April 2009 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

KOHA 3: problem with item call number
by neelawat 20 Apr '09

20 Apr '09

Dear Sir, I have imported bib (.mrc) to koha 3. After imported, the system can automatically add item(s) but the field 'Item call number' is blank. In System Preferences Admin: Cataloguing Preferences, I set the parameters as follows: ----------------------------------------------------- - DefaultClassificationSource lcc - ItemCallNumber 050ab ----------------------------------------------------- Why the system does not auto-generate and display the item call number on the screen? I do not know whether I have done wrong with the system preferences? Could you guide me about this issue? I already spent almost a week trying to solve this problem. Please kindly help. Best regards, Neelawat KOHA, Thailand

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Developer Tips & Tricks from KohaCon 2009
by Nicole Engard 19 Apr '09

19 Apr '09

Hi all, I was asked to take notes during the Tips & Tricks session at the KohaCon Developers' Meeting - so here you all go: http://blogs.liblime.com/developers/2009/04/19/tips-tricks-from-koha-develo… --- 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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Summary of Koha developers' meeting day 1 (4/18/2009)
by Galen Charlton 19 Apr '09

19 Apr '09

Hi, Here are a few quick notes from the first day of the post-KohaCon developers' meeting held today. About twenty people attended or dropped by the meeting in person, with another five or so commenting via #koha and others following along via Twitter. After a round of introductions and a little planning of the agenda, Paul Poulain started the morning with a good overview of the structure of Koha, C4, and how to write Koha CGI scripts. Next, Joe Atzberger presented a tutorial on Git, covering how to clone the Koha repository, create branches, add commits, generate patches, and submit them. After lunch, I continued the Git presentation by showing how to apply patches and deal with merge conflicts. The next part of the afternoon was a hackfest, during which several enhancements and bugfixes were prepared and pushed, including: * A history file for Koha, docs/history.txt * bug 3013: significant improvements to the cataloging editor plugin for setting the 007 field in MARC21 records * bug 1545: adding the ability to edit the SQL of guided reports * fixes for low-numbered bugs, including 908, 918, and 948 * a fix for the longstanding MARC21 UTF8 encoding problem for bib records entered via acquisitions * another ten or so bugfixes and small improvements One interesting project that was worked on during the hackfest is Jesse Weaver's new user interface for setting system preferences that will help users configure Koha by making the preferences more self-documenting. A particularly nice outcome of the hackfest is that several new and potential contributors had an opportunity to learn the mechanics of writing and submitting patches, and many of us learned new tips and tricks for Git. At the end of the afternoon, several Koha projects items were discussed. As a result of these discussions, I will be sending out proposals for several points, including: * (Re)starting a weekly update newsletter for changes to Koha 3.2 * I will be calling a monthly IRC meeting to discuss the status of Koha development. * Making some improvements to using the bug database to record who is working on various bugs and enhancements. * Setting a convention to tag regressions so that they get a higher priority for bugfixes. * Making use of the bug voting feature in Bugzilla to help Koha users and contributors prioritize bugs. I will be following up on each of these points in more detail in subsequent emails to the koha and koha-devel mailing lists. The log of the #koha IRC channel during the dev meeting can be found at http://koha.org/cgi-bin/logs.pl?recall=recall&saved_query=KohaCon09DevMtg Needless to say, there will be many blog posts by various people about KohaCon 2009 and the developers' meeting. The main tag used for Twitter, Flickr, and other social network posts is kohacon09. My thanks to the Koha users and developers who attended today in person, virtually, or in spirit, and to the KohaCon 2009 committee for organizing a great conference. I would also like to give a shout-out to the Holiday Inn Express for being great hosts. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Koha 3.2 Release Manager VP, Research & Development, LibLime galen.charlton(a)liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709 skype: gmcharlt

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KohaCon 2009 development meeting
by Galen Charlton 18 Apr '09

18 Apr '09

Hi, A few logistical details for the developers meeting after KohaCon 2009. Location: The Board Room at the Holiday Inn Express North Plano (i.e., the conference hotel) Date: We have the room all day Saturday and Sunday, 4/18 & 4/19. Start time: 08:00 CDT (13:00 UTC) - note that that this is not a firm start time as much simply the earliest I'll be there to make sure that the room is unlocked. End time: Whenever the caffeine runs out. The hotel is being very flexible, although if we start running into the late evening, we should probably decamp to a private hotel room out of courtesy to the staff and guests in adjoining rooms. Agenda: There's no set agenda; in the best unconference tradition we'll decide on the agenda as we go along. That said, there are some topics and requests that I know of: * overview of the Koha codebase for new contributors * Git tutorial * 3.0 and 3.2 status and planning * discussing ideas for architectural and programming improvements for 3.2 and later * hackfest Communications: I will summarize the meetings in postings to the koha and koha-devel mailing lists. For blogs, Twitter, Flickr, etc., let's use the tag kohacon09. There's no videoconference equipment, of course, but we can try using Skype, Jabber, or #koha if someone who is unable attend in person would like to participate. Thanks to David Schuster and the rest of the KohaCon committee for doing a wonderful job of organizing the conference, and thanks to the Holiday Inn for giving us use of the room (and coffee and tea!) gratis. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton VP, Research & Development, LibLime galen.charlton(a)liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709 skype: gmcharlt

