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Re: [Koha] after migration issues--SOLVED
by Scott Owen 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

The real problem seemed to be: Lack of attention to detail. Poor mouse clicking skills. Lack of sleep due to crazy children. Old age and the need for reading glasses. Consequences of a misspent youth. Bad Karma. *blush* Problem solved...... I apparently didn't "clone" the settings after I changed the "default" "holds allowed (count)". The default showed correctly, but as soon as I changed to the library, the "holds allowed (count)" was back to "0". re-cloned settings, and now holds are working. Thanks to all of you for your assistance. >>> Scott Owen<sowen(a)edzone.net> 8/18/2010 3:28 PM >>> Thank you for all your help, but, sadly.... I set the default/default settings, and still no holds allowed. Are there more required default/default settings? -S Select a library : Default Pine Ave. Elementary Clone these rules to: Pine Ave. Elementary Patron CategoryItem TypeCurrent Checkouts AllowedLoan Period (day)Fine AmountFine Charging IntervalFine Grace period (day)Suspension in Days (day)Renewals Allowed (count)Holds Allowed (count)Rental Discount (%) Patron Books 10 140.000000100.000000Delete Default Default 10 140.000000100.000000Delete Default Board Home Bound Inter-Library Loan Juvenile Kid Library Patron School Staff Student Teacher Young Adult Default Books Computer Files Continuing Resources Maps Mixed Materials Music Reference Visual Materials Defaults for this library You can set a default maximum number of checkouts and hold policy that will be used if none is defined below for a particular item type or category. Total Current Checkouts AllowedHold Policy Defaults From Any Library From Home Library No Holds Allowed Unset For this library, you can specify the maximum number of loans that a patron of a given category can make, regardless of the item type. If the total amount loanable for a given patron category is left blank, no limit applies, except possibly for a limit you define for a specific item type. Patron CategoryTotal Current Checkouts Allowed Patron 20 Delete Board Home Bound Inter-Library Loan Juvenile Kid Library Patron School Staff Student Teacher Young Adult For this library, you can edit rules for given itemtypes, regardless of the patron's category. Currently, this means hold policies. The various policies have the following effects: From Any Library: Patrons from any library may put this item on hold. (default if none is defined) From Home Library: Only patrons from the item's home library may put this book on hold. No Holds Allowed: No patron may put this book on hold. Note that if the system preference AllowHoldPolicyOverride is enabled, these policies can be overridden by your circulation staff. Also, these policies are based on the patron's home branch, not the branch that the reserving staff member is from. Item TypeHold Policy Books From Any Library Delete Books Computer Files Continuing Resources Maps Mixed Materials Music Reference Visual Materials From Any Library From Home Library No Holds Allowed

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help installing Koha for Windows
by MOUTI, A. (MR.) 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Greetings Chris May I have solutions for the below problem. I'm struggling to install Koha on windows Hello Chris, 2009/10/21 Christopher Brown-Syed PhD <chris2 at valinor.ca <http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha> >: > Greetings, > > > I have been attempting to install Koha on a Windows XP platform. The > installer (Koha2.2.9-W32-R1.exe) works fine, until the script reaches the > "unpacking MARC Charset 0.92" line, then hangs. > > (The version of perl installed is ActivePerl-5.8.9.826-MSWin32-x86, and I > note that MARC Charset 1.1 is what's currently available via CPAN.... ) > Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: [Koha] after migration issues
by Scott Owen 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Thank you for all your help, but, sadly.... I set the default/default settings, and still no holds allowed. Are there more required default/default settings? -S Select a library : Default Pine Ave. Elementary Clone these rules to: Pine Ave. Elementary Patron CategoryItem TypeCurrent Checkouts AllowedLoan Period (day)Fine AmountFine Charging IntervalFine Grace period (day)Suspension in Days (day)Renewals Allowed (count)Holds Allowed (count)Rental Discount (%) Patron Books 10 140.000000100.000000Delete Default Default 10 140.000000100.000000Delete Default Board Home Bound Inter-Library Loan Juvenile Kid Library Patron School Staff Student Teacher Young Adult Default Books Computer Files Continuing Resources Maps Mixed Materials Music Reference Visual Materials Defaults for this library You can set a default maximum number of checkouts and hold policy that will be used if none is defined below for a particular item type or category. Total Current Checkouts AllowedHold Policy Defaults From Any Library From Home Library No Holds Allowed Unset For this library, you can specify the maximum number of loans that a patron of a given category can make, regardless of the item type. If the total amount loanable for a given patron category is left blank, no limit applies, except possibly for a limit you define for a specific item type. Patron CategoryTotal Current Checkouts Allowed Patron 20 Delete Board Home Bound Inter-Library Loan Juvenile Kid Library Patron School Staff Student Teacher Young Adult For this library, you can edit rules for given itemtypes, regardless of the patron's category. Currently, this means hold policies. The various policies have the following effects: From Any Library: Patrons from any library may put this item on hold. (default if none is defined) From Home Library: Only patrons from the item's home library may put this book on hold. No Holds Allowed: No patron may put this book on hold. Note that if the system preference AllowHoldPolicyOverride is enabled, these policies can be overridden by your circulation staff. Also, these policies are based on the patron's home branch, not the branch that the reserving staff member is from. Item TypeHold Policy Books From Any Library Delete Books Computer Files Continuing Resources Maps Mixed Materials Music Reference Visual Materials From Any Library From Home Library No Holds Allowed

