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How to get CAS based Single Sign On working?
by Koustubha Kale 25 May '15

25 May '15

Hi All, I have a situation where we have a main website based on Joomla. This Joomla site uses CAS to authenticate users. We would like users ( who have already logged in to the Joomla site via CAS) to be able to follow a link to Koha site and be logged in automatically ( e.g. Single Sign On ). I have got simple CAS ( not proxy CAS ) working with Koha ( version 3.2.6 ) using the same CAS server as used by Joomla site. Still when I login to Joomla site with CAS, and then go to Koha and click on login and follow the CAS login link, I am asked to fill up CAS login information again. How can this be avoided by using CAS SSO? I have read through http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/SSO_CAS_improvements and am confused by the statement "Note: simple sso cas support (no proxy) has been done already by biblibre, is in testing and should be released in Koha 3.2" in there. Does this statement mean that SSO is possible with simple CAS? If yes how to set it up? If not, I have also read through bugs 6012, 5630 and the CAS Proxy examples. Frankly I haven't been able to figure out how I can achieve the above required functionality based on all the reading. Any help is much appreciated.. Another related query is, Is it possible to automatically create users in Koha once they have authenticated with CAS? Regards, Koustubha Kale Anant Corporation Contact Details : Address : 103, Armaan Residency, R. W Sawant Road, Nr. Golden Dyes Naka, Thane (w), Maharashtra, India, Pin : 400601. TeleFax : +91-22-21720108, +91-22-21720109 Mobile : +919820715876 Website : http://www.anantcorp.com Blog : http://www.anantcorp.com/blog/?author=2

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[CROSS-POST] does the language sw[itcher really need that much screen real estate?
by Indranil Das Gupta 25 May '15

25 May '15

Hi, The language switcher takes up a lot of space at the bottom. it also had issues of being not always visible (http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11057) Is there a specific design / UX issue (that I may be unaware of) why it is not implemented as a simple drop down from the masthead toolbar? thanks :) -- Indranil Das Gupta Phone : +91-98300-20971 Blog : http://indradg.randomink.org/blog IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Please exchange editable Office documents only in ODF Format. No other format is acceptable. Support Open Standards. For a free editor supporting ODF, please visit LibreOffice - http://www.documentfoundation.org

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SQL Reports Library v2.0
by Pablo Bianchi 19 May '15

19 May '15

Hi, I count more than 300 reports on *SQL Reports Library*, is getting a little bit out of control. Become difficult to: + found the needed report, + tag them, + talk about the report, + track easily contributions to each one, + link "related" reports, different flavors of the same one, + vote them, + add easily to Koha, + get statistic information, and much more. I'm not sure what is the best solution. An ad hoc web development? A friend suggest me Semanticscuttle <http://semanticscuttle.sourceforge.net/>. Trying to at least make things more tidy I create: SQL Reports Library in templates <http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/SQL_Reports_Library_in_templates> (equivalent to the usual but using mediawiki templates). This use Template:Report <http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Template:Report>. Some things happens (or will happen) with JQuery and SQL libraries: A wiki page is not a good library/database. Regards, Pablo

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Dev meeting to talk about the upcoming release: May 19th
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 19 May '15

19 May '15

I'd like you to join the next meeting. It will be focused, exclusively, on Koha 3.20. It will probably be a short meeting, unless something happens before the meeting that needs broader discussion. Kind regards Link: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_19_May_2015 -- Tomás Cohen Arazi Prosecretaría de Informática Universidad Nacional de Córdoba ✆ +54 351 5353750 ext 13168 GPG: B76C 6E7C 2D80 551A C765 E225 0A27 2EA1 B2F3 C15F

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Plugin marc21_linking_section.pl
by Marcel de Rooy 18 May '15

18 May '15

Hi all, Is anyone of you using this plugin? I can launch it, search for a record. But if I click the Choose button, nothing happens. (I would expect to get back something into the field that launched the plugin.) If you use it, please let me know what I am doing wrong :) See also bug 13437 which makes some changes to various marc21 plugins including this one. Thanks, Marcel

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Call for development news: May newsletter
by kohanews 15 May '15

15 May '15

Koha Development community ~ If you have any bugs or projects you'd like to highlight or promote in the May newsletter, please let me know. Maybe it'll attract some additional eyes, testers and sign-offs. k o h a news AT gmail dot com Thank you! -- Chad Roseburg Editor, Koha Newsletter

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Call for news: May newsletter
by kohanews 15 May '15

15 May '15

Fellow Koha users ~ I'm collecting news for the May newsletter. Send anything noteworthy to: k o h a news AT gmail dot com News criteria: --------------------------- * News items can be of any length. * Anything and everything Koha. * Submit by the 28th. 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. -- Chad Roseburg Editor, Koha Newsletter

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Learning Tools Interoperability
by Bob Birchall 14 May '15

14 May '15

Hi, I've been asked if Koha has support for LTI and if not, is it in a road map? I guess they mean this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_Tools_Interoperability Its not something I have heard of before. Any thoughts? Thank you, Bob Birchall Calyx

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LAST CALL - RFC for Bug 14048 - Change RefundLostItemFeeOnReturn to be branch specific
by Kyle Hall 12 May '15

12 May '15

Hey all, I posted this on April 22, and received no feedback. I just wanted to give everyone a second chance to post any feedback on the development plan for bug 14048. If you have any comments about it, please let me know! Otherwise, I'll assume everyone is ok with the development plan, and I can go ahead with writing this feature. Thanks! Kyle http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14048 Some library systems would like to be able to control the behavior of RefundLostItemFeeOnReturn Expected outcome: To make the RefundLostItemFeeOnReturn system preference branch specific Plan of Attack: 1) Add new field 'refund_lost_item_fee_on_return' to the 'branches' table 2) Pre-populate this field with the system preference value for RefundLostItemFeeOnReturn 3) Remove the system preference RefundLostItemFeeOnReturn 4) Replace uses of RefundLostItemFeeOnReturn with a lookup of the value of branches.refund_lost_item_fee_on_return 5) Use HomeOrHolding to control whether the home branch or the holding branch of the item is used to determine this. 6) Reveal the setting in the branches editor http://www.kylehall.info ByWater Solutions ( http://bywatersolutions.com ) Meadville Public Library ( http://www.meadvillelibrary.org ) Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org ) Mill Run Technology Solutions ( http://millruntech.com )

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Field width for currency.currency is inadequate
by Indranil Das Gupta 11 May '15

11 May '15

Hi all, The database field currency.currency is defined as VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL. This needs to be increased e.g. set as VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL. The rationale: a) While it is possible to accomodate 'US Dollar' in that width, for many currencies this space is inadequate e.g. 'East Caribbean Dollar', 'Indian Rupee' or 'Tanzanian Shilling'. b) Further, in the 'New currency' addition form, the maxlength and size attributes are set as 50, and allows user to enter long names as examples above. While saving the record, it is truncated to VARCHAR(10). I propose the following: 1/ Alter the currency.currency field to VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL from VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL. 2/ Change the 'maxlength' attribute in the template to 255 (to match column property) The bug and the patches are here http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14179 cheers -idg -- Indranil Das Gupta Phone : +91-98300-20971 Blog : http://indradg.randomink.org/blog IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Please exchange editable Office documents only in ODF Format. No other format is acceptable. Support Open Standards. For a free editor supporting ODF, please visit LibreOffice - http://www.documentfoundation.org

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