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

Sending acquisition orders per email: confirmation
by Edgar Fuß 19 Aug '11

19 Aug '11

Christophe Croullebois <christophe.croullebois(a)biblibre.com> wrote (on bugzilla): > Hello, > sorry I have tested, and when you click on "Send Mail" no requester to ask you > to confirm action, and more uncomfortable IMO no popup to say "operation > successfull" or "mail sent" or other... > regards. Is it Koha practice to request confirmation for non-destructive actions and/or to report successful operations? I personally usually tend to find these annoying, but if it's what people are used to, it surely should be added. For the confirmation, that could be done in JavaScript; but for the report, I wouldn't know how to do that. Could someone point me to examples (in Koha, I mean) where such confirmations/reports are being done?

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RFC: Improved book covers
by Nicholas van Rheede van Oudtshoorn 19 Aug '11

19 Aug '11

Hi all, We've been avid users of Koha here at Perth Bible College for quite a few years now. Recently, I've done some work to improve the book cover system here at PBC. A lot of our records lack ISBN records (BAD library practices in the old library system!), and I really wanted something nicer than a "cover not found" image. The result (attached) is an html/css book cover generating system - which also locally stores covers attained from librarything and openlibrary, redirecting to an amazon image if no cover is found. Unfortunately, it's in php - since I'm more familiar with that. :( The kernel for the system (though it's been *heavily* modified is courtesy a script by Art Zemon from 2008. We also put together a newbooks display. The results can be seen on the landing page: http://library.pbc.wa.edu.au/ - (and there you'll see that even some of our "new" books don't have ISBNs! <groan>) Hoping this might be of use to someone else. Something like the html/css book cover system could, in my opinion, be very useful... Nick van Oudtshoorn Perth Bible College

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News from the New Newsletter Editor
by daniel g 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

Hello, As you may know, Nicole Engard has resigned the position of Koha newsletter editor after a year and a half of splendid work. I’m pleased the community has selected me to succeed her, and I look forward to serving the community by producing the monthly account of what’s new in the world of Koha. But I need your help to do it! Please send me news of anything you think the community might like to know about. It can be as short as a sentence or as long as a paper. I'm planning to add a gossip column (you call it a society column if you prefer), which will be short blurbs about what folks in the community are doing, like "Paul Poulain of BibLibre is assisting 3.6 Quality Assurance Manager Ian Walls in reducing the backlog of patches waiting for QA testing" and "Melia Meggs joined ByWater Solutions as their Operations Manager." I'll be harvesting material for this column from the lists and blogs, but I encourage you to send me a sentence or two about what you're currently working on. I’ll also be adding a section on new Koha implementations in the past month, so if you know of any go-lives that don’t get posted to the list, please be sure to alert me. I've already gathered a fair amount of material for the August newsletter, including the August General IRC meeting, Global Bug Squashing Day, the status of the releases, and the latest on KohaCon11 and KohaCon12. Please send directly to me (not to the list) anything else you think might be newsworthy by next Thursday, August 25. Thanks, Daniel Grobani

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News from the New Newsletter Editor
by daniel g 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

Hello, As you may know, Nicole Engard has resigned the position of Koha newsletter editor after a year and a half of splendid work. I’m pleased the community has selected me to succeed her, and I look forward to serving the community by producing the monthly account of what’s new in the world of Koha. But I need your help to do it! Please send me news of anything you think the community might like to know about. It can be as short as a sentence or as long as a paper. I'm planning to add a gossip column (you call it a society column if you prefer), which will be short blurbs about what folks in the community are doing, like "Paul Poulain of BibLibre is assisting 3.6 Quality Assurance Manager Ian Walls in reducing the backlog of patches waiting for QA testing" and "Melia Meggs joined ByWater Solutions as their Operations Manager." I'll be harvesting material for this column from the lists and blogs, but I encourage you to send me a sentence or two about what you're currently working on. I’ll also be adding a section on new Koha implementations in the past month, so if you know of any go-lives that don’t get posted to the list, please be sure to alert me. I've already gathered a fair amount of material for the August newsletter, including the August General IRC meeting, Global Bug Squashing Day, the status of the releases, and the latest on KohaCon11 and KohaCon12. Please send directly to me (not to the list) anything else you think might be newsworthy by next Thursday, August 25. Thanks, Daniel Grobani

