[Koha] Koha 3.20.12 released

[Chris Cormack]

Hi All

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 3.20.12.
This a bugfix and security release.

Packages should be available soon.

You can read the release notes here

https://koha-community.org/koha-3-20-12-released/

Chris
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[Koha] Koha 3.22 authorities linking and hierarchy not working properly

[Andreas Roussos]

Hello,

We plan to use authorities linking and hierarchy in production
to display thesaurus based topical subject authorities.

On a clean install of Koha 3.22 on Ubuntu using UNIMARC, we
created 1 biblio with 2 topical subject authorities (biblio
unimarc 607), the one being broader than the other and linked
them.

Issue #1: authority link relations had to be entered manually
(in 550$5 'g' and 550$5 'h') as they would not be entered using
the authority finder plugin.

Issue #2: only broader to narrower terms show correctly when
viewing the broader term's details with a collapsible + sign
to display the narrower term, while in the narrower term's
details view no broader term is displayed as linked.

Any guidance will be greatly appreciated,
Andreas
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[Koha] Batch Creation of Bibliographic Records based on ISBN numbers

[Admire Mutsikiwa]

Hi

 

I have a list of ISBN numbers of the books that are in one of our library. I
would like to automatically import the records based on the ISBN numbers
into the reservoir to streamline cataloguing. Is this possible?

 

Kind Regards,

 

Admire Mutsikiwa (Mr)

ICT Manager

Libraries

University of Zimbabwe

Tel:+263-4-303276

Mob:+26377111

 

"It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the
consequences of dodging our responsibilities."  Josiah Charles Stamp
 

 

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[Koha] Updating 856 Field

[Graham, Stephen]

Hi All - we want to change the 856 field in over 18,000 records. The actual 
change itself is easy - simply URL encoding the existing URL, and then 
prefixing it with another value. I am thinking of scripting this job.


1.   Identity and retrieve the biblio IDs from a SQL query

2.   Iterate over the IDs and use C4::Biblio:: GetMarcBiblio to retrieve 
the MARC record

3.   Grab the 856, subfield u value and make the change

4.   Use C4::Biblio:: ModBiblio to update the record in Koha

The actual relevant code would look something like (this is inside a loop which 
is iterating over the array of BIB IDs):

my $marc_record = GetMarcBiblio($id);

if ($marc_record) {
my $url = $marc_record->field('856')->subfield('u');
my $field_856 = $marc_record->field('856');
my $encodedURL = ($url);
my $wURL = $eblPrefix . $encodedURL;
$field_856->update( u => $wURL);
my $updated = ModBiblio($marc_record,$id,'');
}

I've test this on 10 records and it seems to work OK. My main question is, are 
there any "gotchas" doing it this way - anything I need to look out 
for/anything I've missed?

I'm not explicitly indicating any encoding format - I'm assuming that what goes 
back into Koha , will be the same as what I took out (apart from the URL)  - 
with all the encoding the same. Is that assumption correct?

Is it OK to make this change to 18K in one go?

Before I run the script I'm make a dump of the biblioitems table (which I think 
is the only table effected by this update), and the script dumps out the BIB 
IDs and the MARC records to file for reference.

How does this sound/look?

Cheers, Stephen

Stephen Graham
Library Technology Consultant
Academic Resources
Library and Computing Services
University of Hertfordshire
Hatfield  AL10 9AB
UK
Tel. 01707 286111 Ext: 77751
Email s.grah...@herts.ac.uk

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