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customizing Koha 2.0.0
by Stefanie Mohsennia 31 Mar '04

31 Mar '04

Hello all, we have installed Koha 2.0.0 at the International Library in Düsseldorf/Germany. It's up and running and we are now starting to customize the system. I don't know if this is the right place to ask questions that are not really technical, but rather geared towards the application. If there is a different list for "librarian questions", could you please point me in the right direction? Here are our questions that arose after our first customizing attempts: 1. I configured a membership category and assigned 10 as the fee to pay, but when I look at the membership record that has been created for the first member in this category, it says "Fee: $30/year". Where does this figure come from and how can I change it to the right amount which would be 10 EUR? 2. The date when the member joined the library was automatically set to 27/3/2004, the date when I entered the member's data. Also, the expiry date was set automatically to 27/03/2005. How can we change both dates to match our present expiry dates of memberships? 3. We would like to allow members to take books out for 28 days and allow 2 extend their loan period twice. Is it possible to customize the system according to our specification? 4. We have two different loan periods for DVDs and videos. The member can either opt for a three day loan or a seven day loan (the latter costs more). Is there a way to have this choice for the same item in Koha? I appreciate your support very much and am looking forward to receiving answers to our questions (I'm afraid these won't be our last questions, though). Best wishes from Germany, Stefanie Mohsennia

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Koha 2.0 has been released!
by Pat Eyler 31 Mar '04

31 Mar '04

After a two year cycle of intense development efforts Koha 2.0 is now being released! Early release copies of Koha 2.0 have been deployed in libraries in France and the United States for over 6 months. With this new release, we expect Koha to be deployed in many more libraries around the world. Koha 2.0 is a major upgrade to the Koha 1.2 system, including features like: a fully templated web interface, translation tools and translations into french, chinese, and polish, and best of all ... full integration with MARC (both UniMARC and MARC21). Koha 2.0 can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=16466 With this release, we're making a change in the release managment for Koha. Paul Poulain, who managed the development of Koha 2.0, will be turning over the ongoing management of the 2.0 version to MJ Ray. Paul won't be sitting idle though, he will become the manager of Koha 2.2 development. Congratulations, and good luck, to both MJ and Paul. Too many people have contributed to Koha over the last two years to thank everyone individually, but we would be remiss if we didn't mention a few people who've made major contributions: Paul Poulain and Steve Tonnesen did the majority of the design for our new MARC database layout, Stephen Hedges and the Nelsonville Public Library funded a great deal of the MARC development, l'Abbaye Notre Dame des Dombes also aided the MARC work by providing a test environment during early development, MJ Ray coordinated much of the bug hunting and squashing effort, and last (but not least) Katipo Communications has continued to provide all manner of support to the Koha community. Pat Eyler Kaitiaki/manager migrant Linux sys admin the Koha project ruby, shell, and perl geek http://www.koha.org http://pate.eylerfamily.org

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Who is the borrower?
by talia.alton＠iird.vic.gov.au 30 Mar '04

30 Mar '04

We are happily using KOHA 1.2.3. How do I find out, who is the borrower of a certain book? Thanks, Talia Alton Business Information and Research Unit Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development talia.alton(a)iird.vic.gov.au _____________________________________________________________ Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development Government of Victoria, Victoria, Australia. This e-mail and any attachments may contain privileged and confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not distribute or reproduce this e-mail or the attachments. If you have received this message in error please notify us by return e-mail. ______________________________________________________________

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by lcurrie＠calacademy.org 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

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by pate＠eylerfamily.org 26 Mar '04

26 Mar '04

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Howard Dahdah/Australia/IDG is on Holidays
by Howard_Dahdah＠idg.com.au 26 Mar '04

26 Mar '04

I will be out of the office starting 26/03/2004 and will not return until 06/04/2004. Any questions for IDG Online can be directed to Nadia Cameron nadia_cameron(a)idg.com.au or Steven Deare steven_deare(a)idg.com.au Thanks, Howard

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Solved: Z3950 Searches Stopped Working
by Ken & Brenda Voelker 25 Mar '04

