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Request to be added to the Koha support providers
by Toni Rosa 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

We'd like to be added to the list of Koha Support providers. Following the explanation found in http://koha-community.org/support/paid-support/how-to-get-listed/ , please find the description of our company and Koha services: Company Name: Adimena Contact Person: Antoni Rosa Ruiz Contact email: toni.rosa(a)adimena.net Website: http://www.adimena.net Address: C/ Torrent, Mataró -Spain-, 08302 Short description of your services: Adimena is a small company that offers FOSS based CMS, LAMS and ILS solutions and support. Koha is the ILS product that we install and support for our library clients since its version 2.2.7. Regards, Toni

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Item issue
by Luís Díaz 31 May '10

31 May '10

Hi all Koha 3.00.06 / ubuntu 10 We have some problems to see items in OPAC. We have loaded 365 records from a marc file. Items have the field 952 So we test to load a few bib revords with manual opcions for items, puting a non null value into the 952/9 subfield. This items after rebuild_zebra indexing are visible, but all the other have a value of 0 and they are not visible. In the import step all the ITEMS seem to be presents In the cataloging tab, the items are visible too. So... have we forget a step? Could we update database to have a value !=0 in the 952/9 subfield? Thanks a lot in advance

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Re: [Koha] changes in code doesnot appear
by Chris Cormack 31 May '10

31 May '10

Hi Nitesh What Koustubha was asking was whether you did a dev install install or choose a standard one. There is no template caching Koha, so what he was hinting at politely was that you might be changing files in the wrong location. Chris "Nitesh Rijal" <rijal.it(a)gmail.com> wrote: >I have KOHA installed as LIVE system in my LIVE Server. The changes that I >had made earlier are there. But when I make the same changes in a test >location in LOCAL machine, it doesn't appear > >On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Koustubha Kale <kmkale(a)anantcorp.com>wrote: > >> >> >> 2010/5/31 Nitesh Rijal <rijal.it(a)gmail.com> >> >> Hello all. >>> >>> I have recently added few lines in code base of KOHA 3.0.3. When I change >>> the file and save it, the changes doesnot appear in the web preview. I have >>> tried clearing all the cache and restarted the system several times, but >>> still there is no change. >>> >> >> Are you using a Dev install? If not are you making the changes in the >> installed location of Koha and in the proper language? >> >> >>> Nitesh Rijal >>> >> >> >> 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. >> TeleFax : +91-22-21720108, +91-22-21720109 >> Mobile : +919820715876 >> Website : http://www.anantcorp.com >> Blog : http://www.anantcorp.com/blog/?author=2 >> >> >> >> > > >-- >Nitesh Rijal >BE IT >rijal.it(a)gmail.com >http://niteshrijal.com.np >http://facebook.com/openrijal >http://twitter.com/openrijal >+9779841458173 >_______________________________________________ >Koha mailing list >Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz >http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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changes in code doesnot appear
by Nitesh Rijal 31 May '10

31 May '10

Hello all. I have recently added few lines in code base of KOHA 3.0.3. When I change the file and save it, the changes doesnot appear in the web preview. I have tried clearing all the cache and restarted the system several times, but still there is no change. Does KOHA itself cache its template, or is there something else I need to look at? I had faced the similar problem few months back when I created a patch of the changes I had made and then applied the patch in other system, there was no change, but after few restarts, its appeared there. I'm wondering why does the changes doesn't appear and if they do why do they take such a long time. Its a minor problem but its troubling me because I cannot make and verify quick chages in KOHA. Please help. -- 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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Don't miss the trip of a lifetime KohaCon 2010!
by M. Brooke Helman 31 May '10

