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Barcode scanner - keyboard wedge or not
by T & J Kotula 15 May '03

15 May '03

Excuse my ignorance on the subject, but do I need to use a 'keyboard wedge' scanner or can I just connect one to a serial (or USB) port and somehow expect it to work with Koha - with the help of some software I assume, if so which one. I will appreciate any hints on how to get the scanner working. I haven't bought one yet, but want to make sure I will get the right one :-) PS. I intend to use Code39 and a 7-digit book number with a checksum (an excel spreadsheet with a formula was recently posted on this list) PPS. Eagerly awaiting Koha 2.0 Thanks tomasz kotula

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Koha and RSS
by Pat Eyler 15 May '03

15 May '03

A couple of us have been playing around with creating RSS feeds from Koha. We've come up with an engine which makes this pretty simple, and will be releasing it shortly (separately from Koha proper until after Koha 2.0.0 comes out). Before we do release it, I wanted to get a bit of feedback on the idea in general. If you're impatient, you can go look at http://www.kohalabs.com/rss/ for screenshots and links. ===What is it: RSS is a method for publishing small chunks of data. The first example was a list of the 15 most recently acquired items in the database (probably nice for the avid reader/fan), a different version could be written to show recently acquired DVDs, CDs, videos, etc.. Another example shows the 15 items seen least recently by the system (perhaps they've been lost or misfiled). I'm sure that there are other potential uses for both library patrons and for library staff. Nobody wants to see the raw RSS data, but there are a number of tools (called 'aggragators') which can be used to display the information in a useful way. (The screenshots linked to above show an aggregator called evolution.) ===What kind of feedback do I want: Well, something other than 'it sucks' or 'c00l d00d!'. I'd like to know if you think this might be useful. Are there other kinds of data you'd like to see in this format? Are there things you'd like to provide to your patrons like this? thanks, -pate

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Re: Koha compatibility with our distribution.
by Pat Eyler 12 May '03

12 May '03

On Mon, 12 May 2003, Nyle F. Landas wrote: > Hello, Hello Nyle, > > Is Koha compatible with Lindows OS which is based on the Debian > distribution? www.lindows.com > Koha runs quite well on debian linux. as far as i know, no one has yet tried running it on Lindows. It should work quite well. I'm CC:ing the koha user mailing list on this reply to see if anyone can give a better answer than this. -pate > Thank you, > -Nyle >

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Barcode scanners and Macs
by AMSEA Computer/Web Tech 12 May '03

12 May '03

Anyone here using a barcode scanner with a fairly new Macintosh computer, i.e., one that was made after they dropped the ADB ports and went to USB for all their peripherals? And you're using OS 9 and/or OS X? The guy at Custom Sensors (http://csensors.com) just said their scanners aren't (yet) compatible with newer Macs, and he doesn't know when the manufacturer might have updated software. They have some ADB type scanners that are supposedly Mac compatible, anyone happen to be using one of those on a newer Mac with an ADB-to-USB adapter? I have no idea if that would even work. Thanks in advance, of course. Kris F. ___________________________________ Kris Finkenbinder, Computer/Web Tech Alaska Marine Safety Education Association 1297 Seward Ave. #101 Sitka, AK 99835 907-747-3287 tech [dot] amsea [at] alaska [dot] com

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Database Schema
by Timothy R. Butler 10 May '03

10 May '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I was just wondering, if I want to take a bunch of entries and insert them into MySQL, is there a certain way this should be done? What tables should the items go into? I thought perhaps someone could point me to a document explaining the schema or something so that I can insure I can get the data in efficiently. Thanks, Tim - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler Universal Networks www.uninet.info ==================== <tbutler(a)uninet.info> ==================== | Christian Portal: | Have you not learned great lessons | | www.faithtree.com | from those who braced themselves | | GNU/Linux News: | against you and disputed the | | www.ofb.biz | passage with you? --Walt Whitman | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+vVUTK37Cns9gJ0gRAsCpAJ9teNtIVLgjE2ZfxS6VY5MWQOnfMACeOVAJ 0rPSihDDzPrQuEZELSqm/GY= =4lyb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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new developers
by Pat Eyler 10 May '03

10 May '03

In the course of the last week, I've added two new developers (from France) to our Sourceforge site. It looks like I'll be getting to add a couple more (from Argentina) in the near future. I'm really excited to see more groups joining up with Koha, and I can't wait to see the kinds of things that start happening. Let me take this opportunity to talk about four things: 1) If you're interested in working on Koha, please let Chris, Paul, or I know. We can always use people who want to work on coding, testing, writing documentation, or what have you. Even if your Perl skills aren't the greatest, there are plenty of ways you can contribute. 2) If you are registered as a developer, but you haven't been active in the last year or so, please get in touch with me. I promise I won't try to talk you into working on the project, I just want to see if you're still there and still interested. 3) We're hitting the home stretch towards 2.0.0, this means we need to be extra careful about what we do with our sourcecode. If you're a developer and you've got an idea for a cool new feature, please DON'T add it to koha yet. If you've just got to work on it, please do so outside the normal cvs tree -- once 2.0.0 is out, we'll be relaxing this stance. 4) If you want to work on Koha, but don't know where to start, please take a look at bugs.koha.org ... there are a lot of little things that need to be fixed. Please feel free to grab a bug and squash it. thanks, -pate

