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Some questions etc...
by Rachel Hamilton-Williams 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

Hi Paul et al, Rosalie and the crew have been having a good look at koha 2.2.1 (I think that's it) with a mind to upgrading soon. There are some things (as expected) which don't work either like they do in her current version, and in some cases "at all". In particular I want to run some things past you, so that we can decide what to do about them - and to make sure we haven't just missed the point or set it up wrong. I'm not sure wether we should be "correcting" the main templates, or just keep on going with our own set? So any thoughts would be appreciated. 1/. "Normal" Acquisitions is not quite "right" or perhaps as clever at it's maths as the version they use now. You can't correct earlier mistakes in budget allocations (They can do this now when you recieve an item as well as when you order it), and you can't allocate the freight budget over several items to get their true "cost". Does anyone other than HLT use normal acquisistions that you know of? Particularly with MARC off I guess? 2/. You can't edit or manipulate groups - ie from the catalogue, you bring up the item, and you can edit the biblio, and you can edit the item info, but the bits that are in the group record don't seem to be accessable. We had a whole series of screens for moving items from one group to another and editing the group details which I can't find an equivalent to. The details are all there, but the MARC fields for them don't come up. We've got it set to MARC Off I think - but I didn't notice it being different with MARC On 3/. Authority Files - do these *only* work if you're using UNIMARC? And is UNIMARC what we'll be using by default? Should they just work, because I can't for the life of me work out how you get something into an authority file. Instructions on "Authority files for dummies" gratefully accepted :-) 4/. Circulations is a bit "soft" - although you set limits for issues etc, they can be overridden. Now we could just "harden" koha for HLT - basically in the templates, but what we really want is probably a new "flag" so that regular people on circulations can't override an issue flag. Or it's an option as to wether circulation flags are "strict" or not. So general question is - is this a problem for anyone else, any feelings one way or the other? The reports were a bit flakey, but I understand you're working on those Paul? We'll have to look at wether what Koha thinks we've done, and what we think we've done are the same... Cheers R -- ----------------------------- Rachel Hamilton-Williams General Manager Katipo Communications Ltd Phone: +64-4-934 1285 Mobile: 021 389 128 E-mail: rachel(a)katipo.co.nz Web: www.katipo.co.nz

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Re: [Koha-devel] Some questions etc...
by Owen Leonard 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

> 4/. Circulations is a bit "soft" - although you set limits > for issues etc, they can be overridden. I'd be interested to hear what in particular you're finding here. We've found some inconsistencies too (and I don't know if we've bugged them). For instance, it's possible to renew items even if a patron is debarred. It seems to be possible to renew an item that is on reserve for another patron in *some* cases but not others. It'd be great if we could come up with details for all the instances that aren't quite working. -- Owen

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Koha 2.2.2 roadmap for translators
by Paul POULAIN 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Hello translators, Koha 2.2.2 should arrive in a little bit more than a week. As usual, the english and french versions will be provided. If one of you can check & provide another language, it will be included. Somes infos : * new behaviour for tmpl_process3.pl (the translator tool) It now copies non-templates files from english to your language when you *install* your language (no changes when you *create* or *update* your translation file). Every javascript, image, stylesheet will be copied, and thus synch'ed with the english version. * You can rebuild your librarian translation file with : ./tmpl_process3.pl update -r -i ../../koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/default/en -s po/default_intranet.pot -o ../../koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/default/fr -x unimarc.* It has around 2150 strings. The -x unimarc.* removes strings that are unimarc specific and in french (even in the original english templates) * you can rebuild your OPAC translation file with : ./tmpl_process3.pl update -r -i ../../koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/css/en -s po/css_opac_fr_FR.po -o ../../koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/css/fr (both being run from the KOHAROOT/misc/translator directory) * I've updated all the existing translations files to reflect the 2.2.2 string list. They are available here : http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/koha/koha/misc/translator/po/?only_wi… (seems sourceforge don't refresh their cvsweb in real time, so you may have to wait a little) -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Jumping directly to items from isbnsearch.pl
by Owen Leonard 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

I'm wondering if there's a way to link directly from the search results list on isbnsearch.pl to the additem screen. It's not as simple as grabbing the biblio number that displays on isbnsearch.pl, because that's aparently the "old" biblionumber (?). The "bibid" number used on the additem screen is entirely different. Can isbnsearch.pl pull that number too, to facilitate a direct jump to the item records? -- Owen

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Re: [Koha] Become a developer
by Paul POULAIN 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

Luciano Iglesias a écrit : > I have some modules that i want to be part of koha in > the near future. What do I have to do? Hello Luciano, That's good news, Could you tell us what kind of modules you would commit ? Could you also tell me what is your sourceforge login, I can't add you to the dev list without it ;-) You also should : * subscribe koha-devel mailing list * know that HEAD is the cvs branch to use for new modules. rel_2_2 being the stable tree that I manage. If your modules are stable enough and don't change anything to the DB, I could port them for 2.2.x, but i'll do it myself only if i'm sure that it's a good idea (= does not break anything) -- Paul POULAIN, Release Maintainer for 2.2 (and previously Release Manager for 2.0 and 2.2)

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Re: [Koha] It's broke
by Nicholas Rosasco 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Quoting Chris Cormack <chris(a)katipo.co.nz>: > > I can send output from logs, just tell me what you > > guys want. > > > Output from the logs would be great. Thats really the only way we can spot > whats happening. Slightly random late night thought: Would it be worth building a script that would find/gather up, tar+gzip, and put somewhere consistent the logs and other necessary/useful items (conf files, etc; maybe also a snapshot "ps" listing to check that Z39 and apache are running, etc are running) so that it could be tossed around as diagnostic fodder. This could be one way to provide a remote service relationship (for those interesting in consulting).... Advance warning this mayn't have been thought all the way through. Just a thought, Nick ..a little groggy.

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error adding biblio/items
by Martin Longo 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Hi everyone! I'm having an odd Internal Server Error whenever I try to add a new biblio or modify an existing one on Koha 2.2.... I'm almost sure that this error wasn't there before in this very installation and version... it just appeared ... :-S The koha-errors log says something like this: ... malformed header from script. Bad header= biblioitemnumber: /usr/local/koha/cgi-bin/acqui.simple/addbiblio.pl The strange thing is that the biblios are created OK... so, if I look for them in the Catalogue ... I can find them... If I try to add a item to any biblio... same result ... malformed header from script. Bad header= biblioitemnumber: /usr/local/koha/cgi-bin/acqui.simple/additem.pl but the item gets created/modified OK... So... any ideas? Thanks in advance -- J. Martin Longo Informatica SID - UNCuyo http://sid.uncu.edu.ar

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[Fwd: [Koha] Become a developer]
by Andrés Tarallo 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

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working with Koha in Chile
by Hitorijime Aomori 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

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A short tip for developers
by Andrés Tarallo 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

For a few weeks we've been using the Data::Dumper, this made more pleasant our deveopment/debugging sessions. Happy Easter Andres

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