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05:04 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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08:59 remingtron bshum: are you running the web client? I'm wondering what demo servers to recommend for Doc Day this Friday
08:59 remingtron looks like webby still works at the moment
09:00 remingtron but that seems to be unstable during active development
09:00 kmlussier remingtron: I think webby is the best bet. From what graced has told me, it's being updated with the latest fixes that haven't been pushed into master yet.
09:01 remingtron kmlussier: great, thanks for that info
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09:01 kmlussier Of course, it might not be a bad idea to verify with the ESI folks that it should be somewhat stable on Friday. :)
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09:06 graced remingtron and kmlussier: this is true - there are many fixes on webby.
09:06 graced I hope to be sending out an email shortly detailing them.
09:06 graced And I'll make sure we have some stability on Friday.
09:06 remingtron graced: many thanks!
09:06 kmlussier graced++ Thanks!
09:07 * graced goes back to detailing the bug fixes
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11:36 LauraK Good morning, Everyone
11:37 kmlussier LauraK: Good morning!
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11:42 LauraK We're looking to replace our spine label printer. We were using a dymo 450 turbo. We're finding it unreliable.
11:46 RoganH LauraK: Really?  We use those pretty commonly in SCLENDS and have found them pretty reliable.
11:46 kmlussier LauraK: Have you checked the archives from the general mailing list for recommendations? It seems like this question has been raised from time to time.
11:46 RoganH It seems to come up about once a year or so.
11:46 kmlussier Of course, I think the dymo 450 is one that has often been recommended. :)
11:47 LauraK The hardware has broken down, the lever has broken and the machine has jammed several times.
11:47 RoganH I've used both that one and the turbo. Honestly, I haven't seen a significant difference since the waiting on the printing is rarely the slowdown in our workflows.
11:47 RoganH LauraK: How long as it been in use?  Heavy usage?
11:47 LauraK We're looking at getting a brother QL-700. it's continuous feed. Have any of you used it before?
11:48 RoganH Not I said the little red hen.
11:51 kmlussier LauraK: If you don't get a response here, you might want to try the catalogers list or the general list. There are a few catalogers in here - mllewell being one of them. But there aren't many.
11:52 RoganH I sometimes wear a cataloging hat but at that point security intervention teams are usually on their way.
11:53 kmlussier Ha ha
11:53 kmlussier RoganH: I would say you probably know more about cataloging than you admit.
11:55 LauraK Thanks for the suggestion, I'll fire off an email.
11:55 RoganH kmlussier: I'm a decent cataloger in theory but I've been involved enough in the workflows to appreciate how the daily skills are their own expertise.
11:56 LauraK Have a great day. :) Thanks again.
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12:36 csharp @weather Savannah, GA
12:36 pinesol_green csharp: The current temperature in Savannah, Georgia is 69.8°F (10:53 AM EST on December 02, 2014). Conditions: Mostly Cloudy. Humidity: 68%. Dew Point: 57.2°F. Pressure: 30.34 in 1027 hPa (Falling).
12:36 RoganH @weather rock hill, sc
12:36 pinesol_green RoganH: The current temperature in Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina is 53.6°F (12:36 PM EST on December 02, 2014). Conditions: Haze. Humidity: 80%. Dew Point: 48.2°F. Pressure: 30.38 in 1028 hPa (Falling).
12:37 RoganH We had to open our windows last night it was so warm.
12:37 kmlussier We were warm yesterday, but the temp dropped today.
12:37 kmlussier @weather seekonk, ma
12:37 pinesol_green kmlussier: The current temperature in Rumford, East Providence, Rhode Island is 37.9°F (12:35 PM EST on December 02, 2014). Conditions: Overcast. Humidity: 65%. Dew Point: 26.6°F. Windchill: 33.8°F. Pressure: 30.66 in 1038 hPa (Falling).
12:37 RoganH Some places in SC were turning on air conditioning yesterday.
12:37 mrpeters @hate csharp
12:37 pinesol_green mrpeters: The operation succeeded.  mrpeters hates csharp.
12:38 mrpeters @weather 46060
12:38 pinesol_green mrpeters: The current temperature in Downtown Noblesville, Noblesville, Indiana is 31.8°F (12:38 PM EST on December 02, 2014). Conditions: Overcast. Humidity: 72%. Dew Point: 23.0°F. Windchill: 32.0°F. Pressure: 30.24 in 1024 hPa (Falling).  Winter Weather Advisory in effect until 1 PM EST this afternoon...
12:39 csharp mrpeters: you want hot and muggy?!
12:39 mrpeters god yes
12:39 mrpeters i would love 70 daily!
