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I just started to customize

pauls — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:47:31 +0100

I just started to customize a drupal web content management system and integrating talis

submitting data to Libscan

Brian Crampton — Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:34:56 +0000

The other thing to check is that the tar file was transferred to the UNIX server in binary mode when using FTP or if the file was extracted from the tar file in Windows first and then opened and saved in Windows.. Doing otherwise can corrupt files. The datecalc file had ^M characters which indicate a windows formatted file rather than UNIX.

Also you need to ensure you have execute permissions on the scripts set.

I think you also need to add the following line to the beginning of the script

#! /usr/bin/ksh

Also in your script there is a space after the $ in the datecalc command line that isn't in the comment above.

I've made the changes above and created a version of the script, nielsen_2.sc which has all the other lines to remove files, run the plr script and to FTP it commented out.

Running that brings up the correct date values.

If you want to continue testing with the new version and if it is all OK let me know and I will update the article.

Thanks

Brian Crampton
Developer, Talis

Submitting data to Nielsen Libscan

Chris Joy — Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:14:48 +0000

I'm trying to use loa_plr_retrieve_lyra.pl and datecalc (as downloaded from the TDN) to create and export data to Nielsen. I keep getting the following errors:
stty: : No such device or address
stty: : No such device or address
stty: : No such device or address
/scratch/nielsen/nielsen.sc: typeset: not found
/scratch/nielsen/nielsen.sc: typeset: not found
/scratch/nielsen/nielsen.sc: typeset: not found
/scratch/nielsen/nielsen.sc: syntax error at line 14: `(' unexpected

The relevant lines in the script are:
typeset -Z2 d
typeset -Z2 m
typeset -Z2 y
datecalc -a $(date '+%Y %m %d') - 1 | read y m d

I've been speaking to Mark Hughes (who posted the nielsen.sc details) and he thinks it may be something to do with the shell. I've tried running amended scripts with both #!/bin/ksh and #!/usr/bin/ksh as the first line but neither has made any difference to the errors. Does anyone have any ideas?

Many thanks,

Chris Joy
Library System Officer, Liverpool Libraries
Tel: 0151 233 5805 Fax: 0151 233 5801
Email: chris.joy@liverpool.gov.uk

Can't get Author search to work

gi06 — Tue, 7 Jul 2009 14:46:04 +0100

Hello
Just starting to look at this in more detail. Go the title and isbn searches working but can't seem to get the author one working; takes me to the simple search screen. Any ideas?
I am adding "aulast" for the name of the text.
Iain

I've got exactly the same

pauln — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:06:16 +0100

I've got exactly the same problem, could someone send me the toolkit please?

Thanks, Paul

Hi, You could try replacing

Ian Davis — Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:42:23 +0000

Hi,

You could try replacing the System.out.println method calls with a call to JTextArea's setText method instead.

There's a basic JTextArea tutorial here: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/textarea.html

Ian

A question

cmpe — Sat, 7 Feb 2009 13:30:20 +0000

Hi,
Do you know how someone may change the code so that the output appears on
JTextArea instead of standard output?

.

cmpe — Sat, 7 Feb 2009 13:28:48 +0000

Sorry not here.

Blackboard Building Block

katiepiatt — Thu, 2 Oct 2008 11:52:27 +0100

Hi - just starting to build a Blackbaord Building Block for us to use here at Brighton. Any chance I could get a copy of yours to save me taking the same learning curve? Much appreciated if poss!

Thanks
Katie

JSP Toolkit - Integration between Blackboard and Keystone (2)

suy — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:04:01 +0100

Hi Andy,

We've solved the problem. As you've suggested in (3), we found out that our blackboard server didn't have permission to see our talis server through the firewall. After our network engineer modified the firewall rules, the problem is solved. Now our students can see their library account summary when they use blackboard.

Many thanks,

JSP Toolkit - Integration between Blackboard and Keystone (2)

suy — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:13:01 +0100

Hi Andy,

Many thanks for the suggestions. To answer your questions 1 and 2 first, I can confirm that there is no problem with our keystone service or with any of the dummy student IDs we have been using. The fact is the blackboard building block works fine on our development server, and we can see all the dummy students' library account summaries on our blackboard development server.

