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Not sure how to contribute, but I thought I'd share.
by Collins, Jeremy 06 Aug '03

06 Aug '03

I've never contributed code to an Open Source project before so if I'm doing it all wrong I'm sorry. I work for an adult learning center (state funded basic education for adults) with a small library. We just downloaded and installed Koha and it looks great. The z3950 search tool didn't function quite as we expected. We were hoping to be able to use a barcode scanner to read the barcode and start the search, but the form only takes ISBN and the barcode is EAN (which has 8 of the ISBN digits encoded in it). We modified '/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/acqui.simple/marcimport.pl ' so that if the ISBN query was 13 digits instead of 9, then convert the 13 digit EAN to a 9 digit ISBN before its submitted to the queue. It seems to be working, but we aren't using any other part of the search so I'm not sure how well the patch works. I'm attaching a diff of the changes in case those in charge decide they would like them or if anyone else on the list can use them. Again if this isn't the right place, or more information is needed please let me know. Thanks for such a great, open source software package. Jeremy Collins collins_jeremy(a)rsccd.org Continuing Education Orange Center Santiago Canyon College Rancho Santiago Community College District <<koha_EAN_to_ISBN.diff>>

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Returns
by Owen Leonard 05 Aug '03

05 Aug '03

Working on the returns template I noticed that as you're returning books, the page is reloaded with new hidden form fields with details about each book returned in that 'session.' What's the purpose of that? Could it be used to create a continuous list of returns displayed onscreen? -- Owen ---- Nelsonville Public Library Koha 2.0.0-pre2-R2

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Returns messages
by Owen Leonard 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

In the template for returns.pl, there's a loop to display error messages: <TMPL_LOOP Name="errmsgloop"> <font color='red' size='+2'> <TMPL_IF Name="badbarcode"> No Item with barcode: <TMPL_VAR Name="msg"> </TMPL_IF> ...etc. But there doesn't seem to be a way to hide it when the 'errmsgloop' loop is empty. Adding this: <TMPL_IF NAME="errmsgloop"></TMPL_IF> around the loop doesn't hide it like I thought it would. Is there a way to achieve this? -- Owen ---- Nelsonville Public Library Koha 2.0.0-pre2-R2

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Returns: trim whitespace
by Owen Leonard 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

I'm thinking that returns.pl should trim whitespace from entered barcodes. Does anyone see a problem with that? -- Owen ---- Nelsonville Public Library Koha 2.0.0-pre2-R2

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koha 2.0pre meetings
by MJ Ray 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

A very small koha prerelease meeting took place Wednesday at 1900 UTC on irc.katipo.co.nz #koha We took a quick look at this week's four new bugs: http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=553 is a report about the known problems with koha's HTML quality. It sparked a discussion about what we should be aiming for, with some background on why we're where we are and where people want to get to. There are some people creating "clean" templates, but they won't work for everyone yet. http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=554 needs a MARC person and we didn't have any alive at the time. http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=555 is a template bug, but needs an HTML::Template coder to comment. http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=556 looks like an uncaught return condition to me, but what do I know? If you have a bugzilla account and can help with any of these, please add to them in the normal way. If you can help, but have no account, please get one! ;-) Currently, there are just over 50 open bugs needing resolutions and 300 fixed bugs needing verification. We had a very short discussion on how long bug reporters should get before verified fixed bugs should be closed. I closed some after 15 days, which was thought to be OK. There was some other small talk, but I don't have the logs around to remind me what was said. If it was important, hopefully someone will post it. The IRC logger is currently dead, as far as I know. I quite like that, even if it does sometimes trip me up. If you can make it at 1900 UTC next Wednesday, please do. I can't promise I'll be there, but anyone can slap bugs.koha.org around and check for interesting bugs to discuss... -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ jabber://slef@jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ Thought: Edwin A Abbott wrote about trouble with Windows in 1884

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RE: Re: installation w\o apache.conf
by samst117+＠pitt.edu 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

precisely how would I do this? "5. Copiez koha.conf dans /etc/ Les autorisations pour ce fichier config doivent être très strictes, dans la mesure où il contient le mot de passe pour la base de données. L'utilisateur Apache doit pouvoir y lire, tout comme n'importe quel utilisateur qui utilise le module de circulation. [Je suggérerais de donner les droits administrateur sur koha.conf à 'www-data. libadmins'. L'utilisateur www-data devrait être celui avec lequel fonctionne votre serveur Apache (n'oubliez pas de modifier la configuration par défaut en conséquence). Qui plus est, le groupe libadmins devrait comprendre tous les utilisateurs de Koha." --- Begin Orginal Message --- From: paul POULAIN <paul.poulain(a)free.fr> To: Seltzer Water <seltzerwater464(a)hotmail.com> CC: pate@eylerfamily.org,koha2010@kohalabs.com,koha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 7/29/2003 5:17:51 PM Seltzer Water wrote: > hi --- how do I set up the etcdir and prefix environment variables? > (since I will not be running this system as root) > with .htaccess file -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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etcdir & environment variables
by samst117+＠pitt.edu 30 Jul '03