12:39 Dyrcona @weather 01845
12:39 pinesol_green Dyrcona: The current temperature in WB1CHU, Lawrence, Massachusetts is 33.1°F (12:39 PM EST on December 02, 2014). Conditions: Overcast. Humidity: 65%. Dew Point: 23.0°F. Windchill: 33.8°F. Pressure: 30.71 in 1040 hPa (Falling).
12:39 mrpeters yeah Dyrcona feels my pain :)
12:39 Dyrcona This isn't painful, yet.
12:40 mrpeters ^^^ so true
12:40 Dyrcona I wear just a sweater in this weather.
12:40 mrpeters heh yeah im in shorts and under armor
12:40 kmlussier Tomorrow we're supposed to be in the 50's again.
12:41 jcamins RoganH: we have to open our windows in the winter too. We're supposed to just turn down the radiator, but you can't turn down the radiator when it's turned on because the knob is behind the burning hot grate.
12:48 mrpeters i know most javascript has been removed from TPAC, but is there still enough around to do some regex validation on field formats?  is there a way built into template toolkit to check for valid format without javascript?
12:48 Dyrcona mrpeters: Without JavaScript, the backend program would have to validate the input.
12:49 Dyrcona And, template toolkit doesn't concern itself with input, just output, really.
12:49 mrpeters this is in reference to self registration -- probably helps to mention that
12:50 mrpeters i notice some "invalid_regex" stuff in opac/register.tt2 but im not sure it is implemented
12:53 RoganH I don't think it is implemented.
12:53 RoganH Or if it is, it has some draw back.  I remember we don't have the validation on our's but I don't remember if it's because it didn't work at all or had some issue.  We use it in the staff client so I know we would have wanted it to be consistent.
12:54 Dyrcona You probably have to enable dojo on those pages, but I'm not sure that would be enough by itself.
12:55 * Dyrcona has never messed with self-registration.
12:59 berick self-reg uses the same rules as patron reg in the staff client
12:59 berick based on org unit settings ui.patron.edit.ac.barcode.regex, ui.patron.edit.au.email.regex, etc.
12:59 mrpeters berick: oh, interesting
13:01 berick well, not barcode, but the rest
13:04 mrpeters ok, cool.  that is interesting, ill take a look at it.  It actually is a custom field (DOB) that I'm concerned with so maybe thats not hooked up to the regex for patron reg in client.
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13:26 mrpeters YAOUS!   Regex for dob field on patron registration :P
13:29 mrpeters or...does template toolkit support a helper like the calendar popup from the in-client patron registration
13:41 berick IIRC, register has no JS, no dojo, no dijit, etc.
13:49 mrpeters yeah, i didnt figure -- and the staff client doesnt have a regex -- so i bet something is translating dates into timestamps along the way
13:49 mrpeters the example MM/DD/YYYY default "helper" is there, but i think you could enter YYYY-MM-DD in that field and it would end up correct in the database
13:50 mrpeters so this may be a non issue, unless you enter some totally bogus value like "i like cupcakes" in the DOB field hah
13:51 mrpeters ew -- registration successful message if i enter cupcakes haha
13:52 berick if they enter an invalid value, it will get stored as-is on the pending user account (free text field), but then it will show as invalid in the patron reg. UI when the staff goes to complete the registration
13:52 mrpeters right right that makes sense
13:53 mrpeters a little local customization to add enough javascript to that page to check that you use the suggested format should be enough then
13:53 mrpeters i was looking at this big picture to see if i could fix it for anyone who uses DOB, but that is an optional YAOUS i beleive
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14:34 RoganH Does anyone else find that when they build a staff client that the ftp connection for the xulrunner doesn't work?  I change it in the makefile to https and it's fine but wondered if it's something weird on my end.
14:37 bshum RoganH: I find that happens from time to time
14:37 bshum It's usually Mozilla doing some server tinkering on their end of things.
14:37 bshum I often wonder if given that we freeze xulrunner at 14, whether we should host it somewhere ourselves
14:37 RoganH bshum: not a big deal but I'm writing instructions for someone else and wondering if I should broach it in the instructions
14:38 bshum But then I get thinking about what strain that'd put on lupin
14:38 bshum Or wherever
14:38 kmlussier Lupin?
14:38 RoganH bshum: didn't we distribute it with Evergreen in the tarball once upon a time or am I delusional?
14:39 bshum kmlussier: That's the web server we run evergreen-ils.org
14:39 kmlussier bshum: For some reason I had been thinking we moved it.
14:39 bshum RoganH: I think we did once, but removed it to conserve space when the downloads starting getting bigger.
14:40 bshum Someone else may remember the history better than I.
14:40 RoganH bshum: I'm wondering if it would be better to change the makefile to https if that's more reliable (if it is, I'm a small sample size)
14:46 bshum Hmm, might be.
