Status map / flow chart

[wagneral]

Creation of a status map / flow chart for a better understanding of containing elements, processes and relations between components

[th122]

Call for Discussion:

Here's the current state of yesterdays quick and dirty chart:
PrintingWithAPE.pdf
I cleaned up the perusal of the BPMN symbols somewhat and added the possible archiving points (they tend to clutter the graphic a bit though, I'm afraid)
As additional documentation, it would probably benefit from an accompanying text explaining the configuration points mentioned in the config-lane, for example:

• default_printer set in Alma: Fulfillment Configuration/General/Printers/Code and assigned to a circulation desk in its printing configuration, visible in xml as
  -/notification_data/organization_unit/default_printer/text()
  -/notification_data/receivers/receiver[1]/printer/code/text()
• Mail Archive if archiving the original mails as sent by Alma is desired (preserving envelope/header information), this can be set in the .forward configuration file. Mails can be reinjected into the APE print process by either
  • copying them to the inbox of the account monitored by fetchmail, and setting their status to unread (fetchmail will ignore mails with a status of read).
  • bouncing/resending the original mail to the mail address monitored by fetchmail. Note that this may fail if the MUA (Mail User Agent) used modifies the mail, such as converting it from HTML to another format (Rich Text or Plain Text are common choices), or encapsulating it further to indicate it as forwarded or quoted.
• HTML Archive The APE php script saves a copy of the mail body as filename.html to its tmp directory. This can be archived, if desired and reinjected into the script by prepending it with a generic mail header and feeding it to the php script. Example: cat ${ape_root}/mbox/head.mbox ${1} ${ape_root}/mbox/foot.mbox | php ${ape_root}/init.php (it would probably be a good idea to add a script for this job that is making use of the parameters already set in print.conf.
• PDF Archive After printing, the APE php script archives the pdf files to its history subdirectory structure. From there they can be printed again.

For use as site-specific documentation, I'd encourage to add the local URLs to the Web-GUIs, the hostnames of the local servers involved and the paths to the configuration files.

Ideas and suggestions welcome...

Tatjana Heuser (Universitätsbibliothek der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)