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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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Automatic email new accounts
by umer.habib＠techlogix.com 24 Jul '12

24 Jul '12

Hi, I have a samll problem please see if any one can help me. I can sends automatic emails to the new accouts with their username and password when i creat an account manually and put their username and password manually while makin the account. But when i use the import patrons tool KOHA doesnt send automatic emails to the new accounts. can any one help me with this or suggest some solution.. thanks

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Koha error
by Pandu 24 Jul '12

24 Jul '12

Sir Iam using Koha (V.3.00.05.003) software in our library, present we are using only one ID & PW for all the modules(Like Acquision, Calalogue, Circulation etc), some times it creates problems, please guide me 1. How can we creat seperate ID & PW for each module. 2. How can we creat the ID & PW for Patrons, it helps themself can check their record and renew the borrowed documents. regards Pandu. -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Koha-error-tp5720900.html Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Problem after upgrade 3.8.2 to 3.8.3
by kamild 24 Jul '12

24 Jul '12

Hi, After upgrade zebra indexing only some record. I'm reindexing zebra manual but nothing change. No error in the log. Can anyone help? Thx -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Problem-after-upgrade-3-8-2-to-3-8-3-tp57… Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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"location" column after search not correct - any help?
by Shelley & Kurt Kemperman 23 Jul '12

23 Jul '12

Our server went down and has been replaced. Data appears to be mostly intact. When I search, I get the list of results, but the location column will say "No items" for most results, even though they are checked in. The occasional result will have the correct location info, but some will also say the item is checked out when it is not. If I click on the record, the location info is correct there. Any suggestions? Thanks, Shelley

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Fast Cataloging framewok
by ShaneGreen 23 Jul '12

23 Jul '12

Our installation of Koha doesn't seem to have the MARC framework for fast cataloging. All we have is the default. I spent an hour and a half creating a new framework and deleting out all the fields I didn't think we needed. . .only fail. Can someone export the fast add framework for me or where can I get a copy? Thanks, Shane -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Fast-Cataloging-framewok-tp5720665.html Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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