14:47 bshum Not really sure what's recommended or best in that case :)
14:47 RoganH bshum: nor I.  I'm making crap up as I go along.
14:51 Dyrcona I don't recall xulrunner ever being included in tarballs.
14:51 Dyrcona But, I don't generally use the tarballs....
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15:07 kmlussier @quote random
15:07 pinesol_green kmlussier: Quote #37: "bkuhn: ... my wife is watching the Les Miserables anniversary concert... and it was just at that point where that Jonas brother comes on as Marius and he's really bad. :)" (added by Dyrcona at 10:16 PM, December 01, 2012)
15:14 berick @dunno add Evergreen Command Center http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1204​/EndeavourFlightDeck_cooper_1050.jpg
15:14 pinesol_green berick: Error: You must be registered to use this command. If you are already registered, you must either identify (using the identify command) or add a hostmask matching your current hostmask (using the "hostmask add" command).
15:14 gsams question from a 2.3 build (upgrade is around the corner, promise) We have a library which wants the hold shelf expire time to take holidays and closings into account when it calculates the date, but it doesn't seem to do this for them.
15:15 berick @dunno add Evergreen Command Center http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1204​/EndeavourFlightDeck_cooper_1050.jpg
15:15 pinesol_green berick: The operation succeeded.  Dunno #35 added.
15:15 kmlussier gsams: No, it doesn't. AFAIK, there is no release that does that.
15:15 kmlussier But we have some libraries that would love to see it do that.
15:16 gsams worth looking at funding then, I'll pass that on and see if that is something that we can do.
15:17 berick hmm, looks like it takes closing into account in master at least
15:17 gsams I thought that it at least was supposed to take it into account for if the expire time lands on a closing, but it doesn't appear to do that either from what I'm hearing
15:17 RoganH I thought it took closings into account too, just not holidays.
15:18 RoganH Let me check (calling circ).
15:18 berick confirmed closings back to 2.3
15:18 kmlussier Sorry, I was mistaken then.
15:19 gsams well, I'd still like to see holidays if that isn't in
15:19 RoganH My circ manager agrees, it works for us (2.5 right now) for closings.
15:19 RoganH gsams: agreed
15:20 kmlussier If it doesn't land on a closed date, does it take a closing into account when it's calculating the expiration date?
15:20 kmlussier I think that might be what I was thinking of.
15:21 bshum Right, I wouldn't expect it to take closings into account when calculating the expiration date, since it'll just check to make sure the library is open the date it's expected to be expired, and if it's not open that day, pick the next available open date.
15:21 bshum Otherwise, every time you added or removed dates, it would have to force a recalc of every hold's expiration?
15:22 bshum I could also see a hold expiration set for a date that wasn't marked closed till more recently
15:22 bshum And if the date was added after the hold was set to expire on that date, then it also wouldn't move the holds to the next open day?
15:22 RoganH I'm 99.2% sure that is what it does.
15:22 kmlussier Yup. That's the requested feature I was thinking of then. We do have some libraries that want the holds expiration date calculation to take closed dates into consideration.
15:23 gsams yeah, we have at least one here.  Thanks for the clarification all!
15:24 gsams kmlussier++
15:24 gsams brerick++
15:24 gsams bah
15:24 gsams berick++
15:24 RoganH I wonder about the drawback of existing holds being recalculated.  I can see some scenarios that would cause confusion at least.
15:24 gsams RoganH: I don't think I'd be for that so much, we tend to go by the printed slip for rechecking on those here
15:26 kmlussier Yeah, I'm not sure I like the idea of recalculating if you added a closed date after the item was put on the holds shelf.
15:27 gsams I suppose it would really depend on which system you used for handling expired holds
15:34 jeff "hey jeff, did you just add a closed date for next week? 17% of the items on the hold shelf just had their hold slip color change from yellow to green."
15:34 bshum Hehe
15:41 jeff just kidding -- the paper that allows remotely-initiated color changes is a bit too expensive for us.
15:53 mrpeters back to self registration -- is this comment still true?  http://pastie.org/9756796
15:53 mrpeters i know the in client registration takes MM/DD/YYYY
15:54 mrpeters i think that is also the default example helper
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16:00 berick mrpeters: that comment is still true.  the patron reg UI will let you enter MM/DD/YYYY in the widget, but if you provide a default value (as with data coming from patron self-reg), it has to come in the supported iso8601 format
16:00 berick i.e. yyyy-mm0dd.  or the dijit can't parse it
16:01 berick er, yyyy-mm-dd
16:07 mrpeters berick: thanks -- ok, i definetly need to force valid input to that field then
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