[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] ***SPAM*** Registering workstations and starting/stopping services

[Turner, Jennifer M]

Hello, DIGgers -

Two "missing pieces" of documentation have presented themselves in the last couple of days.


1)      Although we have a section on registering workstations (http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/1.6/draft/html/staffclientinstallation-running-staffclient.html#staffclientinstallation-workstationnames), it is not evident that a user must have working locations assigned in order to do so (with in the user account > Other > User Permission Editor and then check the boxes for working locations or Admin > User Permission Editor.  Working locations are briefly mentioned under the permissions section (http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/1.6/draft/html/permissions.html), but it is not clear that one of the permissions that is "dependent on the user having the working location" is workstation registration.

Perhaps the documentation for registering workstations could be lengthened a bit by adding something like the following:

Users must have the REGISTER_WORKSTATION permission and be assigned the appropriate working location(s) in order to register a workstation.  To add working locations to a user's account:

a)      Retrieve the user through a patron search and select Other > User Permission Editor and select the boxes for the locations necessary.  Save the user record.  Note: making modifications to Working Locations while changing permission settings does not work - when this workflow is performed, permission changes will not be applied to the database.

b)      Alternately, from the Admin menu, select User Permission Editor and retrieve the user by barcode.  Make changes to working locations as described above.

Otherwise, perhaps the existing section on working locations in the documentation could be beefed up and cross referenced from the section on naming/registering workstations?


2)      A suggestion from a coworker who knows more about system stuff than I do:

He would like to see something under the system administration section for, "Starting and stopping specific Evergreen services: This example restarts the cataloguing module > opensrf-perl.pl --service open-ils.cat <other options> --action restart"

There are probably other services, but I am not the person to ask about these.

Thanks,
Jenny

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Jennifer Turner
PALS, A Program of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
Minnesota State University, Mankato
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Mankato, MN 56001
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