[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Need community suggestions for back-filling EG documentation

[Sharp, Chris]

John,

I'll share this, since I don't know of anything better that has superseded it.  In 2008, PINES/GPLS staff, with assistance from a volunteer from a PINES library, created a basic and an advanced reporting guide that applied to Evergreen 1.2, but is still somewhat useful since the basics of Evergreen report operation still apply:

http://pines.georgialibraries.org/pines/pines-evergreen-reports-documentation

It doesn't include information on nullability selection, and I'm sure the reports sources have changed, but it might be a good basis for creating up-to-date documentation.

While it is not marked as such, we tend to share our documentation under the CC BY-SA license.  If anyone needs that explictly noted on those documents for copying's sake, just let me know and I'll work to get that done.

Hope that's helpful,

Chris

----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Mundy" <jmundy at tcpclibrary.org>
> To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>, "Yamil Suarez" <ysuarez at berklee.edu>
> Cc: "Documentation discussion for Evergreen software" <open-ils-documentation at list.georgialibraries.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 11:11:15 AM
> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Need community suggestions for back-filling	EG	documentation
> 
> 
> Broadly, the reports module needs better documentation. Specifically,
> what the fields are, what they do, and how they relate.
> 
> When I used to work with Millennium you had Item records, Bib
> records, Patron Records, and Order records (and that was it).
> 
> You could use Bib records connected to item and order records, Patron
> records connected to item records, I don't recall what order records
> connected to, Item records connected to Bib records and Patron
> records.
> 
> I still am pretty new to Evergreen and as I create or modify reports
> I find myself often puzzled about how the different fields fit
> together. Maybe even a comprehensive list of which fields are where
> with definitions.
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yamil Suarez <ysuarez at berklee.edu>
> To: General Evergreen List
> <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
> Cc: Documentation discussion for Evergreen software
> <open-ils-documentation at list.georgialibraries.org>
> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 10:51:28 -0400
> Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Need community suggestions for
> back-filling EG documentation
> 
> 
> Hola,
> 
> I am part of the Evergreen Oversight Board (EOB) and the
> Documentation Interest Group (DIG), and would like to get some
> suggestions from the EG community relating to documentation. The EOB
> would like to fund the creation of non-existing EG documentation.
> The EOB would like to get suggestions from the EG community of what
> area, workflow, or feature that currently completely lacks
> documentation the EOB should target in this project.
> 
> With your suggestions the EOB will be able to finish formalizing a
> proposal based on the size and complexity of the documentation area
> selected for this proposal. My expectation is that for this project
> only one specific documentation target will be addressed, but
> depending on the success of this approach, we may try again in the
> future.
> 
> Please let me know what areas that have never been documented you
> would like addressed.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Yamil
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------------------
> 
> Yamil Suarez, MCS
> Library System Administrator
> 
> Stan Getz Library
> Berklee College of Music
> 1140 Boylston St
> Boston, MA 02215
> 
> ysuarez at berklee.edu
> 617-747-2617
> 
> 

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Chris Sharp
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