October 2008 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

Re: [Koha-devel] availability of a reserved item
by Adrea Lund 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Our public library is in the process of migrating from Follett to KOHA with Liblime's help and we would like to contribute to the discussion re: how reserved items are listed in the catalog. Our current ILS, Follett, displays the status of items as "on hold" as soon as a patron or staff member place a hold on an item and it stays that way until the patron who placed the hold checks it out or the hold is cancelled. We would like to see the same thing in KOHA. While testing out our migrated data in KOHA, I actually made a note abouts "holds" showing up as "available" in both the staff client and the OPAC, and I added this to my list of potential "bugs" to mention to our project manager Beverly. I'm glad to see that this is being discussed. In our public library we see no reason not to display the true status of items that are "on hold." The suggestion "not currently on shelf" seems too confusing for patrons and staff. We agree with Susan Bennett's comment - "We try to give our patrons the best customer service possible so I'm for giving them more complete information." In our opinion, items on hold need to say clearly in the OPAC and staff client that they are "on hold", or we could be looking all over the library for them and they would be sitting on the hold shelf. I have come across another problem related to holds... I'm not sure if this is the right place to bring it up, but I'll describe it anyway. When I go to place a hold in KOHA's OPAC or using the staff client, and I want a particular volume of a multi volume set - for example our library has the DVD set for "Deadwood the complete second season"- KOHA shows you specific volume info on the material details page, but then when you click on "place hold" that info is gone. You can't tell one volume of the set from another, which is a problem if perhaps you have disc 1 and want disc 2 which is checked out by someone else. In the staff client you at least get a barcode, but unless you've previously written the barcode down of the volume you want, you are out of luck. This problem could be solved by including volume info on the page where you "place a hold on a specific copy." Thanks, Adrea Adrea Lund Head of Adult Services Grand County Public Library 257 E. Center St. Moab, UT 84532 435-259-1111 ext11

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Patron record "contact note"
by Owen Leonard 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

My library is finally beginning the process of migrating from dev_week to Koha 3. I've noticed something that didn't catch my eye when working with the sample data. In 2.x, the alternate contact section of the member record had a notes field, "altnotes." In Koha 3 there is no longer a notes field associated with "Alternate Contact," but there is now a "contactnote" field associated with the "Alternate address" section. Is this deliberate? My library currently uses the "altnotes" field to record information about the relationship of the alternate contact to the patron. If it were up to me I would simply move the "Contact note" form field into the section labelled "Alternate Contact" and be done with it. -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org

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Website update
by Clay Fouts 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Good day, all. Their was a service interruption for bugs.koha.org, koha.org, download.koha.org, etc earlier today. This was result of either some sort of web crawler gone terribly awry or, more likely, a malicious DoS attack. Apparently, some people apparently don't appreciate free software. Not related to this incident, but to use it as an opportunity to give a heads-up about what's coming down the pike, in the near future we will be moving the web service for these sites onto another host. Further details when follow as we develop a firm timeframe. Regards, Clay -- Systems Administrator LibLime, Inc.

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configuration files for Debian packaging 2/3 (reconfiguration)
by Vincent Danjean 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Hi, As I've a few free time, I'm trying to complete a first version of Debian Koha packaging. I've a few questions for koha/zebra/.. guru that I separate in 3 mails. Here is the second mail. I would like koha users to be able to do 'dpkg-reconfigure koha' to modify most of the config. However, I've some question about the switches. I know how to configure apache, so I have no question about koha-httpd.conf. If we want to switch from a koha with zebra to a koha without zebra: - is it possible? - what must be done? (in addition to change config files) If we want to switch from a koha without zebra to a koha with zebra: - is it possible? - what must be done? (in addition to change config files) If we want to enable the SRU server on a koha with zebra: - is it possible? - what must be done? (in addition to change config files) (only restart zebrasrv?) If we want to disable the SRU server on a koha with zebra: - is it possible? - what must be done? (in addition to change config files) (only restart zebrasrv?) If we want to enable the PAZPAR2 server on a koha with zebra: - is it possible? - what must be done? (in addition to change config files) (only restart zebrasrv and start pazpar2?) If we want to disable the PAZPAR2 server on a koha with zebra: - is it possible? - what must be done? (in addition to change config files) (only restart zebrasrv and stop pazpar2?) If we want to switch the authorities indexing mode (dom <-> grs1) on a koha with zebra: - is it possible? - what must be done? (in addition to change config files) (only restart zebrasrv?) If we want to switch the primary language for Zebra indexing (en <-> fr) on a koha with zebra: - is it possible? - what must be done? (in addition to change config files) (only restart zebrasrv?) If we want to switch the MARC format for Zebra indexing (MARC 21 <-> UNIMARC) on a koha with zebra: - is it possible? - what must be done? (in addition to change config files) (only restart zebrasrv?) So, if any guru can confirm/answer to my guesses, it would be easier for me to manage the configuration files without messing up all things and allowing a flexible koha reconfiguration on Debian. Best regards, Vincent -- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0x9D025E87 vdanjean(a)debian.org GPG key fingerprint: FC95 08A6 854D DB48 4B9A 8A94 0BF7 7867 9D02 5E87 Unofficial pacakges: http://www-id.imag.fr/~danjean/deb.html#package APT repo: deb http://perso.debian.org/~vdanjean/debian unstable main

