August 2013 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

receive copies of serials in serial control
by Mohamed zalabany 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

Hi allif i have subscription in some serials one of this serials i subscribe in 3 copies how could i identify this 3 copies in the serial control record to receive more than one copy this option is not clear

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StackExchange alternative on ask.koha-community.org
by Pablo Bianchi 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

Hi all! Following StackOverflow sites like askubuntu.com or ask.libreoffice.org, I wonder what you think about using an open source alternative like Askboot (or OSQA, or Coordino) on ask.koha-community.org. For English <http://ask.koha-community.org/en/>ask.koha-community.org/en/, es/ for Spanish, and so on; using the same login as other Koha services like the wiki. I think it's a much better way to solve mortals most common issues. Regards, Pablo Bianchi *Related links* http://area51.stackexchange.com/faq http://coordino.com/ http://www.osqa.net/ https://askbot.com/

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Re: [Koha-devel] catmandu, catmandu::fedoracommons, mods::record,
by Paul Poulain 07 Aug '13

07 Aug '13

Le 07/08/2013 15:56, Eric Lease Morgan a écrit : > > The three (Perl) modules described below look pretty cool, as well as "kewl" -- an interface to read/write MODS, an interface to interact with Fedora Commons, an interface to convert data from one thing to another. I can see how these can be useful tools in some of my work. Thank you. --Eric Lease Morgan Yes, they are ! I've cced this mail to my colleague that wrote MARC::Transform, because both tools could interract. I also suggested him to see if it would be possible/a good idea to also be able to store the results into Koha ILS directly. That would be very helpfull to migrate datas from XXXX to Koha ;-) (note that he's in vacation for now, so you won't probably get any feedback before september) > On Aug 6, 2013, at 2:59 AM, Patrick Hochstenbach <Patrick.Hochstenbach(a)UGent.be> wrote: > >> LibreCat >> -=-=-=-= >> >> LibreCat is an open collaboration of the university libraries of Lund, >> Ghent, and Bielefeld to create tools for library and research services. >> One of the toolkits we provide is called 'Catmandu' >> (http://search.cpan.org/~nics/Catmandu-0.5004/lib/Catmandu.pm) which is >> a suite of tools to do ETL processing on library data. We provide tools >> to import data via JSON, YAML, CSV, MARC, SRU, OAI-PMH and more. To >> transform this data we created a small DSL language that librarians use >> in our institutions. Also we make it very easy to store the results in >> MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Solr or export it into various formats. >> >> We create also command line tools because we felt that in our daily jobs >> we were creating the same type of adhoc Perl scripts over and over for >> endless reports. >> >> E.g. to create a CSV file of all titles in a MARC export we say something like: >> >> $ catmandu convert MARC to CSV --fix 'marc_map("245","title"); retain_field("record");' < records.mrc >> >> To get all titles from our institutional repository we say: >> >> $ catmandu convert OAI --url http://biblio.ugent.be/oai to JSON --fix 'retain_field("title")' >> >> To store a MARC export into a MongoDB we do: >> >> $ catmandu import MARC to MongoDB --database_name mydb --bag data < records.mrc >> >> Here is a blog post about the commands that are available: http://librecat.org/catmandu/2013/06/21/catmandu-cheat-sheet.html >> >> See our project page for more information about LibreCat and Catmandu : >> >> http://librecat.org >> >> and a tutorial how to work with the API >> >> http://librecat.org/tutorial/ >> >> >> MODS::Record >> -=-=-=-=-=-= >> >> In one of our Catmandu projects we created a Perl connector for Fedora >> Commons (http://search.cpan.org/~hochsten/Catmandu-FedoraCommons-0.24) >> One of our goals was to integrate better with the Islandora project. For >> this we needed a Perl MODS parser. As there was no module available on >> CPAN we provide a top level module like MARC::Record called MODS::Record >> http://search.cpan.org/~hochsten/MODS-Record-0.05/lib/MODS/Record.pm. I >> hope this will be of some help for the community. If there are coders >> here who would like to contribute to the MODS package please drop me a >> line. I think CPAN MODS support shouldn't be dependent on one coder, one >> institution. >> >> Greetings from a sunny Belgium, >> Patrick > > -- Paul POULAIN - Associé-gérant Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08 http://www.biblibre.com Logiciels Libres pour les bibliothèques et les centres de documentation

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Searching apostrophes
by Ian Bays 06 Aug '13

