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Call for Koha Newsletter Articles
by Nicole Engard 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

It's that time again! The newsletter will be released on the 15th of this month and that means I need some submissions from users and developers alike! Articles can be as short as 2 sentences - so send along any news/tips/guides/ideas you want to share with the community. Thanks Nicole C. Engard

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new module to send mails
by Miguel Angel Calvo Lázaro 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

We have commited a new module C4::Mail to send emails with Mail::Sender. Those emails can be sent in html format. We provide a new html editor to edit the letters. In this new editor now we use a new marks to delimit the fields that will be included in the letter. Instead of <<>> we now use [], because the first ones have conflicts with html editors. 7 new system preferences are created: MailSmtp → SMTP server to send emails MailAuthProtocol → Authentification this SMTP server uses MailAccount → The mail account to send email (From) MailUser → User to login in that account MailPassword → Password to login in that account MailMessageCharset → Charset used in the message MailMessageEncoding → Encoding used in the message This development is in the repository:http://github.com/xercode/koha We would like to hear your vision. Thanks

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Recreating entry 952 in marcxml using "sync_items_in_marc_bib.pl"
by Toni Rosa 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

Hello, We are using Koha 3.0.5 to migrate data from another privative ILS. We have managed to import the biblios (using the bulkmarcimport.pl script) and we have been able to Insert the items data directly into the items table. The problem is that the marc definition (the marcxml field in biblioitems) doesn't contain the 952 and thus some parts of koha that expect the items information being there don't work properly. Is there a way to recreate the marcxml field or at least the part of the items? I have seen that there's a script called "sync_items_in_marc_bib.pl" and although I wasn't sure that it could do what we need, after launching it I get this error: # perl -I /usr/share/koha/lib/ ./maintenance/sync_items_in_marc_bib.pl --run-update problem with :14 : :26: parser error : Premature end of data in tag subfield line 26 <subfield code="c">23 cm., r ^ :26: parser error : Premature end of data in tag datafield line 23 <subfield code="c">23 cm., r ^ :26: parser error : Premature end of data in tag record line 2 <subfield code="c">23 cm., r ^ at /usr/lib/perl5/XML/LibXML/SAX/Parser.pm line 31 (...and many more errors about the "bib record being corrupt."...) So summarizing, my two questions are: 1. Again, Is there a way to recreate the marcxml field or at least the part of the items? 2. If the solution is using this "sync_items_in_marc_bib.pl" script, how can I make it work? Thanks, Regards

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Xercode presentation
by Miguel Angel Calvo Lázaro 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

We are a new Spanish company, Xercode Media Software S.L, whose members have a wide experience in topics associated with opensource , specially KOHA ILS. Our names are Miguel Angel Calvo and Juan F. Romay and even though we have been members of the community for some time now and have already had contact with some important members of the community, we wanted to wait until this occasion to introduce ourselves formally to the rest of the community. We first started to work with Koha in the beginning of the year 2007 when the actual version found was in alpha state. One of our main clients entrusted us in the study and introduction of ILS. After several months of developments and personalizations, we presented our work in the Fesabid 2009 where a member of the community, Biblibre , had the occasion of seeing. From that moment onwards and due to this we began our contact with the community. One of our main objectives with the creation of Xercode is to make the developments carried out available to the community. We have implemented KOHA in various Spanish Libraries and hope to increase the number of implementations throughout Spain. Once having summarized briefly our experience with Koha, we would like to continue by mentioning some of the developments carried out in 3.2 version and available in the following direction: http://github. Opinions and improvements of these developments mentioned below are welcomed and if of interest can be integrated in the official version. - Module of fines in days - Management of the facets related with the authority values - Multilanguage in the authorized values - Sending of emails in HTML with html editor - Module of hierarchical navigation - Inclusion of marking in the frameworks by default - Management of libraries and branches - Searching by type of materials - Possibility of introducing variables in the SQL report Xercode has at hand a wide number of collaborators and experienced librarians which give their opinion in order to try to obtain what should be a perfect ILS. For this idea of a perfect ILS to happen , we have a series of objectives and priorities that we consider that KOHA ILS should fulfill. We think that the main objectives necessary in a short term are the following: - Modification of the actual generation of facets. It is necessary to have all of the facets of the collection of results of a query and not of those that are visualized in the paging. Other systems, mainly through SOLR, carry this out without difficulty. Taking into account all the investigation carried out and the opinion of other members, Zebra is not the solution for the moment. Our objective, once some satisfactory tests have been carried out , is to integrate pazpar in Koha for the creation of facets and in the catalogue query. - After various tries of putting mod_perl registry and perlRun into function, all of the results show that the main problem is the ZOOM library .The rest of the system is more or less stable but not the topic of the query of the catalogue. Even though the query always reaches the library, at times results are returned and in other cases not (F5, reloading the page).We have tried to consult this topic with indexdata in various occasions but without success. If a member of the community has a solution to this topic, we would very much like to be in contact. - Relationship between Net ( all of the catalogue and its libraries) , library ( as a group of branches ) and branches of a library. I suppose that not only in Spain, there are cases in which collective catalogues exist in which in the same system various libraries formed by branches that work independently but share bibliographic registers, users...... One of the developments that we want to integrate is following this direction but due to actual needs, we have to modify some things( creation of permissions which affect the library , the whole Net , politics which affect different levels, ...) - Acquisitions module. This is one of our main objectives in the following months. We are very happy with the results of the new development of this module yet would like to give our opinion about some of the functions that in our humble opinion could improve this module. We are very pleased with this collaboration and hope that our contributions are fruitful The following domain which we acquired some time ago is available for the community : www.koha-es.org. We are willing to give support to the koha community in spanish in order to avoid what happened with some companies. We look forward to hearing your vision. kindest regards

