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IRC log for #evergreen, 2019-01-07

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04:30 pinesol News from qatests: Testing Success <http://testing.evergreen-ils.org/~live>
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11:40 mmorgan Is this still true for the web cleint? In order to print receipts on a circulation workstation without a prompt you need Hatch installed?
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11:45 JBoyer That will likely always be true.
11:45 Dyrcona mmorgan: I believe so, yes. Browsers will not print without confirmation. It's a security thing.
11:46 mmorgan Ok, thanks. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something :)
11:50 berick mmorgan: you can print without a dialog in Chrome with its kiosk printing mode
11:50 berick pretty sure FF has something similar
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11:51 berick --kiosk-printing
11:51 berick you'll want to do that after configuring the printer
11:51 berick that's assuming you only need 1 printer on the workstation, though
11:52 berick multiple printers w/o dialogs requires Hatch
11:53 * rhamby for a second thought berick was downvoting kiosk printing and thought "why not just downvote all printing"
11:53 berick heh
11:53 berick @karma kiosk-printing
11:53 pinesol berick: kiosk-printing has neutral karma.
11:53 mmorgan Interesting. I get the multiple printers thing, but many circ workstations just print to a receipt printer.
11:53 jeff the karma plugin doesn't handle prefix increment/decrement, iirc.
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11:56 berick mmorgan: you can create a desktop shortcut from chrome.exe that points to the web staff URL and passes the --kiosk-printing flag
11:56 berick s/from/for/
11:59 jeff also sometimes handy is running Chrome with --app
12:00 berick jeff: what does that do?
12:00 jeff it's been a while since I experimented with it, but I think there were some benefits that we found useful for our 3M RFID software shim. slightly more stable window titles, possibly different tab handling.
12:00 jeff it's not well documented.
12:01 jeff --app=url-to-staff-client
12:01 mmorgan berick: Thanks! I'll give that a try. It might be nice to avoid the overhead of installing Hatch on some workstations that only do receipt printing.
12:03 berick mmorgan: indeed
12:04 mmorgan Also hoping that many patrons will take advantage of the emailed receipts.
12:06 jeff downside to the (current implementation of the) --app command line argument is that any new tabs end up being created in your non-app Chrome window.
12:06 jeff but that can be a positive thing also, depending on your need.
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12:36 Dyrcona firefox --app can be used to run XulRunner applications, fwiw.
12:42 Dyrcona chomium --app=URL runs the browser without tooblars, in "application" mode. It probably does not do what you want, particularly if another Chrome/Chromium window is already open.
12:52 jeff that's what we needed at the time.
12:53 Dyrcona Not saying it didn't work for you, just saying it's generally not what someone would want. --kiosk might be better for this use case.
12:53 jeff no, not generally useful. just sometimes handy.
12:54 Dyrcona Though --app without a URL seems to behave better. I found that with a URL specified, Ctrl-t opened a new tab in a different window.
12:55 Dyrcona I.E. not my --app window.
12:55 * jeff nods
12:55 jeff similar to opening an "external" link in the xul client opens in the "normal" browser.
12:56 jeff unfortunately, when i tested a few minutes ago it also affected intentionally "open in new tab" links within the staff client when run with --app=url
13:15 Bmagic_ Dyrcona: That invoicing issue from last week: it was a quantity mis-match! It would be great if the log message would say something (instead of nothing)
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13:35 Dyrcona Bmagic_: That might be a good subject for a bug.
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16:18 Bmagic_ Dyrcona: bug 1810853
16:18 pinesol Launchpad bug 1810853 in Evergreen "Acquisitions EDI invoice creation needs better logging " [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1810853
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16:30 pinesol News from qatests: Testing Success <http://testing.evergreen-ils.org/~live>
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