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

Koha print circulation slips
by Linda Culberson 13 Apr '11

13 Apr '11

All, I am trying to find a way to print circulation slips (hold/checkout) automatically. Has anyone else tried to do this? 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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Koha - problem with searches/zebra indexing in second instance
by Linda Culberson 12 Apr '11

12 Apr '11

All, We created a second instance of Koha using the instructions at http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installing_Multiple_Instances_of_Koha We dumped the data from our original instance and then reloaded it into the koha_test instance. We have tried to reindex several time by using rebuild_zebra.pl in koha_test /var/log/koha_test/koha-zebradaemon-output.log and koha-zebradaemon.err are both empty The error in koha-opac-error_log is HTML::Template::Pro:in TMPL_LOOP at pos 416: PARAM:LOOP:next_loop(0): callback returned null scope I think it was our install that had a problem because in koha-error_log I see for the date of the install: Thu Apr 07 15:04:37 2011] [error] [client X.X.X.X] [Thu Apr 7 15:04:37 2011] install.pl: C4::Installer::load_sql returned the following errors while attempting to load /usr/share/koha_test/intranet/cgi-bin/installer/data/mysql/en/mandatory/sysprefs.sql:, referer: http://koha_test.mdah.state.ms.us:8080/cgi-bin/koha/installer/install.pl [Thu Apr 07 15:04:37 2011] [error] [client X.X.X.X] [Thu Apr 7 15:04:37 2011] install.pl: Warning: something's wrong at /usr/share/koha_test/lib/C4/Installer.pm line 530., referer: http://koha_test.mdah.state.ms.us:8080/cgi-bin/koha/installer/install.pl [Thu Apr 07 15:04:38 2011] [error] [client X.X.X.X] [Thu Apr 7 15:04:38 2011] install.pl: C4::Installer::load_sql returned the following errors while attempting to load /usr/share/koha_test/intranet/cgi-bin/installer/data/mysql/en/mandatory/userflags.sql:, referer: http://koha_test.mdah.state.ms.us:8080/cgi-bin/koha/installer/install.pl [Thu Apr 07 15:04:38 2011] [error] [client X.X.X.X] [Thu Apr 7 15:04:38 2011] install.pl: Warning: something's wrong at /usr/share/koha_test/lib/C4/Installer.pm line 530., referer: http://koha_test.mdah.state.ms.us:8080/cgi-bin/koha/installer/install.pl [Thu Apr 07 15:04:38 2011] [error] [client X.X.X.X] [Thu Apr 7 15:04:38 2011] install.pl: C4::Installer::load_sql returned the following errors while attempting to load /usr/share/koha_test/intranet/cgi-bin/installer/data/mysql/en/mandatory/userpermissions.sql:, referer: http://koha_test.mdah.state.ms.us:8080/cgi-bin/koha/installer/install.pl Any insight/help would be appreciated. -- 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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Generating transactions
by Anne-Lena Westrum 12 Apr '11

12 Apr '11

Dearest Koha developers! We have recently started a process of testing and evaluating Koha in the perspective of a fairly large public library, with a number of different branches and departments. This has proven to be a fairly timeconsuming task, as we - amongst other things - need to test all the modules and compare it to the functionality of our current ILS :) After importing our records (Normarc), we need to do a demo of the different modules. Thus we are in desperate need of a script to generate users (approx 500.000) and transactions (3-4 millions) over a period of time (4-5 years). We have had no luck searching for a script like this. Can someone help point us in the right direction? Thank you! :) Regards, Anne-Lena -- Oslo Public Library

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Re: [Koha-devel] Generating transactions
by Anne-Lena Westrum 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