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Koha LDAP
by Jaqueline Moreira 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

Dear Sirs I would like to deploy the software library koha at the institution where I work, I saw that it has support for LDAP but I installed version 3.00.4 and aunteticação this does not work, and my mapping information is correct. Someone please tell me know if you already got it authenticates to LDAP and how to do it? I am following this tutorial: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:ldap Att Jaqueline Ap. Moreira Eng. de Computação - CEFET MG ________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Veja quais são os assuntos do momento no Yahoo! +Buscados http://br.maisbuscados.yahoo.com

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Re: [Koha-devel] Bug assignees - call for volunteers
by Bavousett, David 03 Mar '10

03 Mar '10

I'd be willing to take up the lead on the command-line installer components, since that's what I do a lot of. J. David Bavousett Software Engineer, Open Source & Library Systems PTFS, Inc.

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searching for phrases
by Cindy Murdock Ames 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

Hi all, Is there a way to search for phrases in the Koha catalog, or to make Koha rank phrases higher than other search results by default? For example, if I search for "world book", in the expectation of finding World Book Encyclopedia, I get a vast number of search results (about 3,400), because the words "world" and "book" are apparently fairly common in my MARC records. I'm using 3.2 alpha with zebra, with approximately 350,000 records. There used to be a title phrase search option in the advanced search, but that doesn't seem to be there anymore. Thanks! Cindy -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cindy Murdock Ames IT Services Director Meadville Public Library | CCFLS http://meadvillelibrary.org | http://ccfls.org

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Question About MARC21 in koha
by Musab Alghzawi 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

*Hello all, I just wanted to know who Koha uses MARC21 exactly. I mean where is it installed in Koha, how to develop and maintain the formats of MARC21 in Koha. Thanks, Musab*

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radical mormons
by proclus＠gnu-darwin.org 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

Those of you who have been following mormonism on the web for many years will probably recognize The Radical Mormon publication. This was likely the first attempt to make a web portal for latter-day saint people, and this pioneering effort helped to inspire many other sites to do likewise. Radical set itself apart as a place where devout and sincere LDS and mormons could intelligently discuss controversial doctrines in a positive light, at a time when the anti-mormon forces were very powerful on the web. The publication has been active off and on ever since that time. If you are not familiar with it, you might want to have a look at it. This site broke new ground at the time that it was started in 1999. http://proclus.tripod.com/radical/ For those who are already familiar with The Radical Mormon, you might be interested to know that the editors and contributors have recently started work on some historical information regarding the publication, which provides many links to related websites. You can have an advance look, and see as it evolves. http://proclus.tripod.com/radical/editor.html Some of you may even like to contribute something; help us fix broken links, contribute a news item, editorial, or personal story. If you were a part of the activity that spawned The Radical Mormon, you might like to submit your link for inclusion on our contributors page. Regards, proclus http://www.gnu-darwin.org/

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Integrate biometric reader and koha
by ccalle 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

Hello Friends Receive a great greeting. I need help, I have installed the system and need koha3.05 implement this system with the biometric reader, to authenticate users. Someone could give me an idea where to begin to integrate biometric koha. Thank you very much. Atte. Christian Jhonny Calle Jahuira

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