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z3950import.pl?
by Owen Leonard 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

Is z3950import.pl currently used by Koha? I was curious about the templates it calls, which look very out of date (only some cosmetic changes for the last few years). Could this script and the corresponding templates (under marcimport) be safely removed from HEAD? -- Owen

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Koha localization
by Partha Mukhopadhyay 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Dear friends, Finally I have done koha localization (in Bengali lanuage - an Indian regional language) for both the version Windows and Linux. The procedure I adopted is as follows: 1. I copied npl directory under opac-template in a new folder npl_bengali. 2. Then changed charset=ISO-8859-1 to charset=UTF-8 everywhre it (charset=ISO-8859-1) appeared in .INC file under /include directory. 3. In the system parameter setup I then changed opac theme to npl_bengali (it appeared as an option automatically). 4. Finally used an Unicode compliant virtual keyboard (Avro) to enter query, to enter cataloguing data and to change interface language. 5. It works nicely. I have also tested import and export of koah data (bibliogaphic, members etc.) in mysql directly and found it works correctly. 6. I'm entering data in linux server through windows XP client becaues virtual keyboard is available in windows version only. Possibly in future we'll overcome this limitation also. Thanks a lot to contributors in koha mailing list. Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay Lecturer, Deptt. of Library and Inf. Sc. Vidyasagar University, India -- India.com free e-mail - www.india.com. Check out our value-added Premium features, such as an extra 20MB for mail storage, POP3, e-mail forwarding, and ads-free mailboxes!

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[Fwd: localization]
by Chris Cormack 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

Hi Guys Im off today down south to the Lianza Conference, but I thought that Id forward this to the list and hopefully someone, or some people can get back to Michal. Owen, I remember you were interested in Czech I think? Chris -- Chris Cormack Katipo Communications Programmer www.katipo.co.nz 027 4500 789

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New Koha Website Soft Launched Today
by Russel Garlick 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Hi Everyone, We have soft launched the new look koha website this morning kiwi time. I say soft launched, because we are still finishing off content for some hidden sections and we aren't really ready to start crowing about it at the moment, so there will be no press releases etc at this stage. Couple of things We have set up redirects so that existing links to the major sections of the old site still work. e.g www.koha.org/drive -> www.koha.org/showcase Chris has setup cgi::irc that points to #koha-lobby - http://www.koha.org/community/irc.html Any issues with content, please let us know - http://www.koha.org/community/website.html Cheers -- Russel Garlick Operations Manager Katipo Communications Ph: +64 4 934 1285 Fax: +64 4 934 1286 Mob: +64 27 537 1377 Skype: russelgarlick Web http://www.katipo.co.nz

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Printing configuration
by Desarrollo Koha 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

Hello: I am working on printing configuration and I am trying to print the current status of loans of a user (It seems to be the "circulation slip"). I also would like to print the record of a user and the complete result of a catalogue search, but it has been impossible for me to find how to do that. The closest thing to print I have found is the C4::Print module and it is only on the groups.pl cgi ( not useful for me). I have read the user guide and filled the printers table with info about the printer the server uses (debian + cups-pdf for testing). I can print on the server from my desktop and from the server itself (lp -d prtpdf testdoc) When I click on the print buttons I have found (slip, user properties, catalog) i can see nothing on the printer. Please, could somebody give to me any kind of advice? Thank you very much for your help Pablo

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LOUISIANA STATE LIBRARY ISSUES URGENT CALL FOR COMPUTERS, PRINTERS The State li
by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

Forwarded to me by an amigos OCLC member.... Thought I would share this... -Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC LOUISIANA STATE LIBRARY ISSUES URGENT CALL FOR COMPUTERS, PRINTERS The State library of Louisiana has sent out this call for computer equipment. If you are interested and able to send computers, here is the request from the Louisiana State Librarian, Rebecca Hamilton. "To all-we are in desperate need of computers/printers. We are being inundated with evacuees needing to file FEMA applications, unemployment, search for loved ones, etc. and are coming into our public libraries to use the computers. Our libraries have greatly extended their hours to accommodate the people but they need additional computers and printers. If you can please put the word out that if anyone wants to help immediately, this is our greatest need." Equipment Specs: * Pentium 3 * Windows 2000, prefer XP * Laser printers if you can still get toner for them Send equipment to: State Library of Louisiana 701 North 4th Street Baton Rouge, La. 70802-5232 If you are able to assist them, please let Rebecca know via email at rhamilton(a)crt.state.la.us to help her know what to expect.

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[Fwd: [Koha] KOHA's Credibility !]
by Tarallo, Andres 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

Maybe here Daniel could get a better answer

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Koha Statuses
by Joshua Ferraro 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

