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Re: [Koha] How to remove Records reservoir
by Tom Obrien 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

Hi All, I testing koha-3.8.2 on debian. I imported records from previous installation (3.6). I am seeing a number of records on resourvoir when i search catalogue. How can i delete these records? Thanks in advance, Tom

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Re: [Koha] Overdue notices only list the first book/item
by Sunil Kumar 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

Dear Steve, You can select the digest notice option this will include all the overdue materials issued to one person. I have also faced the same problem instead of single notice I have selected Digest option. Thanks and Regards R Sunil Kumar Library Technologist -----Original Message----- From: koha-bounces(a)lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of koha-request(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Sent: 06 July 2012 05:30 To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [SPAM]- Koha Digest, Vol 81, Issue 16 Send Koha mailing list submissions to koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to koha-request(a)lists.katipo.co.nz You can reach the person managing the list at koha-owner(a)lists.katipo.co.nz When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Koha digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Statistics in 3.6 (Chris Cormack) 2. Overdue notices only list the first book/item that's late (Steven Nickerson) 3. Re: KohaCon 13 Survey Problem (Joann Ransom) 4. Re: [Koha-devel] KohaCon 13 Survey Problem (Mason James) 5. Re: Overdue notices only list the first book/item that's late (Chris Cormack) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 08:37:16 +1200 From: Chris Cormack <chris(a)bigballofwax.co.nz> To: Paul Nielsen <pauln(a)hauraki-dc.govt.nz> Cc: "koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz" <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz>, Joann Ransom <jransom(a)library.org.nz> Subject: Re: [Koha] Statistics in 3.6 Message-ID: <CA+95qVSxi=bkaXjF-6Zswn=iHH8SF3VQUx87ZZQ4Rh57y8W4+w(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Yep, that's what I think anyway. I'm in at work today (been on leave for school holidays) So I'll do some new reports for you. Chris On Jul 6, 2012 8:33 AM, "Paul Nielsen" <pauln(a)hauraki-dc.govt.nz> wrote: > Great thanks Chris, > > Good to know the old gut instinct is still intact. > So, is the wizard unreliable for other reports too, especially membership? > > Paul > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Cormack [mailto:chris@bigballofwax.co.nz] > Sent: Thursday, 5 July 2012 9:42 p.m. > To: Paul Nielsen > Cc: Joann Ransom; koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > Subject: Re: [Koha] Statistics in 3.6 > > On 4 July 2012 11:49, Paul Nielsen <pauln(a)hauraki-dc.govt.nz> wrote: > > I am glad I am not alone Jo, thanks. > > > > > > > > Chris, I only use the Circulation Statistics Wizard so not sure if > > that is what you mean about the table? > > > > Ah ha, that will be the problem that wizard doesn't work right since > 3.4.x > > You will want to use a saved report in the reports, I'll email you a > good one to use when I'm back at work. > > (I checked the db, this year is actually up about 30 thousand on last > year (june to july)) > > Chris > > > ###################################################################### > ############################################################### > DISCLAIMER: > > This e-mail message and accompanying data may contain information that > is confidential and subject to privilege. > If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, > dissemination, distribution or copying of this message or data is > prohibited. > If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the sender or > Hauraki District Council at mailmarshal(a)hauraki-dc.govt.nz immediately > and delete all material pertaining to this e-mail. > > ###################################################################### > ############################################################### > ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 15:50:56 -0400 From: "Steven Nickerson" <snicker1(a)maine.rr.com> To: <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: [Koha] Overdue notices only list the first book/item that's late Message-ID: <022801cd5ae7$7e36d3c0$7aa47b40$(a)maine.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello everyone, We've noticed that the email overdue notices that go out only seem to list the 1st item that is overdue, and not all overdue items. For example, if I checked out 2 books on the same date/time, I only get an overdue notice for one of the two items. Anyone have any ideas? I would think that both items should be in the same email or at least two different emails should be generated. Thanks, as always! Steve ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 09:02:03 +1200 From: Joann Ransom <jransom(a)library.org.nz> To: Nicole Engard <nengard(a)gmail.com> Cc: Koha <Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz>, Koha Devel <koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org> Subject: Re: [Koha] KohaCon 13 Survey Problem Message-ID: <CANMJezzOVFiDwG2b2K2uyr7hH--13v27rGe7kb-=dn2kEhtmeQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 My vote is a rerun as I didn't understand how it works. On 6 July 2012 05:31, Nicole Engard <nengard(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I wasn't clear when I sent out the survey for KohaCon and per a > discussion in #koha I'm coming to you to see if you'd like me to rerun > the survey so you can update your votes. Here's how it works - and > how it worked in previous years: > > If you vote for someplace as #1 it gets 5 points, #2 it gets 4 points, > and so on. In the end we tally the points to see where the conference > takes place. That way if everyone picks one place as #1 but more > people pick it as second and third it still might win. So basically > if you won't go somewhere no matter what then don't vote for that > location and it will get no points from you. > > This means that those of you who didn't know the rules - because I > didn't make it clear at all (my fault) might not have voted the way > you would have if you knew the rules. So my question to you all is > ... should I close voting and put out a new call for votes explaining > the procedure more clearly - or do we just carry on as we are? > > Nicole > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > -- Joann Ransom RLIANZA Chief Executive Te Horowhenua Trust. ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 08:48:06 +1200 From: Mason James <mtj(a)kohaaloha.com> To: Katrin Fischer <Katrin.Fischer(a)bsz-bw.de> Cc: Koha <Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz>, Koha Devel <koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org>, Scott Kushner <skushner(a)mplmain.mtpl.org> Subject: Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] KohaCon 13 Survey Problem Message-ID: <D0B52578-97F4-4E21-B208-0F885E505710(a)kohaaloha.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 2012-07-6, at 6:35 AM, Fischer, Katrin wrote: > I think we should finish the vote as it is. > Everyone could have asked before voting how the winner will be determined, only noone did. > And we are not using a new system, it's the same that we used before. > > Katrin as usual, i strongly agree :) if you want to change your bad vote, why not ask the survey-admin (Nicole) nicely to remove your current vote, so you can to it again... sorry, your mistake is not enough reason to void the current survey ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 09:40:17 +1200 From: Chris Cormack <chris(a)bigballofwax.co.nz> To: Steven Nickerson <snicker1(a)maine.rr.com> Cc: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Overdue notices only list the first book/item that's late Message-ID: <CA+95qVQCax3C-ikddMVvL633E-kPHEZMVKBK6Y2GybsPfmH6yw(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 6 July 2012 07:50, Steven Nickerson <snicker1(a)maine.rr.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > We've noticed that the email overdue notices that go out only seem to > list the 1st item that is overdue, and not all overdue items. For example, > if I checked out 2 books on the same date/time, I only get an overdue notice > for one of the two items. Anyone have any ideas? I would think that both > items should be in the same email or at least two different emails should be > generated. > > > Hey Steve What version of Koha ? I'm pretty sure I saw a bug report for this and a fix for it in the recentish past. Ill go hunting Chris ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha End of Koha Digest, Vol 81, Issue 16 ************************************

