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

Re: [Koha-devel] Error in biblio.pm
by Paul 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

At 10:14 AM 3/30/2011 +1300, Chris Cormack wrote: >On 30 March 2011 10:06, Paul <paul.a(a)aandc.org> wrote: > > I would appreciate some assistance with biblionumber and biblioitemnumber, > > given that we can no longer enter new biblios. > > > > Error code is : "Tag "" is not a valid tag. at > > /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2848" > > > > That line (under the head : "Internal function to add or update > biblionumber > > and biblioitemnumber to > > the MARC XML" is the first of these four: > > > > Â Â Â Â my $new_field = MARC::Field->new( > > Â Â Â Â $biblio_tag, '', '', > > Â Â Â Â "$biblio_subfield" Â Â => $biblionumber, > > Â Â Â Â "$biblioitem_subfield" => $biblioitemnumber > > > > What are the values that biblio.pm is expecting, and where exactly are they > > input from GUI page > > > <http://koha-admin/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/addbiblio.pl?biblionumber=0&z395…> > > ? > > > > It seems that the call is based upon biblionumber=0 [which is <10, > therefore > > creating the error according line 2847 : "# biblionumber & biblioitemnumber > > are in the same field (can't be <10 as fields <10 have only 1 value)"] and > > seeing as we are using a custom framework (cut down to what we need for > > cataloguing staff purposes), I need to know what particular line I have set > > to "ignore" that is creating the error. What "Tag" have I left out? > > > > Can't find anything in the docs on this "Internal function." > > > > Thanks for any pointers, > >Hi Paul > >Have you messed around with the 999 field and subfields? Specifically >breaking their mappings or deleting them entirely? Hi Chris - thanks for replying. The only difference between the "default" mapping and our "abbreviated" mapping is the deletion of two fields marked "obsolete" ( a Item type [OBSOLETE] subfield ignored and b Koha Dewey Subclass [OBSOLETE] Tab:0, Not repeatable, Not mandatory, hidden,). The two other fields are identical in both mappings ( c Koha biblionumber subfield ignored and d Koha biblioitemnumber subfield ignored ) with both hidden "constraints" set to -5. These do say "see online help", but I haven't found it yet ;-{ Best - Paul

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3.2.7 Early Release Notice
by Chris Nighswonger 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

Hi everyone, April is a big month with the forthcoming major release of Koha 3.4.0. So in order to yield the stage to the 3.4.0 release, the 3.2.7 release will take place one week earlier than our normal schedule on 15 April 2011. This puts 3.2.x into string freeze on 8 April 2011. 3.2.x will return to its normal release schedule on the 22nd of the month in May with 3.2.8. Kind Regards, Chris Nighswonger Koha 3.2.x Release Maintainer

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Perl edit|debug
by Paul 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

Koha 3.02.05.000 on Ubuntu 10.10 Does anyone have a suggestion for a perl editor|debugger (or other method? attach?) that allows stop lines and single-line step-by-step instructions? We need a fast way of following variables, objects and logic through various .pl and .tmpl files - without having to read hundreds of lines of code. Many thanks - Paul tired old-sysadmin --- Archives and Collections (ACS) Society 205, Main Street, Picton, Ontario, K0K 2T0, Canada http://www.AandC.org Canadian Charitable Organization 88721 9921 RR0001 Dedicated to maritime conservation and education.

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Greetings Koha-devel
by pete huerter 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

Hi Koha-devel group, I am a volunteer with the Archives and Collections Society http://aandc.org/in Picton, ON, Canada. I work with Paul (who also posts to Koha-discuss, and will likely post here soon.) I have been helping with all technical aspects of setting up Koha for this non-profit charitable library. For our data migration we are mapping from OpenOffice spreadsheet to MARC21 format using MarcEdit. We also use some custom perl scripts. Our server is Ubuntu Linux. So we are mostly using free software (except for running MarcEdit on Windows, which we will be changing to Linux shortly). I am a software developer. My background is in compilers and high performance parallel debugging, so all of this is totally new to me. I am having a great time learning and am totally impressed with Koha. This is a really useful tool and we feel lucky to have it covered by the GPL. Thanks for all of your hard work, and thanks for all of your help over on Koha-discuss. I know that some of my more technical questions are better placed here. However the Nabble interface led me to believe this list was not active any longer. Cheers, Pete.

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Newsletter Call for March Articles - FINAL CALL
by Nicole Engard 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

Hi all, Today is the deadline for articles for the newsletter and I have three - please send me your stories today so that we have a proper newsletter to publish in 2 days. Thanks Nicole

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Adding Loan Period (in hour) for reserve books in Circulation and Fine rules
by Altaf Mahmud 27 Mar '11

27 Mar '11

Hi community, I'm using Koha 3.2.5. I want to add another column in Circulation and Fine rules to allow issuing reserve books for 1 hour only. Currently, the Loan Period is defined in days, I want to add another one for hours/minutes. How can I do that? Thanks. -- Altaf Mahmud System Programmer Ayesha Abed Library BRAC University Bangladesh.

