Re: [Koha] KohaCon12 - Overnight train London to Edinburgh
Bob Birchall b...@calyx.net.au Scotrail have a very small number of Caledonian Sleeper tickets remaining in their Bargain Berths category for the nights of Sunday 3 and Monday 4 June: http://www.travelpass.buytickets.scotrail.co.uk/BargainBerths/Default.aspx This is an inexpensive way of travelling from London to Edinburgh overnight and arriving reasonably refreshed. Thanks Bob. I've collected this and other London-Edinburgh train tips at http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/KohaCon12_Summary#Travel_Tips - please add any more tips as you find them. Oh and to confirm: there was insufficient interest and manpower for the suggested Road Trip, so that won't happen. (If there's a sudden outcry now, we maybe could organise one for after the hackfest, but no promises.) The key time-sensitive news is that the East Coast (fast daytime trains) advance booking date has just today extended to cover the whole of kohacon12: Tickets are now available for travel up to and including Friday 15 June 2012. If you have more travel questions, please post them here, on the list, on the web or anywhere that the co-op might see them... COMING ATTRACTIONS... Call for papers will appear later today, after I squash some bugs. Call for registrations expected to appear early next week. I expect it will be mentioned in IRC first, then on mailing lists, then on the web. More specific times will be posted as they become known. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/ ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
[Koha] Koha patron import
Can anyone send me a copy a patron import file for me to try. I have run out of options. I recently installed Koha 3.06.04 Live DVD and I am getting errors the surname, borrowernumber, branchcode and categorycode. I do not know what I am doing wrong. I installed the Koha GSDL and I get the same error. I enter the some of sample data from the GSDL version into the LIVE DVD and I still get the same error. -- Zuulu Cooper Founder Executive Director Libraries for Liberia Foundation 5919 Dakar Road West Suite 100 Westerville, OH 43081 614 270 3464 Skype: Shaka_zu00 website : http://librariesforliberiafoundation.com email: i...@librariesforliberiafoundation.com *“Cause change and lead, accept change and survive, resist change and die.” * Ray Noorda - 1924-2006, technology pioneer, Novell Corporation CEO. ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
[Koha] Branch Specific System Preferences
Recently the need has arisen locally to run the self-checkout (sco) under multiple user accounts to accommodate multiple branches using the sco module. To the best of my understanding this is not currently possible due to the way in which the user for the sco module is defined using a system preference. While there may be a number of ways to accomplish this, it seems that it may be desirable to have a category of branch specific system preferences. This would be an attempt to group system preferences into one of two general categories of global or branch. Before launching out into writing such a feature, I thought I'd run it by both lists to see if a) I'm way off base, b) if such a feature is desirable, and c) if I'm off on an insanely hard project. Kind Regards, Chris ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] Branch Specific System Preferences
Chris, I've been meaning to write a Contextual Preferences Engine for Koha for a while now, to solve the problems we have with the Circ Matrix, as well as with global sysprefs that should really be more configurable. The idea is that it will be a DB table with 5 main columns: Branch, Patron Category, Item Type, Key and Value. Any of the first 3 can be a specific value or default. If a contextual preference doesn't make sense to factor in one of the 3 values, it'll be ignored. This, along with a rewritten editor and rules tester tool, would solve a bunch of our customizability problems in one go, without necessarily introducing too much complexity for users (provided we make a good interface). I hope to have a patch for this started after 3.8 releases (and all our DB revs are stable for a while). Any help would be welcomed. -Ian 2012/3/22 Chris Nighswonger cnighswon...@foundations.edu Recently the need has arisen locally to run the self-checkout (sco) under multiple user accounts to accommodate multiple branches using the sco module. To the best of my understanding this is not currently possible due to the way in which the user for the sco module is defined using a system preference. While there may be a number of ways to accomplish this, it seems that it may be desirable to have a category of branch specific system preferences. This would be an attempt to group system preferences into one of two general categories of global or branch. Before launching out into writing such a feature, I thought I'd run it by both lists to see if a) I'm way off base, b) if such a feature is desirable, and c) if I'm off on an insanely hard project. Kind Regards, Chris ___ Koha-devel mailing list koha-de...@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Branch Specific System Preferences
Le 22/03/2012 18:18, Chris Nighswonger a écrit :
Recently the need has arisen locally to run the self-checkout (sco) under
multiple user accounts to accommodate multiple branches using the sco
module.
Hi chris,
I had the idea of just adding a branchcode column to the
systempreferences and let the library define systempreferences for
(default behaviour) or specified branch
In C4-context(preference)-{anysyspref}, we could just do:
SELECT * FROM systempreference WHERE variable=anysyspref AND
branchcode=userbranchcode;
if no result
SELECT * FROM systempreference WHERE variable=anysyspref AND
branchcode=;
Thus, any syspref could be not systemwide, but librarywide.
That could be very nice to have, for example, the default library
network logo if you're not logged in in OPAC, then your own library logo
once you're logged in.
Or css, or any syspref.
For a few sysprefs that would be totally irrelevant to have local
sysprefs (like MARC flavour or IndependantBRanches), but that's so
obvious that I don't think we even should care in the code, just warn in
the doc.
