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Hi! I'm a new member
by S P Suresh 26 May '07

26 May '07

Hi all, I am a researcher in Computer Science Theory / Logic at the Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, India. We are a research-cum- teaching institute with around 100 students. We are upgrading our library now. As part of which, we have installed Koha 2.2.9, a couple of days back. We will test it for about two weeks and then put it in production. We have a staff of two in the library who are willing to deal with new software but who might be intimidated by a slew of customization options and manual setting of parameters. One or two people from the CS group are around to help, when we find time. We also have a student who is a Unix god. My question to the people on this list is: where do we go from here? I saw the Users Guide and went through the guide for newbies. Is there any other material I can access about more recent versions of Koha? As experienced users, can you tell us what we should look out for and take care of in our early days with Koha? Thank you for your time and patience. I look forward to a useful and productive time on this list, learning a lot from you. Cheers, Suresh S P Suresh Chennai Mathematical Institute India PS: Is anyone from India in this mailing list? Are you aware of any other Indian deployments of Koha?

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Koha 2.0.0 to 2.2.9 migration - catalogue search doesn't find anything
by Rick Welykochy 26 May '07

26 May '07

Hello to the list, With some help from Chris and the rest of the team that was at Katipo earlier this year, I did a migration of an existing Koha 2.0.0 install over to Koha 2.2.7. (Thanks for #koha on IRC!) At that stage, the database was upgraded to 2.2.7 using the koha.upgrade script. But the catalogue search did not return any results. Further investigation showed that we needed to run one more script: koha2marc.pl Finally we had a working Koha 2.2.7 system. I have since moved everything to our dedicated server and re-installed everything from scratch using Koha 2.2.8. For the database upgrade, I saved a MySQL dump, then imported that onto the 2.2.8 system. This is where things continue to fail. The catalogue search once again does not work. So I tried the koha.upgrade script once again, to no avail. Today we decided to upgrade to Koha 2.2.9 to fix the outstanding bugs. After upgrading the database, the catalogue search still does not work. Every search on the OPAC quick search page returns the same result: one record, prolly the first in the biblio section of the database. The tables are populated with records, as one would expect, e.g. here are some sample row counts: Table biblio: 16473 rows Table biblio_framework: 0 rows Table biblioanalysis: 0 rows Table biblioitems: 16324 rows Table bibliosubject: 15820 rows Table bibliosubtitle: 3902 rows Table bibliothesaurus: 0 rows Table branches: 10 rows Table items: 16448 rows Table marc_biblio: 21234 rows Table marc_blob_subfield: 5458 rows Table marc_breeding: 348 rows Table marc_subfield_structure: 1107 rows Table marc_subfield_table: 455964 rows Table marc_tag_structure: 98 rows Table marc_word: 687694 rows Table systempreferences: 67 rows The "Check MARC" function returns all OKAY. I am at a loss what to do next. Any advice from the more experienced Koha users? thanks, rickw -- _________________________________ Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services Any belief that can't stand up to objective scrutiny is hardly worth having. -- LJ McIntyre

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RE: [Koha] Koha Virtual Appliance
by Piet Slaghekke 26 May '07

26 May '07

Yep, If we can get a hold of good working image. (vmware has a free utility that will turn a working server into a virtual server which can then run on VMware server or ESX Server) Let me know if when you will have time available. ________________________________ From: Jim Kronebusch [mailto:jim@winonacotter.org] Sent: Tue 5/22/2007 12:27 PM To: Piet Slaghekke Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha Virtual Appliance On Tue, 22 May 2007 08:26:19 -0700 (PDT), Piet Slaghekke wrote > Hi Jim, > > I think this is a great idea!! > > Check out this site http://www.rpath.com/rbuilder/ which allows you to > build a virtual appliance that will auto update etc.. this would be great > for koha!! > > If we can get a team together we could create such an appliance, what do you > think? I would like to see this done as well. I am working on some other projects right now but when I get a chance I would like to do this. It really shouldn't be that hard, a person just needs a working Koha to start with and some instructions on how/what to change to personalize. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by the Cotter Technology Department, and is believed to be clean.

