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Koha Community Newsletter: April 2014
by Koha Newsletter 05 Jun '14

05 Jun '14

Fellow Koha users: The Koha Community Newsletter for April 2014 is here: http://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-april-2014/ Many thanks to all the folks who submitted articles and news to this month's newsletter. Please feel free to email us with any corrections or suggestions. Thanks! Chad Roseburg Joanne Dillon Editors, Koha Community Newsletter

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Jenkins usage
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

Hi fellows, I've asked our IT guys to set 4 virtual machines running different OS versions to run the master branch test suit on all of them. The OSs would be: - Debian 6 - Debian 7 - Ubuntu 12.04 - Ubuntu 14.04 All of them 'amd64' atchitecture. Do you think this OS selection is right? I was thinking that a 'Debian testing' might be better than Debian 6, but I'm all ears. Regards To+ -- 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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Introducing - New member
by Yohann Dufour 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

Hello, I've subscribed to this mailing list because I'm a new trainee at BibLibre for the next 3 months. During this 3 months, my work will be to develop unit test, test and write patch. See you Yohann Dufour

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Introduction from Viktor
by Viktor.Sarge＠regionhalland.se 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

Dear subscribers of the devel list! My name is Viktor Sarge and as I am now extending my lurking about from IRC and the general list to this list I think a presentation might be in order. I work as a senior regional library development officer at the regional library of Halland in Sweden. I’ve been involved with Koha for a few years now and presently run a project trying to do as much as possible to make Koha a relevant free infrastructure for Swedish libraries. This includes both funding development in Koha and helping interested libraries get hold of the right information. The reason I subscribe to this list is that I want to learn more about the inner workings of Koha and plan to submit one or two line patches once in a while. I’m not really a programmer very often but am dusting of my old SQL and learning a bit of Perl to be able to better understand what’s going on. Some of you I have already met on IRC, the lists and KohaCon2012 but I look forward to follow the discussion here, learn and hopefully get to know some of you a little better in the process. I must say I’ve come to readjust my view of Koha over the years from the code being the valuable resource to the community being the most valuable part of Koha. Kind regards! /Viktor Sarge Viktor Sarge Utvecklingsledare Regionbibliotek Halland Kultur i Halland TFN: 035-17 98 73 E-POST: Viktor.Sarge(a)regionhalland.se BESÖKSADRESS: Södra vägen 9, 30180 Halmstad WEBB: www.regionhalland.se/regionbibliotek

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RFID
by Fitzpatrick, Christopher 28 May '14

28 May '14

Hi Everyone, I know this topic has been covered in the past...I've read some of the past discussions, but I just wanted to get an update on what are the current technologies people are using, since I think there's been some updates. So..are people using an RFID system with Koha? What vendors are they using for the RFID? What customizations were needed to get it to work with Koha? And most importantly, is the RFID system in production now? I'm helping with a move to a new building and the old tattle tape system is really no longer an option. Thanks for any help! best, chris.

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fieldmapping vs. marc_subfield_structure
by Mark Tompsett 28 May '14

28 May '14

Greetings, Is there a reason we have what seem like two apparently similar tables in use? It would seem to me that adding ‘field’ to marc_subfield_structure would it identically replaceable for the fieldmapping table. And the value would be effectively the field name from the table without the table prepended with a dot like it is in kohafield. The reason I’m asking is because it seems like GetRecordValue looks at subtitle quite a bit in Koha. I noticed this while working on bug 11592. GPML, Mark Tompsett

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Koha OAI-ORE
by volkan sonmez 26 May '14

26 May '14

Dear List Members, Does KOHA support OAI-ORE. I couldn't find any information about this topic. Volkan Sönmez System Administrator Süleyman Demirel Üniversity Library

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Authorities localization?
by Joel Cornuz 26 May '14

26 May '14

Hi there, My name is Joel Cornuz, I am the IT manager for a small school in Montreal using (with success!!!) Koha for its library (15k volumes). Many thanks for this great tool that is giving us access to a world class library system!!! I am not sure if this is the right place to ask (feel free to redirect me if required) but here is the question: Our books are a mix of French and English volumes and we would like to translate our authorities (the topical terms). The idea is that we want our students to have access to topical terms in French or in English, and access to our complete collection (French and English volumes) related to this particular topic. I know that it is possible to duplicate an authority - so one idea was to duplicate (and translate) authorities... but then I didn't find a simple way to automatically link items from the source to the duplicated authority (am I missing something there?) Or is there a way to localize existing authorities? Or is there another (different, better) way? Thanks for your help and thanks for Koha! Take care, Joel

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3.16.x branched
by Galen Charlton 22 May '14

22 May '14

Hi, I've started the public branch for 3.16.x. I will be pushing patches to master and 3.16.x through Sunday; Tomás will take responsibility for master starting on Monday. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: gmc(a)esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web: http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & http://evergreen-ils.org

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Convert circ tables to AJAX - possible for 3.16.1 ?
by Brendan Gallagher 22 May '14

22 May '14

Hello All - http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11703 So Kyle and Katrin have been working many many hours on getting the patch referenced above to Pass QA. The only problem is we ran out of time to safely get this into the general release and have enough time for some good thorough testing - If only we had another two weeks. I would like to promote this as a performance bug fix and that should be included in the first point release for 3.16 - 3.16.1... Performance bugs are perfectly acceptable for point releases and I think if we look at it that way - we have 2 months to test this thoroughly. It's passed PA and Galen also added some additional comments - which Kyle did follow up on. Thoughts? We're actively testing this but we'd love more to test it. http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11703 Thank you very much, Brendan -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brendan A. Gallagher ByWater Solutions CEO

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