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datelastborrowed field in table items
by Pierre Cauchois 18 Jul '03

18 Jul '03

Konnichiwa minasan, it seems that the field datelastborrowed in the table items is not used, although it could be useful, especially for reports. Is there an equivalent field somewhere else which is used? if not, why not use it? The fix would involve the circulation.pl script and the C4::Circulation::Circ2 module, particularly the issuebook subroutine. As I'm leaving for a place with no network nor computers in a few hours, I probably won't be able to see your answers, so please fix it if you think it's useful. BTW, about the report engine, i made something that would work if we could use this field for the "monitoring the collection" section of Nicolas Morin's draft. It should be released in a few hours before i leave the office, I guess (hope) pate will inform you about the location of the scripts and templates, as i still don't know where to upload them. See you next month, /pierre

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he panui Koha 17 July 2003
by Pat Eyler 16 Jul '03

16 Jul '03

Hello everyone, it seems like it's about time for another of my infrequent newsletters. Quite a few things have taken place recently, and I want to make sure everyone is 'in the loop'. Most importantly, we're coming very close to a 2.0.0 release. The bug counts are down: 'must fix' 6 'should fix' 27 'might fix' 3 While a couple of new bugs get reported a week, the developers are still making progress. Part of our approach to 2.0.0 includes a beta testing cycle. That's already begun, and we're currently on release 2.0.0pre2. Paul is away for a couple of weeks, but I'm anticipating that he'll make another 2.0.0pre release shortly after his return. In other development news, we have two new features that are being held out of the main distribution while 2.0.0 stabilizes, rssKoha and ldapKoha. These are being distributed as separate packages so that people can see them and start working with them. At some point after the official 2.0.0 release, they will be merged into the main distribution. rssKoha is a system that allows a Koha system to syndicate RSS feeds based on data from the system. This will allow a library to begin publishing data to users through a different path than the OPAC. Good examples might be a list of the most recently acquired DVDs, or a list of the most requested/reserved mystery novels. ldapKoha allows a Koha system to authenticate users from an existing LDAP server. This feature should be particularly interesting to corporate or academic libraries. This feature was developed by the students at ESIEE (http://www.esiee.fr) More information about these (and other news about Koha), please take a look at http://www.kohalabs.com/news/ -- translations of stories are currently being provided in English, French, and German (Spanish should follow soon). If you're interested in helping translate or write stories about Koha, please email news(a)kohalabs.com with your contact information and interests. The final bits of news involves two more libraries picking up Koha! The Ecole des mines de Paris (I've been told that they're comparable to MIT in the US) has decided to begin working with Koha. The doxulting company (a Library systems consulting firm) and Paul Poulain will be working with them during this process. The University of Buffalo is going to start using Koha in some of its Library Information Systems courses. The students will be installing, testing, and reviewing Koha at first. Hopefully we'll see more involvement as the process moves forward. thanks, -pate Pat Eyler Kaitiaki/manager migrant Linux sys admin the Koha project ruby, shell, and perl geek http://www.koha.org http://pate.eylerfamily.org

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problem with koha 123 more explain
by JAVIER RICARDO MEJIA C. 15 Jul '03

15 Jul '03

Hi everybody how are you.... I really need your help, i have i big problem and i dont kwon that can i do! I have koha 123 for windows!!!!! I made a modifys in koha 123 for the system accept my own card numbers and work fine. I had replace my hard disk, and i copied the all folder koha123 of the USR folder in windows. When i reaplace my hd i installed koha123 and i replaced the folder with the copied before, and when i log in the koha and i try create a new memmber the system not accept my own cardnumers if i made the system accept my own cardnumbers what happend? why? if we correct the mistake before and the system was worked fine? and i replace the all system with the old that i have copied. Please i dont kown what can i do? and i think that you can help me.... please Thanks Javier

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problem with koha 123
by JAVIER RICARDO MEJIA C. 15 Jul '03

15 Jul '03

Hi everybody how are you.... I really need your help, i have i big problem and i dont kwon that can i do! I made a modifys in koha 123 for the system accept my own card numbers and work fine. I had replace my hard disk, and i copied the all folder koha123 of the USR folder in windows. When i reaplace my hd i installed koha123 and i replaced the folder with the copied before, and when i log in the koha and i try create a new memmber the system not accept my own cardnumers if i made the system accept my own cardnumbers what happend? why? if we correct the mistake before and the system was worked fine? and i replace the all system with the old that i have copied. Please i dont kown what can i do? and i think that you can help me.... please Thanks Javier

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Re: [Koha-devel] Reports engine
by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com 15 Jul '03

