February 2011 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

Re: [Koha-devel] Separating MARC Framework Structure from Display
by Stefano Bargioni 24 Feb '11

24 Feb '11

In my opinion, Koha has a very good UI for cataloguing. However, this proposal is interesting because -if I'm not wrong- framework personalization could be up to the cataloguer level. This will allow to rise productivity of cataloguers who know MARC rules very well. Stefano

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Separating MARC Framework Structure from Display
by Ian Walls 24 Feb '11

24 Feb '11

Colleagues and Friends, I've been doing a training for a library in Maine, and working with their cataloguers has got me thinking a lot about the MARC Frameworks. Right now, our Frameworks are doing two jobs: defining what MARC means, and determining how that information will display in the editor and MARC views. It seems to me that we may benefit from separating these two functions more thoroughly. Doing so would allow us to have one or two framework structures per MARC flavour, but as many displays as we like. I'm thinking of the further future of Koha where we support more than just MARC (like native DC, MOD, METS or EAD data), and having the semantics and display separated is more critical (so we can provide a common display layer to all those formats) To that end, I'd recommend some changes to how the display information is handled in the GUI. First off, having 'basic' constraints and 'advanced' constraints (hidden by JQuery) should be eliminated in favour of a semantic section and a display section. Secondly, the 'hidden' value should no longer be an integer (at least in the GUI), but a dropdown, or series of dropdowns, laying out in plain text under what conditions you're hiding the value. Does this make sense to others, or am I writing too late into the evening? Cheers, -Ian -- Ian Walls Lead Development Specialist ByWater Solutions Phone # (888) 900-8944 http://bywatersolutions.com ian.walls(a)bywatersolutions.com Twitter: @sekjal

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Trial install of "OPEN CONFERENCE SYSTEMS"
by Koustubha Kale 23 Feb '11

23 Feb '11

Hi All, I have set up a trial install of "OPEN CONFERENCE SYSTEMS" ( http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/) at http://kohacon11.vpmthane.org/ocs/ Please have a look and let me have your thoughts on its usefulness for organizing Kohacon. I can provide "Conference Director" access on request.. Regards, Koustubha Kale Anant Corporation Contact Details : Address : 103, Armaan Residency, R. W Sawant Road, Nr. Golden Dyes Naka, Thane (w), Maharashtra, India, Pin : 400601. TeleFax : +91-22-21720108, +91-22-21720109 Mobile : +919820715876 Website : http://www.anantcorp.com Blog : http://www.anantcorp.com/blog/?author=2

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Imported MARC notice and Authorities: : inconsistent database
by Frère Sébastien Marie 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

Hello, Recently, we have imported a set of notices, from another abbey, in the reservoir. When we create a new examplar using the previous imported notices, the field 700.9 (authority - internal koha number) refering the auth_id isn't updated or removed (still reference the old authority number, in the other catalog). As result, we have an examplar with 700.a (authority name) correct, but with an internal reference wrong (not valid in us catalog). If we search all notices linked with an authority, there is wrong attribution. Next an example. Starting with: - Notices in reservoir: - Title_A / Author_A (auth_id = 1) [from import] - Authority in catalog: - Author_B (auth_id = 1) [created locally] - Notice in catalog: - Title_B / Author_B (auth_id = 1) Next, we create a new examplar based on notice in reservoir, result: - Authority in catalog: - Author_B (auth_id = 1) [created locally] - Notice in catalog: - Title_A / Author_A (auth_id = 1) - Title_B / Author_B (auth_id = 1) (doubt if Author_A added in authorities or not) Now, if search notice attached with Author_B (auth_id = 1): results: - Title_A / Author_A (auth_id = 1) - Title_B / Author_B (auth_id = 1) The database is inconsistent. Where is the problem: - a misused of imported MARC: an option somewhere should be set... - a bug in importing MARC: 700.9 should be cleaned before import... - another possibility ? Currently, no bug report filled, as I don't no if it is a misusing or a bug. Thanks. -- Frère Sébastien Marie Abbaye Notre Dame de La Trappe 61380 Soligny-la-Trappe Tél: 02.33.84.17.00 Fax: 02.33.34.98.57 Web: http://www.latrappe.fr/

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Bug 5791 - Robust handling of deleted biblios/authorities
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

