[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Web Client and 3.0

[Holly Brennan]

The bug for Serials issue checkin is: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1717600

Half the fun of moving to the newest version of something is finding all the bugs!

-Holly

From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Kathy Lussier
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2017 11:56 AM
To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Web Client and 3.0


Hi Scott,

I'm not using 3.0 in production, but I have a couple of answers for you.
1.       I know receipt templates will need to be recreated manually. Are there any other similar configuration-related gotchas?

We also have similar issues with copy templates and report templates. There are related bugs for each.

For copy templates - https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1691269 - Jason Boyer has submitted some code to make XUL copy templates available in the web client. It is not available in the core code yet. I haven't had a chance to look at it yet, but I know there are others who are looking at it.

For report templates - https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1642344 - if you want to clone existing report templates in the web client, you have to do so in an interface that is missing a lot of fields we may need to use in a report template. I do know there is an organization that has contracted with Equinox to create tech specs for allowing xul templates to be cloned in the standard reports template editor, but I expect it will take some time for that work to be done.

2.       Can Serials and Acquisitions be used?

Acquisitions has been available in the web client since 2.12, and serials is newly-available in the web client in 3.0. However, I can't speak to how much use they've gotten in production. For acquisitions, the Dojo interfaces were ported over as is, so it should work about as well as it does in the old client. For either of these areas, though, I would say they have passed extensive user testing to get into the core software, but there are issues that probably won't be known until libraries start using it in production, as was the case when Holly tried checking in an issue. The sooner libraries start using it in production, the sooner those issues can be submitted to Launchpad and resolved.

Kathy
On 10/30/2017 08:33 AM, scott.thomas at sparkpa.org<mailto:scott.thomas at sparkpa.org> wrote:
Hi,
   Is anyone using the web client in production against 3.0? If so, I have a few questions:


1.       I know receipt templates will need to be recreated manually. Are there any other similar configuration-related gotchas?

2.       Can Serials and Acquisitions be used?

3.       Have you discovered any serious problems?

Thank you,
Scott


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