March 2014 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

Batch modifications for records
by Jonathan Druart 18 Mar '14

18 Mar '14

Hi developers, A long time ago, we had bug 5725 (Batch modifications for Biblios). It has been rewritten and abandoned. We waited for bug 8015 (Add MARC Modifications Templates) which is now in 3.14. But it is marked as "experimental", and it is a good thing given that some behaviors are buggy. Hopefully we now have some bug reports, with patches! Bug 11319 is a preparation step for bug 11413. This one is the bugfix for the weird behaviors existing in 3.14 and master. Icing on the cake, bug 11395 introduces a new tool to modify records (biblio and authority) in a batch using Marc modification templates. Librarians really like to modify records in a batch. So make them happy and test these patches! Koha are waiting this feature for 3 years! And now we can have it, with unit tests! Regards, Jonathan Bug 5725 - Batch modifications for Biblios (MOVED) Bug 8015 - Add MARC Modifications Templates (Pushed to Master) Bug 11319 - Marc modification templates improvements (Needs signoff) Bug 11413 - Marc modification template has not the expected behavior if the condition and source fields are on the same field (Needs signoff) Bug 11395 - Batch modifications for records (Signed off)

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Here's a little thing i wrote... kohaprofile
by Magnus Enger 18 Mar '14

18 Mar '14

Dear Community, I spent the last day of the hackfest in Marseille hacking together a "proof of concept" script for checking changes in the performance of Koha over time: https://github.com/digibib/kohaprofile The idea is to step x commits back in time, run a bunch of timed tests/benchmarks on Koha, take one step forwards in time, run the tests again etc. Hopefully this might be able to show us what the general trends are, and if there are any changes that lead to noticeable increases in response times. If you run the same benchmark a few times in a row, the response times vary quite a bit. Perhaps there is too much "noise" for this to be really useful. (To mitigate this, the script can run the tests y number of times and record the average time. Perhaps there are better ways to deal with the statistics of this, like removing the fastest and the slowest time etc.) This is a "proof of concept", so I would be really interested in hearing your thoughts on it. If the concensus is that it does not yield interesting data, I'll abandon the project. If people think it has some merit I would be more than happy to accept pull requests for improving it. :-) See the README for some ideas for improvements. Does anyone know if there are tools that can do what I'm trying to accomplish here (specifically the idea of stepping through Git history to check performance) already? Best regards, Magnus

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Call for news for March Newsletter
by Koha Newsletter 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

Fellow Koha users ~ We're collecting news for the March newsletter. Send news items to: k o h a news AT gmail dot com News criteria: --------------------------- * News items can be of any length. * Anything and everything Koha. * Submit by the 26th. If you are working on an interesting patch, project or development related to Koha, please let us know and we'll include in the development section. -- Chad Roseburg Joanne Dillon Editors, Koha Newsletter

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Migrate Your Data from Excel to Koha with the help of Videos
by DP Tripathi 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

Dear Colleagues, I would like to draw your attention towards two videos given below which describes "how to migrate data from one system to Koha?" http://koha.librarianguide.in/?page_id=971 http://koha.librarianguide.in/?page_id=973 Actually, data migration is a big challenge for everyone especially when you are shifting from existing system to any other system. In these videos, I have tried to discuss how you can migrate your data from excel to Koha easily. No doubt, there are many help files available on the net, I have also tried to add in the form of videos. Hope this 2 videos will help everyone in migration. Thanks with kind regards, -- ********************* D. P. Tripathi Assistant Librarian Biju Patnaik Central Library NIT Rourkela Odisha - 769008 www.librarianguide.in **********************

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New koha-community.org DNS entry + git repo for koha users statistics
by Paul Poulain 13 Mar '14