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Re: [Koha] after migration issues
by Scott Owen 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Thank you for the response! I'm unfortunately, not quite understanding where you added the "default" rules at ? Did you add a Library with a code of default? and a patron type with a category name of default? like here ? CodeCategory nameTypeEnrollment periodAge requiredUpper age limitEnrollment feeOverdueHold fee HBHome Bound Adult 99 months 18 years999 years0.00Yes0.00EditDelete PTPatron Adult 99 months 18 years999 years0.00Yes0.00EditDelete and here.....?? NameCodeAddressPropertiesIP Pine Ave. ElementaryPINE1025 N. Pine St. Alma, MI 48801 Ph: (989) 463-3111 Edit Delete >>> Louis Buteau-Vaillancourt<louis.buteau(a)sys-tech.net> 8/18/2010 11:42 AM >>> Hello Scott, We are currently using the latest version from git and faced a similar problem when placing holds. I don't know if it's a bug but our solution was to add rule to "default" (library default and Patron category Default). After that, everything was working. Good luck Louis Buteau-Vaillancourt, Ing.Jr, M.Sc. Chef d'Ã©quipe / ChargÃ© de projets louis.buteau(a)sys-tech.net 418 520-0739 poste 146 514 907-0036 / 1-877-969-8324 SYS-TECH / Technologies de l'information libres 6700 BOUL PIERRE-BERTRAND BUREAU 209 QUÃ‰BEC QC G2J 0B4 http://www.sys-tech.net Membre supporteur de l'Association TYPO3 Le 2010-08-18 11:31, Scott Owen a Ã©critÂ : Hello again all, Â I am in the process up migrating from Koha 2.2.9 to Koha 3.2xx (used git upgrade to latest rev.). I *seem* to be pulling my items in correctly......but...... Unfortunately, I am still not able to place items on "hold". Â I can check items out fine. Â Is there a "item available"Â setting I'm missing in my MARC fields ??? Is there a required setting in the administration of Koha I'm missing?? Could someone with a working "holds"Â selection on version of Koha 3.2.x please export a MARC record and post it? (so I can check it against my 2.29 MARCs and my 3.2xx MARCs to make sure I'm importing all the fields I need to import) Â HereÂ is anÂ example of what I'm seeing (This user hasÂ no items on hold, and their are items available)Â Â Â Â Cannot Place Hold Too Many Holds: SCOTT OWEN has too many holds. No copies are available to be placed on hold Hold details Patron: SCOTT OWEN (sowen) Priority: 1 Notes: Pickup at: Pine Ave. Elementary Hold expires on date: Clear Date Place a hold on the next available copy Item type: Place a hold on a specific copyHoldBarcodeHome LibraryLast LocationCall no.Copy no.Information 70259 Pine Ave. Elementary 1Not on hold 74254 Pine Ave. Elementary 2Not on hold _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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Request for addition to vendor list
by Oscar Gaona 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Hi This is the information of Organizadatos in order to be added to the support vendor page: Company: Organizadatos Contact: Oscar Gaona Email: oscar.gaona(a)organizadatos.com Website: www.organizadatos.com Work Phone: +571-7037637 Location: Bogota, Colombia (South America) Description: Organizadatos provides services for libraries, museums and archives: installation, administration and support of information systems, advice, consultancy and outsourcing. For Koha we offer installation, support, hosting, customization, maintenance, training and data migration. Also, we have national and international coverage, in person and/or remotely. Thanks in advance Oscar Gaona

