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Call for News: June 2018 Newsletter
by kohanews 14 Jun '18

14 Jun '18

I'm collecting news for the June newsletter. Send anything noteworthy to: k o h a news AT gmail dot com News criteria: --------------------------- ** For events **: - Please include dates for past events. If I can't find dates I may not add it. - Announcements for future events with dates T.B.A. are fine ...Eg., Kohacon - For past events , **** one month back is the cut-off ****. * News items can be of any length. * Images are fine * Anything and everything Koha. * Submit by the 26th of the month. If you are working on an interesting project or development related to Koha, please let me know and I'll include it in the development section. Thank you! -- Chad Roseburg Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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Proposed coding standard: always check for object existence before use
by Barton Chittenden 14 Jun '18

14 Jun '18

Calling a method or accessing a member of an undefined object will throw a fatal error that looks like this: "can't call method * on an undefined value at ..." For example, this code will cause a software error if $data->{itemnumber} exists, but the item doesn't exist (maybe it's been deleted?): my $item = Koha::Items->find( $data->{itemnumber} ); my $biblio = $item->biblio; How this is handled will of course depend on context -- maybe we should carp and continue, or maybe just my $item = Koha::Items->find( $data->{itemnumber} ); my $biblio = $item->biblio if defined $item; I would like to add a coding standard that we always check for this. Thanks, --Barton

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Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] How to introduce a new user-permission to Koha?
by Chris Cormack 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

Kia ora Markus Shifting this over to the development list. As you are more likely to get an answer there. If no one has answered by the time I get in front of a computer, I'll try :) Chris On 14 June 2018 7:02:30 AM NZST, Markus Becker <beckmarkus(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Dear Koha-Community, > >i did not find any hint oder documentation, where the permissions for >using tools etc. are stored. > >My example: >For testing purpose i want to insert my own perl-script into Koha and >it should appear on the "tools"-page. > >The links on this page are shown to the user or not depending on the >permissions he has: >(tools-home.tt) > > [% IF ( CAN_user_tools_manage_staged_marc ) %] ><dt><a >href="/cgi-bin/koha/tools/bibliotheca_convert.pl">Bibliotheca-Datei >hochladen</a></dt> ><dd>Werkzeug um BIBLIOTHECAplus-Exportdatei für den Import >hochzuladen</dd> > [% END %] > >I can not find the place, where these rights are deposited. How does >Koha know if a certain right is existing? >I found the file permissions.inc but changes there did not having any >effect. > >Of cource i could use the permission >"CAN_user_tools_manage_staged_marc" for my own script (and then the >link is shown), but IMHO it would be not correct to "steal" the >permission of another script. > >I would be very grateful if someone could give me a hint how to >introduce the permission to start my script to Koha. > >Thank You very much in Advance, >Markus Becker >_______________________________________________ >Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org >Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz >https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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bugs.koha-community.org outage warning
by Chris Cormack 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

Hi All The linode bugzilla (and a few outher services like the dashboard) is on is going down for a bit now to be upgraded to the next size up. This will cause a brief outage It should be back shortly Chris

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Cannot upgrade DB from 16.05 to 18.05.00. Solid crash and burn in updatedatabase.pl
by Philippe Blouin 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

Holà! Currently migrating some 3.0 DB to 18.05. A single hiccup with message_transport, no biggie. Until... 16.06.00.042 Upgrade to 16.06.00.041 done (Bug 14629 - Add aggressive ISSN matching feature equivalent to the aggressive ISBN matcher) DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Unknown column 'me.p_sep_by_space' in 'field list' [for Statement "SELECT `me`.`currency`, `me`.`symbol`, `me`.`isocode`, `me`.`timestamp`, `me`.`rate`, `me`.`active`, `me`.`archived`, `me`.`p_sep_by_space` FROM `currency` `me` WHERE ( `active` = ? )" with ParamValues: 0=1] at /usr/local/share/perl/5.24.1/DBIx/Class/Storage/DBI.pm line 1836. DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::_dbh_execute(): Unknown column 'me.p_sep_by_space' in 'field list' at /inlibro/git/koha-csf-prod-inlibro/Koha/Objects.pm line 209 Basically, the update code uses Koha::Number::Price, which in full modern object mode goes for its newly added *p_sep_by_space* _in the 18.05 code_. But the DB doesn't have it yet (it comes with 17.12.00.022). Big crash big time. The process stops. Any workaround? (didn't see anything in the list, nor bugzilla, did I miss it?). Thanks, PS this is bound to happen whenever Koha objects are used in updatedatabase.pl. -- Philippe Blouin, Responsable du développement informatique Tél. : (888) 604-2627 philippe.blouin(a)inLibro.com <mailto:philippe.blouin@inLibro.com> inLibro | pour esprit libre | www.inLibro.com <http://www.inLibro.com>

