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Koha Community Newsletter: February 2018
by kohanews 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

Fellow Koha users: The Koha Community Newsletter for February 2018 is here: https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-february-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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Bugs needing sign off...
by Mark Tompsett 28 Feb '18

28 Feb '18

Greetings, I was hoping that https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=16690 https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18908 and https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=19547 might get signed off. GPML, Mark Tompsett

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Koha Elastic Search, thanks to Orex
by Paul Poulain 26 Feb '18

26 Feb '18

Hello koha-devel, A big thanks to Hugo Agud and the Orex Spanish company for their sponsoring of BibLibre work on Elastic Search. We used this sponsoring to investigate ES 6.0 support. Alex already wrote a patch that has to be signed-off : https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18969 PS: Hugo, (as many others) will be at the hackfest and we will have fun with Koha & ES !!! -- Paul Poulain, Associé-gérant / co-owner BibLibre, Services en logiciels libres pour les bibliothèques BibLibre, Open Source software and services for libraries

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Koha 17.05.09 release
by Fridolin SOMERS 23 Feb '18

23 Feb '18

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 17.05.09. This is a maintenance release. The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-17-05-09-release/ Regards, -- Fridolin SOMERS <fridolin.somers(a)biblibre.com> BibLibre - software and system maintainer

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Elasticsearch and facets
by Claes Eriksson 21 Feb '18

21 Feb '18

First some ranting about Zebra and then a question about ElasticSearch. Using Zebra there is a Global system pref. called maxRecordsForFacets. By default the number of records used to build the facet list is the first 20 results shown. You also get a warning in the manual to increase the number since it will impact respons time. Building a facet list out of 20 records may be enough for some people but if you think twice about it you realise that it is quite misleading, especially since the user does not know that the facet list is built on a very limited selection of records. Having the sort set on Author and searching for realivity theory, the facet list may not show Einstein if your library is specialised in physics and have a fairly large collection. I have high hopes for ElasticSearch to work with facets in a better way. The best would be if all the index could be used for producing e.g. the author facet and that it would have minimal impact on system performance. I understand that there is discussion about making facets configurable (bug 18235) but I cannot see any traces of the improvements I would like to see, but I may be wrong since I am quite new working with Koha. Regards Claes Eriksson, VTI, Sweden

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Two authority reports that need your help
by Marcel de Rooy 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

Hi all, I need some help on two authority reports. [1] https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20074 Auth_subfield_structure changes hidden attribute Marked Major. Easy patch that deals with the logic to display or hide authority subfields. The current situation may turn hidden fields into displayed fields when editing the framework. It needs your signoff to get further. [2] https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14769 Authorities merge: Set correct indicators in biblio field An enhancement in a longer line of reports that got pushed in the course of 2017 to improve authority merging. One of the last steps. It allows you to configure the indicators of a biblio field that is controlled by an authority. Including code from Janusz to handle special MARC21 exceptions. Julian already tested the UNIMARC side. It now needs a MARC21 signoff to get into the next stage. Please have a look. Thanks, Marcel

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Length of email columns
by Julian Maurice 17 Feb '18

17 Feb '18

Hi, In the database schema, we use different data types to store email adresses. Some are TEXT, some are MEDIUMTEXT, and there is aqcontacts.email which is a VARCHAR(100). According to https://stackoverflow.com/a/574698 the maximum length of an email address is 254 characters, so VARCHAR(255) should be enough. Do you know if there is any reason why we use mostly TEXT and MEDIUMTEXT for these columns ? -- Julian Maurice <julian.maurice(a)biblibre.com> BibLibre

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Call for News: February 2018 Newsletter
by kohanews 14 Feb '18

14 Feb '18

I'm collecting news for the February 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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0000-00-00 is expired?
by Jonathan Druart 14 Feb '18

14 Feb '18

Hi devs, I have just caught that: Koha::Patron->is_expired returns 0 if $self->dateexpiry eq '0000-00-00' And there is a test I wrote for it on bug 17578 (commit 5a0a2ce584dec74808f471b0f92b2114c3d6029e , GetMemberDetails - Remove is_expired) But then we also have, in C4::Circulation::CanBookBeIssued: 752 if ( !defined $patron->dateexpiry || $patron->dateexpiry eq '0000-00-00') { 753 $issuingimpossible{EXPIRED} = 1; 754 } else { With a test: is( $issuingimpossible->{EXPIRED}, 1, 'The patron should be considered as expired if dateexpiry is 0000-00-00' ); So, my questions, do you have a very old Koha installations to search if there is borrowers.is_expired == "0000-00-00" in it? Do you remember if it meant expired or not at some point? I am trying to adapt our code to sql strict modes, and this value is no longer valid, we will need to update existing values. Cheers, Jonathan (yes, the same code should be used)

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Update your devbox!
by Jonathan Druart 13 Feb '18

13 Feb '18

Hi devs, I have just pushed bug 12904 and 2 lines are added to the apache config files. You will need to update your misc4dev repo and reset_all You can also add these 2 lines to the config files: +RewriteRule ^(.*)_(.*).js$ $1.js [N,L] +RewriteRule ^(.*)_(.*).css$ $1.css [N,L] Otherwise you will get 404 for *.js and *.css files! Cheers, Jonathan

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