Hi all, Paul and I talked extensively about item statuses in Koha today. I have some clarification on that as well as some questions. 1. Koha statuses can be stored in items.notforloan (in 3.0 lets change this to items.status) a. if items.notforloan>0 it's notforloan b. you can setup authorized values to map status codes to text c. you can display the status text on the interfaces or use the code in the scripts to set things like 'norequests' to avoid displaying 'Place Reserve' on the OPAC. 2. We need to add a status editing subroutine that queries the authorized value for items.notforloan and allows staff to quickly set a status for a given item using a dropdown box (instead of having to edit the MARC record). 3. We need to modify Koha's automatic status routines to use the new system and need preference mappings for those status routines (an example is the routine that sets an item's status to 'lost' after it's longoverdue; since the 'lost' status is a manually configured setting using the 'notforloan' scheme there should be a way to specify which status is to be set when an item is longoverdue (from the authorized value)). Another 'automatic' status that needs to be managed correclty is branch transfers. A staff should be able to scan an item for return, if it's on reserve in another branch they should be able to set the status to 'in transit', then when it arrives in the new branch and staff scans it, they should be able to set the status to 'arrived' (and maybe later, if it's a bit library, to 'waiting'). All of these statuses should be viewable from Koha's interfaces (the OPAC and the Intranet). I hope this makes sense. 4. Finally, a question. I'm still not clear on the relationship between Koha's itemtype.notforloan and items.notforloan. Is there some way we can ensure that the Koha interfaces display correct status information based on the values in both of these fields? For instance, if a new library migrates their data to Koha and sets all 'notforloan' in items to '0' but has itemtype 'REF''s notforloan set to '1' Koha interfaces don't currently know not to display 'Place Reserve'. Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf(a)liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS

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about "reviews" commits
by Paul POULAIN 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

Hi chris, owen & al, I've seen your commits for review. Sounds great, but 2 questions : * did you forget to commit or write updater/updatedatabase ? I don't know how to create reviews table. * why did you wrote your templates for NPL theme ? I still use css until prog is done. We should be careful or we will have bugs due to templates diffs. (question for owen : when do you think prog will be done ?) -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Kea site for new Koha website
by Russel Garlick 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Hi Guys, Third time is a charm on the CMS front.We have setup the templates that Shaun built in the Kea CMS. So we are ready to start populating with Content. Couple of things about Kea. DOCUMENTATION We have some user documentation for Kea on our website. http://www.katipo.co.nz/clients/helpdesk/keatutorials/ They are in dire need of updating, and we are working away at that. But the main difference you will notice is in the page editor itself. The Koha edit site is using a rich text editor based on Htmlarea. So whilst tutorials 2, 3 and 4 aren't much help anymore. Most of tutorials 1 and 5 remain relevant. Tutorial 1 http://www.katipo.co.nz/clients/helpdesk/keatutorials/tutorial1/ Tutorial 5 http://www.katipo.co.nz/clients/helpdesk/keatutorials/tutorial5/ EDITING I have made holder pages as per the site map ready to be populated with content. You can use either the Edit Content or Edit Source to enter content. Edit Content will take you to the Rich Text Editor, Edit Source gives you just that. EDIT CONTENT Anything that is highlighted blue is editable through edit content. Just click on the text and you are away. A word of warning - you can copy and paste directly from word, but this tends to go badly. The special word characters tend to be rendered badly. What we normally do is paste into notepad and then select and copy again into the editor. You lose all your formatting, but at least you lose all the bogus formatting too! EDIT SOURCE If you are more comfortable just editing the source code, then go for it. Look for the  and  tags, these denote your content blocks. Please don't view source in your browser, make changes and then copy into edit source - you will flatten all the includes, which will make it hard to apply site wide changes. TEMPLATES We have loaded two templates for starters. 1- plain-2column.txt - The FAQ page template 2- Plain Style - A very basic template complete with Latin holder text - see - http://koha2.edit.katipo.co.nz/legal-notices.html Shaun if you look at the source of the template files, you will see that they are a collection of Server Side Include calls. Bob has broken your template up into separate include files which can be found in /includes/structure/ The style sheets are /includes/css/ The homepage has been uploaded as a straight html file. MAKING A NEW PAGE - USING A TEMPLATE AND AUTO NAVIGATION So how to make a new page, in the file manager screen, enter a file name into the new file field (don't worry about a file extension). This will take you to a new page. Here you can enter the Page title (used for breadcrumbs and site navigation), description, keywords etc. I will do a session on the Page Reviews and Public Notifys on irc sometime. Just ignore these for the moment. The Auto Navigation Settings give you some control over how the page appears in the LHS nav. If the page title is really long you can give it a short name. The priority is used to change the order of the links in the side nav. The default is alphabetical. Changing the priority of a page to 1 will take it to the top of the LHS nav. If there are 2 pages with priority 1, then the order of the two pages is decided alphabetically. Let me know if you have any problems with the autonav. It has a couple of bugs in it that show their ugly head from time to time and there is a work around for these. The normally only show their head when a site is live. UPDATING THE LIVE SITE/TRIGGERING/NOTIFYING At the moment we have not connected this up to a live site. When we get a chance we will set up a test site for the edit site to trigger to. Till then, please don't worry about triggering/notifing pages. Triggering is a priveledge and at the moment you should all get a Notify button. This will send a message to me notifing me that you wish to trigger a page. MOVING FORWARD I will take a copy of this page and put it up on www.russandsarah.gen.nz/kohawebredev/ And finally a big pat on the back to Shaun, I think the site is looking good, and now we have a sorted out the CMS question, we need some content and then we are ready to go. So content writers - how are you all getting on?? I have probably missed some stuff in this email. Any questions about kea please email me. I'll try to be on IRC as much as possible, but email is the best way to get my attention. Cheers -- Russel Garlick Operations Manager Katipo Communications Ph: +64 4 934 1285 Fax: +64 4 934 1286 Mob: +64 27 537 1377 Skype: russelgarlick Web http://www.katipo.co.nz

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