December 2003 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

[important]NEW TRANSLATION TOOL
by paul POULAIN 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

I've just commited a new translation tool. Feel free to test it AND IMPROVE IT. TRANSLATION TOOL : ============ This transation tool should greatly help Koha translators. It's composed of 2 script : * test-extract.pl, that extracts the texts in a template. It is called by * tmpl_process. tmpl process can do 3 things : - create a file with all sentences all files in a directory (& it's subdirectories) - update an existing translation file. - rebuild translated templates from english & translation file. Call tmpl_process --help to get full explanations. HOW TO TRANSLATE Koha : ============ 1- create your translation file : ./tmpl_process.pl update -i /home/paul/koha.dev/koha/koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/default/en/ -s opac.fr -r 2- translate your opac.fr file (english & french being separated by a tab 3- create your translated version : ./tmpl_process.pl install -i /home/paul/koha.dev/koha/koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/default/en/ -o /home/paul/koha.dev/koha/koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/default/fr2/ -s opac.fr -r 4- copy images in your new directory (as they are NOT moved by tmpl_process.pl install) If something changes in english version, go back to pt1 & repeat. WEAKNESSES ======= I've found some weaknesses (some solvable probably, but maybe some unsolvable) - HTML::Templates pb : if there is only a <TMPL* > tag between 2 strings, text-extract sometimes merges both strings, and so can't replace them in the translated template. I've solved all those cases with a <br/> or another HTML statement. - SHORT STATEMENTS short statements (like "in") can be replaced stupidly (like in cgi-bin => gives cgi-bdans in french). the workaround has been to replace only complete words ( line 185 of tmpl_process : $line =~ s/(\W)$text(\W)/$1$subst$2/g; ) Don't seem to have any side effect. - WORD exist in FILENAME words that are in the templates and in a perl script name are replaced ! For example : Search is replace by Recherche in french, thus,giving <a href="cgi-bin/opac-Recherche.pl">, which is wrong... The only way I've found to solve this is to ignore any translation whose translation string is IGNORE (search is the only cas i've found in french opac) - MISSING STRINGS Maybe some strings that should be translated are missing. You can add whatever you want in text-extract.pl. For instance, it extracts : - standard text - text in alt="SOMETEXT" - meta html encoding (8859-1) to enable non european translations. COPYRIGHT ====== @ paul poulain (paul.poulain _@_ free.fr) & Jerome Vizcaino vizcainj _@_ esiee.fr -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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recent acquisitions feature & translation tool
by paul POULAIN 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

Hi, a "recent acquisition" tool has been added in OPAC : in the main opac screen, you can choose itemtype (X) & duration (Y). Then you can see books acquired since less than Y days with itemtype X. Will be released with 2.0.0RC2 Note : for those not reading koha-dev : i've also created a translation tool that should highly ease translation of Koha. If someone want more info, see koha-dev. opac in french has been entirely re-reated with this tool. Translation in a new language means editing a SINGLE text file. 250 line for opac, 1200 for intranet. All "developper" lines are hidden, you just have to translate english strings. -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Problem modifying user with new installation
by Edward M. Corrado 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

Joshua Ferraro <jferraro(a)athenscounty.lib.oh.us> wrote: > Hi Edward, Hi Joshua, > I thought this problem was fixed already, but it looks like it's coming back :-) > I wonder if it's bug 491... I didn't notice a place to look up bugs before. However I just noticed the koha-bugs mailing list on sourceforge. I'll have to remember to check it in the future. > It would help us diagnose the problem better if we could see the error logs, > which would give the location in the perl scripts/modules of the problem. > The log to check in this case is koha-error_log. The log files should be > in /usr/local/koha/log but if you can't find them there you can run a search: > > find / -name koha-error_log -print I just replicated the error and this is what is showing up in the koha-error_log that looks related: [Mon Dec 29 08:41:26 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] autoMemberNum is 1, referer: http://127.0.0.1:8080/cgi-bin/koha/moremember.pl?bornum=1 Is there a setting for autoMemberNum that would be more appropriate? I'd like to keep the member numbers automated if possible. While I'm mentioning things in the error log, I'm also getting a number of entries that look like this: [Sun Dec 28 12:37:48 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /usr/local/koha/intranet/htdocs/images, referer: http://127.0.0.1:8080/cgi-bin/koha/admin/stopwords.pl [Mon Dec 29 08:40:58 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /usr/local/koha/intranet/htdocs/images, referer: http://127.0.0.1:8080/cgi-bin/koha/mainpage.pl I'm assuming that these are just because I didn't add images to replace the text across the top of the screen - so I'm not that worried about it. Should I be? I noticed a few other issues, but I'll save them until I get to check the bugs list. Edward

