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Koha Community Newsletter: September 2014
by Koha News 04 Oct '14

04 Oct '14

Fellow Koha users: The Koha Community Newsletter for August 2014 is here: http://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-september-2014/ Many thanks to the folks who submitted articles and news to this month's newsletter. Please feel free to email us with any corrections or suggestions. Thanks! Chad Roseburg Joanne Dillon Editors, Koha Community Newsletter

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952$j
by Paul 02 Oct '14

02 Oct '14

Our cataloguers have asked for additional precision in specific stacks -- 952$j "Shelving control number" would appear to be perfect :=) However, any value entered (eg: LLF15 -- loose leaf folder #15) systematically saves as 0 and SchemaSpy doesn't appear to even mention this field which is in the "default template" with no apparent restrictions. Can anyone with good "corporate memory" of 952$j use and programming please assist? Many thanks and best regards -- Paul

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Presentation to mailing list: akafred
by akafred 02 Oct '14

02 Oct '14

Hi! Just a short intro as per the welcome mail: I am contracted by the Oslo Public Library (Deichmanske bibliotek) in Norway to help out in their efforts to build systems for their new library that will open in Oslo in a few years. Koha has been chosen as a cornerstone in this effort. I have been working as a consultant for 15+ years, developing business critical systems for clients in and around Oslo. I LOVE programming, but I also have a passion for quality and a certain disdain for repetitive tasks, and error prone, manual, routines - so I am very into Test-Driven Development (London-style), automation (e g using provisioning tools like Ansible, SaltStack, Puppet, Chef) and prefer properly tested deployment units (like a jar, war, Docker image or, if all else fails, a virtual machine image). Generally, I think learning is what all development efforts should optimize their efforts for, and that transparency, collaboration and rapid feedback are key ingredients in achieving that. The better we are at learning the better we will be at creating awesome stuff that works for our end users. We are in an early phase in our efforts but if you are curious a lot of what we do will be publicly available on our github profile: https://github.com/digibib These days we are looking into how to deploy Koha in Docker. My real name is impossible for non-Norwegians to parse, remember and pronounce so on the interwebs I mostly go by a nickname I chose in a moment of general unclarity and confusion: "Fred" ... so I am a.k.a Fred .... akafred. I try to stop by #koha as akafred, but not always 'there' even if it looks like it - koha(a)akafred.com works though. See ya :-) Regards, - Kjetil a.k.a. "Fred"

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Dom indexing operational with a fresh install?
by Francois Charbonnier 02 Oct '14

02 Oct '14

Hello, Yesterday, I bumped into an indexing bug. The 008 language code is not indexed. I can't find the records using this value. I checked on bugzilla and found this old bug : http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7586. This bug changed "ln:n" by "ln:w" in record.abs . It works with grs-1 indexing. On Katrin advice, I checked if the installation is using dom or grs-1 indexing. I'm on 3.14.07. So it should use dom. koha-conf.xml says "dom" but zebra-biblios.cfg seems to say "grs"... So, I checked "zebra-biblios.cfg" on master and the default values are : * iso2709.recordType:grs.marcxml.record * marcxml.recordType:grs.sgml * recordType:grs.xml Shouldn't we have a reference to dom for these parameters? I also checked biblio-zebra-indexdefs.xsl and biblio-koha-indexdefs.xml and the language index is "ln:n". I tried to change it by "ln:w", restarted zebra server, reindexed but it didn't work. I followed the wiki instruction (http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Switching_to_dom_indexing) to change the "zebra-biblios.cfg" values as well but didn't work either. Any ideas? Thanks! -- François Charbonnier, Bibl. prof. / Chef de produits Tél. : (888) 604-2627 francois.charbonnier(a)inLibro.com <mailto:francois.charbonnier@inLibro.com> inLibro | pour esprit libre | www.inLibro.com <http://www.inLibro.com>

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OPAC items location (shelf)
by Paul A 02 Oct '14

02 Oct '14

I've looked through the wiki and bugs.koha... but can't seem to find anything relevant. opac-search.pl (if it finds more than one result) produces a line that reads e.g. "Availability: Copies available: 2nd floor rare (2)," using opac-results.tt which relies on data 'available_items_loo.location' The 'location' that it uses is the one that is defined in the *default* framework (952$c "Other options/Authorized value") (and, by the way, appears to use the raw "auth. value" strings, not the "Description (OPAC)" strings.) It appears that if you define, say for videos, a different set of "Auth. values" (LOC2 instead of LOC) for the "video framework 952$c", this is not picked up by opac-search.pl (for the Main OPAC search page which now reads "Availability: Copies available:(2), "), but is picked up by opac-detail.pl in the proper place in the holdings tab. If you change the "default framework" to use LOC2, it works for "videos", but "book" locations disappear. Maybe I've missed something very obvious, if not I'll try and delve deeper. We have literally hundreds of "locations" and to avoid very long lists in the admin item cataloguing drop down boxes, I've been asked to subdivide them... (LOC2 is fully functional per item type, but introduces the above "loss of functionality" in the OPAC.) The only "work around" that I can quickly find is to put *all* possible locations into LOC, and use LOC2, LOC3 etc for item types -- but this leads to a very ugly page in the "Shelving location" tab at advanced search <http://opac.navalmarinearchive.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl>. Thanks and best regards, Paul

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Koha 3.14.10 released
by Fridolin SOMERS 02 Oct '14

02 Oct '14

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.14.10. This is a maintenance release and contains some enhancements and several bugfixes. As always you can download the release from http://download.koha-community.org. Have a look at release post : http://koha-community.org/koha-3-14-10-released "Get the pie while it's hot" Regards, -- Fridolin SOMERS Biblibre - Pôles support et système fridolin.somers(a)biblibre.com

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