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Call for news - Newsletter January 2024
by Koha Newsletter 13 Jan '24

13 Jan '24

Hi I'm collecting news for the January 2024 Koha Community Newsletter. Please send anything noteworthy to: kohanews (at) gmail (dot) com News criteria: * News items can be of any length. * Images are fine. * Anything and everything Koha. * Submit by the 26th of the month. Text format criteria: * Just structured plain text, or * HTML text to include tables or similar For events: * Consider adding your event to the Koha Community calendar at https://koha-community.org/calendar/ Thank you! Michael Kuhn Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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Plugin Development
by Charles Athey 08 Jan '24

08 Jan '24

This is my first post to this list. I am a retired computer scientist with development and system administration experience. I used PERL a lot about 25 years ago but haven’t done much with it since until now. I recently deployed Koha at the Sacramento FamilySearch Center where I volunteer. The Sac FSC is an archival library, meaning we don’t allow books to be checked out. We have and are digitizing our collection of copy protected books. Public domain books are being digitized and the physical book and the digital copy are sent to the FamilySearch organization to be added to their system. They are also using Koha but our Center’s instance is separate. We are making the PDFs of copy protected books available on-site ONLY, no internet access at this point, and are storing the books for preservation and space reasons. We had a need to update the MARC 856 data fields to reflect the location of the PDFs of our books. I looked at the plugin AddURLsToMarc by Tomás Cohen Arazi. It didn’t have quite enough capability as we wanted to update a few more of the subfields. I decided to make a plugin based on AddURLsToMarc that I made more general and added functionality to allow arbitrary MARC data fields to be added or deleted. It is working very well. So, the questions are - What is the process for sharing such plugins with the Koha community, are there conventions that are used, etc.? - Is this the right forum to ask these questions? - Can users running other version help testing the plugin? I have only tested it on 23.05.05 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Our plugin is titled UpdateMarcField and I have put it on GitHub in my koha-plugin-updatemarcfield <https://github.com/athey3/koha-plugin-updatemarcfield> repository. I have used local Git extensively for personal code but have only accessed GitHub not posted items on it prior to this as most things I have worked on have been proprietary. Any and all advise is appreciated. Chuck Athey Asst. Directory for Technology Sacramento FamilySearch Center athey3(a)gmail.com

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TT notice question
by Stephen Graham 05 Jan '24

05 Jan '24

Hi All - not specifically Koha I guess, but maybe someone can explain why this happens. I had some TT in an email notice like: [% IF illrequests.branchcode == "CL" %] College Lane LRC [% ELSIF illrequests.branchcode == "DH" %] De Havilland LRC [% ELSE %] <<illrequests.branchcode>> [% END %] Every time I generated the email it printed CL, which is the value of llrequests.branchcode. I just could not get the first condition to work no matter what I did - it never printed College Lane LRC always CL. However, I changed it to: [% SET localbranch = illrequests.branchcode %] [% IF illrequests.branchcode == localbranch %] College Lane LRC [% ELSIF illrequests.branchcode == localbranch %] De Havilland LRC [% ELSE %] <<illrequests.branchcode>> [% END %] , and this works if I set the illrequests.branchcode to a local variable and then check this. Not sure why I have to do this? The example I have seen on the wiki look like I should be able to test a variable against a string using ==. Just couldn't get it to work. Any ideas? Stephen -------------------------------------- Stephen Graham Library Technology Consultant Library and Computing Services University of Hertfordshire Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB Email: s.graham4(a)herts.ac.uk<mailto:s.graham4@herts.ac.uk> Website: herts.ac.uk

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REMINDER: Development IRC meeting 3 January 2024 / Roadmap deadline
by Fischer, Katrin 02 Jan '24

02 Jan '24

Hi all, we have a development IRC meeting scheduled for tomorrow: <https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_3_January_2024 > https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_3_January_2024 Time: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Koha+Development+M eeting <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Koha+Development+ Meeting&iso=20231213T1300> &iso=20231213T1300 We will take time again to discuss roadmap project proposals and next steps: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Road_map_24.05 The deadline for completing the proposed project entries has been extended to 12 January 2024. Please make sure to add any missing information! See you tomorrow! Katrin

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Koha 22.11.13 released
by Frédéric Demians 02 Jan '24

02 Jan '24

Hello everyone, and best wishes for the New Year, The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 22.11.13: https://koha-community.org/koha-22-11-13-released/ Debian packages are coming... Best, Frédéric Demians

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Koha 23.11.01 released
by Fridolin SOMERS 02 Jan '24

02 Jan '24

Hello everyone 🤗 The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 23.11.01. It is a bugfix/maintenance release including 25 bugfixes. The full release notes are available here: https://koha-community.org/koha-23-11-01-released/ Debian packages should be available soon 🎁 Best regards 🤓 -- Fridolin SOMERS <fridolin.somers(a)biblibre.com> Software and system maintainer 🦄 BibLibre, France

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