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Kohacon 2014 proposals
by Mirko 12 Jun '13

12 Jun '13

Dear all, it is time to start thinking about the location of Kohacon 2014. If you are interested in hosting the conference, make sure to check * the general Wiki page on Koha conference bidding: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_Conference_Bidding * proposals for other years to get an impression of what people would like to know about location and dates: ** Kohacon 2011: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/KohaCon2011_Proposals#Summary_Table ** Kohacon 2013 http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Kohacon2013 Please keep in mind we have a rule to change continents every year, so with Kohacon 2013 taking place in Reno, applications from North America should be postponed to 2015. So far we had/will have conferences in 2006 Paris, France 2009 Plano, USA 2010 Wellington, NZ 2011 Thane, India 2012 Edinburgh, UK 2013 Reno, USA - - 2014 Your place, World If you are interested in hosting the conference, please tell us about it on this mailing list and add a summary to http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/KohaCon2014_Proposals It does not have to be complete from the beginning, you can still add information later. The most important things clearly are location and proposed time. So far we had conferences in April, May, June and 3x in October, as it will be this year. It looks like having 3 days of conference, 1 day off and 3 days of hackfest is the preferred conference schedule. One last note: the conference has always been free of charge and it is supposed to stay that way. Looking forward to your proposals, Mirko

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Unable to log in as Koha admin
by gmcgath 12 Jun '13

12 Jun '13

I've installed an experimental instance (called "kohalib") of Koha (3.12) on an Ubuntu/Debian system. I went by the information at (http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Debian#Initial_Configuration) which may be out of date, since I had to follow up with a lot of hand configuration to get things right. I finally got to the point of being able to bring up the admin page in my browser. The prompt on the admin login says: "Welcome to the Koha web installer ... Please log in with the username and password given to you by your systems administrator and located in your koha-conf.xml configuration file." The only username in /etc/koha/sites/kohalib/koha-conf.xml is kohauser, which occurs four times, none identified as administrative, and all have the same computer-generated password. When I try to log in with it, the same page just comes up again. There's no error message. Doing some searches suggests there should be an administrative user called kohaadmin with a password of "katikoan" by default. That doesn't work either. The setup may simply have failed to set up an admin user at all. If so, is there a way for me to fix this? I may be so deep into hand corrections that I should just start over again, but in that case is there a better set of instructions for installation? -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Unable-to-log-in-as-Koha-admin-tp5757950.… Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Customizing OPAC
by schwitzd 11 Jun '13

11 Jun '13

Hi I'm trying to branding the opac interface... for example i want change the color the word "Search" or change the color of the "Advanced Search" I'm understood that the file is "/usr/share/koha/opac/htdocs/opac-tmpl/prog/en/css/opac.css" can you help me? Thank Daniel -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Customizing-OPAC-tp4366995p4366995.html Sent from the Koha - Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Slow checkout times in 3.12 solved, sort of
by King, Fred 11 Jun '13

11 Jun '13

Our library went live with Koha 3.12 for staff (all five of us) earlier today. (Cue the popping champagne corks.) We're going to wait to roll out the OPAC in a couple of weeks, when the new residents officially start and the hospital's fiscal year begins. A couple of weeks ago, I posted a message that Koha was taking thirty seconds for each transaction. I managed to fix the problem, but I'm not sure how. Here are the details for anyone interested: The system I was working on was one I built from Koha Live DVD 3.10, then upgraded to 3.10.5, then 3.12 by using sudo apt-get upgrade. Something in the 3.12 upgrade caused the problem. I also tried building an Xubuntu system and installing Koha from packages. Same problem--each checkout was taking 30 seconds. Nothing else was affected: searching, checkins, etc., were all working perfectly. The same problem happened with the Koha Live DVD 3.12. By this time I was ready to go with a 3.10.5 system, but then Robin Sheat posted the new packages. (Thanks Robin!!) I tried upgrading a clone of my 3.10.5 system, and it worked perfectly. Upgrading the other 3.12 test systems I had did NOT work. I think it's because the upgrade only installed libmodule-bundled-files-perl on the 3.10.5 system. I'm not going to see if I can replicate my results because I'm tired of installing and want to start USING Koha. And I have four people to train. If anyone wants to investigate further, I'll provide any information I can remember. On the plus side, I've set up Koha so many times now that I can configure a basic system in a couple of hours. :-) Fred King Medical Librarian, MedStar Washington Hospital Center fred.king(a)medstar.net 202-877-6221 CONFIDENTIAL: The information contained in this communication, including its attachments, may contain confidential information and is intended only for the individual(s) or entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. The information contained in this communication may also be protected by legal privilege, federal law or other applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication, you are hereby notified that any distribution, dissemination or duplication of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately delete and destroy all copies of this message and please immediately notify us of the error by separate communication. Thank you.