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Member search
by Owen Leonard 29 Dec '03

29 Dec '03

I was checking on whether Mr. Corrado's member update problem was happening on our test server (rel 2.0--and it is), when I found that member searches are behaving differently than they used to. The member search (/cgi- bin/koha/members-home.pl) now refuses to search using a full or partial first name. It will not return a hit for 'leonard, owen,' or 'leonard, o'. It will only return hits for 'leonard.' This is obviously a major rollback in functionality. What happened? -- Owen

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Problem modifying user with new install
by Edward M. Corrado 28 Dec '03

28 Dec '03

Hello all, I downloaded and installed Koha 2.0.0RC1 today. This is the first time I have tried Koha. I believe it is working correctly, however the only thing I did was to try to add two members. I aheven't even tried to add a an item. The members added fine, however when I tried to update the two members, I received an error. The error says: The following fields have a forbidden value. Please push the back button and try again : Invalid_cardnumber I did not change the member number when I created the two users. I took the default number. Is this a bug or did I do something incorrectly? I noticed on the test drive version that Koha also complained about the card number when I tried to edit the patron I created. I'm not sure if it makes a difference, but I am running Koha on Mandrake 9.2 using Apache 2. Thank you, Edward Corrado UNIX Admin/Library Systems Manager

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Zyczenia Merry Christmas
by Benedykt 25 Dec '03

25 Dec '03

Hi group, Merry Christmas to all who struggle to make koha a better program, Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia (in Polish). Benedykt

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rel_2_0 CVS branch
by Chris Cormack 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

Hi All I have branched the koha cvs tree. The new branch is called rel_2_0 All new features/enhancements should be done in the main trunk. All bugfixing for the 2.0 release should be done in the rel_2_0 branch. This is the new stable tree. Hence no new features should be added to it, just broken things fixed. And of course security fixes like MJ Ray is working on. This would be great to be ported back to the main tree when they are finished. Or worked on in the main tree and ported to the rel_2_0 branch. http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs/doc/cvs_5.html#SEC52 Is a good document explaining how to work with branches cvs co -r rel_2_0 koha would check out the rel_2_0 branch. Hope this makes sense Chris -- Chris Cormack Programmer 027 4500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris(a)katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz

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developers in Winnipeg
by Tonnesen Steve 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

Do we have any Koha developers in the Winnipeg, MB area? Steve.

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Merry & Holy Christmas,, see you next year
by paul POULAIN 22 Dec '03

22 Dec '03

Hi everybody, I leave Marseille tomorrow morning, and will be back on january, 2 (chrismas with family + wedding next saturday + new year with friends). Have nice & holy chrismas time. -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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New acquisitions search
by Owen Leonard 19 Dec '03

19 Dec '03

When I try the new 'New Acquisitions' search in the OPAC, the results returned are a little off. With items that have more than one copy, each copy shows up on a separate line: These tangled threads / Peterson, Tracie. AF Peterson These tangled threads / Peterson, Tracie. AF Peterson These tangled threads / Peterson, Tracie. AF Peterson These tangled threads / Peterson, Tracie. AF Peterson These tangled threads / Peterson, Tracie. AF Peterson -- Owen

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