[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How to remove previously used hostnames in EG client?

[Yamil Suarez]

Thank you both Aaron and Tony for your tips.

Yamil


On Nov 5, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Aaron Zsembery wrote:

> On Monday, November 5, 2012 11:32:20 AM "Yamil Suarez" <ysuarez at berklee.edu 
> > wrote:
>> I have several EG 2.2 workstations that were registered with both our
>> production server and our test server hostnames. Automatically the EG
>> client remembers previously used server hostnames/IPs. In this case I
>> would like to remove the entry in the hostnames drop down menu for
>> our test server to avoid confusion in the future. Regretfully, if I
>> uninstall the EG client I and reinstall it, the entries remain the
>> same. Could someone provide me pointers on how to accomplish this?
>
> On Windows 7 (and possibly in XP) if you go to %APPDATA%\OpenILS 
> \open_ils_staff_client\Profiles\PROFILE_NAME\chrome there should be  
> a file named "ws_info" which has the following string for each  
> server: "SERVER_ADDRESS": 
> {"name 
> ":"WORKSTATION_NAME 
> ","owning_lib":"LIB_ID","lib_shortname":"LIBRARY_SHORTNAME"}} with a  
> comma between each entry.
> Remove the entries that you don't want and they should disappear  
> from the dropdown list.
>
> If you don't mind re-registering the workstations (or want to clear  
> some random data that wont go away), you could just delete the  
> %APPDATA%\OpenILS\open_ils_staff_client\Profiles folder and the  
> %APPDATA%\OpenILS\open_ils_staff_client\profiles.ini file
>
> Aaron Z
> Jr. Systems Administrator
>
> Pioneer Library System
> 2557 State Rt. 21
> Canandaigua, New York  14424
> Phone: (585) 394-8260
>