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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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who is james mason ?
by Paul POULAIN 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

did I miss something or james mason is a new developper ? I also suspect it's a katipo guy ;-) -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Framework authorities setup in MARC21-Problem
by Desarrollo Koha 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Hello: I am involved in a project to migrate a self made ILS system to koha in the "Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Sevilla (SPAIN)" and we have some "configuration issues" :-) We have set up the opac interface for searching at the library, but we still have the librarian on the old application (with weekly dumps --> restores into Koha).We have a reasonable method to export data fron the actual system and import into koha via the bulkmarcimport.pl script. The problem we have is with the setup of the authorities on the librarian interface. I have read "all/most of " the docs we have, but I do not understand how it works and how to configure the framework. We need a system to limit authors / subjects / publishers to a predefined list of values but the "authorised values" is not enogh. If somebody could point me to a "howto" or some other document y have not found yet, it will be very appreciated. Thank you for your help. Pablo Villanueva

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Borrower photograph in circulation panel
by Partha Mukhopadhyay 23 Aug '05

23 Aug '05

Dear Friends, I posted one message with wrong subject. Here it follows..... > > Hello Friends, > > Here is a request to koha developers. > > Is it possible to add a field in the memeber record > where we can add picture of the memeber (in gif, jpg or png > format)? If yes, can it be displayed on ..... 1. Circulation panel; > 2. User login page; and 3. Member data updation page? > > This facility in koha will help better circulation management. Is > GD Graphics Library is required for incorporation of such facility? > > Partha Mukhopadhyay > 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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New document on kohadocs
by Stephen Hedges 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

A new document is available on http://www.kohadocs.org -- "MARC Holdings, Koha, and Migration" by Thomas Dukleth. Look for it in section 2.2, "Migration." -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges(a)skemotah.com

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Serials management in KOHA
by Partha Mukhopadhyay 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

Dear firends Could anyone of you please expalin the N/[X,Y] formula for managing issues of serials? Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay -- 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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Re: Borrower photograph in circulation panel
by Partha Mukhopadhyay 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

Thanks Waylon In fact the idea came from moodle (an open source learning mamagement software). There we can upload students picture from scanned file available in local system in gif/jpg/png. As we know library memebership is not tranferable, a picture of borrower in the circulation panel will ensure proper use of lending facility.Hope developers will agree with my view. Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay Lecturer, Vidyasagar University ----- Original Message ----- From: "Waylon Robertson" <waylon(a)robertson.net.nz> To: "Partha Mukhopadhyay" <psm_vu(a)india.com>, koha-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Borrower photograph in circulation panel Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 18:39:37 +1200 > > Ah, this is an interesting idea. ill look into this. Very interesting. > Waylon > At 04:52 p.m. 21/08/2005, Partha Mukhopadhyay wrote: > > > Dear Friends, > > > > I posted one message with wrong subject. Here it follows..... > > > > > > Hello Friends, > > > > > > Here is a request to koha developers. > > > > > > Is it possible to add a field in the memeber record > > > where we can add picture of the memeber (in gif, jpg or png > > > format)? If yes, can it be displayed on ..... > > 1. Circulation panel; > > > 2. User login page; and > > 3. Member data updation page? > > > > > > This facility in koha will help better circulation management. Is > > > GD Graphics Library is required for incorporation of such facility? > > > > > > Partha Mukhopadhyay > > > 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! > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > > _______________________________________________ > > Koha-devel mailing list > > Koha-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/koha-devel > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > > Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.13/78 - Release Date: 19/08/2005 > > > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.13/78 - Release Date: 19/08/2005 > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- 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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