March 2006 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

(head) new features to come soon
by Paul POULAIN 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Hi, I was with SAN Ouest Provence yesterday & I have some good news. The following code should reach head in April : * Borrowers improvements = see previous mail (feb, 17th). * branches identification : a new column has been added in branches. It let the library define a range of IP attached to the library. If defined, then the librarian, when identified, is automatically located to the branch where the IP is. If IP empty, no change in the behaviour. * Reserves improvements : - the librarian can reserve a given item, not only a biblio/biblioitem - many improvements in transfert management - 3 new reports to know "what the library will recieve", "what the library has sent", "what is to get in shelves and put in the transfert car". For all those reports, the library has a button to do something in a single clic (recieve, sent, transfert...) - a new systempreference has been added to remove the reserve after a <<sytempref>> day duration. Everything is done. Some tweaking needed, they should send me all code in a week or two. I'll integrate it in CVS before KohaCon (promised) -- Paul POULAIN et Henri Damien LAURENT Consultants indépendants en logiciels libres et bibliothéconomie (http://www.koha-fr.org)

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KohaCon, wiki updated
by Paul POULAIN 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Hi, i've updated the wiki, KohaCon page. Many more informations (more to come) pls read -- Paul POULAIN et Henri Damien LAURENT Consultants indépendants en logiciels libres et bibliothéconomie (http://www.koha-fr.org)

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new database update mecanism
by Pierrick LE GALL 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Hello koha-devel, Last week, I explained on #koha I wanted to propose a new database update mecanism [1]. Here is my proposal, I would like some feedbacks before coding... The idea is to simplify communication between developers on database update (data and/or structure). Here follow the main points of the mecanism: - isolated updates that can be executed only once - database self aware about its update level - notification in intranet screen that new updates are available A script update/updater.pl is run from the command line. The steps are: 1. list updates already executed (reading table "updates") 2. list available updates (numeric filenames in update/updates directory) 3. execute available updates that have not been executed yet These are the basics. updater.pl will first say if there are updates to execute. For example: $ updater.pl > 2 updates are missing, choose an option: > > 1. list update details > 2. execute all > 3. execute one by one > > [1] ? updater.pl will write a log on each call. Update files will be Perl files in the update/updates dedicated directory, with numeric only filenames: $ ls -v1 updates > 1 > 2 > 2.1 > 10 About numerotation of updates, on HEAD, updates are named with a single number (1, 2, 10...), on a branch like rel_2_2, updates are named with the last update number on HEAD point a number wich starts to 1 on rel_2_2. Just as an example, we could have: +------+ | HEAD | +------+ | | +---------+ | | rel_2_2 | 43 => | +---------+ 44 => | | +-----------+ | | <= 44.1 | | 45 => | | | | <= 44.2 46 => | | | | | | <= 44.3 | | 47 => | | | | | | | | 48 => | | <= 44.4 | | <= 44.5 49 => | | 50 => | | +---------+ 51 => | | rel_3_0 | 52 => | +---------+ 53 => | | +-----------+ 54 => | | <= 53.1 | | 55 => | | <= 53.2 | | | | | | <= 53.3 | Now, let's give me your feedback please :-) [1] http://tinyurl.com/ep6nx Cheers, -- Pierrick LE GALL INEO media system

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Koha with MySQL 5
by psm＠vu.ernet.in 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

Hello friends, I'm unable to run koha with MySQL 5 in WIndows environment. The problem is with the MySQL connection. Can somebody guide? Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay Vidyasagar University, India

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Join Us In Paris For KohaCon 2006
by Russel Garlick 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

