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00:30 Topic for #evergreen is now Welcome to the #evergreen library system channel! | We are publicly logged: http://irc.evergreen-ils.org/evergreen | Large pastes at http://paste.evergreen-ils.org
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08:35 kmlussier Good morning #evergreen!
08:35 kmlussier @coffee [someone]
08:35 * pinesol_green brews and pours a cup of Ibonia Kenya Peaberry, and sends it sliding down the bar to geoffsams
08:36 kmlussier @tea [someone]
08:36 * pinesol_green brews and pours a pot of Bio Pao Chung Pouchong, and sends it sliding down the bar to akilsdonk (http://ratetea.com/tea/teehaus-bachf​ischer/bio-pao-chung-pouchong/7609/)
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08:39 mmorgan Good morning!
08:44 csharp Good morning to all of y'all.
08:52 kmlussier This time next week, we'll be saying good morning to each other face to face. :D
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08:52 kmlussier With real coffee.
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08:53 * kmlussier sees Dyrcona arrive and remembers that she needs to add a new branch to the list of branches to load on his dev server.
08:59 * csharp needs to prepare his own dev environment(s) for the hackaway
09:03 Dyrcona I have a rather urgent question: why would acp.po_items be empty?
09:04 * csharp checks his acq db
09:04 mmorgan Dyrcona: our acq.po_item has 17 rows. Our acq expert is not sure it's used.
09:04 Dyrcona I know it is used.
09:05 Dyrcona I don't know all of the details but there is code that is processed when an invoice comes in that won't do certain things if po_items is empty.
09:05 kmlussier Dyrcona: It would be empty if nobody was adding direct charges via the PO. But you know it's being used?
09:05 csharp maybe it's non-copy-related
09:05 csharp kmlussier: right
09:06 kmlussier Let me double-check the database, but I think it's related to direct charges, right?
09:06 Dyrcona Well, then, I don't know what someone's problem is.
09:06 kmlussier What is the problem that was reported?
09:06 mmorgan 17 rows seems a very small number for us as we have several libraries actively using acq.
09:06 csharp ours have entries like "3 rolls tape" in the 'title' column
09:06 kmlussier Yeah, we find the most people add the direct charges from the invoice, but those direct charges are stored in another table.
09:06 csharp (and we have 18 rows)
09:07 * mmorgan is seeing similar to what csharp is. Jackets, etc., Shipping and Handling ...
09:07 kmlussier For a while, there were problems adding direct charges from the PO, so people avoided doing it. Those bugs have been fixed, but only fairly recently.
09:12 csharp I looked one up and it's under "Direct Charges, Taxes, Fees, etc." on the PO
09:27 Dyrcona Thanks everyone. That must not be the issue.
09:28 Dyrcona I'll have to dig into it on Monday. I've got a demo to attend this afternoon.
09:30 jboyer-isl "Hey, should we connect these 2 switches via their stack ports or with an ethernet cable?" "Why connect them at all?" "What if someone wants to actually use all of the ports?" "Hah! Who would want to do that?"
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09:50 csharp @eightball will I regret putting off things I don't want to do until after the hackaway?
09:50 pinesol_green csharp: Come again?
09:57 kmlussier @eightball Do you ever provide useful answers?
09:57 pinesol_green kmlussier: No clue.
09:58 berick heh
09:59 * kmlussier buckles down to complete the work she knows she can't put off until after the hackaway.
10:05 jeff jboyer-isl: i thought your tale was going to end in a loop and "why didn't we have STP enabled" regret.
10:07 jboyer-isl jeff: No, though it may have ended with a pair of dead/damaged switches had I not read that you're not supposed to connect stacking ports while things are hot.
10:19 jeff jboyer-isl: ouch.
10:20 jeff i've never been a fan of stacking switches, though it's somewhat nice when the switches support stacking over a standard port.
10:20 jeff though there are some architectures where a dedicated port (or just a 10 GbE port) has advantages.
10:21 jboyer-isl jeff: I've found that you get the best bandwidth from buying 1 48 port switch over 2 24 ports in any config. :)
10:23 jboyer-isl But before I can replace my networking equipment I have to buy a cage nut tool, etc. I'm thinking of picking up a half dozen, littering them about like party favors.
10:32 Bmagic Happy Halloween yall!
10:33 berick and may your eyes of newt be potent
10:34 rjackson_isl rjackson-isl is thinking of dressing as a "caged nut" or some other "tool"! ;)
10:34 csharp and your voodoo dolls effective!
10:42 Dyrcona @who uses voodoo doll.
10:42 pinesol_green mdriscoll uses voodoo doll.
10:42 Dyrcona It is super-effective!
10:52 csharp Dyrcona: (and any other fellow Bob Dylan fans): http://www.npr.org/2015/10/23/451169307​/first-listen-bob-dylan-the-cutting-edg​e-1965-1966-the-bootleg-series-vol-12
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11:03 kmlussier bshum++ #Helping me with legacy lost transactions that were having trouble with the Do not change fines/fees on zero-balance LOST transaction
11:26 gsams One of our libraries is getting an odd error when attempting to add items to the catalog.
11:26 pastebot "gsams" at 64.57.241.14 pasted "Odd error for one user" (23 lines) at http://paste.evergreen-ils.org/19
11:27 gsams As best as I can tell there is something wrong with a template somewhere, but I'm not seeing any errors around the time frame
11:28 berick gsams: we had something like that happen recently.  are they using copy templates?
