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Confirming lack of edit access to Koha site
by BWS Johnson 30 May '09

30 May '09

Salvete! The Kaitiaki should have more than just basic login rights to the official site. This is true in especial given Rachel's past hard work on website development. We elected her. Permissions on a website seem a small thing in the frame of guardianship of the entire project, but they're important nonetheless. Cheers, Brooke >Hi Rach- > >With a basic login you should right now be able to do all the following: > > - add news > - add events > - add libraries to the showcase/map-- in fact, if you could work on > adding any NZ libraries missing that would be great. > >Let me know if you can't do these things. I could with a basic login last >time I checked. > >There seems to be a bug creating some permission weirdness with adding >documentation at the moment, which we are looking into. The intention is for >documentation to be added by anyone with a login as well. > >Rather than think of 'editing', think of 'adding'. > >Hope that helps, >Tina

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zebra indexing issues
by Christopher Curry 29 May '09

29 May '09

Hello all, I'm testing importing our MARC data into Koha 3 on Debian Etch and I want to be able to quickly rebuild the zebra index. I found instructions to do so in INSTALL.debian 7.2 Fast Index: $ misc/migration-tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -b -w Unfortunately, there is no /misc directory on my server...does this mean that I missed something during installation? I do have a rebuild_zebra.pl script, located at: /usr/share/koha3/bin/migration_tools, but when I run this script, the following error is returned: Can't locate C4/Context.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/koha3/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl line 5. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/koha3/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl line 5. Context.pm does exist at /usr/share/koha3/lib/C4 Can someone tell me what @INC is referring to? It is not referenced in the rebuild_zebra.pl script. Any help will be greatly appreciated. BTW, I was able to successfully index my first import by setting up the zebra demon and running: zebrasrv -f /etc/koha/koha-conf.xml I want to be able to **rebuild** the index, though, so I will need to be able to run the rebuild_zebra.pl script. Thanks in advance. -- Cheers, Christopher Curry Assistant Technical Librarian / Assistant IT Officer American Philosophical Society 105 South Fifth Street Philadelphia, PA 19106-3386 Tel. (215) 599-4299 ccurry(a)amphilsoc.org <mailto:ccurry@amphilsoc.org> *For technical support, please use helpdesk(a)amphilsoc.org <mailto:helpdesk@amphilsoc.org>* Main Library number: (215)440-3400 APS website: http://www.amphilsoc.org

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Koha public Z39.50 server bug. Work to do in koha-conf.xml
by tajoli 29 May '09

29 May '09

Hi to all, last month different peoplae wrote about an error on how-to put on-line a public z39.50 server. The error (in the log of the zebrasrv) was: zebrasrv(1) [request] Init ERROR 1 ID:81 Name:YAZ Version:3.0.45 62f4f43aa7b97890d7c4bf776e3749f25b2e1c5a I think To have found the source of the error. See the first lines of koha-conf.xml with a public z39.50 server: [...] <listen id="biblioserver" >unix:/home/koha/koha-dev/var/run/zebradb/bibliosocket</listen> <listen id="authorityserver" >unix:/home/koha/koha-dev/var/run/zebradb/authoritysocket</listen>  <listen id="publicserver" >tcp:@:9999</listen> [...] you have the error. But if you change the lines in this way:  <listen id="authorityserver" >unix:/home/koha/koha-dev/var/run/zebradb/authoritysocket</listen>  <listen id="biblioserver" >tcp:@:9999</listen> the z39.50 public server now works (on biblios database). But why ? I think it work because in the rest of koha-conf.xml only two server are setup, biblioserver and authorityserver. The server publicserver doesn't exist. So the error that we see with yaz-client means: "You are asking of an on-existing server. This is a permanent error. This what I have found. I don't know what is better to do now. I don't what Zebra conf is needed to have in the local servers on unix socket and only one server on public tcp port. Bye

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Disallowing holds
by Cab Vinton 29 May '09

