[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 3.3.3 staff client receipt printing & defaults

[Josh Stompro]

Wait, I just noticed that there is an easier way in the web staff client.

In the web staff client, look under Administration -> Workstation -> Stored
User Preferences -> Server Workstation Prefs.

That will list all the preferences and their values for the current
workstation preferences.

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Josh

On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 8:21 AM Josh Stompro <stomproj at gsuite.larl.org>
wrote:

> Ben, I think you have to go to the database or source.
>
> -- List all workstation setting types.
> SELECT * FROM config.workstation_setting_type ORDER BY NAME;
>
> Look at the 950.data.seed-values.sql file (huge file though). Search for
> config.workstation_setting_type starting around line 18475.
>
> https://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=Evergreen.git;a=blob;f=Open-ILS/src/sql/Pg/950.data.seed-values.sql;h=daf37c36d36eb62f905fa75e8b1dc3ddc8b3d13e;hb=HEAD#l18475
>
>
>  Once you know the name, I believe you would create an "Org Unit Setting
> Type" with the same name.  Then you can set values for it via the library
> settings editor.
>
> Josh
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 3:14 PM Benjamin Kalish <bkalish at forbeslibrary.org>
> wrote:
>
>> This sounds amazing, but how does one find the settings related to a
>> print template (all of ours are workstation settings now) so that one can
>> make them a user setting or an org setting instead?
>>
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>> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 11:57 AM Josh Stompro <stomproj at gsuite.larl.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Morgan, thank you for this info.  I totally missed the connection to
>>> print templates when I read that message the first time around, and I don't
>>> think I'm the only one.  When Bill posted his message about the server side
>>> processed print templates in April 2019
>>> <http://libmail.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-dev/2019-April/010709.html>,
>>> I commented (along with a few other people) that it would be great to have
>>> a way to centrally manage print templates, not realizing that had been
>>> added 8 months earlier.
>>>
>>> I started a bug report with notes on documenting this behavior in the
>>> print templates section.
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1843454
>>>
>>> Josh
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 3:26 PM Morgan, Michele <mmorgan at noblenet.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Josh,
>>>>
>>>> Since moving to 3.2 where workstation settings were moved to the
>>>> server, we've been making use of org unit settings to set default print
>>>> templates. Any workstation setting can be turned into an org unit setting
>>>> as Bill Erickson described here:
>>>>
>>>> https://markmail.org/message/hfaogumstphagscy
>>>>
>>>> We have set a number of default print templates at the consortium org
>>>> unit level as consortium defaults, and upon request of a library, have
>>>> copied print templates configured on a given workstation into org unit
>>>> settings for that library so they don't need to be set on each workstation.
>>>> We've left the workstation setting types so that individual workstations
>>>> can override the org unit settings when necessary.
>>>>
>>>> This has been pretty successful, eliminating the need for library staff
>>>> to move them from workstation to workstation on a flash drive.
>>>>
>>>> We've done this for many column settings as well.
>>>>
>>>> Hope this is helpful.
>>>> Michele
>>>> --
>>>> Michele M. Morgan, Technical Support Analyst
>>>> North of Boston Library Exchange, Danvers Massachusetts
>>>> mmorgan at noblenet.org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 2:25 PM Josh Stompro <stomproj at gsuite.larl.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello, I just want to make sure I have this correct while planning our
>>>>> upgrade to 3.3
>>>>>
>>>>> If I want to set global printer templates in the staff client in 3.3.3
>>>>> I can modify the templates at
>>>>> /openils/var/templates/staff/share/print_templates/
>>>>> or if I have alternate TT2 template locations
>>>>> (/openils/var/templates_shared/) I can update them there.
>>>>>
>>>>> If I need to set per location defaults for the print templates, I'll
>>>>> need to enter data per workstation into actor.workstation_setting.
>>>>>
>>>>> In 3.4 there will be an admin gui for updating the print templates per
>>>>> org unit and locale.
>>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1825851
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
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>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Josh Stompro - IT Director
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>>> Desk: 218-233-3757 Ext 139
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>>>
>>
>
> --
> Josh Stompro - IT Director
> Lake Agassiz Regional Library
> Desk: 218-233-3757 Ext 139
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>


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