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How many records?
by Christensen, David A. (CHT) 11 Sep '02

11 Sep '02

Hi all, I'm just wondering if Koha can support fairly large databases... like, say, 1.5 million records. Actually, that's a bit of a lie. We (as the provincial library) run a union catalogue for the province - about 700,000 recs for about 1.5 million holdings througout Manitoba (and growing steadily :-) I'd like to be able to make a case for replacing our (aging, proprietary) existing system. I've taken an admittedly quick scan through the archives, to no avail. Anyone using Koha for large databases? David Christensen Technical Consultant Manitoba Public Library Services Unit 200 - 1525 First Street South Brandon, Manitoba, Canada R7A 7A1 DChristens(a)gov.mb.ca Voice: (204) 726-6870 Fax : (204) 726-6868 http://maplin.gov.mb.ca/

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On-line reservations
by Roger Buck 09 Sep '02

09 Sep '02

Is anyone doing work for on-line requests and email notification via OPAC? If so, then please let me know. Otherwise I'm hacking some stuff to do this that should work with current 1.2.3 RC. I am not a coder so It would be better if someone else were doing this... (I don't like wasting time on stuff that others do better)... but I think I could learn enough to create something usable that others may modify or replace later. If there are no other takers, then I will amke a start and try to keep new code separate so it can be added like a "contrib" rather than a diff. I have noted this at http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/wiki/index.php?page=KohaProjectList All comments welcome. R.

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Authentication problem using 1.2.3RC11
by Roger Buck 08 Sep '02

08 Sep '02

I have just started playing around with 1.2.3RC11 I am wodering what I need to configure to avoid this message: REJECTED You do not have access to this portion of Koha ======================= What I have done: Vanilla koha install (using install.pl on linux), with all default values. I login using kohaadmin and kohapassword. Apache basic authentication is NOT configured for any koha directories. When I click on "Members" menu item it takes me to "members-home.pl" with message: "REJECTED You do not have access to this portion of Koha" Looking at cookies file, I note that my browser has set 2 cookies: 1 sessionID for each port - 8000 and 8001. In a previous message from Steve about authentication: 2. checkauth() checks for a $ENV{'REMOTE_USERNAME'} environment variable. a. If one is set, assume that basic authentication of some sort is being used b. check that this user is allowed to be running this script. If not, print a warning page and exit (possibly redirect to library home page or somesuch?). c. return a zero value and the userid logged in and the script carries on. ======================== Any ideas what I need to configure? R.

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Call for Questions
by Nicholas S. Rosasco 06 Sep '02

06 Sep '02

Someone had the good idea of adding a section to the Koha documentation on migration from other OPAC tools to Koha. This, naturally, requires some knowledge of what people have been using prior to Koha, and how they handled their transitions.... in other words, break out the war-stories! Please send any information on your past move to Koha, or planned move for that matter, to nsr_koha(a)hotmail.com Source code from transition tools/utilities, etc will be happily accepted, and duly credited (bonus points if you add commenting). What I'm need for your submission to be useful :) : Name of prior-to-koha catalog, who made it, what version, etc. who and how transition was managed any details on reformatting/etc scripts how data was extracted from the old catalog application how data was imported into Koha how changeover and phasing out of the old catalog happened. As always, documentation and source contributors will be duly recognized in the manual. Nick ...documentation compiler, Koha.

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Win32 Koha development list
by Pat Eyler 06 Sep '02

06 Sep '02

Hello everybody, With all of the talk recently about running Koha on a win32 platform, Chris has created a koha-win32 mailing list. If you'd like to see Koha on windows, subscribe to the list and then get to work ;) To subscribe, go to http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/koha-win32 and check the appropriate boxes. happy hacking, -pate 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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Overdue List?
by Robert Maynord 06 Sep '02

06 Sep '02

Dear Koha Friends: We are well on our way to having Koha up and running. While I was showing the librarian the Koha program, she casually asked how to show a list of overdue books. I found that each individual user account indicates if there is an overdue book, but I couldn' t figure out how to show a complete list of all overdue books for all users. Since we will have 250 users of Koha, such a list will be important. Any clues as to how to do this? Thanks! Robert Maynord

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RE: [Koha] Newbie questions
by Williams, Olwen - SAL 05 Sep '02

05 Sep '02

I replied before, but didn't send it to the list. There was an ERD at the start I may still have them at home, and will try to remember to look for them this evening. -----Original Message----- From: Pat Eyler [mailto:pate@eylerfamily.org] Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 11:14 AM To: Marina Salcedo Cc: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Newbie questions On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Marina Salcedo wrote: > > Hi gang, > > I have a few more questions. > > 1)Does anyone have a ER (relational) diagram of the database? eep! down that path lies madness ... :) actually, I don't know of any table diagrams. Ewan is working on documenting Koha requirements, so might be a good person to ask.

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Newbie questions
by Marina Salcedo 05 Sep '02

05 Sep '02

Hi gang, I have a few more questions. 1)Does anyone have a ER (relational) diagram of the database? 2)Has anyone experienced problems with double entries of items. Two or more copies of one book? How is this handled? 3)After one version of Koha has been installed, how easy or difficult is it to migrate to a newer version? (I ask this because I'm interested in the new upcoming feature dealing with LC Call Numbers). We have found a sloopy way around this problem by changing the biblioitem table=dewey to a varchar(20) and changing the cosmetics of the interfaces so as not to confuse users. Then instead of having the dewey number imported, replacing the number manually with the LC number. Seems to work so far. Thanks for any insite you can give. Marina :) Marina Salcedo FSU-Panama Librarian 314-0367 ext. 234 email: marinasalcedo(a)hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

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Re: [Koha] Where can I get the Koha installation for Windows 2000 AS...?
by Pat Eyler 05 Sep '02

05 Sep '02

On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, [iso-8859-1] Ing. Rams�s Guilbeaux Cantillo wrote: > *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* > Thanks a lot Pat: not a problem. > > I'll try creating a new linux server, because I need the koha after all. > Great! while none of us are selling linux support, you can always ask on the list if you have problems. I'm sure that soemone will have run into the same issues before. ;) > best regards... > > Ramses. thanks, -pate 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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Where can I get the Koha installation for Windows 2000 AS...?
by Ing. Ramsés Guilbeaux Cantillo 04 Sep '02

04 Sep '02

*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Hi, I'm new in this stuff. I'm consider to install Koha on my Windows 2000 Advanced Server, and I'm really lost doing that. Where can I get the Koha installation for Windows 2000 AS and the instructions to do it? Thanks a lot Ramsés.

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