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Re: [Koha] Koha Digest, Vol 81, Issue 54
by Dianna Roberts 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

Well said, oh man from Middle Earth! Dianna Roberts Wellington, New Zealand ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:28:59 +1200 From: Chris Cormack <chris(a)bigballofwax.co.nz> To: BWS Johnson <abesottedphoenix(a)yahoo.com> Cc: "koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz" <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: Re: [Koha] Neat participation / bug fixing dashboard from WikiHow Message-ID: <CA+95qVTtFPDSdH1Eo8mPh8skAWQP0_Ag0-G7EarzN3hciC7o2A(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 25 July 2012 11:00, BWS Johnson <abesottedphoenix(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Salvete! > > Last meeting, I tried in vain to describe how cool the wikiHow Community Dashboard is. Hopefully this link is viewable without logging in. Let me know if you all can't see it, and I'll screenshot it and upload it to the wiki. > > http://www.wikihow.com/Special:CommunityDashboard That does look fantastic. > > There is a git repository for the Koha dashboard http://dashboard.koha-community.org/ That lives at https://gitorious.org/koha-dashboard (In the next bit I will be using you a lot, this refers to the collective you, or y'all :) not Brooke) If people wanted to extend it, they are more than welcome to work on it. I'm unlikely to get more free time to work on it in the near future. These project always run into the problem of not enough hours in the day. Which leads me to my next point, we need more people to get involved. Something like the dashboard is great, you won't/can't break Koha, no one will lose circulation statistics if you make a mistake. It needs things you might have skills in, design, css, html, javascript, wordsmithery (i just made that one up). It's a great intro into getting more involved, then you can move to signing off. http://blog.bigballofwax.co.nz/2012/07/09/do-some-signoffs-you-know-you-want -to/ Then let us know how you choose what to sign off. http://blog.bigballofwax.co.nz/2012/07/10/choosing-something-to-sign-off/ So it can help us encourage others to do some. You have a distinct advantage with Koha, you can have direct influence, and a small change you make, say highlighting the needs signoff section in a way that makes it stand out and thus get more people looking at it, may get 20 new features into Koha. Reading back, I sound like a bit of a idealistic/pompous fool, so I feel like I should end with "Hold your ground, hold your ground! Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of woes and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you *stand, Men of the West!* " Thus I have Chris ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha End of Koha Digest, Vol 81, Issue 54 ************************************

