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Koha Installed on Linux Server - Interface Problems
by J Rancharan 16 Jul '07

16 Jul '07

Hello Colleagues, Through a lot of pestering to our IT staff, we finally managed to have them install KOHA on a server (LINUX) for us. We have been provided with a public IP address for the system, meaning that I can access the cataloging and OPAC features from other systems. I noticed one problem though. The version that is isntalled has the interface of version 2.2. When I check the ABOUT file in KOHA, it says that it is 2.2.8. Basing it that, I do firmly believe that we do have the 2.2.8 version, just that the IT people probably installed it over the 2.2, the version that they were probably testing some months ago. I know that you can change the template in the parameters, but so far I have been unsuccessful. Any directions how to exactly do so would be appreciated. Cheers, Joel.

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koha ver 2.2.9
by mohamed fekry 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

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VMWARE Image of Koha 2.2.9
by Darrell Ulm 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

Hello, Hey I saw Kyle Hall beat me to setting up a Koha VMWARE Image. I think of 2.2.9. I tried to start the torrent, but nothing came over, 0 peers. I am not a torrent expert, but it would seem at least one peer is needed for the torrent. Kyle, if you can get me this, I can leave a torrent up much of the day. I still may do this myself, I was going to try Fedora, it worked before as a test. I foolishly scrapped the VMWARE image as I was just getting into VMWARE and I have another install on a real machine. Still, this could be a useful way to distribute Koha as VMWARE is fairly easy to use. Kyle do you have the image!? -D.Ulm

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koha ver 3.0
by mohamed fekry 13 Jul '07

13 Jul '07

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Newbie with lots o' questions
by George Adams 13 Jul '07

13 Jul '07

Hello, all! I'm trying to get our church's small (i.e. 50-200 items) library online, and I'm spending this week trying to figure out how I'm going to do it. I've pretty much decided it's either going to be: 1) Koha, or 2) some application I write myself in Perl or PHP. I have Koha 2.2.9 set up on my Gentoo Linux (2.6.20) server (w/MySQL 5), and I'm trying to figure out... well, how Koha works, really. The guides on kohadocs.org have been useful, but they're incomplete on some things I need to figure out. If anyone can answer any of these questions, I'd be very grateful! - When an item is placed on reserve, how does the librarian receive a notification of that? (i.e. what tells him/her to go get the book off the shelf and put it on the reserve shelf?) - Also, when an item is placed on reserve, it still shows up in search listings with a status of "Available". Is that normal? Is there a way to have it show up as "Reserved", so nobody gets frustrated trying to find it on the shelf? - Can Koha prompt us to remove certain items from the reserve desk? (i.e. "The following reserved items have been held for 7 days without being picked up by the patron, and can therefore be placed back into circulation...") - Finally, although I downloaded the latest version of Koha I could find (2.2.9), I hear phrases dropped like "dev_week" or "Koha 3" that make me wonder if there's a newer, better version of Koha I can get...? For instance, the Nelsonville Public Library website (http://search.athenscounty.lib.oh.us/) looks much nicer than my Koha test site, even with my using the "npl" templates. Is that sort of look/feel only available with a commercial Koha product, or can I download something that will give me a similarly pretty site? I'm sure I'll have more questions as I get deeper into Koha, but this is a start. Thanks! _________________________________________________________________ Local listings, incredible imagery, and driving directions - all in one place! http://maps.live.com/?wip=69&FORM=MGAC01

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Re: [Koha] Zoom install error
by Frédéric 13 Jul '07

13 Jul '07

> Is there a place to find lexslt, lxslt, lwrap etc? I did install the > yaz toolkit already if that means anything. I don't have a Fedora box. So I may miss something... First, verify that you get Yaz last version. If not, http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz/. Then use Fedora Package Manager (?) to install missing libraries. Search for 'xslt' not 'lsxslt' ('l' means 'link' or 'library'). -- Frédéric

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No edge label - Is is realistic ?
by Michel Virard 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

