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Letters.pm
by Colin Campbell 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

I've been looking at C4/Letters.pm as the templating fails to generate useful output for claimissues. I can certainly get it to work with some code changes but I started wondering if a better use of long term effort might be to replace the home grown templating with a tried and tested perl module. It could use Template Toolkit for instance without changing the user interface, but resulting in more maintainable code. Thought I'd float that suggestion for comments. Cheers Colin -- Colin Campbell Software Engineer, PTFS Europe Limited Content Management and Library Solutions +44 (0) 208 366 1295 (phone) +44 (0) 7759 633626 (mobile) colin.campbell(a)ptfs-europe.com skype: colin_campbell2 http://www.ptfs-europe.com

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To maintain documentation about MySQL level of Koha
by Zeno Tajoli 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Hi to all, I'm on the path to improve CILEA effort on maintain Koha MySQL level documentation. I think that tha starting point could be the wiki page http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:dbschema Many documents are not more avaible. Link about 2.2.0, 2.0.0 and 1.3.3 are not valid 2.2.0 [<http://www.koha-fr.org/presentation/MCD_version2_2_0.sxd>http://www.koha-fr.org/presentation/MCD_version2_2_0.sxd 15KB], [<http://www.koha-fr.org/presentation/MCD_version2_2_0.pdf>http://www.koha-fr.org/presentation/MCD_version2_2_0.pdf 230KB] 2.0.0 [<http://www.koha-fr.org/presentation/MCD2.sxd>http://www.koha-fr.org/presentation/MCD2.sxd 15KB], [http://www.koha-fr.org/presentation/MCD.pdf 230KB] [<http://www.koha-fr.org/presentation/MCD1.jpg>http://www.koha-fr.org/presentation/MCD1.jpg page 1, 160KB] [<http://www.koha-fr.org/presentation/MCD2.jpg>http://www.koha-fr.org/presentation/MCD2.jpg page 2 170KB 1.3.3 [<http://irref.mine.nu/user/dchud/koha-schema/>http://irref.mine.nu/user/dchud/koha-schema/ available here] I think that Paul Poulain could find them but I'm not sure. So, could anyone send me those files ? I will insert the file in a specific file dir of the site www.koha.it and I will insert the link the wiki page http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:dbschema I will insert the files in the site www.koha.it because the wiki in http://wiki.koha.org could host only images, not files. But if situation change, no problem to insert files in http://wiki.koha.org. Bye Zeno Tajoli Zeno Tajoli CILEA - Segrate (MI) tajoliAT_SPAM_no_prendiATcilea.it (Indirizzo mascherato anti-spam; sostituisci quanto tra AT con @)

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Adding some visual sugar to reports
by Tomás 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Has anyone thought of adding some graphics to koha reports? We've been playing (*) with Google Visualization API for creating charts. It has some limitations due to its EULA (cannot be used offline) but jqPlotcould be used instead (http://www.jqplot.com or plotkit). Also, making result tables sortable would be straight-forward using 'tablesorter' (http://plugins.jquery.com/project/tablesorter) I can help with this if someone tells me the proper way of doing it (do I post patches to bugs.koha.org? email them to someone?). Thanks To+ (*) I work for Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina) in its Koha deployment in its 24 libraries. -- Aparición con vida de Jorge Julio López.

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Tutorials
by Nicole Engard 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Hi all, I have a request/suggestion. I see a lot of new patch submitters - myself included - and I'm wondering if we'd benefit from an online chat/tutorial/web conference of some sort where newbies have access to the experts for a short period of time. I personally learn best when I can see things done - versus reading (which is why the manual is full of so many screenshots). Anyone else interested in setting something up? or attending something like this? --- Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLime (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 nce(a)liblime.com AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard http://liblime.com http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/

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how to print value of variable in perl file.
by chirag purohit 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Hello All, I want to make some change in perl file,so I want to print value of variables passed through template( *.tmpl).I have tried to use print "abce....."; but can not get output. If any body has idea what to do,kindly send me reply. Thanking you in anticipation -- Purohit Chirag

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Request about a new table in Koha (MySQL level)
by tajoli 25 Jul '09

25 Jul '09

Dear Colin Campbell and all, I see your patch about a message system in Opac and Circulation. This patch add a MySQL table and clerly is for the version 3.2 I don't think RM of 3.0.x will insert it into into the official code. As CILEA we tring to complete the documentation of 3.0.x at MySQL level and to write a good documentation about MySQL level of 3.2. So could you send to Koha-devel list a description of this new table ? For example: --A brief description of the tables --A list of all implicit and explicit connection with others tables --A brief description of every field Thank you for every thing Cheers Zeno Tajoli

