Talis Developer Network - site parameter transfer script - Comments

Using site_parameter_transfer

JohnHudson — Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:21:29 +0000

Removed query - found answer when re-reading documentation!

downloading file

Brian Crampton — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:46:25 +0000

If you add the .gz extension to the file when being saved in IE you will then find that you can open that in WinZip (or use 7-Zip as that works better anyway on the original file) and extract the .tar file and that can be FTP'd to the server.

Brian Crampton
Developer, Talis

I'm finding I can't install

JohnHudson — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:39:17 +0000

I'm finding I can't install this. After downloading it to my Windows PC and copying it via FTP (switching type to BIN) to the Talis server, I try running

tar xvf site_parameter_transfer.tar

and immediately get

tar: tape blocksize error

Would this be the same problem caused by downloading through Internet Explorer 6? If so, is there an FTP address I can download it from to bypass the problem? IE6 is the only browser I have here.

Apologies if I've asked this here before - I can't see any way of searching for my own posts in the forums, and searching for site_parameter_transfer doesn't bring it up.

Thank you.

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John Hudson, Gateshead Council Libraries and Arts

site parameter transfer script

Brian Crampton — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:16:37 +0000

There isn't a link in this thread to the article.

The article is available and called Parameter transfer script

The article and download are at http://www.talis.com/tdn/alto_tech

I don't think it transfers fine type and values.

Brian Crampton
Developer, Talis

site_parameter_transfer script

TraciSpurr — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:08:21 +0000

Hi, this is the first time I've seen this script. Can this be used to transfer changes to fees and charges? where can I find more information on this - the pdf listed doesn't exist anymore?

site parameter transfer script

Brian Crampton — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:30:30 +0000

Thanks for letting me know of the problem. I'll look at this for the Windows version.

The TDN scripts were generally created in a Solaris UNIX environment so there may be issues in some cases. There is more likely to be issues with shell scripts that the Perl scripts which are by design more portable.

Brian Crampton
Developer, Talis

site parameter transfer script

lcartwright — Thu, 8 Jan 2009 11:36:23 +0000

Hi
I am running the site_parameter_transfer script to transfer loan rules and dead days across sites and it runs ok but will not create the report file. the following error is reported when the script starts,and again when the script completes but no report file is created. Just thought you may want to check this out if it is related to running on a windows system.

tee: /scratch/site_parameter_transfer_09:56:40.rep: No such file or directory
site_parameter_trans COMMENCED 08/01/09 09:56:44
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