To old hands, I am in the process of designing my bar-code label and I realize that a central element is the "call number" in most libraries, i.e. the number used to find the physical address of the book once returned to shelves. Since we have a new (and small) library with no "manual card" heritage, we have been looking at ways at using Koha to simplify operations and, essentially, to eliminate the need for a call number. In many libraries I have seen operating (Montreal municipal library is one) each book has essentially two stickers: a small one on the edge that show a call number (often on two or three small lines - no bar code) and another sticker on the third cover, with one bar-code and printed lines. The explicit purpose of the edge sticker is to permit rapid return of books to their proper shelve by a human clerk. The shelves are then organized by genre (French Novels, English Novels, Dictionaries, etc.) physically stored in shelve islands. We found that this type of organization is optimized for borrowers browsing books on the shelves. It is the normal way to operate most libraries, however, one has to accept that a lot of the space of the library is organize for people moving around and not as a simple storage area for books. Also this type of storage is wasteful of shelve space simply because there is no separation of books by format size, thus every shelve has to accommodate the largest format and shelves have to be reachable by the shorter borrowers. Our major constraint is we are very limited in space, so we are considering replacing physical browsing mostly by virtual browsing, since Koha allows this type of regrouping. Also, we want to store books on shelves barely higher than the book format they will support. There will be no other regrouping than the sorting into three sizes. The size being self evident will not need a marker and since we will use the combination First-Author-Last-Name + Main-Title to do the physical sorting, we think we can eliminate the edge sticker entirely. Are we crazy ? Are we going to hit a brick wall ? I would appreciate any comment, especially from old hands who have seen it all. Michel Virard BHQ Montreal Canada mvirard(a)symtec.ca

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KOHA translation
by Danica Zendulková 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

Hello, I would like to ask you how we can translate the intranet messages. And my second question is adressed to administrator: will the KOHA team be interested in our result - Slovak version of all messages? Regards Danica

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Re: How to change HTML / TMPL path prefix?
by Jack Bates 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

Thanks for your support! This is an important feature for our installation here at the SFU student libraries, so I started working on it. It seems clear I need to add four new config parameters for opac and intranet, cgi and html URL prefixes. In my experience with other projects (Gallery, PHP WebDAV and MediaWiki), this parameter is usually named 'baseUrl' or something, however each of these projects has only one URL prefix parameter, they don't separate opac and intranet, cgi and html. As far as distinguishing URL path prefixes from file system path prefixes, I like the Apache Location vs. Directory vocabulary. But for consistency with current 'intrahtdocs' and 'opachtdocs' config parameters, and with the 'intranet-cgi', 'opac-html', etc. path components, I've currently used: * 'intracgi': Should default to '/cgi-bin/koha' * 'opaccgi': Should default to '/cgi-bin/koha' * 'intrahtml': Should default to '' * 'opachtml': Should default to '' Adding the html URL prefixes was easy because html already uses the 'themelang' and 'interface' template variables. I only needed to edit Output.pm:gettemplate Adding the cgi URL prefix seems like it will be more tedious because it's used both in template and Perl code files. Also, before I go editing template files for various translations, I assume each translation is built from one source file? I browsed the developer wiki a bit, but haven't yet found instructions to build a Koha distribution archive from the source repository (presumably this involves compiling localized versions of templates). Please find attached the small patch I created so far and my SSH key. Can I please have access to clone the 2.2 git repository? If anyone can offer feedback or point me at relevant documentation, that'd be much appreciated! Thanks, Jack > ----- "MJ Ray" <mjr@...> wrote: > > Jack Bates <ms419@...> asked: > > > How do I change the path prefix where Koha looks for HTML / TMPL? > > Koha has used two VirtualHosts for as long as I've been here, so I'm > > not sure that's supported yet. It needs a hunt-and-kill on the > > hard-coded locations. It would be a good thing to do if you have > > time. > Not only would it be a good thing, you'd be rewarded with thanks and > praise :-)

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koha ccfls template
by mohamed fekry 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

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