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Error: No branches with active overduerules at /usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/overdue_notices.pl line 241.
by Geovana de Paula Santos Tarricone 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Hi! Did someone face de error: No branches with active overduerules at /usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/overdue_notices.pl line 241 ? My Koha's version is 3.0.0. Thanks, -- Geovana de Paula Santos Tarricone

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Access to Learning Award
by M. Brooke Helman 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Salvete! With so many international Libraries involved in the Koha Project, I felt as though it was a great idea to point out the Access to Learning Award sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation since y'all are prolly doing other innovative community technology projects. It's an award, so it's for stuff that's compleat (or mostly done) ; no grant stress. XD However, there is a deadline, and that deadline is 30 September 2010. (If you're going to do summat cool this year, you'd apply next year when whatever it is you're doing is done. Got it? Good.) Also, US Libraries have cooties, so no soup for you. (Well, there's other soup, just not this soup.) For information on how to apply visit: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/atla/Pages/access-to-learning-award-how-to-a… For a bit of background about the award itself visit: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/atla/Pages/access-to-learning-award-overview… For technical questions, contact: atla(a)gatesfoundation.org Cheers, Brooke

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Re: [Koha] Seeking programmer: Patron Cards and Book labels: 3.06-- How are people printing them?
by Scott Owen 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Mike, I tried to respond off-list but keep getting ******* all relevant MX records point to non-existent hosts or (invalidly) to IP addresses ******* ??? Might want to check your MX record. I believe we are just using a standard 29mm thermal label. This printer is a thermal printer, so there is no ink to rub/smear etc. We just use standard labels sizes and trim appropriately. Then put a piece of clear book-tape over top of that. We also book-tape cover the barcode. Takes a little more time, but, holds up to wear and tear of k-12 students. From: koha-bounces(a)lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Scott Owen Sent: 23 August 2010 14:14 Cc: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Seeking programmer: Patron Cards and Book labels: 3.06-- How are people printing them? Just installed Koha from git, and the patron card/spine labels seem to work fine. However.... While using Koha 2.2.9 on win32 I was not happy with the standard barcode generated by Koha (when I could get them to work) so I used the following software and process to generate my own. Option 1 ******************************** This requires allowing access to the MySQL database that holds all of your Koha information. *BE CAREFUL AND MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND THE RAMIFICATIONS OF DOING THIS* Barcodes are just a font. Free barcode 39 font http://www.squaregear.net/fonts/free3of9.shtml Free (for non-profit and edu) label making/design software http://www.idautomation.com/labelsoftware/free/ MySQLAdmin and GUI tools from http://library.pantek.com/Applications/MySQL/Downloads/MySQLGUITools/mysql-… Install MySQLGUITools. Use a multi-table MySQL query to pull the data from both the biblio and items tables into a single “output” table, then export to CSV. the SQL query : SELECT biblio.biblionumber, biblio.title, items.barcode, items.itemcallnumber FROM biblio, items WHERE biblio.biblionumber = items.biblionumber; Will produce (in my case) a CSV like biblionumber title barcode itemcallnumber 1 Novell's ZENworks administrator's handbook / 1 2 The New York Public Library desk reference. 30525 031 new 3 Picture perfect / 36003 FIC PIC 6 Just listen : 30431 FIC DES 5 The lovely bones : 30319 FIC SEB 8 Unexplained / 109541 001.94 ALL 9 Whatever happened to Janie? / 109542 10 The bad beginning / 50000 F SNI 11 The field guide / 50003 F DIT 12 The clique : 109528 F HAR As you get into larger and larger biblionumbers you may want to add a > to the query: SELECT biblio.biblionumber, biblio.title, items.barcode, items.itemcallnumber FROM biblio, items WHERE biblio.biblionumber>4 = items.biblionumber; The >4 causes the query to only show rows where the biblionumber is (greater than)> 4 Install the barcode font, and the label making software. You can then design your labels, input data from the CSV, and produce your own custom labels with almost any information you desire. I include the barcode, title, call number, and school name on all of my labels. If you can obtain one, the Brother QL-500 is a wonderful label printer that also includes label design software that will allow you to print barcodes. This process is not as easy as just pressing the button in Koha, but, I have found it to work quite in my environment. Option 2:****************************** Create