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help wanted
by Zahid Iqbal 24 May '08

24 May '08

Hi to all developers, I am working on koha 2.2.9. I have a little Problem about the joining date. if i want to edit the joining date and save it, when edit a patron, can u help me. I mean that for the first time i have add a patron, the joing date i entered was wrong and i want to edit it again and add the correct date, how should i do it? I have also made a little change in the file "memberentry.tmpl" and modify the line <th>Joining date: </th> <td colspan="4"></td> modified line <input type="text" name="joining" size="12" maxlength="10" value="" /> this shows me the text box of joining date but changes are not saved in database. can some one guide me. Regards Zahid

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need help in joining date for the patrons
by Zahid Iqbal 22 May '08

22 May '08

Hello, I am working in a library with computer science back ground and new to koha. I donot know much about it. I need help in joining date of patrons . when i add a patron i do not give the joining date of the person. then i edit this patron, in edit page the joining date of this person is not displayed (today / current date) and i cannot add its joining date again. i want to edit the joining date of the patron how can i do it . Why it is not showing the date, if i give the joining date when adding a new patron. Regards, Zahid

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Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] Koha 3.0 Stable Release Plan
by BWS Johnson 22 May '08

22 May '08

Salvete! Agreed. Those can't be serious time wasters, either, can they? Cheers, Brooke

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Notes on patches
by Nicole Engard 21 May '08

21 May '08

HI all, I have a tini tiny request. As I work on the manual and you guys do your jobs I end up having out of data documentation almost immediately. I'm subscribed to the GIT RSS so if you could try to make an effort to include notes that would help me find what I have to edit in my manual when you submit patches, that would be great. I know it's a bit more work, but it's for the greater good of the Koha project -- Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLime (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 nce(a)liblime.com AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard http://liblime.com

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Alternative Holds Targeting Workflow
by Joshua Ferraro 21 May '08

21 May '08

Hi folks, Just a heads up that I've just added a new table, cron utility, and report that is a temporary solution to a much needed holds targeting workflow for the larger Koha libraries. I've documented it in my commit message which I'll reproduce here: This patch adds a cron script to be run periodically that populates the tmp_holdsqueue table. This is an alternative holds targeting workflow that is more suitable for multi-location libraries than the default holds picklist report. Note to documentation writers: this summary should be added to any holds documentation as an overview of the available methods for holds fulfillment. This alternative holds workflow assumes an expectation that the system should target a specific available item at one location for a given hold request, attempt to fulfill the hold with that item, and if unable to fulfill, select an available item at another location to fulfill the hold. This is quite different than the default Koha workflow assumption, which is that holds are 'broadcast' to all locations and the first to retrieve it is used to fulfill the hold. How it works: This script weights available items at locations for holds based on options specified in two system preferences: StaticHoldsQueueWeight Allows the library to specify a list of library location codes -- if used alone, it will rank the list statically, selecting the top-ranking, left-most available location to be added to the picklist. RandomizeHoldsQueueWeight If RandomizeHoldsQueueWeight and StaticHoldsQueueWeight are set, the list of library codes in the StaticHoldsQueueWeight syspref are randomized rather than statically ranked. If RandomizeHoldsQueueWeight alone is set, the list of all available library codes is used to randomize the weight. If neither syspref is set, the list is statically ranked according to how they are pulled out of the system database. NOTE: This has not yet been tested with item-level holds 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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Patron card label generator broken
by Bernard Shiundu 21 May '08

21 May '08

Oops forgot the most important bit!! I'm running 3.00.00.085 with Perl 5.008008. From: Bernard Shiundu Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 7:02 PM To: Developers Koha (Koha-devel(a)lists.koha.org) Subject: Patron card label generator broken Don't know If its just me but the patron card label generator seems broken to me. When I click on 'new patron card batch' I get only the box showing the active settings and now option to add a batch .. I'm a tad swamped to actually investigate this, but anyone else seen this ?? don't want to post a 'pointless' bug on bugzilla. ======================== Bernard Shiundu Strathmore University Library

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a problem with configuration of git ?
by Zeno Tajoli 20 May '08

20 May '08

Hi to all, from last 3 april 2008 I have a local copy of last version using git. I have done: git clone git://git.koha.org/home/pub/scm/koha.git kohaclone then every day: cd ../kohaclone git pull and I have received the updates. But today I see: tajoli@PCTAJOLI ~/Documenti/koha/kohaclone $ git pull remote: Generating pack...?[K remote: Done counting 1090 objects.?[K remote: Result has 886 objects.?[K remote: Deltifying 886 objects...?[K remote: 100% (886/886) done?[K remote: Total 886 (delta 624), reused 435 (delta 302)?[K Receiving objects: 100% (886/886), 237.65 KiB | 221 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (624/624), completed with 182 local objects. From git://git.koha.org/pub/scm/koha bd30b60..0f8910e master -> origin/master Updating bd30b60..0f8910e koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/prog/en/modules/opac-dictionary.tmpl: needs update fatal: Entry 'koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/prog/en/modules/opac-dictionary.tmpl' not upto date. Cannot merge. Is there any problem about KohaGit ? Is there any news about configuration of git ? Thank you very much Zeno Tajoli Zeno Tajoli CILEA - Segrate (MI) tajoliAT_SPAM_no_prendiATcilea.it (Indirizzo mascherato anti-spam; sostituisci quanto tra AT con @)

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Question about Duplicating Cataloging Fields
by Nicole Engard 20 May '08

20 May '08

Hi all, I submitted a bug report: http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2123 but I want to check with all of you to see what you expect the functionality of the plus sign in the cataloging module to be. Here's what my bug says: "If I hit a plus on a field with a value in it it creates a dup of that field - I just want a blank field .. in particular when I hit a plus next to an authorized value because there is no way to erase the data and start fresh - I have to replace it with another authorized value." Basically, I wanted to add another subject heading to a MARC record I was editing but when I hit the plus it duplicated the field and I wasn't able to alter the data in the field without picking another authorized subject heading - what if I didn't have an authorized heading for that field? For this reason I suggest that the field be blank when hitting a plus - or that we have the option of either duplicating or creating a blank new field. -- Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLime (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 nce(a)liblime.com AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard http://liblime.com http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/

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Questions Koha 3
by C W Nel 20 May '08

20 May '08

Can anyone please comment on the following user questions? 1.. Can overdue notices be processed in batches? 2.. Can overdue notices be sent by email? 3.. Is there any SMS option for overdue notices 4.. Can templates be created for overdue notices, so that just the person's name and details of the books and due dates are added automatically by the system 5.. Would it be possible to order directly from Amazon through Koha - online?

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Patron card label generator broken
by Bernard Shiundu 20 May '08

20 May '08

Don't know If its just me but the patron card label generator seems broken to me. When I click on 'new patron card batch' I get only the box showing the active settings and now option to add a batch .. I'm a tad swamped to actually investigate this, but anyone else seen this ?? don't want to post a 'pointless' bug on bugzilla. ======================== Bernard Shiundu Strathmore University Library

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