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

Research project
by Baytiyeh, Hoda 18 Nov '08

18 Nov '08

Hello, I am a Ph.D. candidate in Instructional Technology at the University of Tennessee. For my dissertation, I am studying why people contribute to Free Open Source Software (F/OSS). I want to know what motivates you to join and contribute to F/OSS. The survey should take no more than 15 minutes and asks for no identifying information. Please click on the following link to take the survey. If you are interested in the results of the survey, please send me a message. http://ubiquity.utk.edu/limesurvey/index.php?sid=45871&lang=en Your help is highly appreciated. Thanks, Hoda Baytiyeh. hodabn(a)utk.edu

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koha plone contest
by Roberto Allende 18 Nov '08

18 Nov '08

hello This is a friendly reminder about the koha contest. My team didn't get what we agreed. Please try to move forward. Kind Regards r.

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CSS errors
by Rick Welykochy 18 Nov '08

18 Nov '08

Hi all I am fiddling with some CSS and DOM stuff in Koha and thus have the Error Console window opened in Firefox. As was discussed earlier on this list, excessive error and debug messages in the Apache error_log files make them almost unreadable. The same applies in the case of the CSS. There are so many errors in the CSS, as detected by Firefox, that it is difficult to scan through the lot looking for things I myself might have caused. Also, I get an uneasy feeling that the CSS is broken in places due to these errors and might be causing the problems I am having getting my additions to the CSS to work. Try it! Do a catalogue search in the staff area and bring up the Error Console window. You'll see what I am talking about. cheers rickw -- _________________________________ Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services Tis the dream of each programmer before his life is done, To write three lines of APL and make the damn thing run.

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PDF patron card scaling setting
by MJ Ray 18 Nov '08

18 Nov '08

A librarian has suggested to me that we should set the scaling in the PDF to stop Acrobat Reader and some other readers from making a mess of the carefully-measured offsets and margins. I didn't see any way in PDF::Reuse to do that - is it possible? I wondered if it's some Acrobat extension to PDF (sigh) or something like that. Thanks for any help, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237

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American Conference - Save the date
by dschust1＠tx.rr.com 18 Nov '08

18 Nov '08

April 16-17th I'm looking to Host a Koha inovations and sharing group here in the US. - Plano Texas would be the place. This is a reserved date - more info to come. This 2 day workshop would have lab access and presentation space. There would be a charge to cover lunch both days and other misc expenses. Any leftover money would be given to the KUDOS users group as seed money. I'm anticipating the cost right at $100. You would be responsible for getting here and your hotel and other travel expenses. If you would be interested in attending, presenting or sharing - something that you have done along with sitting in and learning about what other users and what the developers are working on let me know! dschust1(a)tx.rr.com David Schuster Plano Texas going live Jan 5th, 2009 as a LibLime customer! - this is open to all koha users and those interested. More information on the schedule to come after I figure out interest.

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HTML::Template::Pro problems?
by Chadwick, John, DCA 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

