[Koha] Upgrade from 3.18 to 3.20.07.000 - Now getting Loading .. you may continue scanning in Circulation Checkout

2016-01-14 Thread Admire Mutsikiwa 
Hi

 

I have upgrade my Koha system running on Debian 8.2 from Koha 3.18 to
3.20.07 . Now which checking out a book it is  not displaying the table with
the checkout details such as the due date. Instead, it is displaying the
message

"Loading  .. you may continue scanning" . Any help?

 

Kind Regards,

 

Admire Mutsikiwa (Mr)

ICT Manager

Libraries

University of Zimbabwe

Tel:+263-4-303276

Mob:+26377111

 

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Re: [Koha] Upgrade from 3.18 to 3.20.07.000 - Now getting Loading .. you may continue scanning in Circulation Checkout

2016-01-14 Thread Tajoli Zeno 

Hi,


Il 14/01/2016 09:48, Admire Mutsikiwa ha scritto:


I have upgrade my Koha system running on Debian 8.2 from Koha 3.18 to
3.20.07 . Now which checking out a book it is  not displaying the table with
the checkout details such as the due date. Instead, it is displaying the
message

"Loading  .. you may continue scanning" . Any help?


this is a know bug, bug 15431:
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15431

You have two option:
1)Wait until next 3.20.x release (next week as I know)

2)Try to fix it with those instructions [from Frédéric DEMIANS]:

- Access your Koha server with shell.

- Locate the file 'checkouts' in your local Koha installation. It is in 
'svc'

  subdirectory of the Koha home directory.

- Change your working directory to the directory containing 'checkouts'.

- Run this command:

  wget -O checkouts http://tinyurl.com/zg6ukte

  It retrieves a valid 'checkouts' program.


Bye
Zeno Tajoli

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[Koha] Remote Authentication

2016-01-14 Thread SAIACS, Chief Librarian 
Dear Friends,

I would like to hear your experience on authenticating library users from KOHA 
OPAC to access subscribed content. We are using KOHA 3.18. Your insights will 
be helpful to develop one for our library. we do subscribe to JSTOR, ebooks 
from EBSCO and others. 

Thanks 

Yesan Sellan,  B.Com., MLISc., PGDLAN, UGC-NET., BCS
Chief Librarian
South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies (SAIACS)
363 Dodda Gubbi Cross Road, Kothanur P.O., Bangalore 77, India
Phone: 91 80 2846 5235/5344/ 5649, Fax: 91 80 28465412, Mobile: 91-9972348251
Website: www.saiacs.org Alternative Email: yes...@gmail.com or 
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[Koha] Fines does not charge even when an item is overdue

2016-01-14 Thread Jonathan Limo 
Hallo,
I have a problem with fines, patrons are not charged fines even when the
item checked in is overdue. I have cross checked circulation and fine
rules, and they are all as expected.

Sometimes back the Intranet used to give this error during check-in:
*   Can't call method "truncate" on an undefined value at >>
/usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Circulation.pm line 1966*

I searched for a solution online and found that setting debarred value to
NULL resolve the "truncate" error, so i ran the SQL:

*UPDATE borrowers SET debarred=NULL WHERE debarred='-00-00';*

This solved the error, however the problem on charging fine showed up, it
doesn't charge fine to patrons with overdue items during check-in.

Kindly advice

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Re: [Koha] Remote Authentication

2016-01-14 Thread Indranil Das Gupta 
Hello!

I use a simple solution for a few of my clients where they are
accessing e-journals and e-books from their OPAC. Essentially all of
the e-content providers in India offer IP based authentication. So
there is a Squid proxy server on the campus that is available. I have
a few external helper auth scripts for squid that query the Koha db's
borrowers table. This is how it all works in my cases:

1. Library user visits the opac from an on premise desktop using the
Koha OPAC. The e-content records carry the resource links in 856$u

2. The PCs used have an proxy autoconfig file (.pac) file configured
in their network settings. The PAC file is designed to proxy only for
the e-content, for everything else, it is a passthru.

3. When people click the URL in 856$u, the PAC file catches it and
directs the request to the Squid proxy.

4. Squid proxy does not yet know who is requesting, so it dispatches
the request to my custom auth helper script.

5. The auth helper script pops up a http auth dialog on the user's
desktop, where they enter their Koha db user name and password (which
they otherwise use to login into the OPAC)

6. user keys in the credentials. the script takes these and checks
against the Koha DB's borrowers table. if existing and the account has
not been barred due to any reason, it informs SQUID to allow it.

7. User get the requested URL served up on the browser.

Additonally the script maintains login data in the Koha database in a
custom table, which provides accounting. The management and reporting
part is packaged as a Koha plugin.

this helps as now users can even access to their subscribed content
from even outside the campus as these specific requests are routed
through the proxy server which is on the approved IP address block
registered with the content provider.

hope this helps
-idg

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 5:39 PM, SAIACS, Chief Librarian
 wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> I would like to hear your experience on authenticating library users from 
> KOHA OPAC to access subscribed content. We are using KOHA 3.18. Your insights 
> will be helpful to develop one for our library. we do subscribe to JSTOR, 
> ebooks from EBSCO and others.
>
> Thanks
>
> Yesan Sellan,  B.Com., MLISc., PGDLAN, UGC-NET., BCS
> Chief Librarian
> South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies (SAIACS)
> 363 Dodda Gubbi Cross Road, Kothanur P.O., Bangalore 77, India
> Phone: 91 80 2846 5235/5344/ 5649, Fax: 91 80 28465412, Mobile: 91-9972348251
> Website: www.saiacs.org Alternative Email: yes...@gmail.com or 
> yesan.sel...@saiacs.org
>
>
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