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OPAC left menu moved to bottom
by Vimal Kumar V. 28 Nov '12

28 Nov '12

Dear Friends, Koha 3.10.x seems about fine. I found another problem is that left menu in OPAC moved to bottom. See the screenshot https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/1fyYZNhS6y4vMzAqKESXsdMTjNZETYmyPJy0l… Is this the default place or happened something wrong? -- Vimal Kumar V. Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560 Web: http://www.vimalkumar.org Blog: http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com http://kohageek.blogspot.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White

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Reminder: Noch freie Plätze bei der Koha-Installationsparty
by Mirko 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

~~~ Information only available in German ~~~ Am kommenden Wochenende findet in der Bibliothek der TH-Wildau eine Koha-Installationsparty statt. Beginn: am 1. Dezember um 17Uhr Ende: spätestens am 2.Dezember 11Uhr Da parallel die erste Schmökernacht der Bibliothek stattfindet, stehen zur Erholung Feldliegen und Verköstigung bereit. Ziel des Abends soll sein, dass alle Teilnehmenden mit einer laufenden Koha-Installation und neuen Ideen nach Hause gehen. Nach der Installation werden wir einen Blick in das System werfen und versuchen aufkommende Fragen zu beantworten. In gemeinsamer Diskussion soll erörtert werden, welche Probleme ein eigener Betrieb des Systems als Alternative zu einem bezahlten Hosting aufwirft und welche Art von Unterstützung notwendig wäre, um als Bibliothek diesen Schritt zu gehen. Informationen zur Anfahrt finden Sie hier: http://www.th-wildau.de/bibliothek/kontakt-ansprechpartner.html Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos und wir stellen die benötigte Technik zur Verfügung. Besser ist allerdings, wenn Sie ein eigenes Notebook mitbringen um das Erlernte somit später weiter ausprobieren zu können. Falls Sie noch teilnehmen möchten, melden Sie sich bitte unter jkissig(a)th-wildau.de zurück.

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linking authorities to biblios
by Haik Zargaryan 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

Dear friends, We are using the latest koha 3.8. After the successful installation we have imported both our catalog and authority records from the old ILS. Initially, authorities were not linked to the biblio records, but when we run link_bibs_to_authorities.pl, this problem was solved. So, in the *Used in* field it was written that the authority is used in 1 record. However, even after this when we try to search for a record using the *authority 400 $a* field instead of the author name, nothing is found. It is worth to mention that although both authority and biblio records are in Armenian, they are properly indexed. How can we handle this problem? Any ideas? Regards, Haik.

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ubuntu packages Installation - broken?
by Alex Kowalenko 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

Hello, I am attempting to install Koha on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as per the installation instructions on the wiki pages. On Friday this was working no problems. But today when installing it on a production machine it fails. alex@ubuntu:~$ echo deb http://debian.koha-community.org/koha squeeze main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/koha.list deb http://debian.koha-community.org/koha squeeze main alex@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install koha-common Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package koha-common alex@ubuntu:~$ echo deb http://debian.koha-community.org/koha oldstable main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/koha.list deb http://debian.koha-community.org/koha oldstable main alex@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install koha-common Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package koha-common The machine is a fresh install of 12.04 LTS 32-bit sudo apt-get upgrade was run before the attempt to install koha. Has the release of 3.10 broken something in installs? -- Alex Kowalenko mailto:alex.kowalenko@gmail.com

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[PR] BibLibre and Elidoc announce partnership for promoting OpenSource in greek libraries
by Paul Poulain 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

Hello Koha, If there is any greek library reading this list, you may be interested to know that BibLibre and Elidoc just announced a partnership to promote OpenSource in greek libraries. Of course, the first software we will promote is Koha. But we will also propose Drupal (cms), Piwik (web stats), Omeka (digital collections), and JasperReport (data-mining). The full PR is here: http://www.biblibre.com/en/blog/entry/partnership-between-biblibre-and-elid… -- Paul POULAIN - Associé-gérant Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08 http://www.biblibre.com Logiciels Libres pour les bibliothèques et les centres de documentation

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Removal from list of Koha vendors
by Koustubha Kale 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

