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"New Thing" or "New thing"
by Paul POULAIN 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

In most parts of Koha strings have a lot of ucfirt on each word : New Item Type, Modify Branch, Edit Permissions some times, it's written in a most classic syntax : New item type, Modify branch, Edit permissions Do we (mainly owen ?) have a rule for uppercase & lower case ? something like : - in button, each word has ucfirst - otherwise, only the 1st word has ucfirst thanks for clarification -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc NOUVEAU TELEPHONE : 04 91 81 35 08

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creating MARC records
by Rick Welykochy 10 Nov '08

10 Nov '08

HI all Perhaps there are some MARC21 or USMARC gurus on the list who can save me some time. I am creating MARC records on the fly from CSV records. ISSUE #1: The code I have adapted to create a MARC field looks like this: MARC::Field->new($tag,'','',$subfields) The second and third args were provided as empty strings by the original scripts I am adapting. The marclint program complains that the field indicators #1 and #2 are blank. What should they be? How does one find out? ISSUE #2: bulkmarcimport.pl in Koha 2.2.9 seems to ignore the incorrect field indicators and handles the records as created above just fine. But in K3, the imported does not work. Here is something suspect: print $marcrec->as_usmarc; Is that the correct way to output the MARC record in binary format? Is there really that much difference between USMARC and MARC21? My brief research on the web indicates that the answer to this last question is: "No, not really." Any insight most appreciated. TIA rickw -- ________________________________________________________________ Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services || Internet Driving Instructor When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. -- Jimi Hendrix

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DBIX::Class example of code
by Antoine Farnault 10 Nov '08

10 Nov '08

Hi all, I just want to notify you that here [1] is a a code which is organised exactly like the koha's code and using DBIX::Class. Hope that's help ! [1] http://code.google.com/p/noplagia/source/browse/ -- Antoine FARNAULT

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DBIX::Class example of code
by Antoine Farnault 10 Nov '08

10 Nov '08

Hi all, I just want to notify you that here [1] is a a code which is organised exactly like the koha's code and using DBIX::Class. Hope that's help ! [1] http://code.google.com/p/noplagia/source/browse/ -- Antoine FARNAULT

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Class::DBI vs DBIx::Class
by Rick Welykochy 08 Nov '08

08 Nov '08

First off, a note to Galen. I reported to you that I had experience with DBIx::Class. Make that Class::DBI instead. I am reading up on DBIx::Class now. It seems that DBIx::Class grew out of Class::DBI and might be more sophisticated for our purposes. There is a perl monks comparison of these two here: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=700283 with some pros and cons for each. What I like about Class::DBI is that it created a data model object for each table, i.e. something like Ourspace::Itemtype for the itemtype table. Instances of that object are loaded and initialised from the database. In the examples I have been reading kindly posted by Andrew Moore I am seeing field (attribute) accesses like the following using DBIx::Class ... $row->get_column('cn_source') This is not much different than the following: $hash->{cn_source} IMHO. Part of the advantage in an OR mapper is having first class data model objects, i.e. the above would become: $obj->cn_source and changing the value of the cn_source attribute is accomplished quite simply by $obj->cn_source('new_value') There might be some concern of the extra overhead involved in creating data objects for each database fetch. cheers rick -- ________________________________________________________________ Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services || Internet Driving Instructor When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. -- Jimi Hendrix

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Koha 3 with Active Directory
by Yusdanis Feus Perez 07 Nov '08

07 Nov '08

Hello, I' am starting to develop Koha and I would like to know how to authenticate Koha with Active Directory. Thanks in advance, Feus. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Est. Yusdanis Feus Pérez Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas (UCI) Facultad # 10: "Software Libre" Linux Registered User # 434013

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Binding option
by mallikarjun dora 07 Nov '08

07 Nov '08

Hi can anyone tell me, koha (serial module) upcoming version full fledged binding option will come . Thanks

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Failing make test for Koha installation
by Sean Toczko 07 Nov '08

