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Circulation rules bound to Marc record
by Nelson Fredsell 11 Jul '09

11 Jul '09

Hello all, Our libraries have different circulation rules regarding a different number of renewals allowed. I believe 3 renewals is standard. However one library allows books to be checked out for 8 weeks, with a single renewal allowed for 4 weeks. This seems to present two problems: 1) Because number of renewals is bound to the Marc record (942 Item type), all libraries must have the same number of renewals, or multiple copies of same holding must be assigned to multiple Marc records. Please tell me there's a third option! 2) Renewals must be for the same time period as the initial checkout period? 3) Holdings must be checked out for a particular number of days, apparently, and not according to a calendar system. eg. books checked out on 1 Feb must be returned by/before 1 March. Thanks very much. My main concern is #1 above, as one of the great benefits of a union catalogue I imagined was to assign multiple items to the same record across multiple libraries, but there was good reason for the 8 week/4 week rule. (To complicate matters further, this same library has a second set of circulation rules available upon request: 6 month checkout for intensive study purposes! Also, a school library might allow staff to keep books out for a longer initial period, but not allow the standard number of renewals on that longer period.) Take care, Nelson implementing a union catalogue in Cape Town, South Africa

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OT: Surveys
by Nicole Engard 11 Jul '09

11 Jul '09

Hi all, A bit of an off topic email because I have something awesome to share. As you know I'm working on a survey, what you might not know is that I'm using an open source survey app to collect data. I know a lot of you do research sometimes, so I wanted you to know that I am using LimeSurvey (limesurvey.org) and it's awesome, open source, and runs on your server (versus other popular options). Next time you do a survey give it a whirl. --- Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLime (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 nce(a)liblime.com AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard http://liblime.com http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/

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make:[test_dynamic] Error 255
by vijay kumar 11 Jul '09

11 Jul '09

Dear all, I am getting the following error, during upgrade of koha-3.00.00 version to koha-3.00.03 version. Kindly suugest me, with regards, Vijay Kumar SCREENSHOT root@vijay-laptop:/usr/share/koha-3.00.03# make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 KOHA_CONF=blib/KOHA_CONF_DIR/koha-conf.xml /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/PERL_MODULE_DIR', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t t/Amazon.......................ok t/Barcodes_PrinterConfig.......ok t/Bookfund.....................ok t/Bookseller...................ok t/Boolean......................ok t/Branch.......................ok t/Calendar.....................ok t/Charset......................ok t/Circulation_barcodedecode....ok t/Dates........................ok 1/126# # In order to run without DB access, this test will substitute 'us' # as your default date format. Export environmental variable KOHA_TEST_DATE_FORMAT # to override this default, or pass the value as an argument to this test script. # # NOTE: we test for the system handling dd=00 and 00 for TIME values, # therefore you *should* see some warnings 'Illegal date specified' related to those. # # Testing Legacy Functions: format_date and format_date_in_iso # Illegal date specified (year = 1952, month = 1, day = 00) at t/Dates.t line 58 Illegal date specified (year = 1952, month = 1, day = 00) at t/Dates.t line 61 # # Testing 4 formats. # Testing no input (defaults): # # Testing with valid inputs: Illegal date specified (year = 1952, month = 1, day = 00) at t/Dates.t line 80 Illegal date specified (year = 1952, month = 1, day = 00) at t/Dates.t line 80 Illegal date specified (year = 1952, month = 1, day = 00) at t/Dates.t line 80 Illegal date specified (year = 1952, month = 1, day = 00) at t/Dates.t line 80 # # Testing object independence from class # done. # Looks like you planned 126 tests but ran 9 extra. t/Dates........................dubious Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00) DIED. FAILED tests 127-135 Failed 9/126 tests, 92.86% okay t/Debug........................# BEFORE use: $debug is not defined # BEFORE use: $cgi_debug is not defined # AFTER use: $debug is 0 # AFTER use: $cgi_debug is 0 # Done. t/Debug........................ok t/dummy........................ok t/Input........................ok t/Koha.........................ok t/Languages....................ok t/Maintainance.................ok t/Output.......................ok t/Record.......................ok t/Review.......................ok t/Scrubber.....................ok 1/10# Note: scrubber test output will have whitespace collapsed for readability # done. t/Scrubber.....................ok t/Stats........................ok Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail List of Failed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- t/Dates.t 255 65280 126 9 127-135 Failed 1/21 test scripts. -9/189 subtests failed. Files=21, Tests=189, 4 wallclock secs ( 3.00 cusr + 0.28 csys = 3.28 CPU) Failed 1/21 test programs. -9/189 subtests failed. make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255

