February 2004 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

Accounts and Reports
by Ambrose Li 29 Feb '04

29 Feb '04

Hi, on the Intranet front page, the link to the "Reports" menu is called "Accounts and Reports". What does "Accounts" mean here? Thanks, -- Ambrose LI Cheuk-Wing <a.c.li(a)ieee.org> http://ada.dhs.org/~acli/

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request.pl script has probably some flaws
by Benedykt P. Barszcz 29 Feb '04

29 Feb '04

Hi, there probably is a certain irregularity in the return.pl script. Could anyone check why charset (in spite of being correctly displayed in a browser source window as, in my case utf-8) defaults to iso-8859-1. Character encoding on a browser pulldown menu switches to iso-8859-1, although in the source window it is what it has been set to through include file probably. It doesn't happen to other windows (templates). thanks a lot. Benedict

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Re: [Koha-devel] feature request
by Owen Leonard 28 Feb '04

28 Feb '04

> A message could be generated during the returning > of an Item in the > Messages window (that's what it is there for) > saying: > An Item has successfully been returned (in read > print). This could be easily changed in your template. However, I think the assumption is that if no error message appears, and the book shows up in the list of returned items, it was returned successfully. -- Owen

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call number prefix
by Benedykt P. Barszcz 28 Feb '04

28 Feb '04

Hi group, I noticed there's a call number prefix while cataloging a book but there's no Call Number feature in Koha tables (this is my guess). How do you cope with that in real life setup? Benedict

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is opac-detail.pl buggy?
by Benedykt P. Barszcz 28 Feb '04

28 Feb '04

After a user reserves a book he can click on its tile and see more. ISBN number is available as clickable. If followed the system says it has not found any items by that isbn number. Benedict This question is also related to what I asked some time ago. Could ISBN search be made available to unauthenticated users for them to search by isbn?

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feature request
by Benedykt P. Barszcz 28 Feb '04

28 Feb '04

A message could be generated during the returning of an Item in the Messages window (that's what it is there for) saying: An Item has successfully been returned (in read print). Just a suggestion. Benedict

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super improvement of translation tool
by Benedykt P. Barszcz 28 Feb '04

28 Feb '04

Hi Group, I just wanted to thank Abrose for his latest improvement of the translation tool that uses xgettext and ./tmpl_process3. It is now a lot clearer where a given string is in a context of a template. Especially have a look at this example: * %pF %p M     <B>Date of Birth</B> (%s) %S Kbabel (translation tool for KDE) gives me a hint in a separate window like this: #. %1$p: type=radio name=sex value=F #. %2$p: type=radio name=sex value=M #. %3$s: TMPL_VAR name=dateformat #. %4$S: type=text name=dateofbirth #: /home/kb2qzv/CVS-Cervisia/koha/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/default/en/members/memberentry.tmpl:30 #, c-format Now, this is really lot easier to translate, knowing that %p is a radio button, %s is a value of TMPL_VAR, and %S deriving from an INPUT type=text. Very Good. Benedict

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Pressing + to Repeat a Field Sends You Back to the 0 Page
by Bruffey, Mark 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

In /cgi-bin/koha/acqui.simple/addbiblio.pl <http://cgi-bin/koha/acqui.simple/addbiblio.pl> , selecting "+" to populate the screen with an additional field (e.g., 650) sends the user back to the "0" screen, from, say the "3" screen. Mark L. Mark Bruffey Director Library Services Central Baptist Theological Seminary 900 Forestview Lane N Plymouth MN 55441 763 417 8264 mbruffey(a)centralseminary.edu Central Seminary <http://www.centralseminary.edu/> www.centralseminary.edu Fourth Baptist Church <http://www.fourthbaptist.org/> www.fourthbaptist.org WCTS Radio AM 1030 Online <http://www.centralseminary.edu/wcts> www.centralseminary.edu/wcts *************************************** Have you experienced the good news? "Every one who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved!" [Romans 10:13] ***************************************

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a better english word for a breeding farm?
by Benedykt P. Barszcz 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

As in the subject... Thanks Benedict

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RE: [Koha-devel] log about z3950
by Sullivan,Deric [CMC] 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

Hi, I think there is an important difference between using the InactiveDestroy and opening a new handler in the forked process. Opening the new handler is similar to using C4::Context->new_dbh. Either way, the original handler was opened before the fork. So even if the child (forked) process does not use the original handler, it still has a reference to it which it inherited from the parent. So when the child process terminates, the system will close the original database connection. InactiveDestroy tells the system not to clean up (close) this database connection. You can still use the original connection in the child process even if you use InactiveDestroy (just don't close the database connection explicitly). Another way to do it would be to have the parent process open a new database connection after it forks a child, but it would have to do this for each child it forked. On my system, a "man DBI" and a search for "InactiveDestroy" gives some good information on this. Ben might want to try and go back to processz3950queue 1.10.2.3 and make the changes I suggested in the last email. Deric -----Original Message----- From: paul POULAIN [mailto:paul.poulain@free.fr] Sent: 27 February, 2004 03:55 To: Benedykt P. Barszcz Cc: 'koha-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] log about z3950 Benedykt P. Barszcz wrote: W liście z czw, 26-02-2004, godz. 23:22, Sullivan,Deric [CMC] pisze: Replace: my $dbi = C4::Context->dbh; with: $dbh->{"InactiveDestroy"} = "true"; Replace all references to dbi with dbh. I think that Paul has removed this instance of my $dbi = C4:: ... Instead there's this: my $dbi = DBI->connect("DBI:$db_driver:$db_name:$db_host",$db_user, ... Since I am not a perl guru, could anyone enlighten me what to do? The idea is : * the DB handler, when the process is forked, is forked too. So, 2 process use the same DB, and one can close the connection that the other tries to use. so, the solution is to have a specific handler for every process. My modif should do the same thing as the InactiveDestroy one : it opens a new handler. Let's try it again. If it does not work, i'll modify the processz3950queue to avoid forks. the limit here is that searches on various z3950servers will no more be asynchronous. So i would use a parameter to decide how many forks we accept. But I hope my "hard coded opening of dbh" will work. -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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