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

My Local Koha Installation and Demo installation On http://koha.liblime.com
by lalitanand dandge 13 Jul '06

13 Jul '06

Hi, I installed Koha on my linux system successfully, while studying the demo ( on http://koha.liblime.com) and my local installation i found that in catalogue while adding the empty biblio there are many more and additional fields in the Demo while lesser in my local installation. I also checked the version both are same (i installed koha2.2.5 and the about of demo also saying same). So this make me little confused, since i am new to the koha and also i am form the open source development and not have library management experience as such. So please anybody having any inforamtion regarding this kindly help. Also i searched for the properly documented (rather easy step-by-step) manuals for how to use and administer koha, but I am sorry i could not get that useful for me, so please also help in this regard. Thank you, Lalitanand. Project Engineer. -- "Talk is cheap. Show me the code. Think Open, use Open Source!" Visit & Register at http://www.ossrc.org.in

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Source Code
by Emiliano Marmonti 13 Jul '06

13 Jul '06

Hi Andres I was checking in my mail, and we sended to Joshua exactly a year ago (06.20.05), the entire source code and database schema. I really don't know which was the problem with the install or something else. Before the finish of the Physics Library Project, the source code was downloaded from many countries, many times as you can see in: http://biblio.fisica.unlp.edu.ar/cgi-bin/koha/opac-downloads.pl Actually this version is not downloadeable from this site. I will check with Physics Library and try to put for download. Regards and happy for your interest in Koha-BDF Emiliano.

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HEAD code cleaning
by Paul POULAIN 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

Hello all, Antoine start today working on code cleaning on HEAD. we have updated the wiki to say what he will work on. For instance, he investigate existing code. But you should see the 1st commits soon. Most of it's work should be harmless, as it should be mainly : - POD documenting - useless code removal but some stuff will have to be done carefully, like sub renaming & moving from one .pm to another. Don't hesitate to update the wiki if you have some suggestions. -- Paul POULAIN et Henri Damien LAURENT Consultants indépendants en logiciels libres et bibliothéconomie (http://www.koha-fr.org) Tel : 04 91 31 45 19

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itemnotes?
by Cindy Murdock 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

Hi all, We've noticed that there's an 'itemnotes' field where messages about materials can be stored, but there doesn't seem to be any way to view or edit them from within Koha. Is anybody doing anything with that? Cindy -- _________________________ Cindy Murdock Network Administrator Meadville Public Library | Crawford County Federated Library System meadvillelibrary.org | ccfls.org

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Help-Sistem commercializing
by Roxana Luz Fleipaz 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hello to all. I am new in est system, it is excellent!. I found out about this system across a partner of Uruguay. This system they are commercializing in Argentina in the university of the Plata, across Emiliano Marmonti. He would wish them to help me I am a director of a library and I need to execute this system. Thank you. Paraguay

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Required Perl Modules
by Mike Mylonas 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Hi All Time for an updated release of the CPAN bundle for KohaSupport. Could someone please confirm for me the required modules for the upcoming 2.26 version Koha... the list I have is taken from the Install.pm and the latest cvs version of the 2.26 release notes. If someone could also confirm if the modules that have version numbers beside them, are the required version only or the required minimum version The list I have at the moment includes DBI Date::Manip DBD::mysql HTML::Template Digest::MD5 MARC::Record Mail::Sendmail PDF::API2 Net::LDAP Event Net::Z3950 LWP::Simple XML::Simple Class::Accessor (0.25) XML::SAX (0.14) MARC::File::XML (0.83) MARC::Charset (0.95) Thanks in advance M

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Auth With Windows AD
by Acty Chen 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