--
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Re: [Koha] KohaCon train to Edinburgh
Hi Bob MJ, I followed the advice of the Man in Seat 61 http://www.seat61.com/UK-train-travel.htm and booked an advance day ticket at 52% discount. Again, you need to get in quick! Dianna Roberts Dianna M Roberts Manager Information Centre Opus International Consultants Ltd Email dianna.robe...@opus.co.nz Tel +64 4 471 7250, Fax +64 4 473 1075 http://www.opus.co.nz Level 6, Majestic Centre, 100 Willis Street PO Box 12004, Wellington -- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:47:09 +1100 From: Bob Birchall b...@calyx.net.au To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] KohaCon12 - Overnight train London to Edinburgh Message-ID: 4f6a768d.3080...@calyx.net.au Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Scotrail have a very small number of Caledonian Sleeper tickets remaining in their Bargain Berths category for the nights of Sunday 3 and Monday 4 June: http://www.travelpass.buytickets.scotrail.co.uk/BargainBerths/Default.aspx This is an inexpensive way of travelling from London to Edinburgh overnight and arriving reasonably refreshed. But be VERY quick! Good luck. Bob -- Bob Birchall Director Calyx Group Pty Limited Mob: 0414 796 988 Email: b...@calyx.net.au Web: www.calyx.net.au Participating in the Koha Open ILS project: http://koha-community.org -- ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
[Koha] Troubleshooting Search Issue
First of all, thanks to the community here, it has been an invaluable resource in helping me to install koha, and in getting everything off the ground. My problem exists in using the general search feature. I have no problem searching through the cataloging functions. Zebra seems to be completely fine working there, as it can do the Z39.50 searches, as well as search through my uploaded MARC files. The problem is, when I keyword or title search, or even barcode search through the main Search function (url ending in search.pl), I continually get No Results Found. The items exist when I pull them up manually by barcode for instance, as in the checkin/checkout sections, or when I view the items attached to a MARC entry. Obviously my problem isn't specific enough for anyone to give a specific answer. I'm wondering if given my abilities to search through the Catalog functions, if anyone might be able to tell me where to begin searching out the solution to this problem. I guess I don't know enough about how search.pl works, to start troubleshooting. Specifically, I'm wondering if there are error logs that I might be able to search through. Zebra? MySQL? Apache? (Apache just shows deprecated memcache errors, but no errors regarding searches specifically). Thank you!! ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Troubleshooting Search Issue
Dear Cody, Well, I'm not an expert, but this does sound like the same Zebra indexing issue we have been struggling with. When you search in the Catalogue, do you get No results found, but directly under that see the items listed under: Biblios in reservoir. If you run the same search in the OPAC, it says no results. If that is what you get, see these FAQ: FAQ title: My Zebra Indexing won't work! How do I fix it? (AKA: I search for stuff and nothing comes up! Help!) http://koha-community.org/faq/zebra-indexing-wont-work-fix-it-aka-search-stuff-up-help/ See also: FAQ title: I have added rebuild_zebra.pl -b -a -z in crontab, however, new entries are not indexed and cannot be found. I have to reindex everything each time with rebuild_zebra.pl -b -a -r. What's wrong? http://koha-community.org/faq/added-rebuild_zebra-pl-b-a-z-crontab-however-entries-indexed-found-reindex-time-rebuild_zebra-pl-b-a-r-whats-wrong/ That is our problem, we have to rebuild the index after any new records are added. I can find those records by inserting recent biblionumbers into a search result URL, but the records cannot be found by a keyword or title search until we rebuild Zebra. We had to reinstall from scratch after our server died, and have had this problem ever since. I wonder how many others are still struggling with this... Hope that helps. Pam Bidwell, Lecturer Library/Information Studies School of Education The University of the South Pacific Laucala Campus, Suva, FIJI Tel. (679) 323 2829 Fax: (679) 323 1528 Email: pamela.bidw...@usp.ac.fj L/IS program website: www.usp.ac.fj/library_studies PacLibEd discussion forum: http://staff.usp.ac.fj/mailman/listinfo/paclibed -Original Message- From: koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Cody Sent: Friday, 23 March 2012 11:53 AM To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] Troubleshooting Search Issue First of all, thanks to the community here, it has been an invaluable resource in helping me to install koha, and in getting everything off the ground. My problem exists in using the general search feature. I have no problem searching through the cataloging functions. Zebra seems to be completely fine working there, as it can do the Z39.50 searches, as well as search through my uploaded MARC files. The problem is, when I keyword or title search, or even barcode search through the main Search function (url ending in search.pl), I continually get No Results Found. The items exist when I pull them up manually by barcode for instance, as in the checkin/checkout sections, or when I view the items attached to a MARC entry. Obviously my problem isn't specific enough for anyone to give a specific answer. I'm wondering if given my abilities to search through the Catalog functions, if anyone might be able to tell me where to begin searching out the solution to this problem. I guess I don't know enough about how search.pl works, to start troubleshooting. Specifically, I'm wondering if there are error logs that I might be able to search through. Zebra? MySQL? Apache? (Apache just shows deprecated memcache errors, but no errors regarding searches specifically). Thank you!! ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