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Zebra Indexing is not working properly!
by Muahmmad Wasim 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

hi, We have installed koha 3.1 and when we insert some records after fresh installation, the indexing works properly. But when we import our records and then enter any record it doesn't come in search results. When we use rebuild_zebra.pl, the records come in search and after entering one record (that comes in search as well), entering the second record has the same problem, that is after rebuiling zebra only one record is entered proplery the second record is not shown in search results.. Please help, Thanks, Muhammad Wasim Research Associate KICS, UET, Lahore

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z39.50 error on Koha 2.2.8
by Karen Myers 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

Hi I am running Koha 2.2.8 on Win XP with Apache 2.0.59, Perl 5.8 and MySql 4.0.1 When attempting to undertake a z39.50 search I get a general error 500 message. The error log reads: [Fri Apr 17 13:16:06 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of script headers: search.pl, referer: http://intranet/cgi-bin/koha/acqui.simple/addbiblio.pl [Fri Apr 17 13:16:06 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Can't load 'C:/usr/site/lib/auto/Net/Z3950/ZOOM/ZOOM.dll' for module Net::Z3950::ZOOM: load_file:The specified procedure could not be found at C:/usr/lib/XSLoader.pm line 70., referer: http://intranet/cgi-bin/koha/acqui.simple/addbiblio.pl [Fri Apr 17 13:16:06 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] at C:/usr/site/lib/Net/Z3950/ZOOM.pm line 12, referer: http://intranet/cgi-bin/koha/acqui.simple/addbiblio.pl [Fri Apr 17 13:16:06 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Compilation failed in require at C:/usr/site/lib/ZOOM.pm line 6., referer: http://intranet/cgi-bin/koha/acqui.simple/addbiblio.pl [Fri Apr 17 13:16:06 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/usr/site/lib/ZOOM.pm line 6., referer: http://intranet/cgi-bin/koha/acqui.simple/addbiblio.pl [Fri Apr 17 13:16:06 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Compilation failed in require at C:/usr/koha228/intranet/cgi-bin/koha/z3950/search.pl line 30., referer: http://intranet/cgi-bin/koha/acqui.simple/addbiblio.pl [Fri Apr 17 13:16:06 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/usr/koha228/intranet/cgi-bin/koha/z3950/search.pl line 30., referer: http://intranet/cgi-bin/koha/acqui.simple/addbiblio.pl Anyone know how can I solve this error? BTW I have searched lists including this posting for answer but no luck: http://www.nabble.com/Z39.50-won't-work-td8889632.html cheers Karen Myers Advisor - East Timor Library Association _________________________________________________________________ View photos of singles in your area Click Here http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fdating%2Eninemsn%2Ecom%2Eau…

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override button for halting a fine checkout?
by scott 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

I am a little confused on how the structure works with koha. I have so far when you try to check a book out to someone with a fee it halts displays the errors and then creates a button called Override and an error message to allow the librarian to continute to check out. I am using OPAC and i think this is where its confusing me, im trying to get the button to post to an override.pl which is basically the circulation.pl but without it checking to see if it meets any criteria and then i made a override.tmpl which is just like the circulation.tmpl now my problem is when i click the button it cant find the .pl file right now they are sitting in /koha/intranet/cgi-bin/circ/override.pl and the tmpl in the koha/intranet/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/circ/override.tmpl I've changed the files so they work with each other, meaning the override.pl uses the override.tmpl, so now why doesnt it show in the url i enter? is it because im using OPAC and i need to do something in there? thanks for those who answer :) _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel(a)nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel

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New Bugzilla component: browser compatibility
by Galen Charlton 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

Hi, I've added a new component to bugs.koha.org called "browser compatibility" for bugs that have to do with failures in staff intranet and OPAC that depend on the particular web browser being used. This is primarily motivated by a project for a LibLime client to squelch issues with using the staff client in IE7 and (as much as possible) IE6, but can apply to any bug that is dependent on the user agent. The default assignee is Joe, as he'll be working on those issues for now, but please let me know if you want to be added to the CC list for this component. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton VP, Research & Development, LibLime galen.charlton(a)liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709 skype: gmcharlt

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Fwd: [Koha-translate] mail list for pt_BR group
by MJ Ray 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

Hi - I'm not sure who I should ask about this mailing list creation, so I bring it to devel. If there's some reason not to host it at lists.koha.org, let me know and I can host it at software.coop somewhere. -- MJR -------- Original Message -------- Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 00:38:08 -0300 Message-ID: <c6240f9a0904082038m13d0c36br62a0f1dba3ed6afb(a)mail.gmail.com> From: Kemel Zaidan <kemelzaidan(a)gmail.com> Subject: [Koha-translate] mail list for pt_BR group I am trying to rally a group of people and create a Koha community here at Brazil. I wanna see if I can get some help on the Koha translation and for that I would like to know if a mailing list for this purpose could be set. I've talked to chris on IRC, and he told me to write to henridamien.laurent(a)biblibre.com and ask for one, but I had no answer from him. I am going to give a speech on a local open source event next week, so I would like to have the wiki and the mail list set by that, so I could talk about it and ask some people to join. Thanks Kemel Zaidan

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Authority UsageCount returns 0
by Eric Bégin 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

Hi there, I have a problem with authorities that are actually refered in some biblios but the UsageCount returns 0 when searching those authorities. I checked the biblios and their $9 field are correctly set to the authid. Does anybody experience the same problem? FYI: I'm using Zebra. Thanks, Eric Bégin 514.777.6572 Eric.Begin(a)inLibro.com <mailto:Eric.Begin@inLibro.com> inLibro POUR ESPRIT LIBRE <www.inLibro.com> <www.inLibro.com>

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