[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] zip code - zips.txt - pre-populate - Documentation

[Josh Stompro]

Thank you Galen, I've incorporated your suggestions.  I added notes to the restart sections about the specific services that need to be restarted, thanks for that info.

Josh

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From: open-ils-documentation-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-documentation-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Galen Charlton
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2014 12:13 PM
To: Documentation discussion for Evergreen software
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] zip code - zips.txt - pre-populate - Documentation

Hi,

On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Josh Stompro <stomproj at exchange.larl.org> wrote:
> Thanks for all the tips and info everyone.  Please take a look at what 
> I’ve come up with for documenting the zip code pre-fill feature and let me know
> what you think.    https://gist.github.com/stompro/5d6bea620f7cc01b8443

Overall, looks good, and I appreciate how thorough it is.  I have a few nits to pick...

[1] "ZIP", not "zip" or "Zip", as it's an acronym.

[2] It's not necessary to restart Evergreen, just specific services.
Specifically, just "opensrf.setting" and "open-ils.search" when uncommenting <zips_file>, or just "open-ils.search" if modifying a zips_file that's already in use.  However: for the moment a plain "restart Evergreen" is fine, as providing details of how to restart individual services is worth it's own section in the manual.

> I didn’t add info about using the google API to brute force gather the 
> data, it seems like an overly complex  solution compared with the 
> others.  I also didn’t add info about using geocoder.ca to gather 
> Canadian postal codes since the site doesn’t load for me.

+1

> I would also like to propose that the comments in zips.pm be updated 
> to reflect the fact that the areacode is not used by register.js, 
> maybe it was in the past, but not right now.

That's reasonable; feel free to submit a patch.

Regards,

Galen
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