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Neat participation / bug fixing dashboard from WikiHow
by BWS Johnson 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

Salvete! Last meeting, I tried in vain to describe how cool the wikiHow Community Dashboard is. Hopefully this link is viewable without logging in. Let me know if you all can't see it, and I'll screenshot it and upload it to the wiki. http://www.wikihow.com/Special:CommunityDashboard Hopefully something like that tailored for us will lead to greater participation since it's such a great visualisation of what needs doing where. :D Cheers, Brooke

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Solr
by Stacy Pober 24 Jul '12

24 Jul '12

Does anyone know if switching from Zebra to Solr will let Koha libraries use a stopwords list? Also, will Solr have any effect on fuzzy searching defaults? Lastly, is there anyone sponsoring or working on a "did you mean..." opac response to zero retrieval searches? At our library, we'd probably choose a "did you mean..." spelling suggestion choice over the automatic fuzzy spelling assumptions that are currently in the system. I realize this would probably be listed in bugzilla, but I'm not sure exactly how to search for this. -- Stacy Pober Information Alchemist Manhattan College Library Riverdale, NY 10471 stacy.pober(a)manhattan.edu

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Kohacon13
by Chris Cormack 24 Jul '12

24 Jul '12

Hi All (and especially the folks from Reno) Now that the vote is all in, and we have our winner (it was a very high voter turnout too, so should be a super big Kohacon) I wonder if some tentative dates have been thought of? Will it be October or September? Chris

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Search not working after upgrade
by rfblanchard 24 Jul '12

24 Jul '12

My koha search no longer works after upgrading from 3.00.01.005 to 3.08.01.002. First I'll explain the details of my upgrade from July 6, 2012: *PART1: details of my upgrade* 1) On a new server I created a new Debian 6 Squeeze installation on VMware. 2) I installed Koha using apt-get 3) I uploaded the database export from my 3.0 prod system to the new Debian installation 4) I edited '/etc/koha/koha-sites.conf' to attach my new db before the install: DEFAULTSQL="/home/kohabox/koha_db_dump.201206271900.sql.gz" 5) ran koha-create --create-db kohapei. This created my db and ran the update db scripts over many hours 6) ran /usr/sbin/koha-upgrade-to-3.4. Again this took many hours. 7) At this point I can access the site and login. *PART2: Now onto the search problems* =========== /SEARCH 1/ Choose Advanced search Keyword = Math Individual libraries: All Libraries RESULTS: 3446 result(s) found for 'kw,wrdl: math' in PEI School Library System Catalog. NOTE: on the results screen I can see many items are available in many different schools. Eg. One school that has many math books is Bluefield High School. ============ /SEARCH 2/ Choose Advanced search Keyword = Math Individual libraries: Bluefield High School RESULTS: No results match your search for 'kw,wrdl: math' with limit(s): 'branch:Bluefield High School' in PEI School Library System Catalog NOTE: as I explained after 'search 1' there are may available math books at Bluefield High School. However koha cant find any. ============ /SEARCH 3/ Choose Advanced search Keyword = {any word} Individual libraries: {any choice other than "All Libraries"} RESULTS: No results match your search ============ As you can see from the results I cannot search a specific branch. Any attempt gives no results. NOTE: just to clarify the search worked fine for my 3.00.01.005 installation *PART3: observations* -zebraqueue table: before upgrade this table was empty. at some point during the running of script koha-upgrade-to-3.4 it populated this table with +385000 records. I'm not exactly sure how this works but since koha doesn't search based on the database why would it need to populate so much into this table. should this table be truncated at some point? (the koha wiki site recommends not backing this table up so I assume the contents are not critical)...is it just used to flag changes to biblios to make reindexing zebra faster? -no errors noticed in: intranet-error.log intranet-error.log.1 opac-error.log zebra-error.log zebra-output.log Final Note: One week before all this work I also completed the same steps as above for another installation on a server running Debian 6 directly...no VMware. I got ran into the same problem with the search. I'm pretty much out of ideas of what to do at this point. It seems like a did a standard upgrade for koha, but I'm not sure why I see all these search problems. If you have any Ideas of what I could try please let me know. I can provide any info you may need to see. Thanks, Ryan -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Search-not-working-after-upgrade-tp571918… Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Error while installing koha on development mode
by David Nind 24 Jul '12