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National holidays and other free days - how are they handled?
by Tomasz Holdowanski 25 May '07

25 May '07

Hi all, How Koha handles free days, especially national holidays in the middle of a week? Is there a list where I can write down all dates when my library is closed, so the system will not allow to set return date to any day from the list, but instead set it to the first "open" day after the "closed" one? I guess I could change the return date manually, but it`s rather bad idea when there are up to 300 patrons and up to 1500 transactions per day... Any suggestions? Regards, Tomasz.

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Custom Framework Question when Adding a new MARC record
by Sean Murphy 24 May '07

24 May '07

I am using 2.2.8 on Windows. I created a MARC Framework. How do I set Tags that are defulted to be hidden to be displayed so when a MARC record is added we can add values to those fields? Example, we use Marc field 852, but it is not a displayed value. When addind a marc record it goes from 830 to 856. Thank you, Sean Murphy sgmurphy(a)brit.org Botanical Research Institute of Texas

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Choon Kheng Caroline Loh-Phua/lib/staff/npnet is out of the office.
by Caroline Loh 24 May '07

24 May '07

I will be out of the office starting 05/25/2007 and will not return until 05/29/2007. Please contact Ms Lim Bee Ang (x6551) who will be covering my duties. Best regards Caroline NOTICE: This message may contain privileged/confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please delete it immediately and notify the sender .

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What Am I missing?
by Bo Schafers 24 May '07

24 May '07

Hi All, Thanks for you recent help with the bulkimport script. I have encountered some more obstacles... 1. When I try to use the Cataloguing|Marc Import feature, pressing the 'Import' button cause the browser to attempt to download breeding.pl ??? 2. When I try to a Z39.50 search to populate a blank record with remote data pressing the 'Seach Internet' button causes the browser to download seach.pl ? Quite a frustrating issue, I'm assuming its doing this due to a missing module? Which one(s)? Help! Bo (2.9.9 on Debian Etch, MySQL 5.0 Apache2)

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Selecting the itemtype
by Beda Szukics 24 May '07

24 May '07

Hello I'm new to Koha. Until now I have set up the parameters. I defined two itemtypes (books and video-dvds). Now I would like to enter some video-dvds but I'm not able to change the itemtype from book to dvd. Where do I select what type of material I'm describing? Greetings Beda

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Re: Koha MARC Check errors - Reg.
by thandu venkat narayana 24 May '07

24 May '07

Dear Sir, I have installed koha 2.2.8 in my WINDOWS-XP Operating system successfully But I am facing the problems Problem 1 : at MARC Check item fields ALL items fields MUST : be mapped to the same tag, and they must all be in the 10 (items) tab Problem 2: at the time of logout it is showing error. Please give suggestion to solve the problem Yours Sincerely T,Venkat Narayan Assistant Librarian, Srivenkateswara Engineering College, Suryapet. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL

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Error in OPAC for users having books issued to them
by Ata ur Rehman 24 May '07

24 May '07

Dear All I am using koha 2.2.8 on windows xp. My users/students got error 500 when they try to login with their card number and password. Error message says: Server error! The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Error message: Premature end of script headers: opac-user.pl If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster<webmaster@dummy-opac>. Error 500 opac 05/24/07 13:55:32 Apache/2.0.59 (Win32) I have noticed that the users having books issued got this error. In OPAC Error Log, I got the following error: [Thu May 24 13:40:52 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of script headers: opac-user.pl, referer: http://opac/cgi-bin/koha/opac-user.pl [Thu May 24 13:40:52 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] HTML::Template->output() : fatal error in loop output : HTML::Template::param() : attempt to set parameter 'reserves' with an array ref - parameter is not a TMPL_LOOP! at C:/usr/site/lib/HTML/Template.pm line 3069, referer: http://opac/cgi-bin/koha/opac-user.pl [Thu May 24 13:40:52 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] at C:/usr/koha228/opac/cgi-bin/koha/opac-user.pl line 158, referer: http://opac/cgi-bin/koha/opac-user.pl All other users got no error. Any idea? Thanks in anticipation Regards, Ata ur Rehman, Librarian, Akhter Hameed Khan Resource Center (AHKRC), NRSP-Institute of Rural Management, F-6/4, Islamabad Ph: +92 51 2822752 +92 51 2822792 http://www.irm.edu.pk/

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