[Koha] Solr and enhanced searching (WAS: Re: Koha Digest, Vol 80, Issue 40)

[Stacy Pober]

Jared,

Thank you for the explanation.

When I looked at the link you provided:
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8233
I was surprised to see the heading:
"*Bug 8233* -New
search engine layer - introduce solr without breaking anything else"

Isn't the "without breaking anything else" something that is assumed in the
software development process?

There have been times I've wanted to add "without breaking anything else"
or something similar to every enhancement and bug fix request going to our
vendor, but I hoped it was something implied in any enhancement request.
 The enhancement that gave our version of Koha phrase searching does indeed
break another very important feature when it's activated. Perhaps this
level of explicitness is the model we need to follow.

This makes me think of an old comedy routine where a man asks a faith
healer to cure his twisted hand.  The preacher says, "Lord, make this one
hand like the other" and the guy gets two twisted hands.  ( *
http://tinyurl.com/79s7jea )*

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On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 2:34 PM,  wrote:

> From: Jared Camins-Esakov 
> To: Stacy Pober 
> Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha Digest, Vol 80, Issue 38
> Message-ID:
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> Stacy,
>
> How is it that no one has added this kind of searching to the community
> > version of Koha?  It's a major omission.
> >
>
> I think it's a matter of funding and interest. A lot of developers[1] would
> love to see better search lexing in Koha[2], but the cost would be rather
> high, as it requires a more-or-less complete rewrite of the searching code
> in order to work, and my impression is that the searching works well enough
> for most people that it just isn't a priority for most organizations
> funding Koha development. That said, I am in complete agreement that not
> having a flexible search lexer in Koha is a serious omission[3].
>
> People are so used to using quote marks and those operators in search
> > strings that they often try to use them in Koha even though they don't
> work
> > as expected. One of the features in an "easy to use" OPAC is that the
> > searching conforms to expected norms that the public knows from other
> > common search interfaces.
> >
>
> I'm astonished that no one in the world has added properly working code
> > that would make the most widely understood phrase searching method
> > (quotation marks) available in community Koha.
> >
>
> Quotation marks for identifying longer strings in searches do work,
> actually, though not quite the way we might like. What we (as librarians)
> call a phrase search is (sorry for the tautology) a search for a phrase
> which comprises one or more words. What Zebra, the search engine the Koha
> uses, considers a phrase search is a search for a phrase consisting of one
> or more words that comprise the entire subfield in which they appear. The
> fallback is something closer to what we might consider a phrase search, but
> the results can sometimes be slightly skewed (fortunately for us, my
> experience has been that for the most part, the skewing is slight enough
> that patrons are able to find what they want). This causes all sorts of
> mind-bending confusion, particularly in the area of subject tracings[4].
>
>
> >  As for the + and - operators, if anyone tries adding that, they have to
> > code it as a two-character string (space+ or space-) to prevent confusion
> > when users are looking for hyphenated words.
> >
>
> Right now, depending on your settings, punctuation may either be ignored
> (in which case "+mice -computer" will return results about computer mice
> only) or considered to be letters (in which case the search will not return
> any results at all). This is an example of what I was talking about above:
> in order for + and - operators to really work, a lexer that can understand
> them would need to be available to Koha.
>
> Is anyone in the Koha-verse working on adding a search mode that
> > uses quotation marks and + - operators?  I mean, aside from the buggy
> > version we have in Liblime's LAK.
> >
>
> There is work on incorporating solr into Koha, which is very promising, and
> will fix some of these problems[5]. Solr-based searching should be
> available in 3.10, I think. A patch[6] is currently undergoing QA to
> integrate BibLibre's work on Solr into Koha, and I don't imagine it will
> take too long for it to be pushed. :)
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Regards,
> Jared
>
> [1] Well, I would love to see better search lexing in Koha, and a few other
> people have agreed with me that it would be a great idea (usually while
> backing away slowly and hoping I don't explain how I think it should work).
> [2] A lexer is the tool that takes the query a user enters and turns it
> into a data structure that tells the search 

[Koha] Koha send mails

[alaa Badri]

Dear  All 
I asked before how i can enable koha to sending overdue  notices email to 
patrons
I hope i get response ASAP

