Re: Tellico 1.3.3 Released

Just found this message when I returned after my holidays. Thanks for 
the effort! Looking forward to try it out.

Robby Stephenson wrote:
> On Saturday 12 July 2008, Norbert Nemec wrote:
>   
>> So, may it be that tellico expects the URL to end in .bib? In that case,
>> it will not work for many of the common journals that offer bibtex
>> export but use a URL without a file ending.
>>
>> Perhaps, Tellico could just accept plain text per drag and drop and
>> determine the type of the data automatically? That way, one could just
>> drop a snippet of a bibtex file on Tellico to import that reference.
>>     
>
> OK, since you let me know you actually care... :) I made a special case 
> check for text/plain and bibtex format. Using your DOI example, dragging 
> the "view citation in bibtex" url from both firefox and konqueror works for 
> Tellico now.
>
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Problem with images.

Hi Robby,

I have created a guestbook in tellico and I have entered 1132 records.
Some of then have scanned images of pictures and other stuff the guests
have been drawing in our guestbooks. However, in the internal reports
columnview and groupview no images are shown. 
Also the groupssummary looks strange. I attach some files.

/Peter

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this question of the category view....

Robbie has withstood my proddings on this with great good humor.  Here is why 
its a problem.  

In my case, tellico is being used for an indexed collection.  The items have 
one unique index number, assigned at the time of accession.  The index field 
is fairly meaningless.  In defiance of good database practice it has a 
meaning of sorts, but its a combination of year, month and ordinal position 
of the item in accessions for that month.  So it might be something like 
Site1 2004.11.13.

The problem occurs when you are doing the three pane view.  Your group is, 
lets say, the type of item.  These could be books, models, photos, 
prints...etc.

You see in the left pane then, that you have 42 prints and 25 photos.  You 
wish to know more.  So you click on a folder.  At that point you see 25 
identical icons all with the accession numbers under them. Stuff like, Site1 
2004.2.3 This isn't very helpful because the legends tell you nothing.really 
about the object.

This is why it would be nice to see instead, when you click on the folder, all 
25 items appear in the top right pane, and then when you use that pane to 
scroll through, the detail appearing in the bottom right.

I can see this might be different if you were indexing by book title, for 
example.

How does anyone else feel about this?

Al

importing csv

Strange problem.  Installed debian lenny, got tellico through synaptic.  Then 
in the import csv dialogue, I see no files, only folders.  Anyone think of a 
reason for this?  Do I have to have all of kde installed for the import and 
therefore the find file dialogue to work?  

Opening a tellico file however seems to work just fine, once I have done the 
import on another machine.  Also, funnily enough, debian lenny.

Puzzled.

Al

Image list

Hi Robby,

1. First a question. I have in my guestbook 1132 entries.
It takes almost 2 minutes to load.
I have links to 46 images.
Is this loading time normal?

2. Bug issue:
When i generate an "Image List" fron the "Generate collection reports" button in the above application
I get a report with no images and with one "type of items (Textfält) twice, as can be seen in the attached file.

/Peter
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Re: Image list

On Friday 22 August 2008, Peter Landgren wrote:
> Hi Robby,
>
> 1. First a question. I have in my guestbook 1132 entries.
> It takes almost 2 minutes to load.
> I have links to 46 images.
> Is this loading time normal?

Are the images saved in the data file, or do you have them saved in the 
application directory? It's a setting in the configuration, and ssaving 
them in the directory instead of the file is much much faster.

> 2. Bug issue:
> When i generate an "Image List" fron the "Generate collection reports"
> button in the above application I get a report with no images and with
> one "type of items (Textfält) twice, as can be seen in the attached file.

I'd need the actual data file to be able to figure out what's going on. Is 
it very big?

Robby

Re: importing csv

On Thursday 21 August 2008, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
> Strange problem.  Installed debian lenny, got tellico through synaptic. 
> Then in the import csv dialogue, I see no files, only folders.  Anyone
> think of a reason for this?  Do I have to have all of kde installed for
> the import and therefore the find file dialogue to work?

That's rather odd. Does the dialog window caption say "Import File" ?

Robby

Re: this question of the category view....

On Thursday 21 August 2008, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
> Robbie has withstood my proddings on this with great good humor.  Here is
> why its a problem.

I still think the right-click, "Filter by group" does what you want. :P

> In my case, tellico is being used for an indexed collection.  The items
> have one unique index number, assigned at the time of accession.  The
> index field is fairly meaningless.  In defiance of good database practice
> it has a meaning of sorts, but its a combination of year, month and
> ordinal position of the item in accessions for that month.  So it might
> be something like Site1 2004.11.13.
>
> You see in the left pane then, that you have 42 prints and 25 photos. 
> You wish to know more.  So you click on a folder.  At that point you see
> 25 identical icons all with the accession numbers under them. Stuff like,
> Site1 2004.2.3 This isn't very helpful because the legends tell you
> nothing.really about the object.

In that case, it sound like you just want to use a different field as the 
title, no?

Robby

Re: Image list

Den Saturday 23 August 2008 18:04:11 skrev Robby Stephenson:
> On Friday 22 August 2008, Peter Landgren wrote:
> > Hi Robby,
> >
> > 1. First a question. I have in my guestbook 1132 entries.
> > It takes almost 2 minutes to load.
> > I have links to 46 images.
> > Is this loading time normal?
> 
> Are the images saved in the data file, or do you have them saved in the 
> application directory? It's a setting in the configuration, and ssaving 
> them in the directory instead of the file is much much faster.

They are not saved in the data file.
My structure looks like this:
/home/peter/Kataloger/Gästbok  is where the tc-file is
and
/home/peter/Kataloger/Gästbok/Bilder is where the images are

> > 2. Bug issue:
> > When i generate an "Image List" fron the "Generate collection reports"
> > button in the above application I get a report with no images and with
> > one "type of items (Textfält) twice, as can be seen in the attached file.
> 
> I'd need the actual data file to be able to figure out what's going on. Is 
> it very big?

No. I attach it.

Reghards,

Re: Image list

On Friday 22 August 2008, Peter Landgren wrote:
> 1. First a question. I have in my guestbook 1132 entries.
> It takes almost 2 minutes to load.
> I have links to 46 images.
> Is this loading time normal?

Are they really big images? Do you have the column view set to show the 
image field? In that case, they'll need to be loaded at startup. I took 
your file, replaced the image links with links to one of my own images, and 
the file still loads in less than 10 seconds. This is with the current 
1.3.x branch.

> 2. Bug issue:
> When i generate an "Image List" fron the "Generate collection reports"
> button in the above application I get a report with no images and with
> one "type of items (Textfält) twice, as can be seen in the attached file.

Fixed that. Thanks for pointing it out.

Robby