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Status of serials/serials-recieve.pl
by Chris Nighswonger 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

Can anyone comment on whether serials/serials-recieve.pl is being used? If not, any objections to its removal? Kind Regards, -- Chris Nighswonger LibLime www.liblime.com chris.nighswonger(a)liblime.com

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New 'test suite' component for bugs database
by Galen Charlton 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Hi, I'd like to have a new 'Test Suite' component created on bugs.koha.org. This component would be for bugs and enhancements to the test suite itself (e.g., 2091) or for cleaning up problems identified by new tests (e.g., 2400); neither type of issue fits into 'command-line utilities', and I consider the test suite to be separate from installation. IMO, the default assignee should be Andrew Moore. since he's taken the lead on improving our unit tests. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Koha Application Developer LibLime galen.charlton(a)liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709

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Item status automatic change
by Paul POULAIN 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

(http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:rfcs3.2:item_statuses_auto_…) In Koha 3.0, the item status is set without duration. We will add a feature to explain how long a given status will be used, and which status must be set after that. That will be usefull, for example, to have a book with status “new book”, that is changed to “available” after 1 month. Or to have a book with status “lift”, changed to “reserve” after 1 day... -- 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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Re: [Koha-devel] MARC imports
by Michael Lasater 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Hello, This is a record from the original MARC export: 01293pam 22003254a 4500001001300000003000600013005001700019008004100036010001700077020001800094020001500112035002700127040003200154050002300186082001300209100001900222245009600241260008200337300002600419651005200445650005200497650004600549600005100595650004600646651005400692650003700746650004500783651003700828999010200865BK0007443582OCoLC20080319000000.0071031s2008 cau 000 0deng a 2007043547 a9781593761691 a1593761694 a(Sirsi) i9781593761691 aDLCcDLCdYDXdBTCTAdYDXCP00aF595.3b.S735 200800a978.2221 aStegner, Page.10aAdios, amigos :btales of sustenance and purification in the American West /cPage Stegner. aBerkeley, CA :bCounterpoint :bDistributed by Publishers Group West,cc2008. axiv, 206 p. ;c24 cm. 0aWest (U.S.)xDescription and travelvAnecdotes. 0aWild and scenic riverszWest (U.S.)vAnecdotes. 0aWilderness areaszWest (U.S.)vAnecdotes.10aStegner, PagexTravelzWest (U.S.)vAnecdotes. 0aRafting (Sports)zWest (U.S.)vAnecdotes. 0aWest (U.S.)xEnvironmental conditionsvAnecdotes. 0aEcologyzWest (U.S.)vAnecdotes. 0aNatural historyzWest (U.S.)vAnecdotes. 0aWest (U.S.)xHistoryvAnecdotes. a978 STEwDEWEYc1i32003000651899lINPROCESSmSAVANNAHp$24.00rYsYtBOOKu6/10/2008x900zADULT Here is the same record after I have run my script on it: 01094nam 22002418 4500001001300000005001700013008004100030020001500071035002700086040001900113050002000132082001200152100004300164245007200207260005800279300004100337504005100378520015200429650001300581650002800594999012400622952010600746BK000414205320030925071029.0030925s2003 enkab b 001 0 eng d a0198606648 a(Sirsi) i9780198606642 aNjBwBTcNjBwBT14aQ126b.A85 200304a5002211 aAtkins, P. W.q(Peter William),d1940-10aGalileo's finger :bthe ten great ideas of science /cPeter Atkins. aOxford ;aNew York :bOxford University Press,c2003. aviii, 380 p. :bill., maps ;c25 cm. aIncludes bibliographical references and index. aA fresh take on the ten most important ideas in the history of science looks at such concepts as the expanding universe and the notion of the atom. 0aScience. 0aDiscoveries in science. a500 ATKwDEWEYc1i31989204164732d5/18/2004e5/11/2004lSTACKSmEASTSIDEn2p$30.00rYsYtBOOKu9/26/2003x500zADULT p319892041647324004bEASTSIDE10o500 ATKd9/26/2003850072cSTACKS2ddcg$30.00yBOOKaRHCLBB Thank you, Emmanuel Di Pretoro wrote: > Can you send a sample of your MARC file? > > 2008/7/23 Michael Lasater <mlasater(a)rollinghills.lib.mo.us > <mailto:mlasater@rollinghills.lib.mo.us>>: > > Sorry for the lack of information. I am using a version of Koha 3 > which is about a week old which I downloaded using Git. I am > using the import functions that are in the tools menu of Koha. I > have also used bulkmarcimport from the command line and had the > same results. > > Thank you. > > > Paul POULAIN wrote: >> Michael Lasater a écrit : >> >>> Thank you in advance for any assistance you may provide. >>> >> Hi Michael, >> >> 1st question : which version ? >> 2nd question : how do you import those biblios ? (bulkmarcimport ? >> through tools/ ? other method ?) >> >> > > -- > Michael Lasater > Rolling Hills Consolidated Library > 1912 N. Belt Highway > St. Joseph, MO 64506 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > Koha-devel(a)lists.koha.org <mailto:Koha-devel@lists.koha.org> > http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > > -- Michael Lasater Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506