07 Nov '08

Hello All - Having trouble withe the installation of Koha 3.00.00 on a Linux LAMP server running Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. Have downloaded and untarred the koha tar ball, have MySQL 5.0.51 running, Apache 2.2.8 and zebra installed, and according to the installation file within Koha, I also went ahead and downloaded CGI::Session::serialize::yaml (ver. 4.14) directly from CPAN. when running sudo make test, the make fails on scrubber test: ~:/build/koha-3.00.00$ sudo make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 KOHA_CONF=blib/KOHA_CONF_DIR/koha-conf.xml /usr/bin/ perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/ PERL_MODULE_DIR', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t t/Amazon....................ok t/Barcodes_PrinterConfig....ok t/Bookfund..................ok t/Bookseller................ok t/Boolean...................ok t/Branch....................ok t/Calendar..................ok t/Charset...................ok t/Debug.....................# BEFORE use: $debug is not defined # BEFORE use: $cgi_debug is not defined t/Debug.....................ok 1/3# AFTER use: $debug is 0 # AFTER use: $cgi_debug is 0 # Done. t/Debug.....................ok t/dummy.....................ok t/Input.....................ok t/Koha......................ok t/Languages.................ok t/Maintainance..............ok t/Output....................ok t/Record....................ok t/Review....................ok t/Scrubber.................. # Failed test 'use C4::Scrubber;' # in t/Scrubber.t at line 10. # Tried to use 'C4::Scrubber'. # Error: Can't locate HTML/Scrubber.pm in @INC (@INC contains: / build/koha-3.00.00/t /build/koha-3.00.00/blib/PERL_MODULE_DIR /build/ koha-3.00.00/blib/arch /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/ share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 / usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /build/koha-3.00.00/ blib/PERL_MODULE_DIR/C4/Scrubber.pm line 20. # BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/Scrubber.t line 10. # Compilation failed in require at (eval 5) line 2. # BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 5) line 2. t/Scrubber..................NOK 1# Note: scrubber test output will have whitespace collapsed for readability Can't locate object method "new" via package "C4::Scrubber" at t/ Scrubber.t line 48. # Looks like you planned 10 tests but only ran 1. # Looks like you failed 1 test of 1 run. # Looks like your test died just after 1. t/Scrubber..................dubious Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00) DIED. FAILED tests 1-10 Failed 10/10 tests, 0.00% okay t/Stats.....................ok Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- t/Scrubber.t 255 65280 10 19 190.00% 1-10 Failed 1/19 test scripts, 94.74% okay. 10/47 subtests failed, 78.72% okay. make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255 OK, how do I progress beyond this point? Advice very much appreciated. Sean

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icu diacrtics and search problems
by Chadwick, John, DCA 06 Nov '08

06 Nov '08

Okay, here is a very good mystery for everyone. Koha 3.01.00.002 on Ubuntu 8. When we use the default.idx file with Koha and the word-phrase-utf.chr file, Koha searches perfectly fine and life is good, except for diacritics. So, we modify the default.idx file and use the icu.xml file and diacritics work correctly. Searching is a different matter. Keyword searching fails unless the search term has kw= in front of the term. Also, the search term followed by an asterisk also works. Title, author and all the other search functions work. I got the following from the opac error log: [Thu Nov 06 11:06:02 2008] [error] [client xxxxxxx] HTML::Template::Pro:in TMPL_IF at pos 2399:end tag:found e instead of > at pos 2425 [Thu Nov 06 11:06:02 2008] [error] [client xxxxxxx] HTML::Template::Pro:in TMPL_IF at pos 2860:end tag:found e instead of > at pos 2886 I am ready to entertain any ideas or suggestions. Thanks, John +----------------------------------------------------------------------- -----+ John Chadwick, Ed.D. Information Technology Manager New Mexico State Library 1209 Camino Carlos Rey Santa Fe, NM 87507 Phone: 505-476-9740 Cell: 505-629-8116 Fax: 505-476-9761 john.chadwick(a)state.nm.us http://www.nmstatelibrary.org Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including all attachments is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited unless specifically provided under the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this message. -- This email has been scanned by the Sybari - Antigen Email System.

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GetMember() cardnumber vs. firstname search
by Galen Charlton 06 Nov '08

06 Nov '08

Hi, C4::Members::GetMember(), when used to look up a patron by cardnumber, retries the search on borrowers.firstname if there are no rows that have the barcode in borrowers.cardnumber. This is not exactly beautiful, and I assi,e it was inspired by some library that for whatever reason needed to overload the firstname field. Does anybody know of a reason (or a current user) why this odd fallback should be retained? 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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