I think the proper word to describe my word "transactions" with is circulations (pardon my somewhat Norwegian-English use of terms). We need to generate loans and submissions, and preferably also some other status changes (fex lost, not in place, ordered, reminder sent). We have some pretty heavy requirements as to generating statistics. In order to calm the ones working with this, we need to be able to do a convincing demo :) How did you transfer your circulation history? I guess the crucial part is to get it from your current ILS-vendor? -AnneLena- ________________________________________ Fra: Linda Culberson [lculber(a)mdah.state.ms.us] Sendt: 11. april 2011 16:35 Til: Anne-Lena Westrum Emne: Re: [Koha-devel] Generating transactions I'm not sure what you mean by transactions but we transferred our circulation histories and a little bit of our cataloging history (bibliographic/item created/modified by whom date). Would that help? On 4/7/2011 8:17 AM, Anne-Lena Westrum wrote: > Dearest Koha developers! > > We have recently started a process of testing and evaluating Koha in the > perspective of a fairly large public library, with a number of different > branches and departments. This has proven to be a fairly timeconsuming > task, as we - amongst other things - need to test all the modules and > compare it to the functionality of our current ILS :) > > After importing our records (Normarc), we need to do a demo of the > different modules. Thus we are in desperate need of a script to generate > users (approx 500.000) and transactions (3-4 millions) over a period of > time (4-5 years). > > We have had no luck searching for a script like this. Can someone help > point us in the right direction? > > Thank you! :) > > Regards, > Anne-Lena > -- > Oslo Public Library > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > Koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org > http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > website : http://www.koha-community.org/ > git : http://git.koha-community.org/ > bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ > > -- 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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Re: [Koha-devel] Fwd: Generating transactions
by Anne-Lena Westrum 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

Hello, Thank you Chris, John and Magnus for your reply! :) Surely the best result would be if we could load our transaction data into Koha. This does however sound like a fairly comprehensive task, and would more or less look like a complete migration. That is not what we want at this moment. Mainly because we do not have access to the data, but they are also connected with an intricate privacy policy. It is not a trivial - or cheap - thing for us to get an export of the transaction data. As you understand; dummydata is still preferable. But I guess I shouldn't get my hopes up for a script like the one I described... :( It would be very interesting to know if there exists a step-by-step manual for migrating transaction data. What kind of format (or protocol) is used to import this kind of data into Koha? -AnneLena- _______________________________________________ Hi Anne-Lenna: Years ago we tried to write such a script but it was much more complicated than we expected. ?For proof of concepts and demo purposes why not just load, from your current ILS, your transaction data into Koha? ?You will have to learn how to do this anyway so why not work out the transaction transfer now. John Brice Executive Director Meadville Public Library

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Master is currently unstable
by Chris Cormack 10 Apr '11

10 Apr '11

Hi All I have merged the Template::Toolkit changes into master. Anyone running from master in production is advised not to update at the moment. Anyone else please do and report any bugs you find. If you want to sign off on old patches, I have pushed new/old_templates. I will endeavour to keep it up to date. I have also tagged the last commit before the merge, the tag is html_template_pro I have also gpg signed it, as I will be doing for any tags I make. You can get my key from https://launchpad.net/~chris-bigballofwax Please test, and report any bugs you find. Chris -- Chris Cormack Catalyst IT Ltd. +64 4 803 2238 PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington 6142, New Zealand

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MARC21 Authority DOM indexing
by Jared Camins-Esakov 09 Apr '11

09 Apr '11

Good morning. I just wrote a follow-up patch for bug 3072, to fix authority searching now that Heading-Main is used again. The two files I changed are etc/zebradb/marc_defs/marc21/authorities/authority-koha-indexdefs.xml and etc/zebradb/marc_defs/marc21/authorities/authority-zebra-indexdefs.xsl This is all well and good, but I can find no reference to the first file, authority-koha-indexdefs (sadly I discovered this *after* I had spent the time editing it). Does anyone know A) why we have it and B) why we shouldn't just remove it so that other people don't get confused and spend their time editing an unused file? Regards, Jared -- Jared Camins-Esakov Freelance bibliographer, C & P Bibliography Services, LLC (phone) +1 (917) 727-3445 (e-mail) jcamins(a)cpbibliography.com (web) http://www.cpbibliography.com/

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conan's introduction
by Fernando Canizo 09 Apr '11

