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Automatic credit for Lost item and alert it was returned
by David Schuster 18 May '09

18 May '09

I have placed an Enhancement request: http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3230 If you would like to login to the bugs.koha.org - and view/vote/comment on this enhancement. 1 - I am also writing up directions on how to submit your enhancement ideas and get them noted by the community. 2 - I am also writing up directions on how to enter your Sponsored Enhancement ideas so the community will know what enhancements have been sponsored! 3 - I will be seeking volunteers to help me review existing enhancements that are in the database to determine if they have been "resolved/need clarification/or must remain open"... -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Automatic-credit-for-Lost-item-and-alert-it-was-retur… Sent from the Koha - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Sever name
by M L N 18 May '09

18 May '09

Hello, How do i put in the server name and network domain in koha? Does koha use the server name and network domain config from Apache and how do i change it? Cheers, Linh

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configuration of zebra index
by zahidiqbal_isb 18 May '09

18 May '09

i tried the following commands for the configuration of zebra indexes, export KOHA_CONF=/etc/koha/koha-conf.xml ./rebuild_zebra.pl -w -b after running the commands the message is displayed. "01:00:22-05/05 zebraidx(4877) [warn] No such record type: grs.marcxml.record" have i missed any step..... where am i wrong.... please any one tell me. Regards, Zahid Iqbal AD IIUI -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/configuration-of-zebra-index-tp23570467p23570467.html Sent from the Koha - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Differences beetween indexes on holding data
by Zeno Tajoli 18 May '09

18 May '09

Hi to all, reading the indexes defintions, etc/zebradb/marc_defs/marc21/biblios/record.abs etc/zebradb/marc_defs/unimarc/biblios/record.abs I have understand that Unimarc and MARC21 have different indexes on holding data. But in fact Koha templates are only one, so we probably use the same indexes with different source. The situation [reading files from maintenance tree]: In common IndexName Unimarc MARC21 barcode 995$f 952$p holdingbranch 995$c,995$d 952$b homebranch 995$a, 995$b 952$a Local-classification 995$k 952$o Local-Number 090$9 999$c location 995$e 952$c lost 995$2 952$1 Note 995$u 952$z onloan 995$n 952$q Only Unimarc item 995 date-entered-on-file 099$c Date/time-last-modified 099$d Host-item 995$a, 995$b LC-card-number 995$j Call-Number 995$k lcn 995$k popularity 995$s Only MARC21 totalissues 942$0 cn-bib-source 942$2 cn-bib-sort 942$6 itemtype 942$c cn-class 942$h cn-item 942$i cn-prefix 942$k cn-suffix 942$m Suppress 942$n withdrawn 952$0 classification-source 952$2 materials-specified 952$3 damaged 952$4 restricted 952$5 cn-sort 952$6 notforloan 952$7 ccode 952$8 itemnumber 952$9 Date-of-acquisition 952$d acqsource 952$e coded-location-qualifier 952$f price 952$g stack 952$j issues 952$l renewals 952$m reserves 952$n datelastseen 952$r datelastborrowed 952$s copynumber 952$t uri 952$u replacementprice 952$v replacementpricedate 952$w itype 952$y biblioitemnumber 999$d Question: Why so many indexes only for one type of MARC (Unimarc or MARC21)? Do we need to coordinate more indexes ? There is a simple way to know which indexes on local / holdings are used in the koha template ? Bye to all 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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finesMode & email
by Eric Bégin 18 May '09

18 May '09

Hi, The description of finesMode syspref is * <http://75.154.255.185:1889/cgi-bin/koha/admin/systempreferences.pl?op=add_f…>* > Choose the fines mode, 'off', 'test' (emails admin report) or > 'production' (accrue overdue fines). Requires accruefines cronjob. However, nothing in fines.pl seems to be coded to send an email. Was that something planned but that wasn't implemented yet? If this is the case, we should remove the (emails admin report). Also, how should be interpreted the "Requires accruefines cronjob."? I first though there was a accruefines script somewhere, which, as far as I can tell, doesn't exist. Thanks, Eric

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Some problems to opt Koha
by Mahendra Varandani 18 May '09

18 May '09

Hi Well we are in the process of finalizing (on behalf of our client) an open source Library management system. Some background: we surly have a soft corner for PHP based OS, as we are out and out PHP shop. My team has shortlisted 3 options, and Koha is on the top of the list. Koha being on Perl I, as the project lead am not very comfortable. Why? 1. There could be implementation/deployment problems 2. In the situation where the client needs us to integrate some more functionalities/feature sets it will be a problem for us to understand the codes in perl. 3. Our client need a language option (HINDI) the full system to be on both English and Hindi *4. *And Pl send us the details that reagarding installations as we have redhat linux machine on it how do i setup it all will koha use same Mysql Phpmyadmin or it is using another database type?? I would really appreciate any feedback from the community/developers of Koha as to how much can they help us in any of the following situations, or is it that we will have to manage everything in-house Thanks in advance... -- Warm Regards Mahendra Varandani iDes Solutions 8/14 Jangpura Road, Lajpat Nagar New Delhi

