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#openils-evergreen Logs for Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

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#00:00:32granthpalAlso, I have observed that if I change the marc records after adding a holding, the opac doesnt absorb the changes
#00:01:07phasefxsearch results get cached by memcached for a time.. try appending new terms to your search (like -sdfsadf) to force a new search
#00:01:32phasefxI forget what the default cache time is.. 5 minutes maybe
#00:02:19granthpalsay for eg, I am attempting to keep all jacket covers locally with isbn-13 for their names... but at times some records get imported with the isbn-10 field... later when I change the marc to isbn-13, the image still doesnt get picked up
#00:03:34phasefxI think all the added content providers accomodate only a single ISBN, so that's all that gets encoded in the various URL's used to fetch the data. It's probably the first or last ISBN in a record that gets used
#00:03:42granthpalbtw guys, meslib.com (India) is nigh online.. test runs for checkin-checkout have been successful !!
#00:03:51phasefxawesome
#00:03:57granthpal:) cheers to the Pines team !!!
#00:04:56granthpal10 months and so much more to learn... :)
#00:05:26phasefxyou guys going to work on translations?
#00:07:30granthpalmost libraries use english transliteration.. but I can well imagine a few major languages that may want to use translations -- hindi, tamil, malayalam to name a few
#00:08:20phasefxcool. I've always liked the sound of "punjabi" :)
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#08:35:20phasefxdenials: the missing border for groupbox's in linux xulrunner, it's an inherited theme thing, apparently catering to the gnome HIG, etc.
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#09:01:51mrpeters-islhey guys, any chance http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-admin:customizations:opac could be updated with info on how to change the default links (About PINES, GALILEO, etc) on the OPAC?
#09:03:20miker_mrpeters-isl: I assume you've discoved how to do that? (adjusting the footer and index templates)
#09:03:35phasefxwe should really put something generic in the main codebase, and have the PINES/Georgia strings be in contrib
#09:03:36mrpeters-isli havent :) thats why i was hoping someone might update it
#09:03:41phasefxopac.dtd has the strings, I think
#09:04:18phasefxbut maybe not the link values?
#09:05:13phasefxhrmm.. I wonder if setting footer.union.url and footer.union both to "" in opac.dtd would work
#09:14:16mrpeters-islill tinker around now that i know which file to play with :)
#09:14:52mrpeters-islany idea when the new OPAC skin will be released for some testing?
#09:15:00mrpeters-islid like to throw it on my dev server to demo/test
#09:21:19phasefxI know it's in the 1.4 branch, but I don't know when it'll be in a cut release
#09:21:57mrpeters-isl10-4
#09:22:28mrpeters-islif anyone has a free second, hit opac at 208.119.72.66 and try a search...im getting an error, but im not sure if its just on my end?
#09:22:48phasefxsure thing
#09:23:10ejk[aadl]Error parsing JSON [SyntaxError: missing } after property list]
#09:23:19mrpeters-islyep...dang
#09:24:05phasefx"no tsearch config" seems pertinent
#09:26:07phasefxmrpeters-isl: do you have a public.pg_ts_cfg in the database?
#09:26:49mrpeters-isllet me check
#09:28:58miker_looks like you didn't get everything from the previous db. is it Pg 8.2?
#09:29:06miker_or 8.3
#09:29:10mrpeters-isl8.2
#09:29:13mrpeters-islimported the backkup you gave me
#09:30:00miker_you may need to run Open-ILS/src/sql/Pg/000.english.pg82.fts-config.sql
#09:30:09miker_available in any recent tarball
#09:31:10mrpeters-isli do have public.pg_ts_cfg table
#09:32:59miker_mrpeters-isl: yeah, but you don't have the required contents
#09:33:08miker_ok ... biab
#09:33:09mrpeters-islyeah, running your suggestion now
#09:33:39mrpeters-islpermission denied on that file as postgres?
#09:34:54miker_mrpeters-isl: make sure the postres user can read the file on the filesystem
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#09:35:18mrpeters-islyeah....it was that i didnt have the -f switch after psql
#09:35:33mrpeters-islok, thats done....restart services?
