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KohaCon18 - Portland Oregon USA - "Together Towards Tomorrow"
by Brendan Gallagher 15 Nov '17

15 Nov '17

Hello All - It has been decided that the next KohaCon will be in Portland, OR USA from September 10th (Monday) to September 12th (Wednesday) in 2018 - followed by a local cultural day and a 3 day hackfest over the weekend. The theme for KohaCon18 will be "Together Towards Tomorrow". A majority of the focus will be on community building, community engagement, and building Koha for the future. We've started planning and starting at the beginning of next year you should plan on seeing a bunch of information and marketing about the conference (website, etc.). We are extremely excited to be hosting and this conference will be tons of fun! If you have a chance to mark your calendars please do! Koha is awesome! (Much more to follow) Cheers, Brendan -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brendan A. Gallagher ByWater Solutions CEO Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Installation, Data Migration, Training, Customization, Hosting and Complete Support Packages Office: Portland, OR - Office: Redding, CT Phone # (888) 900-8944 http://bywatersolutions.com info(a)bywatersolutions.com

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Koha General Meeting Reminder - Roles for 18.05
by Nick Clemens 14 Nov '17

14 Nov '17

Hello All, Just a reminder that we have a meeting scheduled tomorrow, 15 November 2017, 14:00 UTC This meeting will be held to vote on roles for 18.05 The agenda is here: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_meeting_15_November_2017#A… You can see candidates (or add your name) here: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_18.05 Anyone interested in "Calendar Manager" will get as much help from me as they want :-b You can add the calendar here to get updates on all scheduled meetings: https://koha-community.org/calendar/ Hope to see you all there. -Nick (kidclamp)

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Call for News: November 2017 Newsletter
by kohanews 14 Nov '17

14 Nov '17

I'm collecting news for the November 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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String Freeze
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 10 Nov '17

10 Nov '17

Hi everyone, we reached the date. We are on string freeze for the 17.11 release. Go! Translate! -- Tomás Cohen Arazi Theke Solutions (https://theke.io <http://theke.io/>) ✆ +54 9351 3513384 GPG: B2F3C15F

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Valid id_types for LookupPatron in ilsdi.pl
by Jon Knight 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

Hi all, I've been tinkering on bug 13990 to provide ilsdi.pl with a default when the optional id_type field in LookupPatron isn't supplied by the client. We'd noticed some time ago that we can use "email" as an id_type to search patron's based on email address, which turns out to be very handy for integrating with the CampusM mobile app that we have here (which uses email addresses for lots of stuff). However email isn't a documented id_type so whilst tinkering on 13990 I added it into the POD and online documentation in the patches. I traced the logic in the code a bit and realised that any borrower table field can be specified as an id_type. Is this expected/OK? The ilsdi.pl script is usually either disabled or restricted to a known set of IP addresses, so I don't think its much of a security issue, but it does mean that we're exposing database schema details to the outside world, which might cause integration issues if we did ever change the borrower table fields. Should id_type be a constrained list that LookupPatron validates? If so, I hope we can have email in there! ;-) If not, should the documentation point out that any borrower table column name is OK as an id_type field? Jon

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Canceling reserves via opac
by Alex Arnaud 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

Hi Koha community Just came across a weird thing about the way Koha handle the ability to cancel reserves via opac user account. There is 2 steps: - Displaying of the "cancel" button. Which depends on Koha::Hold->is_cancelable method, - the cancellation itself, which depends on C4::Reserves::CanReserveBeCanceledFromOpac The problem is that the 2 sub do not behave the same. Just see: /sub is_cancelable {// // my ($self) = @_; // //// //*return 1 unless $self->is_found();*// // return 0 if $self->is_in_transit(); // //*return 1 if $self->is_waiting(); * // // return 0; // //}/ /sub CanReserveBeCanceledFromOpac {// // my ($reserve_id, $borrowernumber) = @_;// // // return unless $reserve_id and $borrowernumber;// // my $reserve = Koha::Holds->find($reserve_id);// // // return 0 unless $reserve->borrowernumber == $borrowernumber;// //*return 0 if ( $reserve->found eq 'W' ) or ( $reserve->found eq 'T' );*// // // return 1;// // //}/ A concrete example is that if i want to cancel a waiting reserve, i can see the button, but it does nothing. I think this should be fixed, but which sub is the right one? Regards Alex Biblibre

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What's on in koha-devel #16
by Jonathan Druart 07 Nov '17

07 Nov '17

Hello librarians and developers, The what's on in koha-devel #16 is available on the Koha website: https://koha-community.org/whats-on-in-koha-devel-16/ Regards, Jonathan

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Meeting reminders for tomorrow
by Nick Clemens 07 Nov '17

07 Nov '17

Hi All, Reminder that we have 2!!! Koha IRC meetings tomorrow, General and Development You can follow the calendar to get updates: https://koha-community.org/calendar/ Agendas where you can find IRC info and local time conversions: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_meeting_8_November_2017 https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_8_November_2017 Hope to see you all soon! -Nick

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New Firefox version 57 incompatibility with JS Print Setup Addon
by Roger Grossmann 07 Nov '17

07 Nov '17

Hi all, I am not sure whether one of you has more information about an incompatility of the "JS Print Setup Addon" with the new Firefox version 57 going to be released on 2017-11-14. It seems that the new Webextensions API used with Firefox 57 does not provide the functionality required to build a compatible version of the "JS Print Setup Addon". See https://github.com/edabg/jsprintsetup/issues/39 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1385827 With an activated automated Firefox update function the update is going to be installed automatically after 2017-11-17 which makes the silent print feature likely to be dysfunctional. Looks like blocking the FF 57 update until the issue is fixed is the only way for now to keep the silent printing feature. Roger -- LMSCloud GmbH Roger Großmann - Geschäftsführer Konrad-Zuse-Platz 8 - D-81829 München t +49 (0)89 207042-620 m +49 (0)171-2194775 f +49 (0)89 207042-623 e roger.grossmann(a)lmscloud.de w www.lmscloud.de

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Koha 18.05 released in march ? (Joubu)
by Paul Poulain 04 Nov '17

04 Nov '17

Hi Koha-devel & mainly Jonathan, On your RM proposal (https://wiki.koha-community.org/w/index.php?title=Proposal_for_RM_18.05_jou…) , you write: * Koha 18.05 will be released *end of March*, if it is considered stable enough for release I've nothing against this, but is there a reason to release in March and not in May as usual ? In this case, shouldn't we call it 18.03 ? Or will it be a 18.05RC, and the final 18.05.00 will still be in May ? Anyway: explanation welcomed ;) -- 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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