a "remote query" in PHP so that you can automagically generate a barcode ready list. The cut/paste/format into a CSV, and print as above in option 1. example: http://koha.almaschools.net/RQ/booklist.php This requires a bit more work....but is very handy. If you want the messy details, let me know off list...... -Scott Owen Alma Public Schools >>> Chris Nighswonger<cnighswonger(a)foundations.edu> 8/23/2010 7:53 AM >>> Hi David, On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:02 AM, David M. Bucknell <dbucknell(a)iteachnet.org> wrote: If there is someone who would be willing to jury-rig patron card and spine label printing ... write a script ... I'd be willing to compensate hourly costs. I haven't heard from anyone except Chris, who is a contributing programmer, I take it, so I guess everyone else has either an on-site team or is paying a provider. 3.06 seems pretty cool and there is really no alternative, so if anyone is willing to help for some cash via paypal, it would be worth it to me. I have three installations that need this, none of which have a budget, but all of them hell-bent on Koha because of me. Why don't you just upgrade to the current beta of Koha 3.2? There are several libraries, including ours, that have been running over this code for months now. It seems a bit counter productive to pay money for a feature that will die in a couple of weeks anyway. Kind Regards, Chris ----- Message from cnighswonger(a)foundations.edu --------- Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:27:26 -0400 From: Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger(a)foundations.edu> Reply-To: Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger(a)foundations.edu> Subject: Re: [Koha] Patron Cards and Book labels: 3.06 -- How are people printing them? To: david(a)intknowledge.com Cc: koha <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> > Hi David, > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:24 PM, David M. Bucknell <dbucknell(a)iteachnet.org >> wrote: > >> Hello Everyone, >> >> Printing Spine label and patron cards: I started working on this in >> May and 3.06 is >> still the preferred stable version. I've seen two posts that say to >> wait for 3.2. >> >> > 3.2 includes a complete re-write of the label and card creator code. So > waiting is probably the thing to do. > > >> I've installed in various configurations (now have Thai lang with >> marc-21; strange, but >> it seems to work for input and searching).d >> >> I can't get any of the label options to work (English lang mostly) for >> books or patrons >> (at least not more than minimally -- I can get a barcode graphically >> and as text, but >> that's it. (Oh, and a nice red box around the items. Nothing I do to >> customize (choose >> what's on the label) has any effect. >> >> > Label printing is pretty broken when it comes to unicode support. The short > of it is that the pdf standard is not unicode friendly. This is true of 3.2 > as well. > > Having said that, we printed several thousand English (and a few Spanish) > labels with the 3.0.x labels code. So it will work for English and probably > some other Latin based alphabets. > > >> Finally, I can't get the export to csv to work to try it. >> > > I'm not sure what might be going on here. > > >> >> Apologies for not seeing it if it's obvious, but now I would like to >> ask for suggestions. >> Am I wrong or is this just not working? How are people getting >> their labels and patron >> cards done in 3.06? >> > > The patron card code in 3.0.x is basically inflexible as many of the > settings are hard coded. You will have to wait for 3.2 stable or go ahead > and grab 3.2 alpha2 or the latest development master from > http://git.koha-community.org/koha.git > > Kind Regards, > Chris > ----- End message from cnighswonger(a)foundations.edu ----- -- *http://iteachnet.org *http://flossed.org *http://ischoolnet.org *Web Ideas, Tools and Sites for Teachers, Schools, and You. *Cell: +66(0*)84 329 1183; Office: +66(0*)2 980 9464 (*No "0" if calling from overseas.) ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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koha
by sakthi valli 29 Aug '10

29 Aug '10

is there sms feature in koha

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About problem in Unicode Nepali
by Nitesh Rijal 29 Aug '10

29 Aug '10

Hello all.. Recently I have come across a problem in KOHA 3.0.3 related to nepali unicode. Whenever I search any word in nepali, in my library site, it lists all the records in nepali. Even those which have no relevance with the search string. Please see the link at nnl.healthnet.org.np and search for a word. there instead of getting matching result, we get all the available Nepali result. As an example text you can type "karki" or "nepal" that turns to "कार्की" and "नेपाल" in Nepali. All of them return the total number of results. My though is that, it is searching for each letter of the word, instead of the whole word itself. Please see once, what may be the problem, please reply. Thank you. -- Nitesh Rijal BE IT rijal.it(a)gmail.com http://niteshrijal.com.np http://facebook.com/openrijal http://twitter.com/openrijal +9779841458173