We're still talking to our network manager to see if there is any problem with our live blackboard server as you've suggested in 3.

So far, we don't see a need for a support call, yet. I'll get back to you when I have more info from our network manager.

Many thanks,

Can I check a few things please

Andy Latham — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:16:30 +0100

Hi Su,

An IO exception would indicate that a call to the web services has failed somehow. Can I check a few things please:

1) Is your local Talis Keystone service started up OK? Can you See the Talis Keystone service in a web browser for example?

2) Does the borrower you have requested exist in your system? If it doesn't I would have expected the error to be more meaningful than this, but just so i can be sure...

3) Does your live blackboard server have permission to see the port on which Talis Keystone is running? You could check this by logging into your live blackboard box and opening up a telnet session to the Keystone port on the Prism server (default port is 8080 btw) and sending in a HTTP GET request. All of this assumes that keystone has started up on your system, as per question (1)...

4) I don't think the version of Java is an issue here. If you were running the Toolkit with a JVM version which is previous to the one the Toolkit was compiled with I would not expect you to have got this far. You would have seen a major/minor class error in the stack trace.

If you could check your keystone system and validate the borrower in the first instance and let me know then that would be great! If all this is ok we can continue trouble shooting this for you.

Would you like to open up a support call for this?

Many thanks,

-Andy

Andy Latham
Senior Solutions Consultant
Talis Information Ltd
www.talis.com

JSP Toolkit - Integration between Blackboard and Keystone (2)

suy — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:02:25 +0100

Hi,

I've posted a previous message here regarding some socket permission problem while integrating Blackboard with keystone service. This socket permission problem happened while we were working on our blackboard development server. With your help, the socket permission problem was solved, and we have no problem to integrate our keystone service inside our blackboard development server.

Now we moved onto our blackboard live server, and we encountered a strange problem.

We are able to call the sandbox keystone service (http://sandbox.talis.com/TalisKeystone/ViewMyAccountRESTService) from our live blackboard server without any problem.

But once we changed the ViewMyAccountToolkit.properties file to point to our own keystone service, I got this Unable to invoke REST service due to IOException error. The detailed messages are:

Creating borrowerIdentifier object.
com.talis.integration.services.BorrowerIdentifier [BORROWER ID=9686883] [BORROWER ID TYPE=InstitutionIdNumber]
Creating BorrowerAccount object.
com.talis.integration.services.ClientServiceException: Unable to invoke REST service due to IOException [Ljava.lang.StackTraceElement;@18c24b9

You can see the exception happens when trying to create the BorrowerAccount object. I tried to trace the stack info, but couldn't find any useful info there.

The thing I don't understand is why the live blackboard server is able to invoke the sandbox service without any problem, but got the IOException error when connecting to our own keystone service.

Could the version of Java on the blackboard server be an issue?

What does, "com.talis.integration.services.ClientServiceException: Unable to invoke REST service due to IOException", usually indicate? Is there anyway we can trace more info about this IOException problem?

I'm running out of ideas, please help.

Thanks in advance.

JSP Toolkit - Integration between Blackboard and Keystone

suy — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:37:35 +0100

Hi,

< permission type="socket" name="*" actions="accept,connect"/> solved the problem.

Many thanks,

JSP Toolkit - Integration between Blackboard and Keystone

Mohammed Hossain — Thu, 5 Jun 2008 15:03:41 +0100

Hi,

I believe this is a security issue with the Blackboard server, which is preventing outbound connection to the TalisKeystone server. So I would strongly recommend that you speak to your Blackboard server admin and modify the policy file.

My knowledge of Blackboard is limited but I think if you add the following lines in the bb.manifest.xml file , between the opening and closing <permissions> tags, might resolve your problem:

Hope this helps.

Please let us know how you get on.

Mohammed Hossain
Solutions Consultant
Talis