Hi all, It has been my privilege and pleasure to have worked on Koha. Through the great, friendly Koha community I have gained knowledge and friends throughout the world. I hope these bonds of friendship will continue in the future. And that I will get a chance to work with Koha once again. It is with great sadness I say that Anant Corporation partnership firm has been dissolved & it no longer provides support for Koha or any other software for that matter. Request you to please remove it from the list of Koha vendors. Regards, Koustubha Kale Anant Corporation Contact Details : Address : 103, Armaan Residency, R. W Sawant Road, Nr. Golden Dyes Naka, Thane (w), Maharashtra, India, Pin : 400601. Mobile : +919820715876

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Patrons in 3.8 - overwriting records and passwords
by Elaine Bradtke 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

I'm testing out various aspects of patron records before we start actually using them in the production site. Ours is a reference library, we don't circulate many items but we want to integrate the loans into our Koha catalogue. Our patrons are members of the society, and as memberships expire, or members move or change status (from student to adult, or adult to senior, etc.) we need to periodically update all the patron records (once a month would be ideal). This brings up a few questions: When you upload patron records and select overwrite, what exactly does it overwrite? Everything? Do the items loaned out to a particular patron stay attached to their record even as it is overwritten? The system generates user names and passwords. But how does anyone know what the password is? If I upload another set of patron records and overwrite the old one does it retain the old password? I'm imagining our situation is more akin to a school than a public library in that our patrons are short term (one year membership for most of them). I'm sure there's a way to deal with frequent batch changes in the patron records, but I don't want to add all the patrons into the production site until I'm sure I understand how it works. -- Elaine Bradtke Data Wrangler VWML English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me personally, send an e-mail first. I work off site) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Company No. 297142 Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52)

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Bug with link_bibs_to_authorities introduced in 3.8.7
by Doug Kingston 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

Patch 8823 has introduce a bug (tracked in http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=9149) where C4/Biblio.pm calls a non-existent subroutine: GetAuthorizedHeading. This breaks bin/ link_bibs_to_authorities.pl. I have informed the author of the patch.

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Re: [Koha] Problem in importing Patron Records
by Elaine Bradtke 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

I changed the date format to YYYY-MM-DD I also added a date to the patron records that didn't have them. I saved it as an ods file, and then closed it opened it and saved it as csv. None of these things worked. Same error messages. Elaine On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Quoc Uy <nguyenquocuy_1102(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Better give it a try. Do exactly as i say. Maybe change fotmat YYY-MM-DD. > Because u have same error as i did. > > > ________________________________ > From: Elaine Bradtke <eb(a)efdss.org> > To: Uy nguyễn quốc <nguyenquocuy_1102(a)yahoo.com> > Cc: koha <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> > Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2012 12:06 AM > Subject: Re: [Koha] Problem in importing Patron Records > > I have to set up a system to convert information from our membership > list into patron files on a monthly basis to catch expired > memberships. I run the file through a database called Cardbox for > batch editing. Cardbox exports have never cause any problems with csv > formatting before. > As an experiment, I ran the Cardbox csv file through (an old version > of) excel and exported a new csv file. But it didn't help, and in > fact broke the date formatting (deleting the zero padding). > > We are using the same date format as is set in our system preferences > (dd/mm/yyyy). For some patrons there is no expiration date (life > members). Would this be a problem - are expiration dates required? > Must I convert it to yyyy-mm-dd ? (the notes on patron import seem to > imply it's OK to use your specified date format). > Elaine > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Uy nguyễn quốc > <nguyenquocuy_1102(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> So u have the same error as i had. I'm using Koha on Ubuntu. If u try to >> open file with excel in windows, then save file as .csv, then import, i >> think there is no error more. If u use in ubuntu, or debian, should follow >> what i said before. Open .csv file with Libre Calc (it may ask for default- >> seperated by semicolon and comma, choose those values), then fill it, save >> as .ods file, then open .ods file, save as new .csv file. U can import this >> .csv file. Good luck >> On 22 Nov 2012, at 00:30, Elaine Bradtke wrote: >> >>> Here's what I'm getting (in 3.08.05): >>> Feedback: >>> >>> Parsing upload file Patron upload test2.csv >>> Content-Type : application/octet-stream >>> Content-Disposition : form-data; name="uploadborrowers"; >>> filename="Patron upload test2.csv" >>> headerrow : CARDNUMBER, SURNAME, FIRSTNAME, TITLE, INITIALS, ADDRESS, >>> ADDRESS2, CITY, ZIPCODE, COUNTRY, EMAIL, PHONE, BRANCHCODE, >>> CATEGORYCODE, DATEEXPIRY >>> >>> >>> Error analysis: >>> >>> Line 2 Critical field "surname" missing (borrowernumber: UNDEF; surname: >>> UNDEF). >>> Line 2 Critical field "branchcode" missing (borrowernumber: UNDEF; >>> surname: UNDEF). >>> Line 2 Critical field "categorycode" missing (borrowernumber: UNDEF; >>> surname: UNDEF). >>> >>> It's all there. >>> Is Koha expecting the fields in a particular order? I'm supplying the >>> header row (above). But it's not connecting the two somehow. I have >>> tried with and without quotes around the fields, neither seems to >>> work. >>> Elaine >>> >>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Elaine Bradtke <eb(a)efdss.org> wrote: >>>> Are you saying there should be quotes around the fields? >>>> Because I'm getting similar failures and the fields are there, but >>>> it's not seeing them. >>>> Elaine >>>> >>>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Quoc Uy <nguyenquocuy_1102(a)yahoo.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> First, i have problem with this, too. I downloaded original file >>>>> patron_import.csv, opened it with Libreoffice Calc, watched table borrowers >>>>> in database by Phpmyadmin. Then i tried to fill all file with the similar >>>>> values as what i did before (add patron manual). Next i saved file as .csv >>>>> file, and tried import patron. I failed with message: "Line 2 Critical field >>>>> "surname" missing (borrowernumber: UNDEF; surname: UNDEF)"... >>>>> Next i tried to change fomats all fields in their fomats (text, >>>>> number, date), esspecially date YYY-MM-DD. Then i saved file as .csv file, >>>>> and tried import patron. I failed with message: "Line 2 Critical field >>>>> "surname" missing (borrowernumber: UNDEF; surname: UNDEF)"... (same >>>>> error) >>>>> I saved .csv file as .ods file, and tried import, once more time >>>>> fail. >>>>> >>>>> Last time, maybe i was lucky, i use that.ods file, saved as .csv >>>>> file, then i received a message: >>>>> >>>>> Export text file... >>>>> >>>>> field delimiter , >>>>> text delimiter " >>>>> I press Ok, then saved. And i imported patrons without error. >>>>> I don't understand it very clear, but just wanna share experience. Hope >>>>> it can help someone else. >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org >>>>> Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz >>>>> http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Elaine Bradtke >>>> Data Wrangler >>>> VWML >>>> English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org >>>> Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY >>>> Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance >>>> and Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me >>>> personally, send an e-mail first. I work off site) >>>> >>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> Registered Company No. 297142 >>>> Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" >>>> --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52) >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Elaine Bradtke >>> Data Wrangler >>> VWML >>> English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org >>> Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY >>> Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance >>> and Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me >>> personally, send an e-mail first. I work off site) >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Registered Company No. 297142 >>> Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" >>> --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52) >> > > > > -- > Elaine Bradtke > Data Wrangler > VWML > English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org > Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY > Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance > and Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me > personally, send an e-mail first. I work off site) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Registered Company No. 297142 > Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" > --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52) > > -- Elaine Bradtke Data Wrangler VWML English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me personally, send an e-mail first. I work off site) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Company No. 297142 Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52)

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Koha 3.10.0 released
by Paul Poulain 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

The Koha team is happy to announce that Koha 3.10.0 has been released: http://koha-community.org/koha-3-10-0-released/ The document on koha-community.org present all enhancements and is nicely formatted. If you want the complete release notes, with all bugfixes (including those that were already in 3.8.x), you will find them here http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=koha.git;a=blob;f=misc/release_note… -- Paul POULAIN - BibLibre http://www.biblibre.com Free & Open Source Softwares for libraries Koha, Drupal, Piwik, Jasper

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