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Patron cards
by Samuel Gil López 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

Hi, we are working with patron cards and we need new features. Our idea is add a possibility for to have a card similar to: http://www.indiamart.com/creationtechnics/pcat-gifs/products-small/barcode-… https://www.gprc.ab.ca/departments/library/images/screen%20captures/student… Are there more information and documentation about this? Thanks

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Timeline for 3.0.1
by Henri-Damien LAURENT 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

Hi, As Release Maintainer, I have been given gitosis access to rel3.0 So I shall be able to catchup with all the bug fixes patches. What I am aiming at now is issuing a bug fix release on First week of December. That means, branching 3.0.1 on the 15th November, so that translators could have a two weeks time for translations. Tell me if this sounds reasonable and ok for you (translators). You will also need to have the fresher templates. Maybe the Translation manager could have the process update automatically translations and allow ppl for multiple version access ? See you soon. -- Henri-Damien LAURENT

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Koha3.0 against Active Directory
by Library Guy 27 Oct '08

27 Oct '08

> > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 09:17:13AM -0600, Michael Hafen wrote: > >* that Active Directory does not have the attribute auth_with_ldap.pm is > *>* looking for to compare to the user entered password. > * > this can be set with xpath /ldapserver/mapping/password at is <http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel> but it will > fail because you can't compare a clear text with an AD encrypted passwd! > > >* problem is that auth_with_ldap.pm expects an attribute with password > *>* stored in the plain, > * > i don't think so! can you imagine a password stored in plain in a modern > > and secure system? i think that the current code expect that the plain > text used for comparaison will be encrypted by the server. > > >* $db->unbind; > *>* $db->disconnect(); > *>* $db = Net::LDAP->new( [$prefhost] ); > * > why unbind ? you'll loose the benefit of mod_ldap cached data. > > $dbuser = Net::LDAP->new( [$prefhost] ); > > >* $res = $db->bind( $userldapentry, password = $password ); > * > password = $password will fail as perl vars begins with $ sigil! > > $res = $db->bind( $userldapentry, password => $password ); > > works better > > > regards > > marc > > so what would the suggested final mod look like if the current auth section of Auth_with_ldap.pm is: sub checkpw_ldap { my ($dbh, $userid, $password) = @_; my $db = Net::LDAP->new([$prefhost]); #$debug and $db->debug(5); my $uid_field = $mapping{userid}->{is} or die ldapserver_error("mapping for 'userid'"); my $filter = Net::LDAP::Filter->new("$uid_field=$userid") or die "Failed to create new Net::LDAP::Filter"; my $res = ($config{anonymous}) ? $db->bind : $db->bind($ldapname, password=>$ldappassword); if ($res->code) { # connection refused warn "LDAP bind failed as $ldapname: " . description($res); return 0; }

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Re: [Koha-devel] bulkmarcimport and jacket cover images (Jesse Weaver)
by Nicholas van Oudtshoorn 25 Oct '08

25 Oct '08

What about the Google Books Jackets API? Does that work okay with 13 digit isbns? (Oh, and on this, I've got a patch lying around somewhere to combine Amazon and Google Jackets in the OPAC so that only one picture is shown - the Google picture if there is one, the amazon picture [including the "no image" picture] otherwise. Any interest in this?) Nicholas van Oudtshoorn Perth Bible College library.pbc.wa.edu.au koha-devel-request(a)lists.koha.org wrote: > Cover images in koha work through the 10-digit ISBN. Koha uses images from > Amazon. > > If you have any books that only have 13-digit ISBNs, they will_not_ have a > cover image at this time; this is a known problem with the Amazon API. >

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bulkmarcimport and jacket cover images
by zang＠zang.co.za 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

Is it possible to 'import' the cover images with the bulkmarcimport utility? The cover image shows 100% with z39.50 import. I will appreciate more info on how this meganism works? Thanks!

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RFC: New System Preference to Determine which 'Types' and associated icons to display in advanced Search
by Joshua Ferraro 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

Hi all, It seems like every library has a different definition of what they want to display as 'Type' limits in the advanced search area. The API is currently flexible to support any defined indexes, but customizing this beyond the default itemtypes currently requires editing of the advsearch.tmpl templates -- not horrible, but still kinda annoying. I propose a new syspref that allows the user to specify either 'itemtypes' (default) or any codes from authorised_values to be the limits in place of itemtypes (so for example, ccode). This would allow every library to define their own authorised-values, and then use those as search limits in advsearch.tmpl, without any template modifications. It's a fairly trivial addition, and if we default to itemtypes, won't affect any existing Koha installations. Thoughts? Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE CEO 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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