Best Regards,
Alaa BadriSystem and network administrator New Generation International 
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Re: [Koha] Solr and enhanced searching (WAS: Re: Koha Digest, Vol 80, Issue 40)

[Chris Cormack]

On 26 June 2012 19:12, Stacy Pober  wrote:
> Jared,
>
> Thank you for the explanation.
>
> When I looked at the link you provided:
> http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8233
> I was surprised to see the heading:
> "*Bug 8233* 
> -New
> search engine layer - introduce solr without breaking anything else"
>
> Isn't the "without breaking anything else" something that is assumed in the
> software development process?
>
Yes it is, that's what we have unit testing and regression testing
for. You can actually follow the continuous integration testing here
http://jenkins.koha-community.org/ . Here is the master branch
http://jenkins.koha-community.org/job/Koha_master/ (which what will be
the 3.10.0 release). The other active branches are the 'oldstable'
3.6.x branch of which 3.6.6 has just been released. And the 3.8.x
branch, of which 3.8.2 has just been released. This 'bot' jenkins
builds and installs a Koha, and runs over 10,000 tests every time
anything changes, trying to minimise what is unintentionally broken by
any new feature.

What this bug is actually referring to is the fact that Koha has been
able to work with Solr for nearly 2 years now, but that implementation
was a replacement of Zebra. IE removing zebra and adding Solr. This
new implementation (which works very well so far) instead allows the
Library to choose between Zebra or Solr. IE it is Solr added without
removing Zebra support.
What is even better is that it allows us to add any number of
different indexing engines.

A lot of our bugs have tongue and cheek, or ironic names. Some are
just silly fun, this is one of my favourites
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5158.
Sometimes some of us (well mainly me) go a little crazy
http://blog.bigballofwax.co.nz/2010/12/14/what-happens-after-updating-the-status-of-300-bugs/

But like Tom Robbins said "It is a grave and dangerous mistake to take
oneself too seriously"

:)

Chris
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[Koha] Fwd: add 035 tag in MarcView or ISBD

[Hugo Agud]

Dear all

We wish to add the 035 tag into the Marcview, but we can't ...

If we're not wrong we have to modify* opac-MARCdetail.tt file, but it seems
it already have the "tag"configured here*
*
*
*
 
[% FOREACH tab0X IN tab0XX %]
[% tab0X.tag %]
[% FOREACH subfiel IN tab0X.subfield %]

[% subfiel.marc_lib %]
[% subfiel.marc_value %]

[% END %]
[% END %]

We have also checked the koga framework and it is this posisiotn

0 => OPAC Intranet Editor !Collapsed

any suggestion?

thanks a lot!


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Re: [Koha] Koha send mails

[David Nind]

Hi Alaa.

I asked before how i can enable koha to sending overdue  notices email to
> patrons
>

See if this thread in the mailing list archive can help:
http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2012-June/033188.html

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Re: [Koha] Excel to MARC - Marcedit 5.8

[amit bondwal]

HI Sandeep,

I don't know much about it, but may be this can help, Is your excel
sheet have three sheets?  then
delete the two extra empty sheets in that file and save as the file in
text(tab delieted) format.
marc edit support more text(tab delimeted) format.

Then try to convert by marc edit in text delimated in addins.

Regards
Amit Bondwal


On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Stacy Pober [via Koha]
 wrote:
> There's an excellent support list for MARCEDIT called MARCEDIT-L.  Terry
> Reese, the author of the program monitors the list, and he will often offer
> solutions along with some of the other list subscribers.
>
> http://metis3.gmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=MARCEDIT-L
>
> It's also a good way to give input on features you'd like to see or to find
> out whether someone already has solved a particular problem you're having.
>
> Stacy
>
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:18 AM, <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> As marcedit is proprietary software, unfortunately the only person who
>> is likely to be able to help is the marcedit author, unless someone else
>> has seen and solved it before.
>>
>
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Re: [Koha] Excel to MARC - Marcedit 5.8

[Paul]

At 05:44 AM 6/26/2012 -0700, amit bondwal wrote:

HI Sandeep,
I don't know much about it, but may be this can help, Is your excel
sheet have three sheets?  then delete the two extra empty sheets in that 
file and save as the file in text(tab delieted) format.

marc edit support more text(tab delimeted) format.
Then try to convert by marc edit in text delimated in addins.