30 Jul '03

Three questions: 1.) how does one set up etcdir and environment variables? (since I will not be setting the system up as root)? 2.) How would you describe the location of each of these files/directories (since every system is set up a bit differently, I am having some difficulty establishing analogies between the example and the current system with which I am working --- yet another thing that needs to be patched in the documents [and which I would be happy to fix, after I have this system set up]: ServerName koha.example.com ServerPath /var/www/library DocumentRoot /var/www/library/koha/html Alias /images/ "/var/www/library/koha/html/images/" ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/koha/ "/var/www/library/koha/cgi-bin/" SetEnv PERL5LIB "/var/www/library/modules" ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/koha-error_log 3.) the same as the above question: my directory looks like this: /vservers/ireta/Library/koha-2.0.0pre2/ Yet I don't see an "opac" directory --- is this one of the places where the documentation is lagging behind? <VirtualHost 111.222.333.1> ServerName opac.example.com ServerPath /var/www/library DocumentRoot /var/www/library/opac/html Alias /images/ "/var/www/library/opac/html/images/" ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/opac/ "/var/www/library/opac/cgi-bin/" SetEnv PERL5LIB "/var/www/library/modules" ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/opac-error_log # <Directory "/var/www/library/opac/html"> AllowOverride None Options +Includes -FollowSymLinks -Indexes AddHandler server-parsed .html </Directory> </VirtualHost> Thanks!

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Re: installation w\o apache.conf
by Pat Eyler 30 Jul '03

30 Jul '03

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Seltzer Water wrote: > > Hi I am currently a systems librarian intern > Hi there, I'm answering this here on a couple of lists (please excuse the cross posting), in the hopes that we can generate some additional answers/questions/interest/whatever. > who has a keen and long-standing interest in programming and am > > currently doing a library internship at IRETA, the northeast addiction > > treatment and training center in Pittsburgh, PA. I am trying to install > > koha for them on a Linux server - www.hostmysite.com. Unfortunately, > > however, the ISP is not going to let me have access to the httpd.conf, > > so I am kind of stuck ... Could you think of any rhetorical strategies > which I could use to get them to give me access to this data? Or would > this present too great a security breach? > Perhaps they will let you keep your own conf file which can be read into theirs with the Apache Include directive. Another option might be for you to provide a file to them to review and manually include in the httpd.conf A final option might be to let you run a separate apache process on other ports (say 6080 and 6088) and allow you to manage the httpd.conf for that. If they're being this concerned about apache, will they give you the MySQL access you need? > > > Plus, I had another question about the documentation (which I would > > like to do my part to improve): > > > > "if you want to install the Koha configuration file somwhere other than > /etc (for non-root installations [such as my own - SAM], you should set > > etcdir and prefix environment variables) ---" > > Where do I set etcdir and where do I prefix the environment variables? I think this is a case where the doc lags behind the release (one of the reasons we're doing a pre-release). a recent copy of the doc says: To install Koha without access to superuser/root/sysadmin level privileges, ask your system administrator to arrange for a user called opac and then set the user in the OPAC virtual host. This will permit all of the cgi scripts to be executed as 'user' opac. The Virtualhost then may suexec to the user installing Koha, and koha.conf can then be written by that user, avoiding the need for the chown command, which is restricted to a superuser. It is then extremely important to set PERL5LIB environment variable to point at the libraries you have installed: SetEnv PERL5LIB /some/path/to/modules and can be found here: http://www.kohalabs.com/kohadoc/book1.html > > Are there any ways around having to restart Apache and have access to it? unfortunately, there aren't any good ones that I know of. -pate > > > ________________________________________________________________________________ > The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* >

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Reports engine
by Pierre Cauchois 30 Jul '03

30 Jul '03

Hi everybody, I've been thinking of coding a reports engine for a few days, but i'm sure i'm not the only one to have ideas about that, so i'd like to know what you think about it, and if something has already been done. i see it as a user-friendly interface, which would be used to edit the configuration files of the rssKoha package. I think using rssKoha is a good point because it let us format the reports the way we want, using a XSLT stylesheet. So, if you"re interested or if you have already work on something like that, i'd be glad to hear from you. /pierre

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Re: [Koha-devel] Branches and opac reserve template
by Owen Leonard 30 Jul '03

30 Jul '03

> > > > > the 1st solution MUST be used in every place > where you can have a > > default value > > You can do the second method, with a default > value. Its just a little tricky > heres a snippet > > tr valign="top"> > <td>Language:</td> > <td> <Select name="language"> > <TMPL_LOOP NAME="languages"> > <option value="<TMPL_VAR NAME="language">" > <TMPL_IF > NAME="selected">Selected</TMPL_IF>><TMPL_VAR > NAME="language"></option> > </TMPL_LOOP> > </select> > </td> > </tr> > > and for one element of your languages array, it > will have selected set, eg > > $languages->[3]->{'selected'}=1 > > Hope this helps Sounds good to me! Not only does it move that HTML into the template where it belongs, it gives template authors the option of treating that list as something other than a drop-down menu (like radio buttons, for instance). I hope this method can become the preferred one. -- Owen

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