24 Jul '12

Hi. I've never setup Koha from git so can't offer much help with doing that. You may find something that may help in the wiki: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Category:Development All the prerequisites need to be installed first though - see the install instructions: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Category:Installation Is there a reason you want to use a development version i.e. are you going to be doing development? Otherwise you may wish to use a stable release (now 3.8.3 and 3.6.7) either through a manual install or using the packages. David Nind On 21 July 2012 22:24, amit bondwal <bondwal.amit(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for you reply. I am using koha version of koha-community. > And I downloaded the developer version of koha from git koha-community. > I want to install it in developer mode. > It shows the error when I run perl Makefile.PL. >

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Change frequency of e-mail lists
by Joyce Swope 24 Jul '12

24 Jul '12

Hello, I am Joyce Swope at the Crown College of the Bible. I am a new subscriber to the Koha lists. Currently I receive them daily, please change it so that I will be receiving it monthly. Thanks, Joyce

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Let's fix it together!
by BWS Johnson 24 Jul '12

24 Jul '12

Salvete! Let's fix it together! In June, there was discussion on the list dealing with search. [1] I had long been a proponent of "Don't touch it! I love it! It works!" As Koha matured, the search slipped a little. I get annoyed when I find preferences that result in stunningly different search results on different catalogues. I don't want there to be a large discrepancy in what users can find at one Library and won't ever find at another if both Libraries run Koha. Some search related system preferences are somewhat counter-intuitive, and not nearly as helpful as one might hope. I resigned myself to sadly nodding my head when I checked on the behaviours mentioned in the listserv discussion. Jared mentioned wanting to see search fixed on IRC, so I challenged him to be the one to take it on. I still think we have a better search than most ILSs, but I want to get back to being the best out there by far. We've talked about group financing of enhancements before. Sometimes this happens. I feel that a lot of enhancements for Koha don't come to fruition because folks are scared to ask for aestimates, or realise that they can't afford it all on their own. Your Library doesn't have to sponsor this on its own. If you've not put in for developments recently, we urge you to do so now. If you know about an appropriate grant for this sort of work, do let me know. I'll take a shot at writing it. Jared is willing to bang his head against this project. I am willing to run test searches. I asked him to dice things up so that people can afford to contribute. Some subcomponents of the rewrite will only run about $3000. The loose aestimate for the entire first phase is roughly $70,000. I realise that budget times are tight, but we're hoping with a new fiscal year, now might be a good time to act on fixing a major stumbling block to usability. If we split the costs, this is eminently doable and will happen sooner rather than later. Jared and I want to make this better for users, but neither of us can afford to do so for free. We want your feedback in this process. We don't want to develop in a vacuum. It would be nice to have a few discussions like we did with holds slips. You can see what we're talking about here: https://trello.com/board/search-rewrite/4ff86aadd9b1c1436f2aefee Ask Jared for an invitation if you want to modify it. We'll also be adding material under the RFCs section of the Community Wiki. We'll need people to test things and to run searches that will make us laugh and cry. So let's do it. Let's make it happen. Let's make Koha better. [1]http://lists.katipo.co.nz/pipermail/koha/2012-June/033230.html Cheers, Brooke

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