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Question about where to put things for Picturesearch/kidsearch
by David Schuster 25 Mar '11

25 Mar '11

This is being designed for k-2 students and I'm working to align it to curriculum requirements in the US. I don't know how similar it will be internationally but probably pretty close. So on my test box as I've been building this picture based search tool I have put the files in koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/prog/en/xxx.... location Is that the best place to start a new directory for picturesearch or kidspac which will hold the css etc... files along with all the images? I'm working really hard to make this so that it will be available for any koha library to use. Currently this is what I have running - r Requires Javascript as it stores a temporary cookie with a location code then takes you into a page with pictures 1. discover.html - select the category 12 options or so(animals for example) 2. animals.html - select a second category(farm, pets, wetland animals etc...) 3. When you click the animal - sheep - it builds the search and passes it to Koha with some javascript with the location that is in the cookie and it updates the cookie with the page in which you are entering the regular Koha catalog display. 4. I have some Javascript that I inserted into en/includes/doc-head-close.inc - which looks for the cookie that was set earlier - and if it is there it displays a large red arrow to return to Picturesearch or Kidsearch whatever we call it. Which displays on both the list display and specific bib - I also added a div I think in the opac-header - but will have to verify that piece. 5. when you click on the big arrow it reads the cookie that was updated in step 3 to determine which page of the picturesearch/kidspac to return you to. Thoughts? I'm almost ready to put the proof of concept out there for you to see it, but wanted to know the best place to put the files. I have more verification with some of the pictures and building more categories... -- David Schuster Plano ISD Library Technology Coordinator

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Koha frameworks - customizing size of input text/text boxes
by Linda Culberson 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

All, Before I get too much into reinventing the wheel, I was wondering if anyone had customized the frameworks to expand the size of the input boxes from text to text boxes? I was thinking it was coming from addbiblio.pl if ( length($value) > 100 or ( C4::Context->preference("marcflavour") eq "UNIMARC" && $tag >= 300 and $tag < 400 && $subfield eq 'a' ) or ( $tag >= 500 and $tag < 600 && C4::Context->preference("marcflavour") eq "MARC21" ) ) { $subfield_data{marc_value} = "<textarea cols=\"70\" rows=\"4\" id=\"".$subfield_data{id}."\" name=\"".$subfield_data{id}."\" class=\"input_marceditor\" tabindex=\"1\" >$value</textarea> "; } else { $subfield_data{marc_value} = "<input type=\"text\" id=\"".$subfield_data{id}."\" name=\"".$subfield_data{id}."\" value=\"$value\" tabindex=\"1\" size=\"67\" maxlength=\"$max_length\" class=\"input_marceditor\" \/> "; } But in our version 3.02.02.003, the only fields that have 4 rows are fields 500 through 526. The others, 530-590 only have one row. Am I looking in the wrong place? I thought it was correct because if I change the number of rows in the script it does affect the input box, but it doesn't do the entire range of 5XX fields. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! -- Linda Culberson lculber(a)mdah.state.ms.us Archives and Records Services Division Ms. Dept. of Archives & History P. O. Box 571 Jackson, MS 39205-0571 Telephone: 601/576-6873 Facsimile: 601/576-6824

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CGI Timeout
by Marcel de Rooy 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

Hi all, I recently ran into apache timeout problems when running updatedatabase over the web installer on a larger number of records between 3.0 and 3.2. Restoring a backup and temporarily increasing Timeout in apache config file resolved the situation. Not ideal.. But someone not paying full attention could even think that install was succesful, while the install process was killed halfway.. Are there already any ideas on preventing this kind of situations? Regards, Marcel

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Database
by Marcel de Rooy 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

Hi all, I was checking some differences between db revisions and kohastructure. Came across four fields from aqbooksellers: Deliverydays Followupdays Followupscancel Specialty It seems that these four fields are not used. They are not in the structure, but somehow made it in my production data. Coming from an 3.0 alpha or beta? Probably, you could have them too.. Another remainder of this can be found here: acqui/updatesupplier.pl:$data{'specialty'}=$input->param('publishers_imprints'); This line apparently does nothing, since the param is not passed (anymore). Does anyone object if I remove these fields in a db revision and delete the line from updatesupplier? Please check for instance in mysql if you have something in specialty with: Select distinct specialty from aqbooksellers; If you have something else than null or empty string, then respond please. Are you using this field in custom scripts? Thanks for your attention. Marcel

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