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FAQ
by Nicholas Stephen Rosasco 31 Oct '01

31 Oct '01

I know I've been... not contributing anything for quite awhile (a few pesky and inconvenient problems associated with finishing my degree, my apologies to everyone). I was going to start working on the FAQ which has been on the list for me at Sourceforge for quite awhile.... since it is intended for the user community, I was going to get submissions from them as to what it should include. Thoughts? Objections? Other requests? The quicky links page I threw together is still there at http://www.people.virginia.edu/~nsr4n/Koha if anyone needs it for anything? Randomly, the test drive option at Koha.org may have a problem in http://hlt.katipo.co.nz/catalogue/ has a link ("acquisitions") to http://hlt.katipo.co.nz/catalogue/acquisitions, which doesn't exist. In case you hadn't heard, the OpenBook people are in a "technical beta", but warn users that the database (and anything else) may be unusable in future versions... assuming you're interest in the status of the Koha "offspring." I have a collection of small libraries at my institution interested in using Koha, but they all want to know if there is some form for easy entry of data -- they all would be using volunteer labor to manually key in a fair amount of their collection information (probably from old style card catalogs) and really would like as-simple-as-possible forms for that. I see the order/receive forms, but don't see (forgive my missing it if it is there, I've not played with the acquire setup in a loooong time) a form to manually create items. The ability key in an ISBN and have a lookup (say at some National Library MARC/Z39.50) server is there. I know the MARC project is going along well -- what are the chances of them being able to do that (instead of typing in complete records) soon? I was considering trying to pitch in on that over this past summer, but was... daunted... by the scope of the MARC format. Thanks, apologies for the rambling length of this, Nick

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Re: [Koha] Re: [Koha-devel] FAQ
by Tonnesen Steve 30 Oct '01

30 Oct '01

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 COURYHOUSE(a)aol.com wrote: > the url does not seem to work..... > > http://192.168.5.2/cgi-bin/koha/acqui.simple/addbookslccn.pl Darn. Used my internal IP there by mistake. Use: http://142.28.224.14/cgi-bin/koha/acqui.simple/addbookslccn.pl instead.

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Re: [Koha] Re: [Koha-devel] FAQ
by Tonnesen Steve 30 Oct '01

30 Oct '01

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 COURYHOUSE(a)aol.com wrote: > Can it be set up to use the lc catalog #? I assume you mean can it use the LCCN instead of ISBN as the first number entered? Certainly. Try: http://192.168.5.2/cgi-bin/koha/acqui.simple/addbookslccn.pl Note that I've modified the database to add a field for LCCN, but the default Koha scripts like the catalogue scripts still don't display the LCCN. This would take about 10 minutes to rectify, though. Steve.

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Reports
by Tonnesen Steve 29 Oct '01

29 Oct '01

I'm also starting to think about how to handle reports in a generic fashion. I'm guessing that reports are the kind of thing that will need to be fine tuned to the individual installation, but we need some way of being able to update Koha without breaking existing custom reports settings. Also, there must be some fairly standard reports that could be included with the Koha distribution? Steve.

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classification, dewey, and subclass
by Tonnesen Steve 29 Oct '01

29 Oct '01

What exactly is the "classification" field for? I'm having problems with modbibitem trouncing on my subclass. It appears that the "class" field in modbibitem.pl contains "$dewey$classification$subclass" and when an item has a subclass but no dewey, the classification gets set to the value that the subclass used to have and the subclass gets blanked out. I don't want to implement a fix for this that breaks whatever you are doing in NZ, but I don't understand why it is this way? Why doesn't modbibitem have separate fields for dewey, classification and subclass? Steve.

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CVS: koha-html/intranet-html/includes circulation-top.inc,1.4,1.5
by Steve Tonnesen 17 Oct '01

17 Oct '01

Update of /cvsroot/koha/koha-html/intranet-html/includes In directory usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv13272 Modified Files: circulation-top.inc Log Message: Acquisitions link moved to loadmodule.pl script Index: circulation-top.inc =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/koha/koha-html/intranet-html/includes/circulation-top.inc,v retrieving revision 1.4 retrieving revision 1.5 diff -C2 -r1.4 -r1.5 *** circulation-top.inc 2001/10/10 19:52:26 1.4 --- circulation-top.inc 2001/10/17 20:33:26 1.5 *************** *** 99,103 **** <area shape="rect" coords="94,8,154,28" href="/members/" alt="Members" onMouseOver="if(document.images)document.menu.src='/images/crc-mem.gif'" onMouseOut="if(document.images)document.menu.src='/images/crc-crc.gif'"> ! <area shape="rect" coords="165,9,233,29" alt="Acquisitions" href="/acquisitions/" onMouseOver="if(document.images)document.menu.src='/images/crc-acq.gif'" onMouseOut="if(document.images)document.menu.src='/images/crc-crc.gif'"> <area shape="rect"alt="Reports" coords="237,7,296,27"href="/reports/" onMouseOver="if(document.images)document.menu.src='/images/crc-rep.gif'" onMouseOut="if(document.images)document.menu.src='/images/crc-crc.gif'"> --- 99,103 ---- <area shape="rect" coords="94,8,154,28" href="/members/" alt="Members" onMouseOver="if(document.images)document.menu.src='/images/crc-mem.gif'" onMouseOut="if(document.images)document.menu.src='/images/crc-crc.gif'"> ! <area shape="rect" coords="165,9,233,29" alt="Acquisitions" href="/cgi-bin/koha/loadmodules.pl?module=acquisitions" onMouseOver="if(document.images)document.menu.src='/images/crc-acq.gif'" onMouseOut="if(document.images)document.menu.src='/images/crc-crc.gif'"> <area shape="rect"alt="Reports" coords="237,7,296,27"href="/reports/" onMouseOver="if(document.images)document.menu.src='/images/crc-rep.gif'" onMouseOut="if(document.images)document.menu.src='/images/crc-crc.gif'">