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Some more thoughts to add.
by Brendan Gallagher 17 May '09

17 May '09

Hi All -- Greetings from ByWater Solutions! I hope everyone had a great weekend and mother’s day. I love the passion I have seen on this post over the past few days. Although we are relatively new in the community we are completely dedicated to Koha and wanted to weigh in on the conversation. In regards to the pay-for-support listing page; I vote that the companies be listed by location, which can either be implemented by a linkable map or just listed by region. However, I also truly believe that this should not be solely decided by the vendors and developers of Koha, but by the users as well. They are the ones whom are going through the arduous task of deciding which company, if any, to choose to lead them through the task of migrating to a new ILS. Another reason for this belief is that as per human nature, whomever controls that page will have self (company)- interest in mind, whether intended or not. I also have a question about the Koha-manage list. What are the qualifications to be on this list? I've sent several requests to join, to no avail, and I have never received an answer as to why? My company is listed as a pay-for-support option and we are heavily invested in supporting the community. To me, having exclusivity to a list where many of the decisions being made for the community are done seems against the whole community/ open-source ideal. For example, the discussion of how to list the pay-for-support companies was completed and decided on that chain and then changed on the community koha.org website. The escalation surrounding this issue may have been prevented if all of the members in the community, some of whom this directly affected, were allowed to be part of the discussion. I think many of us in the Koha community will be interested to see if any of these discussions, suggestions and ideas actually yield any results. As of right now it seems to be self-serving, as we have yet to see any changes. Every community feels growing pains when it comes to evolution and change, but only the successful ones foster open discussion, hold each member in esteem, and have leaders who can chose the path of humility when change is needed. I sincerely hope we can take that path and look back at the issues we have now, and will have in the future, as inevitable speed bumps on the road to success. ByWater Solutions has not yet had the opportunity to contribute major developments or groundbreaking answers to problems in the community, but I hope my comments will still be taken seriously regardless. Thanks, merci, gracias, tēnā rawa atu koutou. -Brendan --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brendan A. Gallagher ByWater Solutions CEO, Director of Innovation Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Installation, Data Migration, Training, Customization, Hosting, Complete Support Packages Headquarters: Santa Barbara, CA - Office: West Haven, CT Phone # (203)823-5847 http://bywatersolutions.com info(a)bywatersolutions.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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sessions in mysql
by David Schuster 15 May '09

15 May '09

So we have been having a few issues with locking up servers so I've been watching show processlist when this happens and it seems that we have a lot of REPLACE INTO sessions(id, a-session) etc.. lines when this happens and when they magically go away everything is running smoothly again. So what are these "sessions" and how do they play with the system? If you show columns from sessions you get to columns: +-----------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +-----------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | id | varchar(32) | NO | PRI | | | | a_session | text | NO | | | | +-----------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ If I do a select count(*) from sessions I get select count(*) from sessions; ERROR 1053 (08S01): Server shutdown in progress but thankfully the server doesn't actually shutdown! TIPS hints??? usually by the time I contact my support group about it and they get connected 30 minutes to an hour later things are better. Lately if it hangs it is only for 10-15 minutes but at that the librarians are pulling their hair out with 30-40 8 year olds trying to search for a book/check in or out a book!! David Schuster Plano ISD -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/sessions-in-mysql-tp23549310p23549310.html Sent from the Koha - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Problem in installation of Koha
by Mahendra Varandani 14 May '09

14 May '09

Hello Sir I am PHP developer and i had downloaded the koha software but i found it is totally made up in perl is there any other version available in PHP ?? if not then pl help me as i have to install it to my local system which has windows installed with Apache server and Mysql so how do i run it via command line?? how do i know that perl is installed or not?? pl help me ASAP. thnks in advance... -- Warm Regards Mahendra Varandani iDes Solutions 8/14 Jangpura Road, Lajpat Nagar New Delhi

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AJAX frameworks
by Jesse 14 May '09

14 May '09

Currently, Koha has three possible frameworks for AJAX: - Biblios, XML-based: Already in use, though only by Biblios. No wrapper, so each of the services has to deal with XML::Simple itself. XML works fairly well, though is slightly more work to deal with than JSON on the browser end. - Tags, JSON-based: This creates JSON objects through interpolation of strings. This works, and avoids the CPAN/JSON dependency, but is error prone, and wouldn't work well for a large number of scripts. - C4::Service (recently sent to patches list, so everything dealing with it is uncertain): I am slightly biased towards this approach because I wrote it, but I think it saves a lot of repetitive work in writing AJAX services. It requires its own script, unlike the approach used for the tags script, which has the disadvantage of requiring some duplicative coding, but this was not too horrible a problem even when writing AJAX circulation. C4::Service was originally part of the AJAX circulation patchset, but this is still in testing, so I decided to send it on its own. It comes with a HTML::Template-ish wrapper around CPAN's JSON module. It might be worth deciding on one or a blend of these approaches, as AJAX will continue to be important. -- Jesse Weaver

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