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ExLibrisGroup / alma-print-daemon

Application which listens for and prints letters from the Ex Libris Alma print queues.
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Add ability to manually ask for application update #32

Closed prbutler closed 1 year ago

prbutler commented 3 years ago

After updating 6 installs of the daemon in our environment, I have 2 feature requests.

  1. Display the version/build number of the daemon in the interface., perhaps along the top of the window.
  2. I found whether the update would be prompted/trigger inconsistent. it would be great if the Edit of File menu had a button to trigger the update.

Cheers, Paul

mgobat commented 3 years ago

@prbutler, are you requesting that the auto update shouldn't happen automatically, but rather at the request of the user? Or that the user interface for the auto update should just be improved? Thanks!

prbutler commented 3 years ago

I would suggest the UI have a button to check for and trigger an update. On 2 of the 6 machines in our environment the auto-updater never triggered and I had to go to the C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Alma folder to manually trigger the update. For end-users having to wait for the update (when there is no clear way for them to determine if it has been applied) or invoke it from a hidden folder is not ideal. If the UI had a button to check for an update and trigger it that would be helpful to users.

Full disclosure, our workstations where the print daemon is installed are frozen with DeepFreeze, so the daemon auto-updating is not particularly useful for our setup, but I am sure it is for others so it is worth keeping the feature. Perhaps a checkbox in the UI to allow auto-updating or require manual updating via an update button would work.

Thank you for considering these features. Cheers, Paul

mgobat commented 1 year ago

Automatic update was removed in version 2.1.0, replaced with a "Check for Update" button.