[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Introduction and documentation request

[Galen Charlton]

Hi, documenters!

I run Equinox's migrations team, and in the course of helping  
libraries implement Evergreen, we often run into areas where the  
documentation could be improved, or in some cases, created.  From time  
to time I'll email this list about these areas in case any DIGers are  
looking for a specific area to write documentation for.  The  
migrations team will also be contributing documentation.

To get started, this weekend a librarian emailed me about setting up  
organizational unit settings (under Local System Administration).  She  
had asked why the default values for the various settings weren't  
being displayed, and I explained that a setting doesn't have a  
specific value until you actually set it.  However, it occurs to me  
that there's a documentation gap: if a setting isn't set to a specific  
value, how does the corresponding bit of functionality behave?  In  
most cases, it presumably acts as if the setting were blank, false, or  
zero depending on the specific setting, but I can easily imagine that  
there might be cases where the default behavior isn't so neatly  
predictable.

Regards,

Galen
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Galen Charlton
VP, Data Services
Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts
email:  gmc at esilibrary.com
direct: +1 352-215-7548
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