06 Aug '13

Hi. I know that searching terms with apostrophes has been problematic in the past but we are now seeing a new level of problems and I wondered if anyone has seen the same symptoms and has any advice or workarounds that might help. Searching for an author such as O'Brien brings back almost the whole catalogue if we have QueryAutoTruncate or QueryFuzzy or QueryStemming switched on. With them off: If I search for O<space>Brien in the "simple search" box it brings back all records with either O or Brien (far too many). If I use Advanced Search> Author and search for O Brien then it returns just those with O AND Brien in an author tag (close enough in this case). If I use the "Library Catalog" pull-down to select "Author" and search for O Brien it brings back all records with either O or Brien in an author tag (too many). We also have a problem with linking bibs to authorities which in combination with this issue is giving major headaches. If anyone has any pointers or knows how to get round or over this problem I would love to hear from you. More details on request... We are using Zebra dom indexing and icu chains and are using Koha 3.12 on Debian. We are not yet using QueryParser. Sysprefs and Help > About are here: Sysprefs are: +--------------------------+-------+ | variable | value | +--------------------------+-------+ | IncludeSeeFromInSearches | 0 | | QueryAutoTruncate | 0 | | QueryFuzzy | 0 | | QueryStemming | 0 | | QueryWeightFields | 1 | | TraceCompleteSubfields | 0 | | TraceSubjectSubdivisions | 0 | | UseICU | 1 | | UseQueryParser | 0 | +--------------------------+-------+ Koha> About: Koha version: 3.12.01.000 OS version ('uname -a'): Linux dclg.koha.ptfsadmin.uk0.bigv.io 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.46-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux Perl interpreter: /usr/bin/perl Perl version: 5.014002 Perl @INC: /home/koha/kohaclone /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.14.2 /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.14 /usr/share/perl/5.14 /usr/local/lib/site_perl . MySQL version: mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.31, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 6.2 Apache version: Server version: Apache/2.2.22 (Debian) Zebra version: Zebra 2.0.55 (C) 1994-2013, Index Data ApS Zebra is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. SHA1 ID: bd2bc9360225e695bbaba2c2d1cd6925c4eb23a5 Using ICU Many thanks folks. Ian -- Ian Bays Director of Projects, PTFS Europe Limited Content Management and Library Solutions +44 (0) 800 756 6803 (phone) +44 (0) 7774 995297 (mobile) +44 (0) 800 756 6384 (fax) skype: ian.bays email: ian.bays(a)ptfs-europe.com

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Old bugs to check
by MJ Ray 05 Aug '13

05 Aug '13

Would you check some of these rather old bugs to suggest what to do, please? Maybe some can be RESOLVED FIXED by now or need a question. Please leave your reply on the bug web page - I might not see replies to this mail. Ideally, tell irc.oftc.net #koha know that you're looking at a bug. http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4231 Placing holds from cart fails silently http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6455 Warning message Patron card creator http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3765 Road Types and Street Numbers on Patron Rec Inconsistent http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4363 Support the patron internet resources field in Sip2 http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5920 remove html from downloaded reports http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5678 Translations Manager http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6382 Automatic Status Changing on Check In http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4281 reports dictionary limited to only 1 field http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6741 when receiving orders the filter clears after receiving http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6719 Reports dictionary doesn't properly recognize text columns http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3288 Transit prompt not immediately triggered after hold is canceled http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6756 Patron anonymizing tool reports false success http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5627 lock symbol even on not locked fields http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6771 Unable to refresh large number of patrons with import_borrowers.pl http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6505 purchase order not populating all fields http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6659 show opacnav on the log in page http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4461 Context-sensitive report a problem screen http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4463 Expose {AMAZONASSOCID} for usage in things like "More Searches" just like {TITLE}. http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6567 adding and removing advanced search options -- Email robot driven by MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/

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Patron Attributes with Password?
by Martin Renvoize 01 Aug '13

01 Aug '13

I've just been taking a look at the manual again ( http://manual.koha-community.org/3.12/en/patscirc.html#patronattributetypes) and I'm not really understanding what the 'Allow password: Check to make it possible to associate a password with this attribute.' option is actually meant to do when creating a new patron attribute type? I thought it would allow the creation of additional login (username:password) combinations for a user to login to the opac but it doesn't appear to do this (if it was meant to, surely it would need to only be available when the attribute is also set to be unique). Anywho, if that is it's purpose, then I'll report a bug, but if it's not the purpose could anyone explain what is was meant to do? -- Martin Renvoize Software Engineer, PTFS Europe Ltd Content Management and Library Solutions Skype: Landline: 0203 286 8685 Mobile: 07725985636 http://www.ptfs-europe.com

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Koha-index-daemon
by Partha Mukhopadhyay 01 Aug '13

01 Aug '13

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Coding guidelines updated with correct license
by Galen Charlton 01 Aug '13

01 Aug '13

Hi, I've updated the license section on the coding guidelines wiki page with the correct text to use in source files, now that Koha's license is the GPL 3 or later: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Coding_Guidelines#Licence As a general reminder, when creating a new source file, please copy the license statement from the wiki, not from an existing source file, and please make sure to set the copyright statement correctly. To my knowledge, no Koha developer has ever been in possession of a TARDIS, so new code that has a copyright year of 2000-2002 is ... unlikely. :) Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: gmc(a)esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web: http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & http://evergreen-ils.org

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July 2013 Koha Community Newsletter has been published
by Daniel Grobani 01 Aug '13

01 Aug '13

Hi, The July 2013 edition of the Koha Community Newsletter has been posted to http://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-july-2013/. Cheers, Daniel Grobani Koha Community Newsletter Editor

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