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after migration issues
by Scott Owen 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Hello again all, I am in the process up migrating from Koha 2.2.9 to Koha 3.2xx (used git upgrade to latest rev.). I *seem* to be pulling my items in correctly......but...... Unfortunately, I am still not able to place items on "hold". I can check items out fine. Is there a "item available" setting I'm missing in my MARC fields ??? Is there a required setting in the administration of Koha I'm missing?? Could someone with a working "holds" selection on version of Koha 3.2.x please export a MARC record and post it? (so I can check it against my 2.29 MARCs and my 3.2xx MARCs to make sure I'm importing all the fields I need to import) Here is an example of what I'm seeing (This user has no items on hold, and their are items available) Cannot Place Hold Too Many Holds: SCOTT OWEN has too many holds. No copies are available to be placed on hold Hold details Patron: SCOTT OWEN (sowen) Priority: 1 Notes: Pickup at: Pine Ave. Elementary Hold expires on date: Clear Date Place a hold on the next available copy Item type: Place a hold on a specific copyHoldBarcodeHome LibraryLast LocationCall no.Copy no.Information 70259 Pine Ave. Elementary 1Not on hold 74254 Pine Ave. Elementary 2Not on hold

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Removing items with no barcodes
by Barry Cannon 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Hello, We have a large number of items that have no barcodes attached and would like to remove them. I was considering just getting rid of them from mysql but I am concerned that this might have some problems elsewhere. Is there any utility we can use to remove these items and then, when they are gone, remove any bibs that are now item-less? Thanks Barry ________________________________ This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. It is possible for data transmitted by email to be deliberately or accidentally corrupted or intercepted. For this reason, where the communication is by email, Interleaf Technology does not accept any responsibility for any breach of confidence which may arise through the use of this medium. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of known computer viruses.

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Federated Library based on Koha
by Anselm Olweny 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Dear List members, Recently I was involved in setting up a federated library system using koha for African parliamentary libraries. See http://fpl.apkn.org/ In this set up all the libraries (18) are using a single database If you visit the particpating libraries found at http://fpl.apkn.org/ you will notice that they all have there own look and feel as well as different addresses for both the opac and staff interface. For example the opac for the Parliament of Kenya library is accessed using http://ke.fpl.apkn.org and its staff interface is at http://ke.fpl.apkn.org:8080; whereas the opac for the Uganda Parliamentary Library is accessed using http://ug.fpl.apkn.organd its staff interface is at http://ug.fpl.apkn.org:8080. Using these addresses these libraries are able to search only their collection. With this mail I intend to share with you how I achieved this, just in case someone may want to develop the same or even help me improve. The illustration below is limited to the creation of a single participating library, however, the steps described were peroformed for all the 18 libraries. The default koha installation serves as the Federated Parliamentary Library interface After successfully installing koha: - I duplicate the perl scripts located in koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac and koha/intranet/cgi-bin/. - I duplicated the templates located in /koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac/htdocs/opac-tmpl/prog/en/modules and koha/intranet/htdocs/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules - I duplicated the files located in koha/opac/htdocs/opac-tmpl/prog/en/includes and koha/intranet/htdocs/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/includes - I duplicated the file opac.css located in koha/opac/htdocs/opac-tmpl/prog/en/css - I duplicated the file Auth.pm located in koha/lib/C4 - I identified a two letter code to represent the individual libraries e.g. "ug" for Uganda and "ke" for kenya. These codes were also used in distinguishing the opac and staff interface URLs - I renamed all the duplicated files, adding the two letter code e.g. "ug" as a suffix to the file names i.e a file like opac-main.pl becomes opac-mainug.pl, masthead.inc becomes mastheadug.inc; opac-main.tmpl, becomes opac-mainug.pl and opac.css becomes opacug.css - I edited all the renamed files and modified all links in each of them to reflect the new file names e.g. a reference to a file like /cgi-bin/koha/ opac-search.pl was modified to /cgi-bin/koha/opac-searchug.pl; opac-bottom.inc was modifed to opac-bottomug.inc etc in all files in which it occurs - In the perl scripts I change C4::Auth; to C4::Authug; and C4::Auth qw; to C4::Authug qw; in all ocurances - I created a new DNS record for the new library e.g ug.fpl.apkn.org for the Uganda Parliament Library and enabled the "Repeat this virtualhost stanza" found in /koha/etc/koha-httpd.confSavitra's advice see http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-Koha-as-a-federated-library-p28289266.html) (thanks to - I created new virtual host entries for the new library opac and staff interfaces in /koha/etc/koha-httpd.conf - I restarted the apache server - I accessed the individual library opac e.g. the uganda Parliamentary library opac using http://ug.fpl.apkn.org - I created logo and banner images and transfered them to koha/opac/htdocs/opac-tmpl/prog/images and koha/intranet/htdocs/intranet-tmpl/prog/img - I edited mastheadxx.inc, opacxx.css, loginxx.css and staff-globalxx.css to achieve required look and feel I hope this may help anyone who might need to achieve the same kind of library with koha. I will be glad to provide any clarification and receive advise from you all. Thanks Anselm O