We are having some search problems (keyword search doesn't work) when we configure default.idx to use the icu.xml file to handle diacritics. Koha 3.01.00.002 on Ubuntu 8.04. Zebra 2.0.34 I am noticing some interesting errors in the koha-opac-error_log file: [Thu Nov 06 11:47:19 2008] [error] [client xxxxx] [Thu Nov 6 11:47:19 2008] opac-search.pl: PARAM:LOOP:next_loop:hash pointer was expected but not found at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/HTML/Template/Pro.pm line 191. [Thu Nov 06 11:47:36 2008] [error] [client xxxxx] [Thu Nov 6 11:47:36 2008] opac-search.pl: PARAM:LOOP:next_loop:hash pointer was expected but not found at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/HTML/Template/Pro.pm line 191., referer: http://164.64.109.237/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?idx=ti&q=josefina [Thu Nov 06 11:47:40 2008] [error] [client xxxxx] [Thu Nov 6 11:47:40 2008] opac-search.pl: PARAM:LOOP:next_loop:hash pointer was expected but not found at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/HTML/Template/Pro.pm line 191. [Thu Nov 06 11:47:50 2008] [error] [client xxxxx] [Thu Nov 6 11:47:50 2008] opac-search.pl: PARAM:LOOP:next_loop:hash pointer was expected but not found at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/HTML/Template/Pro.pm line 191. [Thu Nov 06 11:48:09 2008] [error] [client xxxxx] [Thu Nov 6 11:48:09 2008] opac-search.pl: PARAM:LOOP:next_loop:hash pointer was expected but not found at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/HTML/Template/Pro.pm line 191. [Mon Nov 10 16:35:49 2008] [error] [client xxxxx] [Mon Nov 10 16:35:49 2008] opac-search.pl: WARNING: query problem with ((rk=( lc,ext,r1="Josefina" or lc,phr,r3="Josefina" or lc,rt,wrdl,r3="Josefina")) ) and ( (lost,st-numeric <= 0) or ( allrecords,AlwaysMatches='' not lost,AlwaysMatches='') ) ZOOM error 10014 "CCL parsing error" (addinfo: "Unknown qualifier") from diag-set 'ZOOM' at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Search.pm line 386. [Wed Nov 12 08:51:37 2008] [error] [client xxxxx] HTML::Template::Pro:in TMPL_IF at pos 2399:end tag:found e instead of > at pos 2425 [Wed Nov 12 08:51:37 2008] [error] [client xxxxx] HTML::Template::Pro:in TMPL_IF at pos 2860:end tag:found e instead of > at pos 2886 [Wed Nov 12 14:01:02 2008] [error] [client xxxxx] HTML::Template::Pro:in TMPL_IF at pos 2399:end tag:found e instead of > at pos 2425 [Wed Nov 12 14:01:02 2008] [error] [client xxxxx] HTML::Template::Pro:in TMPL_IF at pos 2860:end tag:found e instead of > at pos 2886 [Wed Nov 12 14:33:36 2008] [error] [client xxxxx] HTML::Template::Pro:in TMPL_IF at pos 2399:end tag:found e instead of > at pos 2425 [Wed Nov 12 14:33:36 2008] [error] [client xxxxx] HTML::Template::Pro:in TMPL_IF at pos 2860:end tag:found e instead of > at pos 2886 +----------------------------------------------------------------------- -----+ John Chadwick, Ed.D. Information Technology Manager New Mexico State Library 1209 Camino Carlos Rey Santa Fe, NM 87507 Phone: 505-476-9740 Cell: 505-629-8116 Fax: 505-476-9761 john.chadwick(a)state.nm.us http://www.nmstatelibrary.org Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including all attachments is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited unless specifically provided under the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this message. -- This email has been scanned by the Sybari - Antigen Email System.

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Fault in Cataloguing Search
by C W Nel 16 Nov '08

16 Nov '08

On logging in to Koha 3, choosing Cataloguing and doing a Cataloguing Search, I get the following instead of 'the number of results': ARRAY(0x93f2480) result(s) found in catalog Is this a known problem? Thanks

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(no subject)
by ff darkness 16 Nov '08

16 Nov '08

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Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] Wrong SAX Parser - does it matter? -> impact on Debian packaging
by Vincent Danjean 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

[moving from koha to koha-devel due to my questions] Mason James wrote: > On 2008/11/12, at 11:56 AM, Brendan Gallagher wrote: >> Did you try editing ParserDetails.ini What I do not understand is why koha is requiring to modify such a global configuration file. Is this setup really still required ? Were not the bugs from the expat filter fixed ? I do not know at all why this parser is/was needed, but Expact seems to work for the test case in koha scripts : vdanjean koha/misc$ ./sax_parser_print.pl XML::SAX::Expat=HASH(0x115c4f0) vdanjean koha/misc$ ./sax_parser_test.pl é vdanjean koha/misc ) By the way, this kind of requirement is really a bad thing (with my hat of trying to make a official Debian package) => it will be NOT possible at all that the koha package modifies the global configuration file. However, I really do not understand why, if the SAX parser is really needed, it is not required in the koha code itself. For example, I tried to add as the first line in sax_parser_print.pl and sax_parser_test.pl the line: $XML::SAX::ParserPackage = "XML::LibXML::SAX"; (tip found in the doc of XML::SAX::ParserFactory) Without changing my global configuration file, sax_parser_print.pl now report XML::LibXML::SAX. I failed to see where koha really instantiate a sax parser. 'rgrep "use XML::SAX" koha/' does not return anything (but sax_parser_print.pl and sax_parser_test.pl). Perhaps, koha gurus can know where SAX parser are used and add the line requesting the particular parser if it is still needed ? 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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3.0.1 delay
by Henri-Damien LAURENT 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

Hi, I am writing to announce a little delay in 3.0.1 I propose to freeze patches on November, 21st. Then let 1 month for translations, if any one is OK. And 3.0.1 would be hopefully out on the 21st december. Sorry for cross posting. -- Henri-Damien LAURENT

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