#09:36:54mrpeters-islno more JSON error, but i get a never ending search progress bar
#09:37:29mrpeters-islah, there it is...wow...60 seconds to search
#09:39:17phasefxmrpeters-isl: see http://coffeecode.net/archives/165-Heating-up-Evergreen-search.html
#09:39:51mrpeters-islthanks :)
#09:43:24mrpeters-islare the steps for setting up reporter required for 1.2.3.1?
#09:43:33mrpeters-islin the Ubuntu 8.04 server install instructions
#09:57:36phasefxsomething is likely required.. maybe the reporter steps in the 1.2 on ubuntu 7.10 doc?
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#11:23:15natschilhello, is there a way in which I can customise what is shown in the Record summary, i.e I want to show the dewey number of the book in the Record summary, to make it easier for people to find the book after they have searched for it
#11:23:17natschil?
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#11:25:14phasefxnatschil: hey, if it's just in Record Summary, you can do what UPEI does and pull down the entire bib record in XML format and parse it client-side.. that'll take some javascript work with your templates
#11:25:47phasefxwell, assuming the dewey number is the bib record
#11:26:05phasefxif you want to make call numbers more prominent, that's something else
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#11:29:20natschilUPEI?
#11:29:56natschilwell, currently the call number is not shown in the record summary, so I was wondering if there were a way to include it
#11:30:15EGUEST685Upgrading Evergreen 1.4.0 to 1.4.0.2, is there a problems with indexdata.dk site. the connection keeps timing out.
#11:30:43phasefxnatschil: the call number should be shown in the Copy Summary area beneath the Record Summary.. do you see that?
#11:31:49natschilyes, but is there a way to e.g put it under the "title row" in the OPAC
#11:31:53phasefxEGUEST685: hrmm.. if that's through CPAN, they have network tests during install that hit against indexdata.dk.. which is not good when the site is actually down. Are you familiar with going into CPAN .build/ to install things?
#11:32:38dbsEGUEST685: you can always download the file yourself and place it in the directory
#11:32:57dbs(if you're talking about compiling yaz-3.0.38.tar.gz)
#11:32:59EGUEST685Phasefx, I am not familiar with CPAN.
#11:33:12EGUEST685dbs, yes the yaz-3.0.38.tar.gz file
#11:33:50phasefxnatschil: you could, but it'll take some javascript-fu
#11:34:03dbsEGUEST685: yeah, just download http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/yaz/yaz-3.0.38.tar.gz and place it in the directory you're invoking Makefile.install from
#11:34:28EGUEST685dbs, okay
#11:34:44phasefxnatschil: I would build a hash and populate it as the normal call number rows render.. put a .watch on it to update a Call Number row under Title
#11:35:03dbs(assuming that your web browser or whatever won't time out like wget appears to be doing) - the Makefile checks for the existence of the file before trying to download it if I recall correctly
#11:36:02phasefxnatschil: some thought would be warranted if you're dealing with multiple libraries
#11:36:18natschilphasefx: sorry, but I am not sure what you are saying :). I know a little bit of javascript, and could try and edit the file concerned. Which file would I need to edit?
#11:36:46phasefxnatschil: that I'm not sure.. I'm not familiar with the OPAC code. Probably some .js referenced by rdetail.xml
#11:36:49dbsrdetail.js and rdetail/... something(off the top of my head)
#11:36:52natschilno, I am currently not dealing with multiple libraries, but I might expand the current system to multiple libraries at a mich later date
#11:37:09natschilok, I'll see
#11:37:11natschilThanks
#11:37:20phasefxnatschil: good luck, let us know what you come up with
#11:37:21natschili meant: much later date
#11:37:27natschilok, thanks
#11:37:53dbsnatschil: http://coffeecode.net/archives/183-Evergreen-Exposed-introduction-to-Evergreen-development-OLA-2009.html might be helpful (or not)
#11:40:03natschilbtw, I am running evergreen in a relatively small library (5000 books or so), and it is quite slow. I think it is because the server has quite little ram. I will try to get some more ram, but is there another way I can make evergreen faster?
#11:40:24natschilI have edited the apache config files to make it run less instances of apache already
#11:41:26dbsHow much RAM do you have? What, specifically, is slow?
