[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Proposal: Server Managed Print Templates

[Terran McCanna]

+1 to managing print templates on the server side. In PINES I changed the
underlying template defaults so that our libraries would have workable
templates and then only have to change them if they want to.

>> - It occurs to me that this could readily become a basis for printing
sheets of barcodes and labels, though if we go down that path, it may be
necessary to teach it how to emit PDFs that are capable of having a block
to print precisely positioned on the resulting sheet of paper.<<

Would that be different from the work done in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1787479? Or build upon it?



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On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 1:56 PM Galen Charlton <gmc at equinoxinitiative.org>
wrote:

> Hi Bill,
>
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 12:12 PM Bill Erickson <berickxx at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have jotted some notes here:
> >
> > https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=dev:server_print_templates
> >
> > I would love hear feedback.  If it the idea holds water, I'll open an LP.
>
> I think the general idea makes good sense.  Some specific thoughts that
> occur to me:
>
> - Consistent formatting of dates and times should be considered, perhaps
> by adding a helper function
> - What are your thoughts on having (selected) additional helper functions
> be available to do things like fetch OU names and addresses?  On the one
> hand, this could reduce the need to touch Angular[JS] code to add new
> fields to a given printout and might add some useful consistency with
> what's available to A/T templates. On the other hand, for the sake of
> responsiveness I could see an argument for making the client completely
> responsible for supplying all necessary data.
> - It occurs to me that this could readily become a basis for printing
> sheets of barcodes and labels, though if we go down that path, it may be
> necessary to teach it how to emit PDFs that are capable of having a block
> to print precisely positioned on the resulting sheet of paper.
> - Automatic migration of existing templates is probably not possible, but
> _something_ to help admins keep track of how far along they are with the
> migration would be helpful.
>
> Regards,
>
> Galen
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