evergreen-reports:meetings:2010-12-08

Notes from the Evergreen Reports Task Force Conference Call

December 8, 2010 – 2:30PM-3:30PM EDT

Conference line: 1-507-389-1014

Agenda

In attendance

Introductions

DIG and Reports

Discussion of the request from Robert Souilliere in DIG for better Reports documentation.
There was a request for volunteers to create new documentation.
Lynn provided a one-page list of Frequently Asked Questions that she uses for training at SCLENDS. The FAQ is posted here .

There was also a suggestion to review the results of our Reports program at the 2011 Conference.

Mailing List

There is an ongoing effort to move the open-ils-reports mailing list from Google Groups to the existing Evergreen mailing lists.
Status: currently on hold, pending some reconfiguration of the mailing list servers. Katherine Gregory will follow up.
For now we will continue to use the open-ils-reports mailing list at Google Groups.

Evergreen Conference 2011

Quick review and discussion of some of last year's programs plus possible programs for 2011.
It was noted that the conference allots only about fifty-five minutes for most programs, not enough for a detailed review.
An example was given of a program at Bibliomation that required two days to provide in-depth information.
During the discussion, Lynn Floyd provided a link to Entity/Relationship (E/R) diagrams of the Evergreen database. The diagrams can be found here .
Amy agreed to handle scheduling of the Reports program.

Report clean-up scripts

Discussion of reason for need for clean-up scripts, noting that the existing tool "find_orphaned_reports.pl" can find reports but doesn't delete them.
Ben forwarded info from Mike Peters of Indiana that describes a solution for deleting old reports. A summary can be found here .

Next Meeting

Wednesday, January 12, 2011 - 2:30PM-3:30PM ET