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Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] Kohacon11 : Last date of paper submission extended till August 30 2011
by Koustubha Kale 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

2011/8/17 Robin Sheat <robin(a)catalyst.net.nz> > Joann Ransom schreef op wo 17-08-2011 om 08:58 [+1200]: > > I have booked a week of annualleave immediately prior to KohaCon11 to > > get it done but even then was hoping to produce just written notes and > > a powerpoint. > > I have to agree with this. For an academic thing, I'd have research done > and papers written long before. However, for a less formal conference, > like Kohacon, it tends to only really take form in the month previous, > and I'm usually chopping and changing content right up to the day > before. And certainly not writing a full paper for it. > > Or, perhaps more realistically, writing slides on the plane over, where > I can see the deadline approaching at 900kph ;) > > It's not a bad idea to collect slides and other resources when you can, > and putting them up online somewhere though. > > -- > Robin Sheat > Catalyst IT Ltd. > ✆ +64 4 803 2204 > GPG: 5957 6D23 8B16 EFAB FEF8 7175 14D3 6485 A99C EB6D > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > > Hi All, So the consensus seems to be no written papers / presentations beforehand. Ok will discuss with VPM but I dont see a problem with that. We can always scramble and put together a collection on CD to be distributed on the last day. This means we have to drop the *"Advertisements in the conference proceedings publication"* type of sponsorship. The largest sponsor we have Bharat Grahak had opted for back page of the same and I would hate to lose that sponsorship. I hope the other sponsors who had opted for advertisements will be ok with some of the other "at the venue" options presented here http://www.vpmthane.org/payments/kohacon11/insert_cc.asp ? 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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Kohacon11 : Last date of paper submission extended till August 30 2011
by Koustubha Kale 16 Aug '11

16 Aug '11

Hi All, We have extended the last date of paper submission ( which was today 15th August ) till 30th August 2011. Request all of you who would like to present at Kohacon111 to step forward and submit an abstract at http://kohacon11.vpmthane.org/ocs/index.php/k/k11/schedConf/cfp for review. Also request all of you whose abstracts have been accepted to hurry up and submit the full papers / presentations.. 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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Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] git bz setup question
by Chris Cormack 14 Aug '11

14 Aug '11

On 15 August 2011 08:16, Nicole Engard <nengard(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I have followed the instructions on the wiki, but every time I restart > my virtual machine I need to repeat the path line before git bz will > work. Is there a way to have tat path figured out automatically? > > nengard@debian:~/kohaclone$ git bz attach -e 6716 HEAD > git: 'bz' is not a git command. See 'git --help'. > > Did you mean one of these? > am > gc > mv > rm > nengard@debian:~/kohaclone$ PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin > nengard@debian:~/kohaclone$ git bz attach -e 6716 HEAD > What is in your .bashrc, or .bash_profile I have things like export PATH=$PATH:/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin You did this bit eh? To do that edit ~/.bash_profile with your favorite editor and add :/usr/local/bin to the path. PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin export PATH And that file definitely has that those 2 lines in it? Chris

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3.4.x Status Update
by Chris Nighswonger 12 Aug '11

12 Aug '11

Hi all, We are three days away from 3.4.x entering a string freeze pending the 3.4.4 release. If you have any work you want to make it into the 3.4.4 release, please be sure it gets committed to master before 15 Aug 2011. Also if you know of anything in master which should be in 3.4.x but is not, please speak up and let me know. Kind Regards, Chris

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Access URL from opac-results.tt
by Zachary Spalding 12 Aug '11

12 Aug '11

In koha 3.2 I used to be able to access the 856$u filed with the  variable in the opac-results.tmpl file. Can someone give me a hint on how I can access it in 3.4, in the opac-results.tt file? Thanks -- Zachary Spalding Systems Manager Southeastern NY Library Resources Council 21 S. Elting Corners Rd Highland, NY 12528 Phone: 845-883-9065x11 Fax: 845-883-9483 Email: spalding(a)senylrc.org

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Kohacon11 : Last date of paper submission is near!!! Its 15th August 2011.
by Koustubha Kale 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

Hi All, The last date for paper submission for Kohacon11 is very near. So all you who are still undecided, grab the moment and commit yourself. I propose a kohacon11 volunteers meeting on 18th August 2011 at 16.00 UTC to discuss and decide about the papers submitted and to discuss and decide the program schedule. 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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