I've filled a bug for better non existent record handling for biblios and authorities. I propose to use the same approach used for patrons. I hope I can submit a patch within a few hours. For authorities I plan to add to authorities/detail.pl a check like this: if ( defined $authtypecode ) { record show stuff } else { generate proper error message } To+

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Editing the Comments feature on Koha
by Cole Hudson 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

*Note: my apologies to all who have already seen this post on the koha general list-serv* Hi all, I'm running Koha 3.02 on Ubuntu 10.10. I'm trying to edit the comments feature that displays with each record in the opac. I'd like to edit it where the name of the patron is not pulled from each patron record-so as to make comments anonymous. Could someone point me in the right direction here on what code to edit/remove? Thanks. Cole Hudson Library Assistant MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine Macomb University Center

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bugzilla workflow, question when "pushed, pls test" rejected
by Paul Poulain 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

Hello, On http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3495, chris has pushed a patch, it's now "patch pushed" "please test". I tested and have found a problem (see comment 3) Should I modify the patch status ? which value to set to have the RM seing there's something more to do ? What i know for sure is that it can't stay "patch pushed", as there's a problem ;-) -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08

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koha cataloging
by Cybermon 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

Dear All, I would like to ask about few questions for koha configuration. I was successfully installed the koha used following address. http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_3.2_on_Debian_Squeeze. But my opac address not working only show the apache the default web page /it works/, which configuration is missing for me. I would like to add *084/other classification/* field for Koha cataloging, what should i do ? Best regards, Gana

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KohaCon2011
by Koustubha Kale 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

Hi All, To get the ball rolling, I have put up a page in Koha wiki at http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/KohaCon2011 I have also put up a supporting site at http://kohacon11.vpmthane.org/ Its just a stub yet but I will be working on it. Looking for ideas, volunteers, suggestions, comments..... Regards, Koustubha Kale Anant Corporation Contact Details : Address : 103, Armaan Residency, R. W Sawant Road, Nr. Golden Dyes Naka, Thane (w), Maharashtra, India, Pin : 400601. TeleFax : +91-22-21720108, +91-22-21720109 Mobile : +919820715876 Website : http://www.anantcorp.com Blog : http://www.anantcorp.com/blog/?author=2

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Koha 3.2.4 is now available
by Christopher Nighswonger 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