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PNLA presentation
by Lee Phillips 11 Jul '09

11 Jul '09

Hello all I am scheduled to talk about our migration with Koha and LibLime as well as open source cms (plone and wp) on Aug 6th at 8 AM at PNLA. I would like to invite anyone planningon attending (or dropping in) who would like to join me for a panel discussion of open source ILS and other applications to contact me. The panel format really encourages "open" exchanges and I hope there are a few of you out there in Koha land who would be willing to spend an hour and a half answering questions. The conference is in Missoula MT this year and it is their 100 year celebration. If you are interested in sharing your experiences please contact me ASAP so we can collaborate on content. Lenora, are you still interested? Best Lee

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Error in koha installation
by Sivasankari Muthuraja 11 Jul '09

11 Jul '09

Hi, I'm a newbie to koha. I tried to install koha in fedora10 linux. and had installed the koha with pre-requisites of essential perl modules,UTF-8 charset in mysql. I haven't installed Zebra, Yaz, since i'm not going to test with huge data contents. i followed INSTALL.fedora7 available in the koha-3.00.03 version tar file extracted. I couldnot understand sec 4.4 loading data for tests. Installer document says to add Listen 8080 in the etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file. Since Apache tomcat server is configured for 8080, i haven't added the line in the httpd.conf file. When i launch the http::<ipadress of my intranet>:80/ - I get the error mentioned below. - ==== Screen output ==== Koha error The following fatal error has occurred: Can't locate ZOOM.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/share/koha/lib /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Context.pm line 85. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Context.pm line 85. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Auth.pm line 25. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Auth.pm line 25. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac/opac-main.pl line 22. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac/opac-main.pl line 22. ==== Screen output ==== Kindly help me out , what may be reason for this. Thanks in advance Sivasankari M

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automatic e-mails
by Jonson philip 10 Jul '09

10 Jul '09

hi i have a problem in send e-mails automaticlly to overdue students , add this line to my crontab file but didn't sent any e-mail ... any help */45 10 * * * /usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/message_queue.pl

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Storage of item type when itelevel-itype is off
by Sébastien Hinderer 10 Jul '09

10 Jul '09

Dear all, When the itemlevel-itype system preference is off, to which MARC field could one bind item-type in Unimarc, please ? Any suggesiton greatly appreciated. Cheers, Sébastien.

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display of additional fields in Koha search results
by vinod kumar 10 Jul '09

10 Jul '09

Hi, When i search for books in Koha, I get the results. In these results, among the existing fields, I wish to add additional fields, like : ISBN Number, Call Number, Copyright etc. Where do I look for it ? Thanks. v. kumar

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Koha related accounts
by Sébastien Hinderer 10 Jul '09

10 Jul '09

Dear all, At the moment the users account on koha.org, the wiki and the bug tracking system are distinct. Would it be possible to have only one user account database which would then be used for all the parts of the Koha website ? What do you althink about it ? Cheers, Sébastien.

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Catalog Search box on website
by Melanie Hedgespeth 10 Jul '09

10 Jul '09

We would like to have a catalog search option on the front page of our website. Is there any information on this? Thanks! Melanie

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