Time  Nick  Message
13:14 kados hey owen
13:14 owen  Hi
13:14 owen  Did you get my message?
13:14 kados yep
13:14 kados just replied
13:15 owen  I think the Perl conversion of that PHP script is a must
13:15 owen  Have you looked at the reserves script that paul added recently?
13:16 kados no
13:16 kados do you happen to know where it is?
13:17 owen  I think it's under circ...
13:17 owen  http://kohatest.wlpl.org/cgi-bin/koha/circ/reserve.pl, for instance
13:17 kados no docs for it
13:18 kados wow, that's not bad
13:18 owen  It's pretty minimal...no date specifications, as far as I know
13:18 kados meaning you can't specify _when_ you want to search?
13:18 owen  The big blank for me is how Stephen's script picks what goes into the list as we use it
13:19 owen  I don't think a reserves script is doing you any good if you can't pick the branch, for instance
13:19 kados you mean the hourly list generator?
13:19 owen  yeah
13:19 kados my guess is we could modify paul's script to allow sorting by branch
13:20 kados would that do it?
13:20 kados really, we need to re-write reserves
13:20 kados to allow item-level reserves to be placed
13:20 kados so this whole discussion might be moot
13:20 owen  No... because I see that if there's more than one person on the reserve list, they both show up
13:20 kados :(
13:20 owen  "No" to would that do it
13:21 kados hmmm
13:21 kados shouldn't more than one person show up?
13:21 kados not sure I understand
13:21 owen  No, because what you want is basically a "pull list."  What items do you need to pull off the shelf that day.
13:22 owen  So stuff has to be available, and at your branch
13:22 kados I see
13:22 owen  There's no reason to show the *next* person on the list, because you're pulling it for the person first in line
13:22 kados right, this is the classic multi-vs-single branch problem
13:22 owen  Not that there isn't a place for such a reserve list display, it's just not the practical list that we need at NPL
13:23 kados right
13:23 kados well are there any shortcomings with NPL's current list?
13:23 kados anything that needs changing?
13:24 owen  I would talk to Stephen about the question of whether things sometimes don't show up on the list when they should
13:24 owen  I had a patron call The Plains yesterday because she was waiting for something for a long time
13:24 owen  It was available in Athens, but they'd never pulled it
13:24 owen  It might have been because it never showed up on their pull list
13:24 kados could be
13:25 kados I'll have to take a look at stephen's script
13:25 kados so all yours does is display what's in the table right?
13:25 kados no calculation per se
13:25 owen  Right.
13:25 owen  The calculations  could be done as part of the page, I suppose
13:25 owen  Without creating a new table.
13:26 owen  I don't know which is more efficient
13:26 kados its hard to say without looking at the queries
13:26 owen  Stephen also runs a report that shows him long-unfulfilled reserves. But that's more relating to items which are long-overdue
13:26 kados right
13:26 kados I suspect those kinds of reports aren't that useful for a smaller collection
13:27 kados I think NBBC only has like three overdues :-)
13:27 owen  :D
13:28 owen  I like our reserve list a lot, because it's tailored exactly to what we need: it shows the title along with the barcode ( so you can confirm you've got the right copy)
13:28 kados yep
13:28 owen  It's got the call number, and orders by call number
13:28 owen  It shows the patron, which can be relevant if you see you're pulling for a staff member
13:28 kados right
13:28 kados yea, it seems to work well for NPL
13:29 owen  And the date give you an idea of whether it's been sitting on the list for a long time
13:29 kados I'll take a look at what would be involved in doing it in perl
13:29 kados then we can just commit it and not deal with customizing every client
13:29 owen  The phone number I don't think gets used much, because people usually scan the found item to get the relevant contact information
13:30 kados btw: I noticed that CVS npl doesn't use opac-bottom.inc
13:30 kados is there a reason for that?
13:30 owen  No good reason.  Just that our design didn't require it.
13:30 owen  We should definitely add it
13:30 kados ok ... I"ll do that right now
13:31 kados I also added a new system pref for 'opaccredits'
13:31 kados which is what I'm putting in opac-bottom.inc
13:31 owen  I suppose you could add other stuff to opaccredits too... like footer navigation?
13:32 kados the more we move stuff to the database, the less complicated upgrades are
13:32 kados well ... opaccredits would be for site-specific stuff ... you could put footer navigation in the template
13:32 kados cause it won't change from client to client
13:33 owen  It might if you wanted custom stuff like in the left-hand nav
13:33 kados true
13:33 kados yea, it's flexible enough to put anything in there
13:33 owen  By the way, I'd change the opacnav system pref to use a textarea inpu instead of the 'free' option
13:33 owen  inpu -> input
13:33 kados well, I had it as textarea at first
13:33 kados but for some reason, textareas are kinda displaying weirdly in my browser
13:34 owen  Hm.
13:34 kados also, in the updatedatabase script, I can't find any instances of textarea
13:36 kados even ISBD is type 'free'
13:40 kados some of the scripts have a $Log section near the bottom
13:40 kados and when they are updated by CVS, the changes are saved there automatically
13:40 kados I wonder why the others don't have that
14:04 owen  It's the separate display for serials details
14:05 owen  http://templatelabsopac.liblime.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-serial-issues.pl?biblionumber=39907
14:05 kados right
14:21 kados owen: for some reason, on the till reconciliation report, everything's showing up twice
14:21 kados and it's not distinguishing between 'yesterday' and 'today'
14:21 kados I'm gonna try with default
14:22 kados same deal with default
14:22 kados on templatelabs
14:26 owen  That's another one I never mess with... I don't even know if I've ever tested it with relevant data
14:26 owen  We need to create some kind of amalgam dataset that can be used for testing...something that includes *everything*
14:32 kados yep
14:32 kados I think the new liblime demo will be just that
14:32 kados that's the goal anyway
19:09 kados owen: intranetcolorstylesheet should be finished for rel_2_2
19:09 owen  Great!
19:09 kados owen: it was more work than I thought!
19:10 kados so many scripts to add that variable to
19:10 kados and not always obvious where it should go :-)
19:10 kados http://kohatest.liblime.com is running stock cvs now
19:10 kados circ / liblime
19:11 owen  Does there need to be a better way to set global variables in Koha scripts?
19:11 kados that'd be great
19:11 kados any ideas?
19:11 owen  Don't look at me, I'm just an interface designer :)
19:12 kados :-)