#11:42:06dbsbiab
#11:42:22natschilwell, at the moment I have around 500Mb, and I am running a samba server using ldap on the same system. Well, starting up evergreen is very slow especially
#11:42:46natschilalso generally, it takes quite long for evergreen to respond.
#11:43:06natschil500Mb is probably just not enough :)
#11:50:28phasefxnatschil: yeah, I bet you're swapping into virtual memory. One user using the site at a time on average?
#11:50:39EGUEST685Appreciate your help, downloaded the file and everything is look okay at this point. Thanks, LaBon
#11:59:57natschilphasefx: Well, the library in question is that of a College. This college has less than 10 computers. One of these computers works as a server, and has evergreen on it. There will usually be no users, but probably at some times there will be more users, (5-6). Later on, if the college gets a FQDN, there might be more users coming from the internet as well.
#12:00:33natschili.e there will be peak times sometimes where quite a few users use evergreen.
#12:13:14dbsnatschil: oof. 500 MB is definitely not enough. if you can spare the hundred bucks or so to pop it up to 2GB, that would help
#12:13:31dbsbiab gain
#12:24:15natschilyeah, I was already planning to get 2GB of ram. But still, as evergreen is built for much bigger libraries, is there a way to improve how well it runs in a smaller library?
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#13:10:16granthpalnatschil: small things fit into big spaces pretty easily.. and not viceversa :)
#13:11:18granthpalfor a small library reduce ur apache processes to five rather than the specified 15... ea process consumes c50mb
#13:12:31granthpaldbs: /reporter/ folder still not found... have bypassed via symlink from the opac folder... would be better to find the issue.. any ken ??
#13:20:37natschilgranthpal :) thanks
#13:22:32dbsgranthpal: cd /openils/var/web/xul; ln -sf rel_1_4_2_0/server server
#13:23:51dbsIn any case, 512 MB of RAM is ridiculously low for a machine running a relational database, web server, Jabber server, and LDAP server
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#13:56:14dbsmiker_: how much impact does that off-by-one error have on day-to-day functionality?
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#14:12:54granthpaldbs: server -> rel_1_4_0_1/ already exists
#14:13:38dbsrm server; ln -sf rel_1_4_0_1/server server
#14:13:54granthpalso do i get client 1402 ?
#14:15:23granthpaldone :(
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#14:17:22dbsgranthpal: well, you'll want to install 1.4.0.2 eventually anyway, but you get the idea
#14:17:34granthpaldbs: still naught
#14:17:46dbsreports were working in 1.4.0.1, with the exception of the "View report" button, so I don't know why it's not working for you
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#14:25:57granthpalreports are coming thro.. in the reporter folder... but cant get to them thro the reporter folder :(
#14:26:23granthpalie the site/reporter/ folder
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#14:27:04granthpalalso vandelay is delayed :(
#14:27:26granthpalstill getting the busyBar
#14:29:03granthpaldbs: things are moving real fast... third upgrade w/in a month :) I dont visit the site for a few days.. and voila the chatzone speaks new version :) :) :)
#14:49:55miker_dbs: sorry, had stepped away. the one I fixed this morning?
#14:52:41miker_dbs: assuming so, none, since that was in trunk :) (and I don't think anything earlier than trunk was making use of searchValueTransform) ... but for trunk, it would break ... some stuff. it broke something of berick's, which is how we found it, but it was a very recent change (last couple days)
#14:52:43dbsmiker_: yeah - don't worry man
#15:04:37granthpaldbs: the opensrf.xml seems to have been truncated heavily in opensrf104 ... <z3950> is gone......... going thro the code to see more changes !
#15:05:01dbsopensrf.xml in OpenSRF is way different than opensrf.xml in Evergreen
#15:05:19dbsOpenSRF is an application framework; Evergreen is an OpenSRF application
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#16:19:21granthpalGot that dbs... I am lost somewhere.. been a looong day
#16:20:39granthpalbtw, 1402 is working for me... yet the /reporter/ folder not found is still lurking around... see it anon.. ciao for now.. goodnight
#16:22:05dbsgood night
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