A couple of years ago we tried to use Office97 (we've never had a more 
recent version) to do just that -- but ended up using 
OpenOffice|LibreOffice to open and save the Excel files as tab-delimited 
.csv files. Excel appeared to have difficulties with UTF8 and special 
characters.


Disclaimer:  Terry Reece has done an apparently marvelous job developing 
MarcEdit; we've never been able to run recent versions as our old Windows 
laptop is more of a museum exhibit than a useful tool.  I would strongly 
suggest joining the list at .


As an aside, has anyone managed to get MarcEdit to function on a Linux 
box?  We have failed miserably.


Best - Paul



Regards
Amit Bondwal


On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Stacy Pober [via Koha]
 wrote:
> There's an excellent support list for MARCEDIT called MARCEDIT-L. Â Terry
> Reese, the author of the program monitors the list, and he will often offer
> solutions along with some of the other list subscribers.
>
> http://metis3.gmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=MARCEDIT-L
>
> It's also a good way to give input on features you'd like to see or to find
> out whether someone already has solved a particular problem you're having.
>
> Stacy
>
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:18 AM, <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> As marcedit is proprietary software, unfortunately the only person who
>> is likely to be able to help is the marcedit author, unless someone else
>> has seen and solved it before.
>>
>
>
>
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[Koha] Upgrade.

[Estel Porras]

Hi All, just a couple questions. We have upgraded to the newest version of  
Koha, and there have been a couple changes that I don't care for. I was 
wondering if I can change them. 1. The first is when I am doing a checkout 
history query it gives me the listing alphabetically by patrons last name. It 
used to be by date, with the most current being at the top [of the listing]. 
This is much more desirable, and much less confusing. Can I get that back to 
the way it was? 

2. When I check out to a patron it used to have the last item checked out at 
the top, now it can be in the middle somewhere. This is confusing if the 
scanner beeps [as happens here sometimes] and it doesn't really read the 
barcode. Consequently we need to make sure that the item has registered. When 
the item scanned was at the top of the list it was easy to keep track of, now 
if the customer has a dozen items, it takes time on every title [you have to 
look at the entire list]. There was something else, but I can't think of it 
right now. This list has been a tremendous help, so thanks to all. 

 
 Have a great day, ~Estel~
Orland Free Library
333 Mill St.
Orland CA. 95963
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[Koha] Rv: Adoption of the I.L.S. Koha, for the National Library of Venezuela

[Ramon Figueroa]

Caracas,
June 21st2012




Koha
Library Software Community


Dear Sirs,

It
is a pleasure for us to announce you that the National Library of
Venezuela, an Authonomous Institute of the Ministry of Culture of the
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, has adopted the ILS Koha, as the
automated system for the management of our library information.  The
system is available on the Internet by the link to the Catalogon our website:  
(http//:www.bnv.gob.ve)
with the following URL: http://sisbiv.bnv.gob.ve.

The
adoption of the ILS Koha is a response to guidelines and presidential
decrees, that regarding the use of software, commit us to the
implementation of software developed by the free software community
and the abandonment of proprietary packages and licenses of both
software and hardware. It is important to point out that at present
we have available for the library's patrons the OPAC and the
cataloging module, and eventually we will incorporate the remaining
modules of the system.

For
two years we have been assessing the functionality of Koha and,
simultaneously, we have been doing research to complete the transfer
of data  from the proprietary system previously in use by our
institution (NOTIS) and now we are able to reveal those results to
the public.  We are very satisfied with Koha, since we consider it a
great gift of the world library community. For this reason, we
request you to incorporate the National Library of Venezuela  as an
active member of the community in order to share our experiences and
contribute, to the extent of our capabilities, to  the development
and improvement of such a great system.

Thanking
you for your attention, we remain,  



Yours
sincerely,  


Lic. Samyra 
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de la Información.
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Re: [Koha] Excel to MARC - Marcedit 5.8

[Paul]

At 02:37 PM 6/26/2012 +, Randall Rowe wrote:
I haven't tried running MarcEdit in Wine. I've been amazed at what Wine 
will run.


