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Alice->Koha/Win32
by Bob Treitman 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

I'm a non-librarian with moderate technical knowledge who's been asked to scope out a migration from Alice to Koha/Win32 for a small school (www.schoolofstjude.co.tz/) in Arusha, Tanzania. There's no documentation for the Alice system, and I am struggling with figuring out which format I should use to export the Alice bibliographic data into. (We're not going to worry about exporting card-holder or circulation data.) If there are any folks on this list who have done a Alice->Koha migration and could offer guidance/suggestions, please contact me directly. Thanks! -- Bob Treitman _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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strange search problem
by Alvise Rabitti 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

Hi again, as I said in my previous e-mail I finally succeded in installing koha 2.2.3 on a Debian 3.1revo0a, but now I am facing another strange problem... I need to import a test UNIMARC archive with italian specs (for example the place where the book is kept stays at tag 953 subfield a) so i made some prior configuration to the framework adding the 953 field and linking it to the kohaDB in the item records until the check was ok, planning to refine it later anyway (I'll have to translate to italian the whole interface, so the framework will undergo the same treatment). After that work I imported with: bulkmarcimport.pl -d -c UNIMARC --file filename.unimarc it said it imported the whole 105 records, even if it gave some errors concerning some queries. I executed a search, just to see how it imported them, and it gave no results... damn. No search seemed to succeed, even those with a single letter (I assume it searches for that letter, as version 2.0.2 seemed to do). "Fine, the import must have failed" I thought. Playing with the keyboard while thinking, I searched for "aa" and it returned 4 matches, almost correctly imported! Obviously no "aa" in any of their fields... I can't find other searches that return matching books yet. Anyone could please help on this problem? Please give me a hint, as if I succed in having a working Koha environment in the next 2 days it could dramatically boost the use of Koha (and probably opensource at all) in this zone, since one of the bosses has expressed interest in it... Thanks in advance Alvise Rabitti _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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2.2.3 installation issue
by Alvise Rabitti 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

Hi everyone, I'm brand new on this list as I am starting to introduce Koha in the place where I work, which includes a library. First of all, thanks to the whole Koha staff for their work. Then, a little observation :-) I installed version 2.2.3 multiple times without having it to work: if I tried the searches those always ended with a server error, and the log showing up sort of "script not found" and a reference to /usr/lib/koha which didn't exist. I found no documentation about it on the net. And version 2.0.2 worked... but I wanted 2.2.3! Finally, I had a last idea: during the installation process I appended the stopwords.txt at the Koha db, which I haven't done before because I thought "I don't want no stopwords... maybe I'll add them later". It worked! Phew! :-) Anyone else fell into this trap? Maybe it's a bug, or it's something to warn of during the installation process... Anyway, thanks again! Alvise Rabitti P.S. be prepared to receive some more questions :-) _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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how to make 050 LCC call number used
by Han, Yan 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

I am trying to make 050 Library of Congress Call number to be used. >From "parameters" >> "Biblio framework" " >> "MARC structure", I know 050 is there. However, if I select "display only used tags/subfields". 082 Dewey Decimal Call number shows. Is there anyway to disable 082, but enable 050 LCC call number? or I have to change the PERL source code? Thanks, YH _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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Error while MARC setup checking
by nabonita guha 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

Hi, I have installed Koha in Windows. I have not made amny authority category in Authority value admin. Can anybody tell me where I went wrong that I'm getting following error while MARC setup checking: **************************************************** itemnum *The field itemnum MUST be mapped *The correspounding subfield MUST be in with -1 (ignore) tab OK All item fields are in the same tag and in item tab OK Only 1 marc tag mapped to items OK itemtypes table filled with at least 1 value the biblioitems.itemtype field MUST : itemtype NOT mapped *be mapped to a MARC subfield, *the correspounding subfield MUST have authorised_value="itemtype" OK branch table filled with at least 1 value the items.homebranch field MUST : homebranch NOT mapped *be mapped to a MARC subfield, *the correspounding subfield MUST have authorised value="branches" the items.holdingbranch field MUST : holdingbranch NOT mapped *be mapped to a MARC subfield, *the correspounding subfield MUST have authorised value="branches" The biblio.biblionumber and biblioitems.biblioitemnumber fields MUST : biblio and biblionumber *be mapped to a MARC subfield, *be in the SAME tag (for example : 090$a and 090$b) *be in tab -1 OK no NULL value in frameworkcode TOTAL You have 5 error(s) in your MARC configuration. Please fix them before using koha. **************************************************** Waiting for a solution. Thanks Nabonita __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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Changing OPAC fields
by Library 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

Hello fellow Koha users, I need to add a few fields to the "normal view" for library records in the npl theme. Specifically, we need MARC 246 and 260 fields to display. Thanks very much! Gerald Franz _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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Kaha error after instalation
by Tomasz Bojczuk 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