MEDIA RELEASE: Join Us In Paris For KohaCon 2006 27 March 2006 The Koha community is excited to announce the first ever Koha Conference to be held in Paris France May 2nd and 3rd 2006. We'd like to extend an invitation to libraries, developers, media and library supporters to attend our first conference. This event is the first formal gathering of the wider Koha community, including developers, users and supporters, since version 1.0 of the world's first Open Source Integrated Library System (ILS), was released in 2000. It provides an opportunity to join together to celebrate achievements to date, and discover more about the Koha ILS. Many of the presentations will focus on what Koha 3.0 will offer the community. The conference will be held over two days in Paris, France. DAY ONE - DISCOVER KOHA May 2nd 2006, Paris The Discover Koha day will include talks on what is Koha and open source software, what does this mean for libraries along with a presentation of the new features in Koha 3.0 and some background on what is involved in moving to Koha from another ILS. DAY TWO - KOHA USER GROUP (Europe) May 3rd 2006, Paris The User Group day will be more hands on and provides existing Koha users with an opportunity to discover more about the current system and learn about what is coming in the future released. There will demonstrations of new functionality. WHO SHOULD ATTEND? If you are already a Koha user, or perhaps you have been interested in Koha and want to find out more, then you should attend KohaCon 2006. A large number of Koha developers from around the world will be there, and this is your chance to meet with them. They include, amongst others: * Chris Cormack, Version 1.X Release Manager, Katipo Communications, New Zealand. * Paul Poulain , Version 2.2 Release Manager, Independent Koha Consultant, France. * Joshua Ferraro, Version 3.0 Release Manager, Liblime, United States of America A full programme outline speakers and topics will be published on http://www.koha.org website. For more information about KohaCon 2006, please go to http://www.koha.org/community/conferences/ REGISTRATION IS FREE, BUT ESSENTIAL This is a free event, but if you would like to attend you will need to register. You can register online at http://www.koha.org/community/conferences/registration.html. Once you have registered, you will be contacted by the conference organising committee with further details. The Koha community would like to thank Ecole Nationale Suprieure des Mines de Paris (ENSMP) for providing a venue for KohaCon in Paris. KOHA DEVELOPERS WEEK May 8th-12th 2006, Marseille Following on from the conference, a group of core Koha developers will be meeting in Marseille to work on Koha 3.0. If you are a Koha developer who is interested in contributing, then please attend a Koha Project IRC meeting. Meetings are held every Monday at 20:00 GMT. See http://www.koha.org/community/irc.html for IRC channel information. Space is limited at the Development Week venue. If you would like to attend, please ensure that you are at a project meeting in the next two weeks. The Koha community would like to thank Bibliotheque du Centre de Mathematiques et Informatique (CMI) at the Universite de Provence for providing a venue for the Developers Week in Marseille. ABOUT KOHA Koha is a full-featured Open Source library management system first deployed in January 2000 at Horowhenua Library Trust. It is currently maintained by a team of software providers and library technology staff from around the globe. Several companies around the world support Koha, providing libraries with a full array of vendor services including installation, migration assistance, data integrity testing, staff training, software maintenance, support and customization. To learn more about Koha, please visit http://www.koha.org/. -- Russel Garlick Operations Manager Katipo Communications Ph: +64 4 934 1285 Fax: +64 4 934 1286 Mob: +64 27 537 1377 Skype: russelgarlick Web http://www.katipo.co.nz

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13 digits isbn
by Paul POULAIN 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Hello, in 2007, january, the ISBN will be on 13 digits. afaik, it will use the standard vendor code, that for instance is : 978+ (isbn-controldigit) +controldigit re-calculated. What will we have to do in Koha ? * modify the DB to handle this longer ISBN * re-calculate all previously entered ISBN ? * rewrite show-isbn-with-dash sub ? * that's all ? -- Paul POULAIN et Henri Damien LAURENT Consultants indépendants en logiciels libres et bibliothéconomie (http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Mugridge and Fit
by Stephen Hedges 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

I just stumbled across a Google TechTalk video presentation by Rick Mugridge (from New Zealand) talking about the "Fit" open-source testing framework: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7618420216108922950&q=techtalks Anybody from NZ heard of this guy? Is it time to add videos to kohadocs? :-D -- Stephen

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New material in the Koha usersguide
by Stephen Hedges 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Chapter 3, "Circulation Tasks," has been added to the Koha Users Guide. The Guide is the first document on www.kohadocs.org. -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges(a)skemotah.com

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Hey all.
by Kyle Hall 24 Mar '06

24 Mar '06

Hello, I'm new to the koha-devel list. I work with Cindy at the CCFLS. I had a few items that josh thought I might want to put out there for everyone. We've been working hard on getting our county ready for a transfer over to koha, and I've written a few things that *might* be useful to other koha users. Probably the most useful is a new template theme. It uses a tabs and side-tabs interface that I think is quite intuitive for new users. It's nearly out of what I would consider beta and just needs a few more tweaks. Other than that, I've been transfering our data from our existing ILS using php scripts for the data processing. I'm a huge fan of OO development and have created a number of data-access objects for manipulating the koha database. I'll probably end up rewriting them in perl when 3.0 comes out, as all the objects for working with the marc tables will be useless, and I'll need to be able to use the perl library to access zebra. Also, I've written a few custom reports in php for the county. I don't know how useful they might be for others, but we'll put them out there anyway (once I set up a bit of web space to post them on). Probably the most interesting project (to me) is a firefox extension that adds a toolbar for displaying koha statistics, among other things. I wrote a little perl script that generates an xml file containing stats for each branch in the koha database and the extension pulls it from the server and displays them in the toolbar. I'll probably add koha search functionality to it as well. I'm a bit stymied in my project though, because I can't get the extension to save user preferences (ie. the server's address and the libraries branchcode). If anyone on the list has any experience with firefox extensions, help would be much appriciated. Thats all I've got for now. Kyle IT Technician Crawford County Federated Library System

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New document on kohadocs.org (Installing on Debian)
by Stephen Hedges 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

Joshua Ferraro has revised his document about installing Koha on Debian to accommodate Koha version 2.2.6 and Debian sarge (3.1). Find it on www.kohadocs.org under "System Administration." If you still need to know how to install older versions of Koha on Debian woody, those documents are still available, too -- substitute "Woody" (capital W) for "sarge" in the url for each type of document. -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges(a)skemotah.com

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