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RFC 3.2 : Patron reading record management
by Paul POULAIN 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

(copy of : http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:rfcs3.2:rfc32_readingrecord…) Add a feature to let the patron manage it’s reading record himself. The laws in some countries requires that the library cleans the reading record after some time. This new feature will let the user himself decide what to do with the reading record. by default, the behaviour will be unchanged (clean borrower history after some time). An option will be added on OPAC to let the patron request “keep my reading record forever” (a checkbox). If the user uncheck it, the reading record will be cleaned later, by the cleanborrowers script. If the user uncheck it, the already deleted issues won’t reappear, of course. An option will be added on OPAC to let the patron request “clean my reding record immediatly”. That will clean (after a confirmation) the reading record for all issues that can be removed (ie : not current issues) The librarian won’t be able to set the “keep my record forever” himself, and it won’t be checked by default. The librarian will be able to see the flag. Technical notes : - add a field (keepreading) to members page & display it in members/moremembers.pl - modify opac-readingrec.pl to let the user change the status of this flag. - add a opac-emptyreadingrec.pl to remove the reading history. (ask for 2 confirmations before doing it, as it will be un-cancelable once it’s done) - modify tools/cleanborrowers.pl to deal with this flag -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc NOUVEAU TELEPHONE : 04 91 81 35 08 _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel(a)lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel

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MARC imports
by Michael Lasater 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Hello all, I am a student intern assisting with the evaluation of Koha for the Rolling Hills Consolidated Library. We are attempting to export some records from the current ILS (Sirsi) into Koha for testing. Using the MARC record import tool in Koha we are able to import records, but no items. I wrote a Perl script (I am new to Perl) that modified the MARC record to include the 952 fields that Koha uses (the current ILS uses 999 for item information). Importing these modified MARC records using the same method will import the record and the item, but will not make the item available ( it says "No physical items for this record"). Have I missed something in the MARC record or should I be using a different method. I have heard of others that wrote scripts that add the item information directly into the databases. Is that the method I should pursue or should I continue with the modification of the MARC record? Thank you in advance for any assistance you may provide. -- Michael Lasater Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel(a)lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel

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formatting currencies (RFC for 3.2 ?)
by Paul POULAIN 22 Jul '08

22 Jul '08

Hi, Unless i've missed something, there is nothing in Koha atm to format currencies. The currency place differs (USD10 in the US, 10€ in France), as well as the number of digits after the comma (2 in France, probably 0 in Zimbabwe...) so, 2 ideas : - use a package like Data::Currency. Not sure it's what we need - add some sysprefs to define : display currency (EUR), some printf schema (### ###,##CUR in France). This being managed by some C4/Currencies.pm functions. Your opinion ? -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : 04 91 31 45 19 _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel(a)lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel

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Ubuntu 8.04 and rebuild_zebra script
by Chadwick, John, DCA 21 Jul '08

21 Jul '08

I just updated a couple of our test servers from Ubuntu 7.10 to Ubuntu 8.04. When I went to run the rebuild_zebra.pl I got the following error message (multiple times). Mon Jul 21 15:27:15 2008] rebuild_zebra.pl: Cannot decode string with wide characters at /usr/lib/perl/5.8/Encode.pm line 166. This is a new one for me. Any ideas? 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 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. _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel(a)lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel

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Installation Instructions
by H Cline 21 Jul '08

21 Jul '08

Has anyone written up instructions for installing the RC version of Koha 3.0 on Ubuntu 8.04. Looking through the archives I have noticed there seems to be varying degrees of success in installing on this distribution. With the stable release not too far away, is this something that should be addressed? Any idea how much more time is needed? The last reference I saw mentioned the 7th of July. I will be trying an installation later in the week, all things going to plan, and the powers that be giving me some time to actually complete the task. If someone has instructions I would appreciate either a copy or a link, if nothing else it may speed up the process for me, else I will document my attempts in the hope that it helps. TIA Henry _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel(a)nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel(a)lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel

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RFC 3.2: Description translation
by Eric Bégin 21 Jul '08

21 Jul '08

Hi all, The basic idea of this RFC is to add a translation mechanism for MARC field, MARC subfield and System Preference's descriptions. The mechanism would dynamically retrieve the description from a map structure based on the user's currently selected language, which is not possible at the moment since those descriptions are located in the database. More information about this proposal can be found on the Koha wiki at: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:rfcs3.2:rfc32_description_t… Eric _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel(a)lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel

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