31 May '10

Salvete! You might not have realised it, being neck deep in the hypnotising pages of your AACR2R, or perhaps your tawdry RDA, but There's a Conference! and It's happening where the tricksy Hobbitses live! Yeah, yeah, I know the lame yet understandable and valid excuses you're about to spout about it being very, very, very far indeed as well as quite expensive. But here's how I look at it. I am young right now at this very moment. Folks that I served committee with have since taken the West Road, so now is the best time to reward myself with the trip of a lifetime, seeing as how I have no terrible lower back pain, fake knees, heart conditions, et cetera. Also, Chris has hauled hisself to the US who knows how many times on our account, not to mention totally missed the millennial New Years programming Koha. Consider the same for Paul, and think about how bad the US will look if we don't play nicely with the other Koha kids that swim many miles of rough choppy dolphin infested current to come and visit us every time we put on a conference. If you know me at all, you know at least three things 1) I am painfully cheap. Some people think that it's frugal or Foolish, but I see it as cheap. 2) I am quite stubborn and will spend a very long time indeed handling a Reference question or researching summat. 3) I can be quite squirrelly and do not generally enjoy being pent up in confined spaces, such as airplanes, for prolonged periods of time. If I can get mahself to NZ, so can you. Und nao, to ze point. I finally broke down this very morning and secured passage to NZ. While trying to figure out the cheapest/fastest/best way to get there, I learnt many things. I considered just about every option - private jet, freight on a steamer, becoming an air courier, upgrading my tickets, swimming from one island to the next, et cetera. Hopefully some of these are useful to other people that haven't yet booked their trip. * You're prolly gonna have to fly through Los Angeles. (LAX) That said, it was very much worth flying cheaply from the right coast to the left coast. I had daydreams about taking Amtrak at one point, but I didn't want to super duper prolong the inevitable. So, went with Southwest from my backyard to LAX for $250 roundtrip. Be extra super duper careful when you break up travel to LA, as you're wrestling with the dreaded International Date Line, not to mention connecting flights. Large mice have been spotted in a neighbourhood known as Disneyland about a half hour to an hour south of the city, so mind your purse and any cheese you might have on your person. In theory, you could win a sky auction from LAX to WLG for about $900, but I've never done it myself before, and I didn't want to experiment this time round. * Many places that fly to New Zealand also fly to Hawai'i and other island Nations, such as Fiji. This allows you to see sights or take a short holiday in non Hobbit populated areas, should you so choose. A ticket on posh Hawai'ian Air from LAX to HNL (Waikīkī) was $379ish this morning. Magic dates from HNL to SYD were 15,17, and 19 October for Air Pacific. For Qantas, *THE* magic day was Wednesday 20 October. If I tried to push that forwards or backwards AT ALL, the cost of my trip bundle varied ridiculously to the tune of several hundred to several thousand (yes thousand) dollars. I desperately tried to book on New Zealand, but no matter how hard I hit the computer, it would not allow me to do so at a reasonable rate since I was going other places. Opted not to go to Fiji since there was some regionalised cyclone damage, and it's a little too much adventure for this go. If you opt for Fiji instead of Hawai'i and skip Australia, there might be a pleasant cost savings on Air Pacific. * If you're clever, you just noticed that I used the airport code for Sydney back there. Why yes, yes, I did. "But Brooke," you might posit "Australia is not actually part of New Zealand. Koalas v. Kiwi." Yeah, yeah, I know that. It's just that I desperately wanted to see Uluru and a brevicauda. Gonna have to settle for the Opera House (which I've wanted to see since I was quite little), cause a trip to Alice Springs is just way too much money and time to squeeze in this go, regardless of method of transport, and willingness to contort to ridiculous dimensions. I'm hoping maybe, just maybe, they'll have a brevicauda in the zoo, though it looks like I'll only have a frilled neck lizard for companionship. For marital dispute purposes, Sydney is *not* the capital of Australia, as anyone with better than mediocre geography coursework knows. However, like LAX, a heck of a lot of flights are rerouted through Sydney, so you might as well stop over and decompress if you're not on a tight schedule, or if you notice a ridonkulous 18hr layover on your schedule. * You do want to do all of the cool pre conference stuff, don't you? I mean, if Joann jumped off a bridge, you would follow her, provided you were properly secured, yes? They _did_ spend a lot of effort drumming up cool things to keep the Americans busy, so you may as well get to where ye're gettin' early. After all, Hobbitses are wiley, and if you wanna see em, Joann scares them, so you'll need to go alone. You *definitely* want to take a roadtrip, ya? So be sure that you fly into Auckland, home of the nefarious JAFA, in time for the night of 22 October, if the Conference page is still to be believed. Also, meet the Mayor of Levin and tell him how super cool he is, as well as tell HLT how super cool they are for innovating. That's on 28th October. Hurry it up, wouldja? Joann needs to have headcounts and whatnot to confirm stuff for things. "Yeah, yeah. What's the bottom line?" Fine, I'll tell you, but keep in mind it's for a highly customised, very, very squirrelly itinerary. For reals, Expedia was quite unhappy with me at least 3 times during my fidgeting with dates and departure points. There were cheaper, longer, and more expensive options to choose from. Also, do not swim for at least 3 hours after reading the bottom line. $1801 IAD>LAX>HNL>SYD>AKL then WLG>LAX>IAD. So that's there and back again between 14 October and 3 November, air and taxes only. If you want to know the precise dates for searching purposes, shoot me an off list email, and I'll hook you up with when I left from where. To sweeten the deal, I intend to buy at least one round at the local pub, and I've heard rumour that the beer is really, really quite good. Cheers, Brooke

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Koha ScriptAlias Work around?
by Dwayne Collins 30 May '10

