[Koha-devel] Cron Jobs

[Nicole Engard]

Thank you for the clarification!

Nicole

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Frederic Demians <frederic at tamil.fr> wrote:
>
>> Where then would this new page with the clouds on it be visible? I see
>> that it generates files in the template folder - does this mean it's up to
>> the librarians to add links?
>
> As you may have noted, this script does a similar job as
> build_browser_and_cloud.pl. The difference is that its output is sent in
> files rather than in a table directly used in OPAC The other difference is
> that it is configurable and can deal with any Zebra index. It means that you
> can produce clouds for authors, collective author, all kind of subjects,
> classifications, etc. And since it works on zebra indexes, it is quick, even
> on large DBs.
>
> Tags clouds are sent to files. It's up to library webmaster to deal with
> those files in order to include them in OPACMainUserBlock, or include them
> into their library CMS. I see libraries sending those file into a Samba
> shared folder where webmaster take them, eventually clean them a little bit
> before integrating them into navigation widgets or pages.
>
>
>> Also, how often would you recommend running this script? Once a day?
>> Multiple times in one day?
>
> I'm not even sure it's a cron script... On a large catalog, top subjects,
> top authors don't change much. It could be a monthly periodicity. It will be
> another story when this script will be able to output top keywords on a
> period of acquisition, for example top authors on last month...
>
> Thanks for you documentation job.
> --
> Frédéric
>