15 Jul '03

make it internal to Koha Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC > Subj: Re: [Koha-devel] Reports engine > Date: 7/15/2003 8:23:47 AM US Mountain Standard Time > From: <A HREF="mailto:trevor.jenkins@suneidesis.com">trevor.jenkins(a)suneidesis.com</A> > To: <A HREF="mailto:koha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net">koha-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net</A> > Sent from the Internet > > > > On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Pierre Cauchois <cauchoip(a)esiee.fr> wrote: > > >Thanks for your answers. I've looked to everything you suggested, but > >many of the solutions were in Java, Pascal, or even worse, proprietary > >software. > > The use of Java isn't so bad. But I was concerned to see the > Kylix/Delphi/Pascal suggestion. > > >... It can be a good example for a front-end, but i think that > >it's for the best if the engine is directly integrated in Koha, > > There are several open source report writers. Incoprorating theminto Koha > might prove to be a better solution. Here's some URLs form my bookmarks. > > http://datavision.sourceforge.net/ Uses Ruby > http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/timc/gurgle/ Uses C/C++ > http://agata.codigolivre.org.br/ Uses PHP/Tk > > >therefore to use a backend in Perl, and a frontend with templates, with > >export possibilities (rss, csv, etc). > > A search of cpan.org found me several Perl-specific report writer modules > that already have hooks into Perl DBI. Using one of those would surely be > better than starting from scratch. Then effort could be put into > providing a sensible web interface. > > Regards, Trevor > > <><Re: deemed! > >

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problem with koha 123
by JAVIER RICARDO MEJIA C. 15 Jul '03

15 Jul '03

Hi everybody how are you.... I really need your help, i have i big problem and i dont kwon that can i do! I made a modifys in koha 123 for the system accept my own card numbers and work fine. I had replace my hard disk, and i copied the all folder koha123 of the USR folder in windows. When i reaplace my hd i installed koha123 and i replaced the folder with the copied before, and when i log in the koha and i try create a new memmber the system not accept my own cardnumers if i made the system accept my own cardnumbers what happend? why? if we correct the mistake before and the system was worked fine? and i replace the all system with the old that i have copied. Please i dont kown what can i do? and i think that you can help me.... please Thanks Javier

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away & demo mode
by paul POULAIN 14 Jul '03

14 Jul '03

Hi all, 3 news : * I'm away from tomorrow until july, 28. I may read mails sometimes, but won't answer probably. (note that tomorrow i'll do a demo in dombes Abbey for a library that plans to install Koha, and I'll do the install/teaching job) * i just commited a little patch to create a "demo mode" for Koha : if you set "demo=1" in /etc/koha.conf, Koha is in "demo mode". In this mode, user can connect with "demo/demo", even if this user is not in members table. He can do everything, except that any modif/add/delete done in systempref or marc structure is NOT saved in the DB. This avoid demo user breaking the config. Note that if you don't change your /etc/koha.conf, nothing is changed in Koha. * http://demo.koha-fr.org is now in 2.0.0pre2 It's in french UNIMARC with 1000 biblios from Dombes Abbey. (As it's in demo mode, you can't switch the site to english) -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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2.0.0pre2 with z3950 support
by Lars Anderson 14 Jul '03

14 Jul '03

Hi, I'm trying to install Koha-2.0.0pre2 with z3950 support. I'm installing on a standard Redhat 9 linux box. I have installed Net-Z3950-0.35 by hand as suggested by the installer, however it keeps complaining that I do not have it installed? Any suggestions? Best wishes Lars -- Lars Anderson mailto:lsa@business.auc.dk Department of Business Studies http://www.business.auc.dk/~lsa/ Aalborg University Voice: +45 96358225, Fax: +45 98153505 Denmark Office: Fib4-117

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Problems with Z3950 search
by Lars Anderson 14 Jul '03

14 Jul '03

Hi, I got the Z39.50 search function to work, but only after changing the site name "Library of Congress" for the default Z39.50 server to something with no spaces in it! Now when I do a search I get the following in the log: starting loop starting loop starting loop TESTLIB ==> UNIMARC at /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue line 156. TESTLIB ==> answered : 1 found at /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue line 170. Processing isbn="0201896834" at TESTLIB z3950.loc.gov:7090 voyager UNIMARC (1 forks) z3950.loc.gov:7090 done. However, search.pl returns with a "Nothing found" page, and nothing is filled in in the MARC biblio page. I'm using Galeon-1.2.7. I tried with several versions of Internet Explorer but they do not seem to like the javascript. Any suggestions? Best wishes, Lars -- Lars Anderson mailto:lsa@business.auc.dk Department of Business Studies http://www.business.auc.dk/~lsa/ Aalborg University Voice: +45 96358225, Fax: +45 98153505 Denmark Office: Fib4-117

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koha help request (again! sorry!)
by Allyson Bright 13 Jul '03

13 Jul '03

Hi everyone- Thanks so much again for your great help last time with my date formatting problem. I've run into another snag, however, and I was hoping you might be able to help me out one more time. I'm running Koha 2.0.0pre2 on Microsoft Windows 2000. My problem is coming when I go from the detailed entry page for a catalog item (moredetail.pl) to try to edit the information for a group. I get the group information edit screen (modbibitem.pl), which loads fine except the graphic on the submit button does not load, I just get that "x" image that shows up when an image isn't found. When I click on it, I get the following message: Server error! The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Error message: Premature end of script headers: updatebibitem.pl If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster. Error 500 intranet 07/13/03 20:30:31 Apache/2.0.45 (Win32) I'm assuming this is a problem with something in the updatebibitem.pl code file. But again, I have very little/almost no knowledge of Perl and programming it, so I have no idea how to fix it. If someone could let me know how to fix this problem so that I can indeed update group item information, I would so greatly appreciate it! Thank you so much again!!! -Allyson Bright

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