Hi

Isn't the receipt printing function already in Koha? (I know NPL has been using receipt printers for several months.)

Sure was - if it's not now then whip in a bug report :-)

Nice site, BTW. Nelsonville keeps a list of projects like this that are made available to a computer programming class at the local university. The students sometimes pick some of the projects for class projects, which is a good way to get a little Koha work done for "free."

That's a great idea - we put them on a brochure we got printed, and we now need to get it redone, because they've all been done pretty much BTW, I couldn't see the proposed features - got a site error.... Cheers Rachel

Stephen

Emiliano Marmonti said:

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Hi all

At Argentina's UNLP Physics Library we upload "a vision" of the functionality that we propose to be included in 2.4 roadmap. It doesn't intend to be the formal 2.4 roadmap but perhaps could help to see what are we working before the 20 Sep irc meeting. The almost finished functionality includes some screenshots, the idea is to test if is there international interest for each functionality to be included inside an official release (2.4, 2.6 or any we all agree), and diferentiate our local (and only local) requirements. I think we are not in conditions actually to write a formal roadmap or to be a release manager, our plans consists in finish this scheme of added functionality and start testing (Koha 2.X + this features) in a production environment (after all of this we'll take the role of bug reporters/correctors). Please let me know what do you think about the features, what other ideas must we take in account, which things are unclear, what kind of things are very specific and not general, which things reflects a behaviour that must be parametrized, and so on. This "proposal" is not closed at all, one more time we request for Paul help in discovering this kind of things.

The URL is located in

http://biblio.fisica.unlp.edu.ar/sitio/librarian/kohapf/

Regards and TIA

Emiliano Marmonti Antorchas-UNLP Physics Proyect

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Hi, Rachel - Rachel Hamilton-Williams said:

2/. Circulation - use titles as well as numbers? So for libraries that doen't really make a lot of use out of numbers (ie don't have barcodes and barcode readers) could the input screen that wants the barcode accept a title as well/instead? Wouldn't work on a bigger library where there is more than one copy of a book I assume, but would be useful for small ones possibly?

I would think the library would have to be _very_ small. There are lots of books with the same title but different authors. (I guess there are only so many good titles out there, or maybe authors just don't have a lot of imagination?) I don't think I've ever seen a library that didn't use some sort of control number to eliminate this problem. Stephen

1/. Auto Complete for Subjects So they are wondering wether they could start typing in a subject and ones that match would come up in the list...

There is a method of refreshing the browser's display with information on the server without refreshing the whole page. It uses javascript to instantly send text as you type to a script on the server side. This script returns an include file that is added to the page via the DOM (Document Object Model). See an explanation of one such system here: http://blog4.bitflux.ch/wiki/LiveSearch And an example in the right-hand search box here: http://blog.bitflux.ch/ It's interesting--it does use Javascript, which obviously some folks think is evil. I would classify this as non-evil javascript because it can degrade gracefully for other users--they can use the example search form just fine without JS, they just don't get the instant matching. I doubt this would work well with a database that was very large, though--imagine you're trying to pull of subjects from your library database and the 'livesearch' function starts by pulling everything starting with 'd'. It'd probably be too slow to be usable. -- Owen