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New Koha packages published
by Robin Sheat 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

Hi all. I've just published new versions of both the 3.10 and 3.12 packages. Normally I wouldn't bother announcing this, nor doing it out of cycle like this, however there are two reasons sysadmins managing systems using these should be aware: 1. the packages should now work on Debian Wheezy (7.0) that was released exactly a month ago, with no messing around. They also will work on Debian Squeeze (6.0) and Ubuntu LTS (12.04) as before. 2. as a result of changes that adding this support required, when you next update Koha from the packages, it won't happen as part of normal system updates. Instead you'll have to force the upgrade by doing 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. This is because there will be a new dependency installed. Thanks, -- Robin Sheat Catalyst IT Ltd. ✆ +64 4 803 2204 GPG: 5957 6D23 8B16 EFAB FEF8 7175 14D3 6485 A99C EB6D

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New SQL Report - Patron without image
by Cab Vinton 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

Patron without image Developer: Md. Zahid Hossain Shoeb, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Module: Patrons Purpose: To list the patrons whose images have not been uploaded. SELECT cardnumber, surname, firstname FROM borrowers WHERE cardnumber NOT IN (SELECT cardnumber FROM patronimage)

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Upgrading Koha
by Manoj Kumar 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

Dear forum members, I am using Koha 3.2 in ubuntu platform for the past two years smoothly i wish to upgrade it to higher stable version what are the steps to follow before the upgradation how can i do it? kindly share your experience in this regards Manoj Kumar Librarian NAS College Kerala India 09895266543 -- manoj

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error on import Marc Record from z39.50 servers listed in Koha
by Mesfin Teshome 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

Dear all, I am continuing to have some challenges with Koha 3.12. Our librarians are facing some errors when they try to import Marc Records from z39.50 servers in Koha and save. Importing goes ok but when they click save Koha throws the error below. This behavior is not consistent. It happens with some books and does not happen with others. I tried searching and importing the Marc records for this books on Koha 3.8 and import and save works fine without an error. The error Koha throws is: Software error: Can't call method "data" on an undefined value at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/AuthoritiesMarc.pm line 273. Some of the books are: * The Political writings of St. Augustine * Calvin's Calvinism What should I be looking at to troubleshoot this problem.

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MARC Edit
by Ola Agha 09 Jun '13

09 Jun '13

Dear sirs, hello I have been dealing with Horizon 8.0 as a library management system for almost three years, however now I’m installing koha and I’ve been going through the system, experiencing its features, and exploring its characteristic. The only aspect I’ve found where Horizon is more flexible is the MARC edit. In koha you can’t add tags nor subfields unless you’ve add them in the framework first, The cataloger might face different cases when he find himself in need to add tags or subfields that do not exist in the framework he’s working by. We can’t edit the framework every time we need to add a tag or a subfield, especially which we might not use this tags with all the records we’re cataloging. Best regards On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 3:07 PM, <koha-request(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> wrote: > Nau Mai, Haere Mai ki te whanau Koha. Hello and Welcome to the Koha > Community. > > This is just a brief email to help you make the most of the community, > and the community make the most of you. > > The best thing you can do to start is to introduce yourself. A brief > email to this mailing list saying who you are and what you want to do > is a great way to do that. > > This is the general discussion list for librarians and others > interested in the Koha FOSS (free & open-source software) LMS/ILS > (library management system/integrated library system) and related > activities. It is a companion to other email lists (see > <http://lists.koha-community.org/>) that discuss future development or > aspects of the application. > > Before posting to the list, it's always good to read/search through > the mailing list archive <http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.misc.koha> > and the manual and FAQs <http://koha-community.org/documentation> for > answers to your questions. > > Please feel free to use this list for announcements, questions and > discussions on relevant topics, and please try to keep it positive and > polite. Pro-free-software LMS/ILS news is welcome. Debating > definitions of “free” is not. > > Please send plain text emails and if you opt for the digest, change > the subject line when you reply (as described at the top of the > digest). In general, try to keep subject lines accurate and try to > write the sort of message that you'd be happy if it appeared on the > letters page of a national newspaper or magazine. Other useful > netiquette guidelines can be found in Internet RFC 1855 > <http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt>. > > Emails from non-subscribers (and other emails held for review) will > usually be sent to this list in a batch once a day. > > Websites and bloggers may find the gmane archive > <http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.misc.koha> more useful for linking, > because its comment system is open to all. > > Some other useful sites to keep an eye on are included below: > > - Koha project home page <http://koha-community.org> - Here you will > find links to other Koha websites and announcements of interest to the > Koha community. > > - Koha Bugs <http://bugs.koha-community.org> - Here you will find > enhancement projects as well as bugs > > - Koha Developer Wiki <http://wiki.koha-community.org> - information > about the development process and RFCs (Request for Comments) > > - Koha Git Repository <http://git.koha-community.org/> - patches and > enhancements to Koha from the community > > - Koha Documentation <http://koha-community.org/documentation> > > We look forward to meeting you and working with you. >

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Instruction/document on items (holdings) migration
by Iming Chan 07 Jun '13

07 Jun '13

Dear all, I have successfully imported our bibliographic records into Koha 3.12. However, I am having a lot of trouble importing our items (holdings). Unfortunately our old system doesn't export holdings/items with bib. records in MARC format. At this moment, I suspect my problem relates to data conversion from csv to MARC using MarcEdit. I am struggling to find any instruction/document on this matter. There are a few I found on Google search, but links are outdated. Does anyone has instruction/document on this task that I can have? Your assistance will be much appreciated. Iming ----- Iming Chan Translib Information Service Melbourne, Australia -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Instruction-document-on-items-holdings-mi… Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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