29 May '09

Is there a way to do disallow holds for certain classes of materials, or at the individual item/ record level? I've poked around the settings for Item Types & the item-level subfields, but haven't found anything yet. The ability to do this would come in handy because we're thinking of adding records to our catalog for the downloadable audiobooks our patrons have access to through Overdrive. Other libraries have found that instead of going to the Overdrive site to place holds/ get access to the audiobooks, patrons invariably attempt to place a hold through the catalog. Does not work, needless to say, & just creates more work for the library staff. The same basic idea would also apply to downloadable ebooks, streaming music via Naxos, etc. Thoughts? Cab Vinton, Director Sanbornton Public Library Sanbornton, NH

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RFID
by vinod kumar 29 May '09

29 May '09

How to enable RFID in koha-3.0.0.0 plese sugest me step bystep help me Thanks & Regards vinod kumar

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automatic barcode numbers
by Carmel Young 29 May '09

29 May '09

Using Koha 3.00 on Lenny. Problem: When adding records, the barcode does not automatically present the next sequential number. Can anyone help? Carmel Young Catholic University of Malawi.

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Goods and bads...
by Ernesto Silva 29 May '09

29 May '09

.. hi folks. I´ve been away from this list for some time (years?). I installed Koha at Universidad ORT Uruguay in 2004-2005 with Andrés Tarallo (http://biblio.ort.edu.uy = 61000 biblios) and adapted the system to feet our needs (version 2.2 or 2.4). Before Koha we had MicroISIS. I still work at ORT University but I also work at CES, which is the secondary schools headmaster organization at country level.... well, perhaps it's no so big, Uruguay is not a big country, only 3 million people. We have 270 schools with a library on each one, a big library (I don't know the size yet) and I believe there are a few other small libraries around. Much of the catalogs are in MicroISIS and OpenBiblio and we want to migrate to a fully centered web based architecture, our schools are in the process of being digitally interconnected. So of course my first alternative is Koha as this is the platform I know best, but... (there's alway a 'but') the 2.2 version of Koha had a lot of good code and a few very, very bad pieces, not that I'm a good programmer. I feel this new project will also need some level of code alteration and I'm worried about the actual code status. I haven't got the time to setup a new Koha installation, and I have some questions perhaps some of you can answer, sorry for my laziness but I really don't have the time to read the code: -How is the code today? Does it still have library specific hard-coded pieces? -Are Authorities and Serials working well? -How about acquisitions? -How does Zebra performs with complex queries, say, 5 to 10 terms ( A and B and not C or D... etc.) Some history of my work with Koha. I've modified a lot the Koha version a got from Internet because ORT University wanted some processes to work in a certain way not fully supported by Koha. I contributed to Koha source with a few patches and I also made a fully new search system using MySQL full text search capabilities. I "invented" a query language (reinventing the wheel?) and a translator to SQL. With this search improvements I've managed to reduce the complex searches delays from minutes to seconds, say 15 minutes to 10 or 20 seconds. We hired Jean Pierre Ducassou, he was the one who finished the search system and developed a new record display system based on XML+XSL+XSLT which we still don't have online but will have in a few months. We need to alter some MARC data to unify criteria here at ORT. Of course this code is available for free to everyone who wants it, just ask for it. My regards to the list and Paul Paulain. Ernesto Silva.

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Overdue notices
by Cab Vinton 28 May '09

28 May '09

I have a few questions about how others are handling overdue notices w/ Koha 3. If you're using Koha to send overdue notices via email, how do you keep track of overdues where the patron has not provided an email address? If an email address is no longer valid, do returned messages get bounced to the administrator? Any other tips on handling overdues? Many thanks, Cab Vinton, Director Sanbornton Public Library Sanbornton, NH

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Re: [Koha] MARC 001 Field
by Zeno Tajoli 28 May '09