11:28 gsams yes, I've been trying to see if there is something wrong with them
11:29 berick in our case, there were extra chars like carriage returns or something in the templates
11:29 berick that JSON.parse() doesn't like
11:29 berick but our old JSON parser was OK with
11:29 berick we ended up editing the copy templates by hand to remove any spaces or excess junk
11:30 gsams I will check into that and see if anything comes of it, thanks for the info!
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12:11 gsams Hmmm.  It seems that the templates are not necessarily at fault but then I'm not sure what would be.
12:18 gsams I am thinking I might just suggest reinstallation for this and hope that clears it up for her.
12:19 gsams I had her export her templates and send them to me, testing shows that the templates work just fine elsewhere and do not have any odd characters or issues.
12:54 jboyer-isl The state of automated vm building in Ubuntu is dire.
12:55 jboyer-isl (unless you use Canonical's OpenStack stuff, I suppose?)
13:01 Dyrcona jboyer-isl: I manage with vm-builder.
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13:17 csharp jboyer-isl: we manage by building stock VMs and cloning as necessary
13:18 csharp on my to-do list is to install openstack on some soon-to-be-legacy hardware and build an EG cluster with it
13:27 jeff at present i'm using bootstrap-vz to build AMIs, usually just "debian with not much else".
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13:39 RyanM_ Hi!  Just recently upgraded to Evergreen client version 2.7.5, and the shortcut key in Cataloging, CTRL-S, no longer brings up a window of selectable special characters that includes the copyright and published symbols.  It's all accent marked foreign characters.  Is there another shortcut for the special characters such as copyright, etc..?
13:44 tsbere RyanM_: I think we added some of those to a local customization at one point. Maybe that had been done for you?
13:45 RyanM_ I don't know.  All I know is that a few months ago (Prior to this recent update [last week]) they announced that this shortcut was there, and now all the available characters are umlauted letters and the like, but no copyright or other symbol characters.
13:46 RyanM_ It's the ultimate cataloging tease, to add the function and then take it away!
13:46 tsbere We added an extra row as a customization. If that had been done pre-upgrade, but not maintained during the upgrade, you would have lost them
13:51 RyanM_ Ah.  Well, hopefully it is added back in then.
13:51 RyanM_ Thanks!
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14:39 Bmagic with grouped formats turned on in a scoped search, EG includes bibs outside of the scope in the list of formats on each grouped result. Is that by design?
14:42 jeff Bmagic: bug 1420509 may cover that, unless i'm not understanding you correctly
14:42 pinesol_green Launchpad bug 1420509 in Evergreen "Grouped metabib results shows format icons that are not included" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1420509
14:43 jeff also potentially related, bug 1461651 and potentially bug 1461650
14:43 pinesol_green Launchpad bug 1461651 in Evergreen "In metarecord holds, the available format list should update the available formats once a pickup location is selected." [Wishlist,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1461651
14:43 pinesol_green Launchpad bug 1461650 in Evergreen "Metarecord search does not honor search filters" [Medium,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1461650
14:44 kmlussier And this one https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1403907
14:44 pinesol_green Launchpad bug 1403907 in Evergreen "E-resources not included in ver 2.7.1 Group formats and editions search" [Medium,Confirmed]
14:44 Bmagic wow
14:44 * kmlussier wanted to join the metarecord bug party
14:45 Bmagic I was just taking a stab at 1420509 which is why I asked the question to begin with because I wasn't totally sure it was a bug
14:46 kmlussier Bmagic: My expectation is that, in a scoped search, the results page would only display icons for formats owned by the scoped OUs.
14:46 kmlussier Whether it's by design or not, I don't know, but I would consider it to be a bug.
14:46 Bmagic I would think that as well, but that's just little old me
14:47 Bmagic looking at the code, I was starting to have doubts
14:48 kmlussier I would say bug and will set the bug to Medium priority to set the decision in stone.
14:48 kmlussier Until somebody else decides to change it to Wishlist. ;)
14:48 Bmagic word up
14:49 * kmlussier should probably take a stab at confirming it, but can't today.
14:49 kmlussier @who needs to stop procrastinating?
14:49 pinesol_green jcamins needs to stop procrastinating.
14:59 kmlussier Bmagic: FWIW, during a quick attempt to confirm it, the only time I ran across the problem was with ebooks, and, in all those cases, the e-formats should have appeared in the final search results, but didn't because of bug 140397.
14:59 pinesol_green kmlussier: Error: Could not gather data from Launchpad for bug #140397 (https://launchpad.net/bugs/140397). The error has been logged
14:59 kmlussier So I'm not sure I can confirm that we're seeing the problem here.
14:59 kmlussier Sorry ,that was bug 1403907
14:59 pinesol_green Launchpad bug 1403907 in Evergreen "E-resources not included in ver 2.7.1 Group formats and editions search" [Medium,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1403907
14:59 Bmagic right on, I was on the same trail, still hammering away
15:00 Bmagic I'm not positive yet
15:00 Bmagic the code is hard to follow
15:00 kmlussier OK, good luck with it! Anything you can do to fix metarecord bugs would be much appreciated here. :)
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15:56 kmlussier @dessert
15:56 * pinesol_green grabs some Carrot Cake for kmlussier
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17:18 Stompro gmcharlt++ for figuring out that the hold proximity was getting sorted asciibetically.
17:19 gmcharlt Stompro: I had a feeling you'd notice that bug report right away ;)
17:20 Stompro gmcharlt, I'll adjust our proximity adjustments so we stop sending holds cross consortium by default.
17:32 gmcharlt bshum: around?
17:53 bshum gmcharlt: sorry, was away, what's up?
17:54 bshum If not I'll try catching up next week.
17:58 kmlussier 5 pm deadline has come and gone. Looks like we have just one nominee for RM
17:59 kmlussier gmcharlt++
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