IRC log for #koha, 2004-12-13

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Time	Nick	Message
13:27	kados	hey owen
13:27	owen	Hi
13:27	kados	turns out the reserves thing is pretty complex
13:27	kados	but I'm working on it
13:27	owen	Thanks. I really think it's an important improvement to make, and I don't think anyone else is going to take it on.
13:34	kados	yep :-)
13:42	owen	I think the lack of the reserves function is a barrier to understanding how the book bag can work. People think that if you can't do anything with it it's useless.
13:42	owen	And by people I include some staff members ;)
14:08	kados	here's a neat trick that may be useful for the first few days after an update:
14:08	kados	<!-- Set the expiration date to the past so the page will always be reloaded -->
14:08	kados	<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="Thu, 1 Jan 2004 08:00:00 EST">
14:19	owen	Yeah, but then you've gotta remember you put that in there!
14:26	kados	yea ... maybe write yourself a script that reminds you a few days later :-) .. or better yet, write one that checks the timestamp of your index page, adds that line if it's been updated, and then removes it a few days later ;-)
15:15	kados	hehe
15:15	kados	yea it's definitely a work in progress ... check it now
15:15	kados	I've only been working on the top bar ...
15:59	owen	Yes, much better now
15:59	owen	I'd like to see those 'next' and 'previous' links working. That'd be cool.
17:35	chris	morning
17:51	kados	morning chris
17:51	kados	http://66.213.78.101/cgi-bin/k[…]tail.pl?bib=16595
17:51	kados	here's the cincinnati one:
17:51	kados	http://catalog.cincinnatilibra[…]AIN/317990472/123
17:52	kados	it's still pretty lousy but I'm getting there
17:52	kados	only the opac-detail page looks half-way decent ;-)
17:54	chris	woo fancy pants joshua
17:55	rach	howdy
17:55	kados	hi there rach
17:58	rach	hey joshua
17:59	rach	and why are you a fancy pants?
17:59	rach	mind you you were talking about doing that, so maybe you have
18:02	kados	hehe
18:03	kados	http://66.213.78.101/cgi-bin/k[…]tail.pl?bib=16595
18:03	kados	it's a new koha template (very early stages) based on cincinnati's
18:03	kados	here's the original:
18:03	kados	http://catalog.cincinnatilibra[…]AIN/317990472/123
18:03	kados	only the opac-detail.pl page is half-way decent (and not even really ) :-)
18:20	owen	You know...if we used one of those unused date fields in reserves to record the date when an item was marked waiting we could generate reports about items which should be pulled from the reserve shelf.
18:21	owen	Maybe that's what 'reminderdate' was supposed to do in the first place?
18:33	chris	could be :)
18:37	owen	I guess we're all guilty from time to time of building our tables with fields we think we'll use later
18:40	chris	those are fields that were in the system we ported from originally
18:40	chris	so in order to not throw data away
18:41	chris	they came across as well
21:50	kados	hehe ... it's really coming along:
21:50	kados	http://66.213.78.101/cgi-bin/k[…]tail.pl?bib=64082
21:50	kados	lots to do still tho
23:34	kados	chris around?
03:05	kados	hehe chris if you're around check out the detail page on the opac :-)
03:05	kados	except for a few links that don't work it's perfect