use <userid>@abc.corp instead of anonymous bind 1. Search the "# LDAP connexion parameters" # LDAP connexion parameters my $ldapserver = 'dc01.abc.corp '; # Base DN for users my $name = "dc=abc,dc=corp"; # Bind uses the users full DN, if uid doesn't work try my $ldap_binddn = "$userid\(a)abc.corp"; my $ldap_secret = $password; my $db = Net::LDAP->new( $ldapserver ); 2. change my $userdnsearch = $db->search(base => $name, filter =>"(a-login=$userid)", ); to my $userdnsearch = $db->search(base => $name, filter =>"(sAMAccountName=$userid)", ); 3. search "## HACK LMK" change if( ( $cmpmesg -> code != 6 ) && ! ( $password eq "kivabien" ) ) { warn "LDAP Auth impossible : wrong password"; return 0; }; change ##if( ( $cmpmesg -> code != 6 ) && ! ( $password eq "kivabien" ) ) { ## warn "LDAP Auth impossible : wrong password"; ## return 0; ##}; <Result> diff Auth_with_AD.pm Auth_with_ldap.pm 32,33c32,33 < use Net::LDAP; < use Net::LDAP qw(:all); --- > # use Net::LDAP; > # use Net::LDAP qw(:all); 506,514c506,509 < my $ldapserver = 'dc01.abc.corp'; < < # Base DN for users < my $name = "dc=abc,dc=corp"; < # Bind uses the users full DN, if uid doesn't work try < < my $ldap_binddn = "$userid\(a)abc.corp"; < my $ldap_secret = $password; < --- > my $ldapserver = 'your.ldap.server.com '; > # Infos to do an anonymous bind > my $ldapinfos = 'a-section=people,dc=emn,dc=fr '; > my $name = "a-section=people,dc=emn,dc=fr"; 518,523c513 < my $res =$db->bind($ldap_binddn, password => $ldap_secret); < < #if (!defined($db)) { < # print STDERR "Connection au serveur LDAP impossible!\n"; < # return 0; < #} --- > my $res =$db->bind(); 530c520 < filter =>"(sAMAccountName=$userid)", --- > filter =>"(a-login=$userid)", 542,545c532,535 < ###if( ( $cmpmesg -> code != 6 ) && ! ( $password eq "kivabien" ) ) { < ### warn "LDAP Auth impossible : wrong password"; < ### return 0; < ###}; --- > if( ( $cmpmesg -> code != 6 ) && ! ( $password eq "kivabien" ) ) { > warn "LDAP Auth impossible : wrong password"; > return 0; > };

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MARC Editor in 'stable' CVS Badly Broken
by Joshua Ferraro 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Hi Paul et al, This morning I updated my working "stable" CVS repo to take a look at the recent MARC editor commits and I discovered that things are very badly broken: * repeated fields are not saved separately, but under one field eg, 650$a$b$c 650$a$b$c becomes 650$a$a$b$b$c$c!! (you will not see this bug unless you have 'LabelMARCView' set to 'standard') * repeating fixed fields in a previously saved record causes a 500 error * tabindex is broken * the back button is broken such that if you save something then go back your repeated 650 jumps into the 651!! * editing a record sometimes causes fields to show up in the right place, but be saved in the wrong place After 6 hours of attempting to track down the cause of these and other bugs I didn't take notes on, I have given up. I'd like to request that we revert the stable CVS MARC editor to the previously working versions: Biblio.pm 1.115.2.54 addbiblio.pl 1.52.2.40 addbiblio.tmpl (not sure, many unrelated changes committed at the same time) I will repeat that MARC::File::XML can handle iso-8859-1 encoding if you specify that you're working with non-MARC21 data (and if you have 8859 encoding, you don't have MARC21 data) IF YOUR XML PARSER CAN HANDLE 8859 ENCODING. Someone with non-MARC21 data should take a look at the latest Sourceforge version of MARC::File::XML to see how this is handled and modify Koha's editor accordingly (I may have a chance to do this at some point, but I'm a bit burned out on this at the moment). Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf(a)liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS

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2.2.6 release notes
by Paul POULAIN 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

I've just commited fresh 2.2.6 release notes. Please proof read them, the release will occur soon. (i think i'll install one french library tomorrow morning, with something like a 2.2.6RC) -- Paul POULAIN et Henri Damien LAURENT Consultants indépendants en logiciels libres et bibliothéconomie (http://www.koha-fr.org) Tel : 04 91 31 45 19

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[IMPORTANT] MARC editor for 2.2.6 & firefox
by Paul POULAIN 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

Hello, one of my library reports that they have big problems with MARC editor, when cloning fields/subfields with the new javascript. After investigating, it appears the librarian uses firefox 1.0.7 : with firefox 1.5.x, it works perfectly, with 1.0.7, it fails dramatically. Do you think we can have "firefox 1.5+" as requirement ? -- Paul POULAIN et Henri Damien LAURENT Consultants indépendants en logiciels libres et bibliothéconomie (http://www.koha-fr.org) Tel : 04 91 31 45 19

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