It is with pleasure that I announce the release of Koha 3.2.4. The package can be retrieved from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.04.tar.gz You can use the following checksum and signature files to verify the download: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.04.tar.gz.MD5 http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.04.tar.gz.MD5.asc http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.04.tar.gz.sig Release notes for 3.2.3 are below the fold. Come and get it! RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.2.4 - 22 February 2011 ======================================================================== Koha is the first free and open source software library automation package (ILS). Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types and sizes, volunteers, and support companies from around the world. The website for the Koha project is http://koha-community.org/ Koha 3.2.4 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.04.tar.gz Installation instructions can be found at: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation Koha 3.2.4 is a bugfix/maintenance release. Highlights of 3.2.4 ====================== Some of the higher profile bugs addressed in this release are: 2341 items marked 'On Order' (notforloan == -1) don't interact correctly with opac-reserve.tmpl 4263 repeatable subfields in items 5376 Batch Edit and Delete need Superlibrarian Permissions 5683 link_bibs_to_authorities.pl can corrupt records 5477 Test cases requiring database access fail 5681 Autobarcode using C4::Barcode has issues with leading zeros and large values 5731 If an item doesn't have a collection code set, moredetail.pl will error This release also contains a variety of minor enhancements improving Koha's interface and underlying scripts as well as updates to several translations. Bugs fixed in 3.2.4 ====================== 2742 Wrong language name in the preferences 3009 Change items.content field so it prints due date by default 3212 MARC21 leader plugins should force Leader/09 to 'a' 3319 Need a nicer error message when attempting to add a patron with no libraries defined 4160 Currency Conversion dosn't handle rates other than 100 5115 Tags JavaScript includes many untranslatable strings 5140 In Chrome, drop-down menus disappear after using pop-up calendar 5230 MARC export by call number range results in a zero byte file 5661 Authority search return an "Error 500" when "Sort by" is set to "No order" 5673 Incorrect Test of guarantorid 5689 System preference notifications are not translatable 5690 items.timestamp was not being updated when an item was edited 5691 If someone deletes all items, with independent branches on, it deletes all 5699 Don't ignore subfield 3 when building a new record (UNIMARC specfic) 5700 Statuses not being set properly 5718 Moveitem has the wrong permissions 5735 Expanding/collapsing cloned fields in editor takes original field 5736 Fixing some zebra configuration errors in marc21/biblios/record.abs 5741 Extra comma causes JavaScript error in Internet Explorer 5745 overdues with fines not showing titles 5777 System preferences Tab content title and Save button partially translatable 4306 Label manage batch listing should show item-level itemtype 5452 Overdue date color in borrower's today issues 5616 UTF-8 problem in Card View 5629 Adding anchor to holdings link in opac-detail.pl tabs 5665 Routing slip prints too wide for narrow printers 5702 Opac - Results : Highlight link need IF condition 5726 Fix a bug in the selection of biblios to merge 5727 Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string 5734 Fix column order in issue history 5751 Removing refetences to unused members quicksearch code/template 5759 When printing a borrowers information the secondary email address is not printed 5769 notice tab disappearing on edit patron 5776 menu on funds wraps when only 1 fund 5649 Change wording on review.tmpl from white/blacklists to approved/rejected 5654 misc/installer_devel_notes not needed 5716 Whitespace correction for browse shelf link 4931 Stocktaking must be based on holdingbranch instead of homebranch 5506 Translation Process Simplification 5532 "Saved" message for sysprefs editor should show names of saved prefs 5733 Empty cart in intranet when session is closed 5760 Add the jquery table sorter to borrowers reading record System requirements ====================== Changes since 3.0: * The minimum version of Perl required is now 5.8.8. * There are a number of new Perl module dependencies. Run ./koha_perl_deps.pl -u -m to get a list of any new modules to install during upgrade. Upgrades ====================== The structure of the acquisitions tables have changed significantly from 3.0.x. In particular, the budget hierarchy is quite different. During an upgrade, a new database table is created called fundmapping that contains a record of how budgets were mapped. It is strongly recommended that users of Koha 3.0.x acquisitions carefully review the results of the upgrade before resuming ordering in Koha 3.2.x. Documentation ====================== As of Koha 3.2, the Koha manual is now maintained in DocBook. The home page for Koha documentation is http://koha-community.org/documentation/ As of the date of these release notes, several translations of the Koha manual are available: English: http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual/ Spanish: http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual-es/ French: http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual-fr/ The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=kohadocs.git;a=summary Translations ====================== Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff interface are available in this release for the following languages: * Chinese * Danish * English (New Zealand) * English (USA) * French (France) * French (Canada) * German * Greek * Hindi * Italian * Norwegian * Portuguese * Spanish * Turkish Partial translations are available for various other languages. The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see http://www.kohadocs.org/usersguide/apb.html for information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate list to volunteer: http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate The most up-to-date translations can be found at: http://translate.koha-community.org/ Release Team ====================== The release team for Koha 3.2 is Release Manager: Galen Charlton <gmcharlt(a)gmail.com> Documentation Manager: Nicole Engard <nengard(a)gmail.com> Translation Manager: Chris Cormack <chris(a)bigallofwax.co.nz> Release Maintainer (3.0.x): Henri-Damien Laurent <henridamien.laurent(a)biblibre.com> Release Maintainer (3.2.x): Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger(a)foundations.edu> Credits ====================== We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.2.4: D Ruth Bavousett Jared Camins-Esakov Colin Campbell Frédérick Capovilla Jerome Charaoui Galen Charlton Chris Cormack Frédéric Demians Magnus Enger Katrin Fischer Henri-Damien LAURENT Owen Leonard Chris Nighswonger Liz Rea Marcel de Rooy Paul Poulain Brice Sanchez David Schuster Robin Sheat Reed Wade Ian Walls We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertantly missed, please send patch against these release notes to koha-patches(a)lists.koha-community.org. The 3.2.x Release Maintainer especially thanks the 3.4 Release Team and all who participated in QA for their diligent labors in testing and pushing well over 330 patches since the 3.2.0 relese. Their continued work very much makes possible the release of 3.2.4 on its announced schedule. Revision control notes ====================== The Koha project uses Git for version control. The current development version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git The branch for Koha 3.2.x (i.e., this version of Koha and future bugfix releases) is 3.2.x. The next major feature release of Koha will be Koha 3.4.0. Bugs and feature requests ====================== Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug tracker at http://bugs.koha-community.org/ Naku te rourou, nau te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi.

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