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Hardcoding XSLT files to force opening URLs in new window (bug #3098)
by Wagner, Jane 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

If XSLT is turned on (for OPAC details and results), the syspref OPACURLOpenInNewWindow is not obeyed. For sites who want URLs to open in a new window, this is a problem ranging from mildly annoying to a serious concern. I reported it as a bug (#3098) some time ago, and revisited it again today for one of my sites. I have not yet been able to figure out how to pass the syspref into the XSLT files, but I have been able to hardcode those files to force opening a new window instead of the default same window. Following discussion on the IRC today, I'm not going to send this as a patch, but I thought I'd share it for other sites who want URLs to open in a new window and want an interim local fix until the larger problem of passing/obeying sysprefs is solved. Under koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/prog/en/xslt, in MARC21slim2OPACDetail.xsl and MARC21slim2OPACResults.xsl, under the 856 section, search for the line <a><xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of select="marc:subfield[@code='u']"/></xsl:attribute> Change the beginning <a> as follows: <a target="_blank"> Jane Wagner Library Systems Analyst PTFS Inc. Content Management and Library Solutions 6400 Goldsboro Road, Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20817 (301) 654-8088 x 151 jwagner(a)ptfs.com

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Hints on reconciliation branch
by LAURENT Henri-Damien 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

Hi, Release Maintainer for 3.0.x speaking. I will be on holidays tonight for 2 weeks. But you can see some progress about reconciliation branch on koha-maintenance branch reconciliation. Be warned that it is for testing purposes and should not be used in production. Moreover, update database has not been updated yet. This work is in progress. There is already some bases for that. But dbversion numbering has some missing numbers. And you should have some hints about that quite soon. see http://git.koha.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=koha-maintenance.git;a=summary for the code. How can I test it ? if you have a dev version : git remote add maintenance git://git.koha.org/pub/scm/koha-maintenance.git git fetch maintenance git branch --track testing_3.0.2 remotes/maintenance/master git checkout testing_3.0.2 for those who are using HEAD already, either your version is 3.01.00.30 and you have nothing to do OR your version is before, and you may have to fix your kohaversion in your database to set it to 3.00.01.00 so that updatedatabase can update your database. You may have some duplicate warnings for all the transformations which has already been made. then login to intranet and updatedatabase will occur. And test and file any bug to me personnaly. What IS NOT in that version : Nothing from master and 3.0.x. Comments and bug reports welcome. Please, if you see some patches which have not made their way into that branch and which you use, be so kind as to resend them to me personnally. 3.0.x and koha master branch patches should all be there, but maybe some patches sent on list are not integrated. In the future, in order to be sure that patches can be smoothly integrated, I suggest that vendors could open up chosen git branches so that integration of patches can be more sure than simply making it via emails. See git.biblibre.com to see biblibre exposed branches for koha : master is our master branch 3.0.x is our 3.0.x branch official_3.0.x is a copy of official/3.0.x dom_wip is work in progress on dom configuration with git So highly unstable. If someone wants to test. It is the same thing as for koha-maintenance, git remote add biblibre git://git.biblibre.com/koha-biblibre git remote update you can rebase your branches over those remote branches, so that your devs can be on top and you can format-patch and send those patches to me for integration. I'll be back on 10th, August but will participate in IRC meeting. cheers. -- Henri-Damien LAURENT

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Transition and continuity
by Galen Charlton 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

Hi folks, As some of you may have heard or been speculating about, I will be joining Equinox at the beginning of August. Although that of course means that I will start hacking on Evergreen, I am committed to seeing 3.2 to completion and release and will continue on as release manager. I also intend to start as release maintainer for 3.2, although as time passes, it may be necessary to find another RMaint. Regardless, I will continue to be involved in Koha. I look forward to continuing to work with you all. Regards, Galen Charlton Koha 3.2 Release Manager gmcharlt(a)gmail.com

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Next project IRC meeting - 5 August 2009
by Galen Charlton 23 Jul '09

23 Jul '09

Hi, The next general IRC meeting of the Koha project will take place on 5 August 2009 at 10:00 UTC+0. The agenda currently includes the following items: 1. Update on Roadmap to 3.2 2. Update on Koha 3.0 Roadmap 3. Follow-up on actions from General IRC Meeting 1 July 2009 4. Management of KohaSocialNetworks To propose additional agenda items, please go to the wiki page for this meeting located at <http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=meetingnotes09aug05>. As a reminder, the IRC meetings taken place on the #koha channel on the IRC server irc.katipo.co.nz. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton VP, Research & Development, LibLime galen.charlton(a)liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709 skype: gmcharlt

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