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Debian packages, Squeeze and updated libyaz
by Robin Sheat 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Recently Debian updated their zebra-related stuff in Squeeze, and dropped libyaz3 in favour of libyaz4. This meant that I spent some time trying to work out why zebra would work on the production system (which I was being conservative about updating) and not my newer test systems. It turns out that the version combinations currently in Debian make Zebra quite unhappy, and it will segfault. You won't see this happen if you run the rebuild_zebra.pl script, but you will get this if you run it with -v: 11:18:31-02/08 zebraidx(12790) [log] enabling shadow spec=/var/lib/koha/library/biblios/shadow:4G 11:18:31-02/08 zebraidx(12790) [log] cache_fname = /var/lib/koha/library/biblios/shadow/cache 11:18:31-02/08 zebraidx(12790) [log] dir /tmp/qKmpRDFzQd/biblio 11:18:31-02/08 zebraidx(12791) [log] zebra_start 2.0.43 abd433d1a315576cf1f4a53f2c70365f9a76477f (the segfault occurs where the PID changes from 12790 to 12791.) And then, several lines later: 11:18:31-02/08 zebraidx(12791) [warn] previous transaction didn't reach commit and nothing in zebra will have been updated. Fortunately, the version in the indexdata.dk repository doesn't suffer from this, so if you're using the Debian Koha packages I suggest performing the steps outlined here: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_3.2_on_Debian_Squeeze#What_about_Z… The Debian bug I filed for this is here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=591307 -- Robin Sheat Catalyst IT Ltd. ✆ +64 4 803 2204 GPG: 5957 6D23 8B16 EFAB FEF8 7175 14D3 6485 A99C EB6D

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XML::LibXML problem
by Kiran Savanur 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Hi, I am new to Koha, I am using Ubuntu-8.04, While installing XML::LibXML perl module from CPAN, it is giving an error as follows: cpan>install XML::LibXM ...... ..... ..... .... /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgdbm collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [blib/arch/auto/XML/LibXSLT/LibXSLT.so] Error 1 I have checked gdbm in apt-cache: user@user-desktop:~# dpkg -l | grep gdbm ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-3 GNU dbm database routines (runtime version) ii python-gdbm 2.5.2-0ubuntu2 GNU dbm database support for Python Also, I am not able to install XML::Parser. I am getting "XML::LibXML::SAX=HASH(0x8204a64)" instead of "XML::LibXML::SAX::Parser=HASH(0x81fe220)" while running the ./sax_parser_print.pl script from /usr/share/koha-3.00.00/misc directory Thanking you in advance Kiran. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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