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Re: [Koha] barcode scanners?
by Nicholas Stephen Rosasco 15 Oct '01

15 Oct '01

This reminds me.... since one of the original design philosopies of Koha was "low cost" what do all of you think about seeing if the "cuecat" (the free barcode scanner Radio Shack gives away) can be used with Koha? Random thoughts, Nick On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 16:00:38 +0300 Zeki Celikbas <celikbas(a)itu.edu.tr> wrote: > hi all, > > I want to buy a couple of "barcode scanners" for the library. I saw koha > is accepting 9 column alphanumeric barcodes both for books and > patrons. I wonder what kind of barcode scanners are using in the > libraries using KOHA. Could you please list me industry standards or > properties of this barcode scanners. I will order barcode scanners > according to these information. > > thanks and best regards > Zeki Celikbas > Librarian > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Istanbul Technical University e:mailto:celikbas@itu.edu.tr > Faculty of Aero. & Astro. w:http://www2.itu.edu.tr/~celikbas > 80626 Maslak Istanbul Turkey t:(212)2853108 f: (212)2853139 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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CVS: koha-html/intranet-html/includes cat-top.inc,1.3,1.4 circulation-top.inc,1.3,1.4
by Steve Tonnesen 10 Oct '01

10 Oct '01

Update of /cvsroot/koha/koha-html/intranet-html/includes In directory usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv689 Modified Files: cat-top.inc circulation-top.inc Log Message: Fix for javascript focus() call popping up an error dialog when using Internet Explorer. Index: cat-top.inc =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/koha/koha-html/intranet-html/includes/cat-top.inc,v retrieving revision 1.3 retrieving revision 1.4 diff -C2 -r1.3 -r1.4 *** cat-top.inc 2001/03/07 21:25:48 1.3 --- cat-top.inc 2001/10/10 19:52:26 1.4 *************** *** 26,29 **** --- 26,30 ---- function focusinput() { + window.onerror=null; document.forms[0].elements[0].focus(); } Index: circulation-top.inc =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/koha/koha-html/intranet-html/includes/circulation-top.inc,v retrieving revision 1.3 retrieving revision 1.4 diff -C2 -r1.3 -r1.4 *** circulation-top.inc 2001/05/02 21:32:21 1.3 --- circulation-top.inc 2001/10/10 19:52:26 1.4 *************** *** 25,28 **** --- 25,29 ---- } function focusinput() { + window.onerror=null; document.forms[0].elements[0].focus(); }

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CVS: koha/C4/Circulation Circ2.pm,1.18,1.19
by Steve Tonnesen 10 Oct '01

10 Oct '01

Update of /cvsroot/koha/koha/C4/Circulation In directory usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv25972 Modified Files: Circ2.pm Log Message: Typo in printf format string was causing all issues to appear in the Previous issues box and not in today's issues. Index: Circ2.pm =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/koha/koha/C4/Circulation/Circ2.pm,v retrieving revision 1.18 retrieving revision 1.19 diff -C2 -r1.18 -r1.19 *** Circ2.pm 2001/05/09 23:29:00 1.18 --- Circ2.pm 2001/10/10 19:28:05 1.19 *************** *** 663,672 **** if ($env->{'todaysissues'}) { my @datearr = localtime(time()); ! my $today = (1900+$datearr[5]).sprintf "0%02d", ($datearr[4]+1).sprintf "%02d", $datearr[3]; $crit=" and issues.timestamp like '$today%' "; } if ($env->{'nottodaysissues'}) { my @datearr = localtime(time()); ! my $today = (1900+$datearr[5]).sprintf "0%02d", ($datearr[4]+1).sprintf "%02d", $datearr[3]; $crit=" and !(issues.timestamp like '$today%') "; } --- 663,672 ---- if ($env->{'todaysissues'}) { my @datearr = localtime(time()); ! my $today = (1900+$datearr[5]).sprintf "%02d", ($datearr[4]+1).sprintf "%02d", $datearr[3]; $crit=" and issues.timestamp like '$today%' "; } if ($env->{'nottodaysissues'}) { my @datearr = localtime(time()); ! my $today = (1900+$datearr[5]).sprintf "%02d", ($datearr[4]+1).sprintf "%02d", $datearr[3]; $crit=" and !(issues.timestamp like '$today%') "; }

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CVS: koha updatebibitem.pl,1.1.1.1,1.2
by Steve Tonnesen 10 Oct '01

10 Oct '01

Update of /cvsroot/koha/koha In directory usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv25722 Modified Files: updatebibitem.pl Log Message: Fixed bug where a biblioitem with a subclass but no dewey would get the subclass erased when editing the biblioitem. Index: updatebibitem.pl =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/koha/koha/updatebibitem.pl,v retrieving revision 1.1.1.1 retrieving revision 1.2 diff -C2 -r1.1.1.1 -r1.2 *** updatebibitem.pl 2000/12/19 23:45:53 1.1.1.1 --- updatebibitem.pl 2001/10/10 19:27:00 1.2 *************** *** 41,44 **** --- 41,45 ---- }else{ $dewey=''; + $subclass=$class; } my $illus=checkinp($input->param('Illustrations'));

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