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LibraryLookup
by Bigwood, David 10 May '03

10 May '03

LibraryLookup is a nifty bookmarklet. http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/stories/2002/12/11/librarylookupGenerator. htmlTop of Form 1 Maybe Koha could get this enabled. Both Koha and the LibraryLookup projects would benefit. The LibraryLookup project can add support for yours if it is possible to form a URL that queries your system by ISBN (see the sample links above). That will be true for many, but not all, systems. If you can find the magic URL pattern for your system, pass it along judell(a)mv.com?subject=NewLibraryLookupUrlPatternBottom of Form 1 Sincerely, David Bigwood bigwood(a)lpi.usra.edu Lunar & Planetary Institute Cataloging news: http://www.catalogablog.blogspot.com

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News and Release Notes has been updated
by kea-notify＠katipo.co.nz 10 May '03

10 May '03

News and Release Notes has been updated. The revised page is available at: http://www.koha.org/news/index.html

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Fresh install and koha.deb...
by Marco Gaiarin 09 May '03

09 May '03

I'm doing the work importing the data i was talk some days ago, and the first pass was to do a fresh koha installation. But i'm also working on a koha debian package, so i've joined the two jobs. For now i'm tring to do a simple, very simple, koha package, so there's no installation nor a debconf script. Only files are put on correct places, i've write an example configuration file and i've to write a README.Debian to make some installation hints. I've completely skipped the Z39.50 part. ;) For now i've some problem. I've put perl C4 modules on /usr/lib/perl5, and koha and opac things on /usr/share/koha/ and /opac/. I've had to put on koha.conf the lines: opacdir=/usr/share/opac intranetdir=/usr/share/koha to make all the thinkg work. There are so many undocumented configuration options?! ;) I've also moved the config file from /etc to /etc/koha, editing accordingly the C4 modules. The package install flawlessy, and seems work well. I've only a doubt about the auth schema. Apart that koha require me login twice (?!), i've see that i can create account for every user via card number, but i can also create users, via password link. Ok, but now... modify user flags link refer to card number or users?! These are the same thing?! ;) I'm a bit confused... ;) PS: you speak about AuthenDBI to make authentication, but i've not installed some strange perl module or configured exotically apache, and koha require me user and pass. AuthenDBI is ``transparent'', so this is a feature?! ;) -- dott. Marco Gaiarin GNUPG Key ID: 240A3D66 Associazione ``La Nostra Famiglia'' http://www.sv.lnf.it/ Polo FVG - Via della Bontà, 7 - 33078 - San Vito al Tagliamento (PN) gaio(at)sv.lnf.it tel +39-0434-842711 fax +39-0434-842797 Osservatorio sulle sporche menzogne di guerra http://www.peacelink.it/mediawatch/

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Some doubts
by Emiliano Marmonti 09 May '03

09 May '03

Hello all I'm part of a workgroup that are evaluating (and starting Spanish translation) for Argentinian Universities of Koha 1.92 and have some problems, perhaps somebody could clarify me what I´m doing wrong, or if correspond that this observations are bugs that are already reported. 1. Aquisitions Module. I have set into System Preferences Aquisitions to normal and don't see any changes, I mean that in older versions of Koha from this place I could access to biblio or biblio items under Catalogue Maintainance. I suppose this is replaced by MARC option isn't it? In a lot of places of the software are references that indicates to go to Acquisition... 2. I have set MARC OFF and don't see any changes. From MARC/Biblio I could access to MARC records only, I could access to biblio record from the OPAC but could not add for example an item. From MARC option I could access to MARC (that don't works) and items but could not add an item (see below). 3. MARC Module. If I try to edit a record only could access to groups 0XX, 1XX y 2XX the rest are blank and the data is not filled in fields and no Javascript/Perl or Apache error is reported... I'm using MARC::Record 0.93. If I try to add Items from this screen the system looks like adding items but are not related to the biblio record. I could see that MARC structure is complete, I mean that are all the fields for MARC21 (2XX,3XX,4XX, etc) from System Preferences. 4. Aquisitions. I could not add a supplier, simply adding it does nothing. I have to touch something like deleting an input field in orders.tmpl for accessing. Only could access biblio from here. Idem for an order. 5. Somebody could explain me the use of ethnicity (sorry I'm trying to translate to spanish and don't understand the meaning and use) and the utility of the option Virtual Shelves? 6. I've seen that anybody could place a request, that is anybody that isn't identified for example. In the other hand I've seen that when I try to make an issue of a book that has request, Koha makes an advice indicating that this book has requests, and prompts if I wish to delete the request. But the process enters in a loop, I mean after all the answers continues with the first question of the set... Well, that's all. I'm trying to test if all this things are happening in this Koha version or could have something in my deploy that is not working OK. Thanks a lot Emiliano Marmonti ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/

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