Robert Heller
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In reply to: [WebLibrarian] maximum of book itemPlease double check this. There is nothing in the code that imposes any sort of item limit. I am not able to replicate this error. It seems like somehow your database systenm is fubar’ed. What operating system is your *server* running? What version of MySQL are you running?
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In reply to: [WebLibrarian] maximum of book itemThere isn’t any limit on the number of items in the database. Note that when you add an item the edit screen refreshes and becomes an update item page and a not a add new item page. You need to explicitly go to a fresh new item page to add an additional item. Are you sure you went to a new item page?
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In reply to: [WebLibrarian] CVS FileYes, mess-office seems to be a disaster when it comes to CSV files. M$ seems incapable of dealing inter-operatibly with standard formats.
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In reply to: [WebLibrarian] Pre-Install QuestionOpen-ILS/Evergreen is a full fledged ILS system and includes the whole library system. I doubt that it integrates into WordPress. It might be a bigger system than you might be looking for. You say you want to manage a ‘university’ library — what exactly do you mean by that? ‘University’ to me makes me think if UMass, with its 25 story high rise *main* library on its *main* campus. Plus its numerious branch libraries on its *main* campus, plus the libraries on its various *other* campuses. Maybe what *you* mean by ‘University’ is something much smaller…
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In reply to: [WebLibrarian] Pre-Install QuestionThe WebLibrarian should work for any small (maybe medium) sized library. If you need interlibrary loan support or other multi-library features, you might be better off with Open-ILS (Everygreen) or some other larger scale ILS system.
You don’t *need* Amazon’s Web Services to use the WebLibrarian — AWS is useful for getting data for items you are adding to the library, in that various datums (like ISBNs, thumbnail images, and so on) can be automagically fetched from Amazon’s database. If this information is already available or available from another source, you can skip the AWS set up.
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In reply to: [WebLibrarian] missing thumbnail image in chrome & how to resize thumbnailFor some reason, you have the content wrapped in a
<pre>block. That is probably causing formatting isues. I don’t know if that is a function of your theme or something else.Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WebLibrarian] Default listing orderbyIt is current not possible to change the default search order.
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In reply to: [WebLibrarian] CSV import, sql db and general settingsI’ve updated the AWS interface to use the additional locales. If you update to version 3.2.9.7 it will have the Amazon Italian domain/locale.
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In reply to: [WebLibrarian] CSV import, sql db and general settingsChanging the type of the pubdate field is likely to break things badly — the code kind of depends on it being a mysql date type. You can also just add ’01-01-‘ to the front of the year. Only the month and year are actually displayed. I am not sure what the best way of dealing with the Edition field — it might be possible to use CSS to hack that — you don’t really need to mess with the actual column name, just the label used.
How good are you at hacking PHP?
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In reply to: [WebLibrarian] CSV import, sql db and general settingsThe pubdate format should be MM-DD-YYYY (ex: 01-10-2013 would be January 10, 2013).
Last time I checked AWS does not have a .it domain, but I will check again later today or tomorrow.
Messing with the DB fields is possible, if you know PHP well enough. I wrap the database access with classes, one for each table. The code does make assumptions about column names in other places though, so column renaming could have strange effects and could break things badly. Which column do you want to rename or add?
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In reply to: [WebLibrarian] Live Examples?I have a test site at http://library.deepsoft.com. It is only a test site where I can do ‘live’ tests.
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In reply to: [WebLibrarian] due dateYes if you had 10 *physical copies* available for lending, you will have to list all ten with separate bar codes. Do you really have ten copies of a given book? Seems like a lot. More full-fledged library management systems (like OpenILS / Everygreen) handle this differently — they understand about multiple copies of a given specific work and group the multiple copies (which might be at different libraries) as a single search result and allow the idea a placing a hold on a *title* rather than a specific (physical) *copy*. Web Librarian cannot at present do that.
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In reply to: [WebLibrarian] 403 Error when populating fields from AmazonWhat you can do is that instead of do an ‘Insert item’ from the AWS list, do a ‘Look Up Item’. Then you can *selectively* insert info in the form using the little insert field buttons next to each of the displayed fields.
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In reply to: [WebLibrarian] 403 Error when populating fields from AmazonThis is strange. The only thing I can think of is that there is something wrong with your AWS setup — one of the fields is set wrong. But this is only a guess.
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In reply to: [WebLibrarian] due dateAre you still having problems? Or has this issue been resolved?