09 Apr '11

Hi everybody, I'm Fernando Canizo, aka conan, from Argentina. Some might have see me semi-lurking at #koha irc channel. I've been hired by the SID (http://sid.uncu.edu.ar/) which depends on UNCuyo (http://www.uncu.edu.ar/) to implement koha for the 22 libraries dependent on UNCuyo and to provide modifications requested by librarians as they come up, with the idea in mind of trying to bring them upstream if they worth it. I'm still shaking from the shock of meeting koha, MARC21, and other behemoths alike, also I'm relearning Perl, language I swore to forget some years ago. I haven't introduced myself yet because I'm currently dealing with implementation, and I think I'll be on that for some time still. However I'm starting to build a list of desired changes for koha so I might bother you with questions now and then. -- Fernando Canizo (a.k.a. conan) - http://conan.muriandre.com/ GCS d? s:+ a C++ P--- L++++ E--- W+++ w--- M-- PE-- !tv b+++ h---- y+++

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Fwd: Generating transactions
by Chris Cormack 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

Forwarding to the list with Johns permission ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Brice <jbrice(a)ccfls.org> Date: 9 April 2011 01:11 Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Generating transactions To: Chris Cormack <chris(a)bigballofwax.co.nz> On 04/07/2011 04:56 PM, Chris Cormack wrote: > > On 8 April 2011 01:17, Anne-Lena Westrum > <anne-lena.westrum(a)kul.oslo.kommune.no> wrote: >> >> Dearest Koha developers! >> >> We have recently started a process of testing and evaluating Koha in the >> perspective of a fairly large public library, with a number of different >> branches and departments. This has proven to be a fairly timeconsuming >> task, as we - amongst other things - need to test all the modules and >> compare it to the functionality of our current ILS :) >> >> After importing our records (Normarc), we need to do a demo of the >> different modules. Thus we are in desperate need of a script to generate >> users (approx 500.000) and transactions (3-4 millions) over a period of >> time (4-5 years). >> >> We have had no luck searching for a script like this. Can someone help >> point us in the right direction? >> > Hi Anne-Lenna > > Magnus our NORMARC export (he wrote all the NORMARC support for Koha > and is from Norway also) is currently trying to sleep of a cold in > Marseille. He has been there for the week with Koha developers from > all around Europe working on a code sprint leading up to the release > of Koha 3.4.0 on April 22 (which will have native NORMARC support). > > I am sure he will answer when he wakes up :) As far as I know such a > script does not exist. I would offer to write one, as it sounds like > fun, but I am in the middle of release management work. I am sure > however that one of the other developers could do this. > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > Koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org > http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > website : http://www.koha-community.org/ > git : http://git.koha-community.org/ > bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ Hi Anne-Lenna: Years ago we tried to write such a script but it was much more complicated than we expected. For proof of concepts and demo purposes why not just load, from your current ILS, your transaction data into Koha? You will have to learn how to do this anyway so why not work out the transaction transfer now. John Brice Executive Director Meadville Public Library

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String freeze is nigh
by Chris Cormack 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

Hi All The string freeze kicks into effect right about now. What does this mean, any new patches sent now, that touch templates and are not security related, will be deferred for 3.4.1. (New features of course are deferred to 3.6.x) On Monday NZ time, I will be merging the template::toolkit work into master and calling for lots of testing. I will create another branch that people can continue to use to sign off on old .tmpl files, and all ones submitted before Monday will be taken care of. Post Monday I will be asking that everyone makes patches based on the .tt files instead. I will post instructions in the mailing list, on the wiki and on the official Koha site, www.koha-community.org at that point also. Thanks all for your hard work, its looking like over 760 commits between 3.2.0 and 3.4.0 which is pretty amazing for 6 months work, and at last count nearly 70 people have patches in 3.4.0. The project continues to grow both in terms of community, and pace of development. So thank you all. Chris -- Chris Cormack Catalyst IT Ltd. +64 4 803 2238 PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington 6142, New Zealand

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