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Request for feedback: Bug 20779 - Style refresh for patron detail page
by Owen Leonard 05 Jun '18

05 Jun '18

I've submitted a patch on Bug 20779 to refresh the style of the patron detail page, and I'd like to get some feedback on my proposal. Compare this "before" image: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/attachment.cgi?id=75434 ...with this screenshot after the patch has been applied: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/attachment.cgi?id=75435 ...and another alternative: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/attachment.cgi?id=75638 If anyone has a vote or suggestions, please chime in. Thanks, -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org

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Koha Community Newsletter: May 2018
by kohanews 02 Jun '18

02 Jun '18

The Koha Community Newsletter for May 2018 is here: https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-may-2018/ Many thanks to the folks who submitted articles and news to this month's newsletter. Please feel free to email me with any corrections or suggestions. Thanks! -- Chad Roseburg Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] Single Sign-On via Drupal
by Mark Tompsett 31 May '18

31 May '18

Greetings, This reminds me of Google authentication code... opac/svc/auth/googleopenidconnect Around line 186 there is auto-register code. I'm sure auto-registration could be broken out for reuse, and the CAS equivalent linked to this. I would love to code this for the community, but sadly I do not know how to set up a CAS server to properly test. GPML, Mark Tompsett

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adding serial numbers to the list of items in CHECKIN email
by Indranil Das Gupta 29 May '18

29 May '18

Hi, I'm trying to add a serial number (1,2,3 ... n) to each row of items listed in the CHECKIN digest email on the latest oldstable. First I tried to be cocky and attempted to do something like this : .circdata tr:not(.circheader) { counter-increment: row-num; } .circdata tr:not(.circheader) td:first-child::after { content: counter(row-num); text-align: left; } Of course even in 2018, GMail web client does not seem to allow that. So I looked at the code in C4/Circulation.pm, Letters.pm, Message.pm and read up the bug reports on adding TT syntax to the notices, but i could not see a way to do that. If I am missing something obvious or is attempting to do something that is not possible on present codebase, please feel free to hit me over the head with a cluebat ;-) cheers indranil -- Indranil Das Gupta L2C2 Technologies Phone : +91-98300-20971 Blog : http://blog.l2c2.co.in IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg

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Explanations in systempreferences options?
by Jon Knight 29 May '18

29 May '18

Hi, In the midst of working on a new patch on my kohadevbox, I wanted to add a new system preference. In doing so (and debugging as a result!) I noticed some existing system preferences appear to have what I would assume should be the explanation in the option field: mysql> select * from systempreferences where type = "yesno" and variable like "Suspend%"; +----------------------+-------+------------------------------------------------+-------------+-------+ | variable | value | options | explanation | type | +----------------------+-------+------------------------------------------------+-------------+-------+ | SuspendHoldsIntranet | 1 | Allow holds to be suspended from the intranet. | NULL | YesNo | | SuspendHoldsOpac | 1 | Allow holds to be suspended from the OPAC. | NULL | YesNo | +----------------------+-------+------------------------------------------------+-------------+-------+ Yet these appear on the administration system preferences output OK. Are these wrong, or am I misunderstanding how explanation and options are supposed to work? I thought explanation was the human readable text and options were things you could choose from?

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