Thanks for the email. Quick answer: it doesn't (or at least not when we 
last tried), something to do with versions of .NET -- and I do have Wine 
installed to use this trusty old Eudora email client which I've been using 
since 1989 in various incarnations :=}


Best - Paul



Randy Rowe
Lincoln City Libraries I.T.




-Original Message-
From: "Paul" 
Sent 6/26/2012 9:13:32 AM
To: "amit bondwal" , koha@lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] Excel to MARC - Marcedit 5.8


At 05:44 AM 6/26/2012 -0700, amit bondwal wrote:
>HI Sandeep,
>I don't know much about it, but may be this can help, Is your excel
>sheet have three sheets?  then delete the two extra empty sheets in that
>file and save as the file in text(tab delieted) format.
>marc edit support more text(tab delimeted) format.
>Then try to convert by marc edit in text delimated in addins.

A couple of years ago we tried to use Office97 (we've never had a more
recent version) to do just that -- but ended up using
OpenOffice|LibreOffice to open and save the Excel files as tab-delimited
.csv files. Excel appeared to have difficulties with UTF8 and special
characters.

Disclaimer:  Terry Reece has done an apparently marvelous job developing
MarcEdit; we've never been able to run recent versions as our old Windows
laptop is more of a museum exhibit than a useful tool.  I would strongly
suggest joining the list at .

As an aside, has anyone managed to get MarcEdit to function on a Linux
box?  We have failed miserably.

Best - Paul


>Regards
>Amit Bondwal
>
>
>On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Stacy Pober [via Koha]
> wrote:
> > There's an excellent support list for MARCEDIT called MARCEDIT-L. Â Terry
> > Reese, the author of the program monitors the list, and he will often 
offer

> > solutions along with some of the other list subscribers.
> >
> > 
http://metis3.gmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=MARCEDIT-L

> >
> > It's also a good way to give input on features you'd like to see or 
to find
> > out whether someone already has solved a particular problem you're 
having.

> >
> > Stacy
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:18 AM, <[hidden email]> wrote:
> >
> >> As marcedit is proprietary software, unfortunately the only person who
> >> is likely to be able to help is the marcedit author, unless someone else
> >> has seen and solved it before.
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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Re: [Koha] No errors, but no search results

[ShaneGreen]

Our webmaster handled this and he's out of the shop today.  We'll try to get
some info gathered up later in the week.

Shane

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From: "Robin Sheat-2 [via Koha]" 
To: ShaneGreen 
Sent: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:37:09 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: No errors, but no search results

> Op 22-06-12 19:02, ShaneGreen schreef:
> > We ran zebra interactively and all sorts of problems showed up.  There were
> > four errors to correct, a missing file and couple of permissions to change.
> > . .enough stuff that we can't remember the details exactly.  But searches
> > are working now!
> 
> It'd be great if you describe what errors you saw so we can 
> determine if they need to fixed properly. At the least, then other 
> people know what the solutions were.
> 
> Also, where did you get 3.7 from using the packages? The currently
> available packaged versions are 3.6, 3.8, and 3.9.
> 
> > We still need to set up the chron job, etc. but the
> 
> All the cron jobs should be set up by the packages. I'm wondering if 
> you stepped outside the package-provided utilities a bit and that caused
> permissions to get upset.
> 
> > Thank you to everyone on the forum and the emails we received.
> 
> We have a forum?
> 
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Re: [Koha] Excel to MARC - Marcedit 5.8

[Randall Rowe]

I haven't tried running MarcEdit in Wine. I've been amazed at what Wine will 
run.

Randy Rowe
 Lincoln City Libraries I.T.

