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08:11 PhilMakesStuff This is a test message to see if I am posting in the correct channel
08:12 PhilMakesStuff Quick question: I was wondering if evergreen has a Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT)?
08:13 PhilMakesStuff We will need this in order for our organization to use Evergreen
08:23 JBoyer Hi PhilMakesStuff , that sounds familiar but you may have more luck getting responses on the Evergreen general email lists as IRC activity is pretty irregular.
08:25 PhilMakesStuff Thanks. Will try that.
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10:53 sandbergja I am curious about a behavior in the AngularJS patron notes.  If you create a note with a block, and then the patron reads it, the staff member can no longer edit or delete the note.  You can archive it, which removes the block but leaves the message for the patron in the OPAC.
10:54 sandbergja I wanted to learn more about the motivation here -- why we don't allow staff members to delete or edit after the patron has read them.  I also wanted to know if folks feel that it is working well at the circ desk, or if circ staff at your libraries would like the ability to delete/edit these.
10:57 csharp_ sandbergja: without any data to support it, my take is that staff should be able to control those, perhaps under the control of permissions so not just anyone can?
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11:57 mmorgan re: sandbergja's question about the patron notes, I'm just guessing on the motivation, but if the patron deletes the message, the staff can then remove it. Maybe the idea is staff should not deleted it if the patron has read it and has chosen to keep it rather than delete it?
11:58 mmorgan If then patron then goes back and deletes their message, staff have the option to delete - unless they have already archived it.
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12:00 sandbergja csharp_++
12:00 sandbergja mmorgan++
12:01 mmorgan IMO the notes interfaces in AngularJS are kind of unwieldy, likely because the three different notes/alerts/messages tables were merged.
12:02 sandbergja Yeah, it does have a ton of capabilities in a very small space for sure.
12:02 sandbergja I wonder if a confirmation alert for staff would meet the same presumed motivation.  Like when you try to edit it: "The patron has already read this message, editing it may lead to confusion. Are you sure?"
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12:03 sandbergja While still giving the ability for staff to delete/edit a note after working something out with a patron.
12:08 * mmorgan would agree that staff should be able to delete a message, even if it has been read, with at least fair warning.
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13:42 javier_guel Hi all, I am trying to upgrade EG version, and I am on the db upgrade scripts, but I can´t find the 3.7.4 to any version and it doesnt exist
13:42 javier_guel it is just 3.7.3-3.7.4-upgrade-db.sql and then 3.8.0-3.8.1-upgrade-db.sql but not the other one
13:54 sleary FYI, UI interest group getting started in about 5 minutes: https://meet.google.com/avm-hdae-awu
13:56 JBoyer javier_guel, this is somewhere we could stand do improve some processes; If you upgraded beyond 3.7.1 you can't use the version-upgrade scripts to go to 3.8.0. You can use the individual sql upgrade scripts in the Open-ILS/src/sql/Pg/upgrade directory. You can compare what you have in your database (the config.upgrade_log table) to what the version-upgrade scripts would do. If you use grep to match '_deps' in the
13:56 JBoyer version-upgrade scripts you'll get the list of numbered scripts that need to be run.
14:09 javier_guel JBoyer: thanks, I wiil try that
14:10 JBoyer javier_guel, Once you get to the point where none of the numbers in a version upgrade are in the db, you can switch back to running them if you prefer.
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14:26 jeff our friend with the VPAT inquiry emailed us directly also. :-)
14:27 Dyrcona I've never heard of it.
14:27 Dyrcona Until today that is.
14:28 Dyrcona javier_guel: If you're feeling adventurous and don't mind using git, you can use a script I wrote to make a db upgrade script to go between arbitrary versions: https://gist.github.com/Dyrcona/​00bd6b6290b6fbbb579c7f93b360ab0d
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16:00 javier_guel great thanks, i will try
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17:31 dmoore hey all - any thoughts on this API note published on EBSCO's Novelist page - https://connect.ebsco.com/s/article/S​etting-up-On-The-Shelf?language=en_US
17:32 dmoore "Note: There is an Evergreen API that supports automatic harvesting of your collection. However, we were unable to obtain a complete harvest for any customers during the testing of this functionality, as Evergreen’s Web Services API was not built for such a wide-scale application. We discourage Evergreen customers from utilizing this feature for collection harvesting."
17:32 csharp_ dmoore: we don't use it in PINES, but anecdotally, I've heard from sites who do that the harvesting can eat into available server resources
17:33 berick hah, yeah, IIRC, they were madly spewing api calls
17:33 csharp_ dmoore: we sent a monthly upload to NoveList so they can reference it offline
17:33 csharp_ s/sent/send
17:33 csharp_ \/
17:33 csharp_ @who let the dogs out?
17:33 pinesol akilsdonk let the dogs out.
17:34 berick indeed they let loose the dogs of war
17:35 csharp_ "WHATEVER farm animal of war, Lana"
17:36 dmoore i'm gonna send this out over the listserv for some community wisdom... we're looking into implementing it and are torn between the API vs. upload route
17:36 csharp_ upload upload (everybody) upload!
17:38 berick just, wow, "it's evergreen's fault"
17:38 berick *sigh*
17:38 csharp_ nobody likes them anyway :-)
17:38 dmoore right? so rude.
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17:39 dmoore "evergreen's just awful so switch ILS's then use Novelist"
17:40 csharp_ use FOLIO! it's Open Source™!
17:41 * csharp_ shouldn't snark :-/
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