30 May '10

Hello Folks, I've been working to install Koha on a shared server without root access (I am trying to migrate to my commercial webhost). It's been a rather long road thus far but, after much struggling and help from my webhost's tech support, I've managed to get the scripts to run with one small problem: redirects aren't directing to the proper spot because I don't have the ability to use httpd.conf which means that there is no ScriptAlias that will point in the right direction. Before I spend a couple of weeks digging around trying to work around this, I thought I would ask if anyone has had any luck in installing Koha without the need for ScriptAlias to be used in the the koha-httpd.conf file or if anyone had any ideas on how to approach working around this? I've checked with my webhost and there's nothing that they can do to allow me to use ScriptAlias. Any help on this front would be most appreciated! Cheers, Dwayne Collins

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Horowhenua Library Trust announces new Koha website.
by Joann Ransom 30 May '10

30 May '10

It is with a sense of pride that Horowhenua Library Trust launched its new Koha library management system late last week, the public face of which is the new website: www.library.org.nz. <http://www.library.org.nz/> The new site is built on the Koha 3.2 Alpha2 release and the work was led by Chris Cormack from Catalyst IT <http://www.catalyst.net.nz/>. The site features the work of Wendy Hodder<http://kete.library.org.nz/site/topics/show/43-wendy-hodder>, renowned children's book illustrator and muralist. The site development was carried out by the team at Katipo <http://katipo.co.nz/> Communications and incorporates digital content from a Library Trust Kete <http://kete.net.nz/>, an open source digital library application developed by Walter McGinnis at Katipo for the Library Trust. Koha is an open source library management system originally developed by Horowhenua Library Trust in New Zealand in 1999. The Trust would like to acknowledge and thank the many libraries and developers from around the world who have contributed to Koha 3.2. For more information abut Koha visit: www.koha-community.org -- Joann Ransom RLIANZA Head of Libraries, Horowhenua Library Trust.

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Re: [Koha] Koha Error
by Cornelius Simba 28 May '10

28 May '10

Dear all, I have recently installed Koha LMS for my library. I have encountered various errors when entering the records to the system. I managed to solve some problems but I sitll have one which I have tried to solve but in vain. When I save the record of an item entred into the system, the system displays the following message: The following fatal error has occurred: Tag " " is not a valid tag. at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2036 Apache Server version: Apache/2.2.12 (Ubuntu) Server built: Nov 12 2009 22:49:46 Koha 3.00.05.003 Koha DB 3.0005003 MySQL mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.37, for debian-linux-gnu (i486) using EditLine wrapper OS Linux kohasvr 2.6.31-19-generic #56-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 28 01:26:53 UTC 2010 i686 Perl 5.010000 Will you kindly help me to fix this problem so that I continue entering records in my system. Looking forward for you assistance in this matter. Cornelius Simba Director of Library and Information Services Tumaini University, Iringa University College Library P.O. Box 200 Iringa Tanzania

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Re: [Koha] fatal error
by Msgr. Marion J. Makarewicz 28 May '10

28 May '10

Bariki, What version of Koha are you using and what is your platform. I have installed 3.02 on Fedora 12 and had quite a bit of problems fixing that SAX parser error. As I understand it, different distributions of Linux install different perl libraries. Koha requires some tweaking on the SAX::Parser modules. It's come up in threads of this mailing list and in the bug reporting. Try this installation guide, about 2/3rd down. It helped me understand and fix: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=opensuse_11.0 Good luck Marion J. Makarewicz Visitation Inter-Parish School >Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 12:58:17 +0300 (EAT) >From: bariki.kamara(a)out.ac.tz >Subject: [Koha] fatal error >To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz >Message-ID: <43113.196.43.84.243.1274263097.squirrel(a)mail.out.ac.tz> >Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 >Hi, >Am trying to add some data into Koha ILS but I end up with the following error below; >The following fatal error has occurred: >Can't call method "append_fields" on an undefined value at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/MARC/File/SAX.pm line 92. >what might be a problem, please I need some help on this. >Regards, >Bariki G. Kamara

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Encountering problem when creating a Chinese record
by Henry Lam 28 May '10

28 May '10

Dear all We have just installed a Koha 3.04 instance and wanted to test on whether it supports non-Latin scripts. We are using Marc21 as the encoding standards. We have uploaded some Chinese records in the system and display of Chinese characters are perfect. However, we have problem in the searching of Chinese characters. The result is not accurate. The result list even contains non-Chinese records and with no words coincide with the transliteration from the Chinese characters being searched. So I did an experiment of creating records with Chinese characters. I tried to create a new title with just 2 Chinese characters in the title field, when I saved the record, the following error msg came out: The following fatal error has occurred: Wide character in null operation at /usr/share/perl5/MARC/Charset/Table.pm line 96. Apache Server version: Apache/2.2.12 (Ubuntu) Server built: Mar 9 2010 22:11:44 Koha 3.00.04.019 Koha DB 3.0004019 MySQL mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.37, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using EditLine wrapper OS Linux 202-150-216-70 2.6.31-14-server #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 15:07:34 UTC 2009 x86_64 Perl 5.010000 What do you think the problem is? Thank you in advance. Regards Henry

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