 -Original Message-
 From: "Paul" 
 Sent 6/26/2012 9:13:32 AM
 To: "amit bondwal" , koha@lists.katipo.co.nz
 Subject: Re: [Koha] Excel to MARC - Marcedit 5.8

At 05:44 AM 6/26/2012 -0700, amit bondwal wrote: >HI Sandeep, >I don't know 
much about it, but may be this can help, Is your excel >sheet have three 
sheets? then delete the two extra empty sheets in that >file and save as the 
file in text(tab delieted) format. >marc edit support more text(tab delimeted) 
format. >Then try to convert by marc edit in text delimated in addins. A couple 
of years ago we tried to use Office97 (we've never had a more recent version) 
to do just that -- but ended up using OpenOffice|LibreOffice to open and save 
the Excel files as tab-delimited .csv files. Excel appeared to have 
difficulties with UTF8 and special characters. Disclaimer: Terry Reece has done 
an apparently marvelous job developing MarcEdit; we've never been able to run 
recent versions as our old Windows laptop is more of a museum exhibit than a 
useful tool. I would strongly suggest joining the list at 
. As an aside, has anyone 
managed to get MarcEdit to function on a Linux box? We have failed miserably. 
Best - Paul >Regards >Amit Bondwal > > >On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Stacy 
Pober [via Koha] > wrote: > > There's 
an excellent support list for MARCEDIT called MARCEDIT-L. Â Terry > > Reese, 
the author of the program monitors the list, and he will often offer > > 
solutions along with some of the other list subscribers. > > > > 
http://metis3.gmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=MARCEDIT-L > > > > It's also a good way to 
give input on features you'd like to see or to find > > out whether someone 
already has solved a particular problem you're having. > > > > Stacy > > > > On 
Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:18 AM, <[hidden email]> wrote: > > > >> As marcedit is 
proprietary software, unfortunately the only person who > >> is likely to be 
able to help is the marcedit author, unless someone else > >> has seen and 
solved it before. > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Stacy Pober > > Information 
Alchemist > > Riverdale, NY 10471 > > [hidden email] > > 
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[Koha] Circulation error

[leeladharan manavalan]

Hi,

I tried installing Koha and adding records to it. I used Koha 3.06 and Ubuntu 
10.04 (livecd) and installed the same. Then I added 186 records from excel file 
(converted to marc format). Following are the tags that I used for the records 
that I added 

100$a Author
245$a Title
250$a Edition
260$a Place
260$b Publisher
260$c Year
952$p barcode

In catalog it shows all the 186 records with the status as available and holds, 
but when I issue any book to the user the following error appears. Please help 
me to solve this problem.


Koha error

The following fatal error has occurred:

No branchcode argument to new.  
Should be C4::Calendar->new(branchcode => $branchcode) at 
/usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Circulation.pm line 2411
Apache  Server version: Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) Server built: Apr 13 2010 
19:28:27
Koha3.00.06.010
Koha DB 3.0006010
MySQL   mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.41, for debian-linux-gnu (i486) using 
readline 6.1
OS Linux leela-desktop 2.6.32-22-generic-pae #33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 28 14:57:29 
UTC 2010 i686

Perl5.010001



Thanks,
M.Leeladharan
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Re: [Koha] Circulation error

[Chris Cormack]

You are missing 2 things the itemtype and any branch information.

They should be in the 952 field also.

Chris
On Jun 27, 2012 7:48 AM, "leeladharan manavalan" <
mleeladha...@rediffmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I tried installing Koha and adding records to it. I used Koha 3.06 and
> Ubuntu 10.04 (livecd) and installed the same. Then I added 186 records from
> excel file (converted to marc format). Following are the tags that I used
> for the records that I added
>
> 100$a Author
> 245$a Title
> 250$a Edition
> 260$a Place
> 260$b Publisher
> 260$c Year
> 952$p barcode
>
> In catalog it shows all the 186 records with the status as available and
> holds, but when I issue any book to the user the following error appears.
> Please help me to solve this problem.
>
>
> Koha error
>
> The following fatal error has occurred:
>
> No branchcode argument to new.
> Should be C4::Calendar->new(branchcode => $branchcode) at
> /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Circulation.pm line 2411
> Apache  Server version: Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) Server built: Apr 13 2010
> 19:28:27
> Koha3.00.06.010
> Koha DB 3.0006010
> MySQL   mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.41, for debian-linux-gnu (i486) using
> readline 6.1
> OS Linux leela-desktop 2.6.32-22-generic-pae #33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 28
> 14:57:29 UTC 2010 i686
>
> Perl5.010001
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> M.Leeladharan
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[Koha] Relevance

[BRANNON, CHRISTOPHER]

I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on how relevance is determined 
in the Koha catalog.  Our consortium cannot figure out why things are in the 
order they are in when sorting by relevance.  There is apparently no 
information handy on this topic.  Any insight on this topic would be most 
appreciated!