28 May '09

Dear Ondrej, At 10.27 25/05/2009, Ondrej Mlecka wrote: >In the MARC 21 code there is the 001 field, which is the unequivocal >idetifier of each record. However, I can't find any support for this >field in Koha (for ex. a script which fills this field authomatically). > >Could anyone tell me how does this field function in Koha? It seems >that Koha uses rather some of the 999 subfields for the unequivoque >identifiing. Is therefore sme way how to map the Koha field in 001 >MARC field? Or, in Koha is it prefered not to use this field?... yes, Koha in MARC21 setup uses the 999 to register the unequivocal identifier of each BIBLIOGRAPHIC record. Attention that Koha uses two unequivocal identifier of each bibliographic record. In 999$c you see the Koha biblionumber [used in the MySQL table 'biblio'] In 999$d Koha biblioitemnumber [used in the MySQL table 'biblioitems'] In fact now Koha doesn't use the 001 field. And field 001 is a special field, you can't map the Koha field to 001 MARC21 field. I have try to do it and it does not work. And can't find any script for this field because there isn't. But the system doesn't use the value inserted into 001 MARC21 field. So in fact you can insert everything. Cheers Zeno Tajoli Zeno Tajoli CILEA - Segrate (MI) tajoliAT_SPAM_no_prendiATcilea.it (Indirizzo mascherato anti-spam; sostituisci quanto tra AT con @)

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Manual for Configuring Koha's Zebra
by Amandeep Kansal 28 May '09

28 May '09

Hi, Please follow following steps. (Steps are based on linux platform) 1. First of all uninstall zebra server(previous). 2. Download and install zebra server from ( I recomended) http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/idzebra-2.0.18.tar.gz steps: 1. tar xvzf idzebra-XXX cd idzebra ./confidure make make install 3. please find 'zebrasrv' probably it is in /usr/local/bin/ if yes, then edit these files, /etc/koha/zebradb/zebra-biblios.cfg /etc/koha/zebradb/zebra-authorities.cfg /etc/koha/zebradb/zebra-authorities-dom.cfg replace modulePath: /usr/lib/idzebra-2.0/modules with modulePath: /usr/local/lib/idzebra-2.0/modules 4. ./rebuild_zebra.pl -b -a 5. start zebra hopefully every thing will fine -- Er. Amandeep Kansal B.Tech, RHCE Network Engineer Chitkara Educational Trust Plot No.11-12,Ground Floor, Dainik Bhasker Building ,Sector 25-D, Chandigarh- 160014. +91-172-4691800 http://linuxtosavemoney.blogspot.com/ On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Zeno Tajoli <tajoli(a)cilea.it> wrote: > Hi Quanzhong Zhang, > > At 09.35 18/05/2009, Quanzhong Zhang wrote: > > >I am still encounter the problem "Catalog search No results found". > >Could you kindly tell me some "check point"? Or send me some step by > >step manual for configure Koha's Zebra. > > I fact I don't know ho to help you. > > I can guess that in your log the crucial point is > > >15:24:48-18/05 zebrasrv(1) [request] Search biblios ERROR 109 1 1+0 RPN > >@attrset Bib-1 @or @or @or @or @or @attr 1=36 @attr 4=1 @attr 6=3 @attr > >9=32 @attr 2=102 java @attr 1=4 @attr 4=1 @attr 6=3 @attr 9=28 @attr > >2=102 java @attr 1=4 @attr 4=1 @attr 9=26 @attr 2=102 java @attr 4=6 > >@attr 5=103 @attr 9=16 @attr 2=102 java @attr 4=6 @attr 5=1 @attr 9=14 > >@attr 2=102 "java? " @attr 4=6 @attr 9=14 @attr 2=102 java > > this is the query with Bib-1 syntax to Zebra (a Z39.50 server). > It report an error (ERROR 109 ) > > In you install file there is a chapter called 'Configure and start Zebra' > Have you do the instructions ? > Do you use Unimarc or MARC21 ? > > Bye > > > > > Zeno Tajoli > CILEA - Segrate (MI) > tajoliAT_SPAM_no_prendiATcilea.it > (Indirizzo mascherato anti-spam; sostituisci quanto tra AT con @) > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha >

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