25 Mar '04

Just for the record, I was able to fix the problem, thanks to a message posted by Mike Taylor (the author of Net::Z3950) to the Net-Z3950 mailing list (see October 23, 2003). Don't understand why others haven't run into this problem, nor do I understand why it appeared so suddenly on my installation. In any event, in order to get it captured into this archive, here's a synopsis: Problem: MARC searches suddenly quit working altogether - the ISBN's remained in the search list, and Koha would continue to query the L.O.C. servers until the list was manually cleared. The z3950-daemon log in /var/log/koha showed an error message of the form: ERROR: Can't call method "option" on an undefined value at /var/www/library/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue line 163, <KC> line 22. Here's Mike's reply to someone who ran into the same problem: >Net::Z3950 is not guilty! The culprit here is the Library >of Congress's, <ahem> somewhat eccentric Z39.50 server. > >Remember that, as documented, the default record-syntax requested by >Net::Z3950 programs is GRS-1. The LoC server doesn't support GRS-1 >records. > >To fix your problem, you need to tell Net::Z3950 that you want to >fetch USMARC records from this connection. CURE: in the module /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue, look for the line that creates the new Z3950 connection: eval { $conn= new Net::Z3950::Connection($servername, $port, databaseName => $database); }; and modify it to explicitly spell out the record syntax you want, i.e. USMARC: eval { $conn= new Net::Z3950::Connection($servername, $port, databaseName => $database, preferredRecordSyntax => 'USMARC'); }; (Actually, you'll make this correction twice, because the command appears in the module twice, once with and once without password authentication). Don't forget to halt and re-start the Z3950 daemon, in order for the changes to take effect. (Or just reboot).

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Adding Serials to Koha
by Bernadette Cassidy 25 Mar '04

25 Mar '04

Hi, I'm using the simple acquisitions module in Koha and I have a question re serials. Once I've created the biblio record and added the first issue, how can I then add subsequent issues without having to create another biblio?!! I know this can be done, I just don't know how to do it. Many thanks, Bernadette ___________________________________________ Bernadette Cassidy Library & Learning Coordinator Allan Bean Centre for Research and Learning in Rehabilitation Private Bag 4708 Burwood Hospital Christchurch New Zealand Tel: (03) 383 9492 Fax: (03) 383 7500

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MARC opac searching
by Michael Watson 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

Greetings, I am looking at customizing the public search interface of Koha 2.0.0RC4, and would like to confirm my understanding of how it works before charging into it. It looks to me as if Koha stores bibliographic records in a sort of "Koha-native", non-MARC format in the biblio table, as well as storing MARC records in the marc_subfield_table. When an end user performs an "advanced" search of the catalog on a newly-installed system, the page he sees is generated by opac-search.pl; the search form on that page has as its action the perl script opac-searchresults.pl. I'm still dissecting the flow of the program, but it looks like opac-search.pl and opac-searchresults.pl use the templates opac-search.tmpl and opac-searchresults.tmpl, in which I see references to functions in Search.pm. As I look at the sql statements in Search.pm, these functions do seem to hit only the "biblio" table. I also see a "SearchMarc.pm". I'm wondering if this is where the marc-searching functionality used in the staff (intranet) portion of Koha is hidden. If I wanted to modify Koha so that, for example, the publicly available interface does all author searches against 100 | a and 110 | a in the marc_subfield_table , instead of simply against the author field in the "biblio" table, am I correct in concluding that what I need to do is to edit opac-searchresults.pl, opac-searchresults.tmpl, and possiblly SearchMarc.pm? Thanks, Mike Watson thornswabbler(a)earthlink.net

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More re: Z3950 Searches Stopped Working
by Ken & Brenda Voelker 20 Mar '04

20 Mar '04

Further to my original posting, the lookup failures all have entries in the z3950-daemon-xxxxx.log that have the following form: Processing isbn="0310250641" at 1 z3950.loc.gov:7090 voyager (1 forks) Q: @attr 1=7 "0310250641" ERROR: Can't call method "option" on an undefined value at /var/www/library/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue line 163, <KC> line 22. z3950.loc.gov:7090 done. What is this trying to tell me?

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