May 2012 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

Call for News for the May Newsletter
by Daniel Grobani 15 May '12

15 May '12

Dear Koha Kommunitarians, I'm harvesting news for the May newsletter. Please send me by the 25th anything you think your fellow community members might like to know about. "News" can be as short as a sentence or as long as a paper. I especially encourage you to send me a line or two for the gossip/society column about what you're currently working on. And if you know of a go-live not announced on the list, please be sure to let me know about it. Thanks, Daniel Grobani

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Koha 3.8.1 entering string freeze
by Chris Cormack 14 May '12

14 May '12

Hi All As promised, the 3.8.x branch has entered string freeze in preparation for the 3.8.1 release next week. "So?" you ask, "What does this mean for me?" Are you a developer? - If so just be aware I will only be pushing patches that do not contain changes to any of the translatable strings from now until the release. Are you a translator? - Once the translation manager emails to say the po files are updated, you are clear to translate your hearts out. Are you a Koha user? - If you have the skills or know someone who does, check out the 3.8.x and do some testing on it, that would be awesome. Are you a brewer? - I quite like a nice IPA Chris

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Guided report in Koha 3.8.0
by Partha Mukhopadhyay 14 May '12

14 May '12

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Branch Specific System Preferences
by Chris Nighswonger 11 May '12

11 May '12

Recently the need has arisen locally to run the self-checkout (sco) under multiple user accounts to accommodate multiple branches using the sco module. To the best of my understanding this is not currently possible due to the way in which the user for the sco module is defined using a system preference. While there may be a number of ways to accomplish this, it seems that it may be desirable to have a category of "branch specific" system preferences. This would be an attempt to group system preferences into one of two general categories of "global" or "branch." Before launching out into writing such a feature, I thought I'd run it by both lists to see if a) I'm way off base, b) if such a feature is desirable, and c) if I'm off on an insanely hard project. Kind Regards, Chris

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Localization of Perl strings in Koha
by Julian Maurice 11 May '12

11 May '12

Hi, a discussion has started in bug 8044 (http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8044) about localization in Koha. But I want to include in this discussion the maximum number of people. Summary of the discussion: I proposed a patch that uses Locale::Maketext. You can see an example of use in the 2nd patch attached to the bug, but here is a code sample: use Koha::I18N; use CGI; my $cgi = new CGI; my $lh = Koha::I18N->get_handle_from_context($cgi, 'intranet'); $lh->maketext("A localized string with parameter: [_1]", $some_scalar); Then, Frédéric Démians suggested to use Locale::TextDomain instead of Locale::Maketext (some advantages are listed in bug comments) There is also a discussion about how we can handle templates translation with a translation framework like Locale::Maketext or Locale::TextDomain. This is not the topic of bug 8044, but a global discussion now is certainly better than choosing a direction now and then taking the opposite direction in a few months. First, we have to make a decision about the module to use. If you know well the two modules, please join the discussion! Next, the patch is only a 'first draft': PO files are in a new directory locale/<LANG>, and the script that updates PO files is in locale directory too. I don't know where is the best place to put them in order to integrate well with Koha. So any suggestions are welcomed. If you have any other suggestion, please feel free to contribute :) -- Julian Maurice <julian.maurice(a)biblibre.com> BibLibre

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jquery upgraded on master branch
by Paul Poulain 11 May '12

11 May '12

Hello koha-devel, I just pushed a patch to upgrade jquery to version 1.7.2 (from 1.3.2) It has been tested, but some side effect are always possible. So if you find strange javascript behaviour, go to bug 5184, or think of this upgrade ! -- 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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Re: [Koha-devel] missing pdf files for Koha 3.6 and 3.8 manuals
by Arslan Farooq 11 May '12

11 May '12

Hi Nicole Can we have the option to download the whole manual (HTML files) as an archive? That will allow us to download the whole thing and memorize it offline (say, when electricity is out). You may set up a script that periodically deletes the zip and creates a new one (so that the zip is always latest). -- arslan > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Nicole Engard <nengard(a)gmail.com> > To: Mason James <mtj(a)kohaaloha.com> > Cc: koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org > Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 07:59:47 -0400 > Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] missing pdf files for Koha 3.6 and 3.8 manuals > There are no PDFs of the 3.6 or 3.8 manual. There were issues with the > script that generated PDFs (as far as I know) and so they aren't > running anymore. > > Nicole

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Re: [Koha-devel] Multi-branch SCO [Was: Re: Branch Specific System Preferences]
by Chris Nighswonger 10 May '12

10 May '12

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:54 PM, David Schuster <dschust1(a)gmail.com> wrote: > OK here is how we have it setup, and I just verified it still works that > way with 3.06.04. > > AutoSelfCheckAllowd - Don't Allow > > The librarian logs into the sco using a "user" setup as lmsxxx/password - > xxx is the location > > All transactions there are associated with the user's location. > > Granted that forces you to setup 67 users and someone has to open that up, > but it has been working well for us for 4 years. > > Does that make sense? I don't want to auto login as you note somehow the > system needs to know where you are from to track stats and route books > correctly. > > This is too easy to be true.... ;-) Let me see if I understand correctly: At Branch A: 1. Log into the staff client using Branch A's SCO account. 2. Navigate to the sco interface. At Branch B: 1. Log into the staff client using Branch B's SCO account. 2. Navigate to the sco interface. Please tell me it works this way and save me lots of hours of coding... ;-) Kind Regards, Chris

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Multi-branch SCO [Was: Re: Branch Specific System Preferences]
by Chris Nighswonger 10 May '12

10 May '12

Hi David, On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:38 PM, David Schuster <dschust1(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I'm a little confused by this comment. We do self checkout - but have a > generic user for each branch that they use to login the SCO module. It > then checks out books as if they are at that branch. What part of that > doesn't work? I'm a little confused... > > I'm not sure what version you're using, but in the current master the following sysprefs define the user for the SCO module: AutoSelfCheckAllowed AutoSelfCheckID AutoSelfCheckPass Unfortunately there is only room there for a single user tied to a single branch. This results (for us at least) in all books checked out in the SCO module appearing under the branch of the user listed in these sysprefs. If there is workaround, I'd love to know it while we are in the process of making the SCO module truly multi-branch. Kind Regards, Chris

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Koha 3.6 string freeze
by Jared Camins-Esakov 10 May '12

10 May '12

Greetings, international Koha community! As you may know, I was elected as Release Maintainer for the 3.6.x branch for the Koha 3.10 release cycle. Well, the time has come to do some releasing! Over the weekend I cherry-picked all candidates for inclusion in the 3.6.x into a new branch: 3.6.x-maint/testing. I encourage you to test that branch out, and try to shake out any bugs that there may be. Tomorrow I will be cherry-picking commits into the existing 3.6.x branch for the Koha 3.6.5 release. With the exception of high priority patches, only those commits that were incorporated into Master on or before April 12 will be considered for inclusion. The 3.6.x branch will then enter string freeze on May 10 at 16:00 UTC to give the translation teams time to work their magic. Koha 3.6.5 will be released on May 24. Regards, Jared Camins-Esakov -- Jared Camins-Esakov 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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