13 Mar '14

Hello, We're working hard on the idea of a database of Koha users during the hackfest. A 1st patch will be submitted to bugzilla soon or very soon. we've developed a website (1st draft, really) to display some statistics. We propose to name it "hea" => it's a maori word (of course) : http://www.maoridictionary.co.nz/word/1006 If Chris agrees with the idea (or anyone speaking Maori ;-) ) : * We propose to host the website. Could someone open hea.koha-community.org (and make it point to 88.190.50.177 ? * Where could we push the http://hea.koha-community.org code ? on a separate repo on git.koha-community.org ? On contribs ? (for now, it's on github). It's written in Perl (Dancer), using bootstrap -- Paul POULAIN - BibLibre http://www.biblibre.com Free & Open Source Softwares for libraries Koha, Drupal, Piwik, Jasper

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3.14 duplicate records not recognized?
by Andrea Furin 13 Mar '14

13 Mar '14

hi to all. when I try to import a duplicate record from z39.50, koha 3.14 doesn't tell me nothing about replace the existed record or make a new copy: before upgrading there was that alarm. where is the problem? thanks in advance a. furin --

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Proposed to delete table aqorderdelivery (bug 11928)
by Zeno Tajoli 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

Hi to all, here, http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11928, I propose to delete Mysql table aqorderdelivery It seems not used. Bye Zeno Tajoli

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SQL schema for ACQ
by Zeno Tajoli 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

Hi to all, in wiki, http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/DB_Schema#Sectorial_Schemas I have insert information about relation beetwen SQL table for ACQ module. The pdf file is genereted with MySQL Workbench source file. I don't find any better tool to draw an ER schema. To show imlplicit reletions I need to isert false foregin keys. So don't use MySQL Workbench file to generate Koha sql file. Bye Zeno Tajoli

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Learn Koha Yourself with Videos
by DP Tripathi 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

*Dear All,* *It gives me immense pleasure to inform you all about the site of "Learn Koha Yourself with Videos......."* *http://koha.librarianguide.in <http://koha.librarianguide.in> * This website contains the video tutorial of Koha - an Integrated library management open source software which is fully based on self practice and experiences with Koha. The purpose to have this website is only to share the practical experiences and knowledge with our respected library professionals. This Koha Video tutorial covers almost all the modules and related options available in Koha. Still more to be added in the same which will be available soon. If anyone finds any error and mistake in the site, may please intimate at dptkvs(a)gmail.com Hope this website will be useful for everyone. Thanks with kind regards, -- ********************* D. P. Tripathi Assistant Librarian Biju Patnaik Central Library NIT Rourkela Odisha - 769008 www.librarianguide.in **********************

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Re: [Koha-devel] Bug 6536; SRU
by Paul A 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

At 02:29 PM 3/11/2014 +0000, Marcel de Rooy wrote: >Hi Paul >I am still working on that one. I submitted recently bug 11826 as a small >step in-between. >But getting patches inside Koha takes time :) >I could also send you some patches (used in production on 3.8). Hi Marcel, Many thanks for the offer - gratefully accepted. I've got 3.8 loaded in the sandbox at the moment, and could find time to try out the patches. On the related matter of a German Z39.50, I can connect to z3950.gbv.de, but have failed to find which exact db to connect to (there are a lot of them at <http://uri.gbv.de/database/>) - does anyone happen to use GBV? Best regards -- Paul >Regards, >Marcel >________________________________________ >Van: koha-devel-bounces(a)lists.koha-community.org >[koha-devel-bounces(a)lists.koha-community.org] namens Paul A >[paul.a(a)navalmarinearchive.com] >Verzonden: dinsdag 11 maart 2014 15:44 >Aan: koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org >Onderwerp: [Koha-devel] Bug 6536; SRU > >I've just had a look through Bug 6536 and got a little bit lost in exactly >when it might be "operational." > >We have some 2,000 German biblios to catalogue, and (after corresponding >with Deutsche Nationalbibliothek who only use SRU and have decommissioned >their Z39.50 server) are wondering whether to try and catalogue manually >(we have no native German speaking cataloguer), wait for Bug 6536, or find >another German Z39.50 (which is proving a tad challenging.) > >Thoughts anyone? > >Many thanks and best regards, >Paul > >_______________________________________________ >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/ >_______________________________________________ >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/ --- Maritime heritage and history, preservation and conservation, research and education through the written word and the arts. <http://NavalMarineArchive.com> and <http://UltraMarine.ca>

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