned to Bill Erickson (erickson-esilibrary)
16:13 Dyrcona I verified the checkout failure, loaded the new branch, and it resolves that.
16:15 berick Dyrcona: I don't think so.  my change mimics the previous logic, only in a less explody way, so I'm confortable w/ it
16:15 Dyrcona Ok. I just wondered when I saw the status was changed to "in progress."
16:15 berick i have no other code to push for it, either
16:15 berick oh, my bad
16:16 Dyrcona I'll push it to master, then.
16:16 Dyrcona np.
16:16 berick i should have changed that and removed myself
16:16 berick Dyrcona++
16:16 berick thanks
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16:20 pinesol_green [evergreen|Bill Erickson] LP#1308239 precat holds fulfillment logic repair - <http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=​Evergreen.git;a=commit;h=e46f332>
16:44 Dyrcona kmlussier++
16:45 Dyrcona I meant to ask about sandboxes in #koha today, but got busy with other things.
16:45 Dyrcona I also want to do a little research on my own first.
16:45 kmlussier EDI? :)
16:47 Dyrcona EDI among other things.
17:15 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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22:35 * jeff yawns
22:40 gmcharlt wake up!

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