I install Koha, installer was downloaded additional perl modules, and instalation was finished sucessful, but when i running Koha (both with usualy user and root rights) i've got 500 internal error after monit WELCOME TO KOHA in my browser (firefox or konqueror). I saw logs, and scripsts, but i don't know what i can do. Could you help me ?? My sysem is Linux Kubuntu Hoary 5.04 /usr/local/koha/log/opac-error_log says: [Sun Oct 02 13:29:00 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] read_config_file(/etc/koha.conf) returned undef at /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/Context.pm line 229., referer: http://localhost/ [Sun Oct 02 13:29:00 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] read_config_file(/etc/koha.conf) returned undef at /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/Context.pm line 229., referer: http://localhost/ [Sun Oct 02 13:29:00 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] read_config_file(/etc/koha.conf) returned undef at /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/Context.pm line 229., referer: http://localhost/ [Sun Oct 02 13:29:00 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] read_config_file(/etc/koha.conf) returned undef at /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/Context.pm line 229., referer: http://localhost/ [Sun Oct 02 13:29:00 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] read_config_file(/etc/koha.conf) returned undef at /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/Context.pm line 229., referer: http://localhost/ [Sun Oct 02 13:29:00 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] read_config_file(/etc/koha.conf) returned undef at /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/Context.pm line 229., referer: http://localhost/ [Sun Oct 02 13:29:00 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] read_config_file(/etc/koha.conf) returned undef at /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/Context.pm line 229., referer: http://localhost/ [Sun Oct 02 13:29:00 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] read_config_file(/etc/koha.conf) returned undef at /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/Context.pm line 229., referer: http://localhost/ [Sun Oct 02 13:29:00 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] read_config_file(/etc/koha.conf) returned undef at /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/Context.pm line 229., referer: http://localhost/ [Sun Oct 02 13:29:00 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] read_config_file(/etc/koha.conf) returned undef at /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/Context.pm line 229., referer: http://localhost/ [Sun Oct 02 13:29:00 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] read_config_file(/etc/koha.conf) returned undef at /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/Context.pm line 229., referer: http://localhost/ [Sun Oct 02 13:29:00 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] DBD::mysql::st execute failed: No database selected at /usr/local/koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac-main.pl line 17., referer: http://localhost/ [Sun Oct 02 13:29:00 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] DBD::mysql::st fetchrow_array failed: fetch() without execute() at /usr/local/koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac-main.pl line 20., referer: http://localhost/ [Sun Oct 02 13:29:00 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] DBD::mysql::db selectrow_array failed: No database selected at /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/Context.pm line 364., referer: http://localhost/ [Sun Oct 02 13:29:00 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] DBD::mysql::db selectrow_array failed: No database selected at /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/Context.pm line 364., referer: http://localhost/ [Sun Oct 02 13:29:00 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] DBD::mysql::db selectrow_array failed: No database selected at /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/Context.pm line 364., referer: http://localhost/ [Sun Oct 02 13:29:00 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] HTML::Template->new() : Cannot open included file /default/en/opac-main.tmpl : file not found. at /usr/share/perl5/HTML/Template.pm line 1580, referer: http://localhost/ [Sun Oct 02 13:29:00 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tHTML::Template::_init_template('HTML::Template=HASH(0x815fb70)') called at /usr/share/perl5/HTML/Template.pm line 1177, referer: http://localhost/ [Sun Oct 02 13:29:00 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tHTML::Template::_init('HTML::Template=HASH(0x815fb70)') called at /usr/share/perl5/HTML/Template.pm line 1071, referer: http://localhost/ [Sun Oct 02 13:29:00 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tHTML::Template::new('HTML::Template', 'filename', '/default/en/opac-main.tmpl', 'die_on_bad_params', 0, 'global_vars', 1, 'path', 'ARRAY(0x8964f24)', ...) called at /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/Output.pm line 77, referer: http://localhost/ [Sun Oct 02 13:29:00 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tC4::Output::gettemplate('opac-main.tmpl', 'opac', 'CGI=HASH(0x814dd54)') called at /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/Auth.pm line 114, referer: http://localhost/ [Sun Oct 02 13:29:00 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tC4::Auth::get_template_and_user('HASH(0x8922ae8)') called at /usr/local/koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac-main.pl line 32, referer: http://localhost/ [Sun Oct 02 13:29:00 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of script headers: opac-main.pl, referer: http://localhost/ Regards Tomasz _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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Relational v Textual
by BWS Johnson 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

Salvete! >Looking forward, that script is definitely going to be phased out in >Koha 3.0 since Zebra (our new textual database) comes with a very >nice Z39.50 server that supports (pretty much) the entire standard. I've never heard the rationale behind dumping the relational database. Why are we doing that, anyway? I'm just very leery of doing a conversion like this only to have things run worse than they were before. The search we have now is much better than a lot of the other products out there which is what attracted me to Koha. Cheers, Brooke @ Hinsdale MA _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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Koha as a Z3950 server
by Phill Hardstaff 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

Hi all, I found the z3950 server script zed-koha-server.pl in Koha and I am trying it out. It seems to be running ok after installing a few extra Perl modules, on the default port 9999 and I can connect to it with Reference Manager 11 and get back that I can search etc and that I am talking to Zed-Koha/GFS/YAZ, however, I have no idea what the databse is called ? I tried koha already but get no results back. Anyone using this function in Koha ? There is not much on the internet about it. Cheers Phill -- Phill Hardstaff MCSA, CCNA, A+, Network+, Inet+, Server+ Senior Support Engineer Secretariat of the Pacific Community B.P. D5 Noumea Cedex 98848 New Caledonia _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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The stocktaking of catalogued items ordered by call numbers.
by Teresa Wyndham-Smith 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

I was hoping to get some advice about to how to approach the task of producing a stocktaking list of the items catalogued within our Koha system. Could this be ranked by the entered call number? How do I go about initiating this procedure? Teresa Wyndham-Smith Communications Manager RMS Refugee Resettlement PO Box 11 236 Wellington Ph: 04 471 1932 Mobile: 021 0350 376 Website: www.rms.org.nz Donation line: 0900 444 22 This email message contains information which is confidential and that may be subject to legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not peruse, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by facsimile or telephone (collect). Thank you. _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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