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place hold is not working
by Nur Ahammad 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

Hi everybody, My library recently migrated to Koha 3.00.06 from 3.00.05. Everything looks good in opac and staff client but problem is that place hold is not working from both opac and staff client. When I try to place hold it displays non of these items can be placed hold. Any thoughts about this regard? Nur Ahammad BRAC UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

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multilingual in koha - error
by Priyadarsan kp 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

i installed koha 3.00.06 in ubuntu 10.04 i have set Apache AddCharset UTF-8 .utf8 AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 MySQL init-connect = 'SET NAMES utf8' character-set-server=utf8 collation-server=utf8_general_ci character_set_client=utf8 but when i type a malayalam entry in biblio, get an error Koha error The following fatal error has occurred: Wide character in subroutine entry at /usr/share/perl5/MARC/Charset/ Table.pm line 96. Apache Server version: Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) Server built: Apr 13 2010 19:28:27 Koha 3.00.06.010 Koha DB 3.0006010 MySQL mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.41, for debian-linux-gnu (i486) using readline 6.1 OS Linux njanodaya 2.6.32-22-generic-pae #33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 28 14:57:29 UTC 2010 i686 Perl 5.010001 Please give me a solution to enable UTF8 (in malayalam language) in hoha. -- Priyadarsan K. P. --------------Official Address------------ Lecturer in Mathematics, C. K. G. M. Govt. college, Perambra P. O., Kozhikode Kerala, 676525-PIN 919496166465 Mob 914962610243 off http://ckgmgovcollege.homelinux.com --------------Residential Address------------ Karattillam "Supriya", Kottur P. O. Naduvannur, Kozhikode-673614, Kerala, India. Ph: 91496 2652330

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Texting Overdue Notices
by Nora Blake 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

Greetings all! I've been told that Koha isn't able to send overdue notices as text messages to cell phones, but that it can send other notices (such as hold filled notifications, item due reminders, etc.) as text messages to cell phones. Is this information correct? Thanks, Nora ________________________ Nora Blake MassCat Manager Massachusetts Library System P.O. Box 241 South Deerfield, MA 01373-0241 413-665-9898 x123 866-MASSCAT (627-7228) Email: nblake(a)masslibsystem.org AIM: noraatmls

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Re: [Koha] koha 3.0 compilation error
by Chris Nighswonger 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

Hi Sven, Please cc the list as someone else may be able to help or may be helped by these communications. On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Sven Jankofsky <sven.jankofsky(a)tfh-wildau.de> wrote: > I could fix this with "sudo aptitude install libnet-z3950-zoom-perl" but it just occurred another error > > >>This version of XML::LibXSLT requires XML::LibXML 1.6 (ABI 1), which is incompatible with currently installed XML::LibXML 1.70 (ABI 2). Please upgrade XML::LibXSLT, >XML::LibXML, or both! at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0/XML/LibXML.pm line 49. Are you sure you are using the correct repositories for your version of Ubuntu? Have you tried upgrading XML::LibXSLT or downgrading XML::LibXML? Kind Regards, Chris

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Fwd: Help me complete Koha 2.2.9 implemetantion
by Stephen Hedges 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Raphael Muonga <chisangaz(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:57 AM Subject: Help me complete Koha 2.2.9 implemetantion To: st.hedges(a)gmail.com, mhelman(a)illinoisalumni.org May I please ask for your help. I have just successfully installed Koha 2.2.9 for the first time on Windows XP Service Pack 2. I have done almost all the Bibliographic Data Parameters settings/definitions and I am able to download Bibliographic Records into Koha using Z39.50 servers. I am also to connect to the Server from client computers on the LAN,. But I have got two (2) problems:- 1. I do not know how to introduce into Koha bibliographic record the number of items for say one book (say 1 or 4 books for the same volume - Excel VBA Programming book) in our Library. Which field should I edit? 2. I have failed to see as to why the system is producing a blank Member Record after I have filled in almost all the required data in the Member Personal Details form and pressing Save button at the bottom of the form. Incidentally each time I retry to fill in the same Member Personal Details form, the fields are bring up the same data I previous entered. But when I try to search for members it shows nil records. Where have I gone wrong. The Search for books whether using OPAC or Intranet is working well both on the Server and Client computers. I anxiously await your assistance. Kind regards Raphael Chisanga Muonga

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