Christopher
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Re: [Koha] Upgrade.

[Chris Cormack]

Hi Estel

On 27 June 2012 04:44, Estel Porras  wrote:
> Hi All, just a couple questions. We have upgraded to the newest version of  
> Koha, and there have been a couple changes that I don't care for. I was 
> wondering if I can change them. 1. The first is when I am doing a checkout 
> history query it gives me the listing alphabetically by patrons last name. It 
> used to be by date, with the most current being at the top [of the listing]. 
> This is much more desirable, and much less confusing. Can I get that back to 
> the way it was?
>
You can just click on the date column, and it will sort by date, in
fact you can click on any column and it will sort by that.

> 2. When I check out to a patron it used to have the last item checked out at 
> the top, now it can be in the middle somewhere. This is confusing if the 
> scanner beeps [as happens here sometimes] and it doesn't really read the 
> barcode. Consequently we need to make sure that the item has registered. When 
> the item scanned was at the top of the list it was easy to keep track of, now 
> if the customer has a dozen items, it takes time on every title [you have to 
> look at the entire list]. There was something else, but I can't think of it 
> right now. This list has been a tremendous help, so thanks to all.
>
>
Hmm that definitely sounds like a bug I will have to investigate more

Hope the answer to 1 was some help at least :)

Chris
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Re: [Koha] Koha Digest, Vol 80, Issue 43

[Jill Griffiths]

Hi,

I'm no longer working at the Wright Institute.

If you have a question, please email Jason at jstra...@wi.edu

Thanks!

Jill (Griffiths) Thompson

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[Koha] Koha Multiple Instances and Subdomain Site

[Andi Sugandi]

Hi all,

How to make a subdomain site (ex: catalog.example.com) is able to take
advantage of Koha Multiple Instances[1] ?

[1] http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installing_Multiple_Instances_of_Koha

What configurations must be modified/added (beside Apache virtualhost
configuration)?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
-- 
Andi Sugandi.
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[Koha] sax_parser_print.pl Issue on VDS (CentOS)

[Andi Sugandi]

Hi all,

I am now on preparing to install Koha after upgrading default Perl
installation to newer version (5.16):
http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2012-June/033255.html

I run misc/sax_parser_print.pl on /koha-3.8.2 directory, then this
issue appears [*] [**]:

[*]
-begin-of-script-
# misc/sax_parser_print.pl
Koha wants something like:
XML::LibXML::SAX::Parser=HASH(0x81fe220)
You have:
XML::SAX::Expat=HASH(0x16c9ea8)
Looks bad, check INSTALL.* documentation.
-end-of-script-

[**]
-begin-of-script-
# /usr/local/bin/perl misc/sax_parser_print.pl
Koha wants something like:
XML::LibXML::SAX::Parser=HASH(0x81fe220)
You have:
XML::LibXML::SAX=HASH(0xaa1cf0)
Looks bad, check INSTALL.* documentation.
-end-of-script-


ParserDetails.ini files:
[***]
# locate ParserDetails.ini
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini.ORIG
/usr/local/share/perl5/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini
/usr/local/share/perl5/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini.ORIG


Contain of /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini file:
[]
--begin-of-script--
[XML::SAX::Expat]
http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces = 1
http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities = 1
http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities = 1

[XML::LibXML::SAX::Parser]
http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces = 1

[XML::LibXML::SAX]
http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces = 1
--end-of-script--


Contain of /usr/local/share/perl5/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini
[*]
--begin-of-script--
[XML::LibXML::SAX::Parser]
http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces = 1

[XML::SAX::Expat]
http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces = 1
http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities = 1
http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities = 1
--end-of-script--

Why the issue still persists even though the ParserDetails.ini file
has proper configuration?

Does this issue will "harm" my Koha installation?

Any help will be very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards
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