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Upgrading Koha >> several versions
by Scott Owen 15 Jun '21

15 Jun '21

Hi all, I'm currently running a couple different versions of Koha, and I'm going to try and do a mass upgrade to the newest version this summer. Koha version: 17.11.18.000 OS version ('uname -a'): Linux Pine 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.51-3 (2017-12-13) i686 I'm sure my servers/versions are going to require a database dump / restore, and maybe a copy / migration of my "site" files as well. Is there a "step by step" how-to document anywhere ? Something with small words and pictures would be perfect for me .😬 Thank you. -S

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Inter library loan electronic article request.
by vinod mishra 15 Jun '21

15 Jun '21

Hello Seen ILL features but how can we make possible the article request? The requirement is: 1. A user may request an online article of the journal via OPAC along with its detail like URL/DOI etc. which is not available to institute. 2. The librarians see the request on the staff client 3. Librarians send the same request to other institutes libraries colleagues through email (Not from Koha) 4. On getting the soft copy librarian to upload the article and then members receive the email and download the same from their OPAC portal 5. Which librarians fulfilled their request should be shown along with status. Please not hear no library (branch or participating library need to be created) it is just a free request through Koha to manage inside the koha. Thanking You. With Regards, Vinod Kumar Mishra, Assistant Librarian, Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL), NIT Rourkela, Sundergadh-769008, Odisha, India. Mob:91+9439420860 URL: http://vinod.itshelp.co.in/ ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4666-7874 Scopus ID: 57223138343 *"Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul" -- Mahatma Gandhi*

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'Codename' value from '20.11' to '21.05
by Victor Barroso Oliveira 14 Jun '21

14 Jun '21

Good morning, I received the following message after apt-get update *E: Repository 'http://debian.koha-community.org/koha <http://debian.koha-community.org/koha> stable InRelease' changed i ts 'Codename' value from '20.11' to '21.05'N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details.* Should this be fixed? What correction is needed? thanks Victor

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Koha SIP2 performing very slow
by HTML-CSS-PHP-JS Projects 14 Jun '21

14 Jun '21

Hello , I have installed koha 20.11 and am trying to use SIP2. The SIP2 service is responding properly from the server. But there is a lot of delay in data processing from one server to another (means from koha server to Middleware Server). when request sent first time it will return correct response but after second time with another request it display previous response. I have checked our server sip log file, it returns the correct response every time. What can I do to improve SIP performance. is there any way to improve telnet response performance or Middleware Server

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Call for news - Newsletter June 2021
by Koha Newsletter 13 Jun '21

13 Jun '21

Hi I'm collecting news for the June 2021 Koha Community Newsletter. Please send anything noteworthy to: kohanews (at) gmail (dot) com News criteria: * News items can be of any length, they should be in plain text. * Images are fine. * Anything and everything Koha. * Submit by the 26th of the month. For events: * Please include dates for past events. If I can't find dates I may not add it. * Announcements for future events with dates to be announced are fine, e. g. Kohacon. * For past events, one month back is the cut-off. If you are working on an interesting project or development related to Koha, please let me know and I'll include it in the development section. Thank you! Michael Kuhn Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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Create new record matching rule - 035a
by muiru james 12 Jun '21

12 Jun '21

Hi, I've tried creating a new record matching rule to use tag 035a and despite trying a lot of things its not working. Field 035a contains a four digit arabic number (e.g. 1500). Someone please help me create the rule. Regards James

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circulation.pl is maxing out the CPU - Need help!
by Chris Brown 12 Jun '21

12 Jun '21

Gentle Reader, We are running Koha 19.11 on Debian 9.11 (stretch). This supports 5 koha instances for some of the volunteer-run libraries in Sheffield. It has been stable and working fine for many months. Recently we have seen a few instances of the server load abruptly shooting up, maxing out the CPU and making the system unusable. Running "top" when this happens shows that there are two instances of /usr/share/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/circ/circulation.pl which between them are using 100% of the CPU. Rebooting clears the problem of course, but is not a practical long-term solution. I am looking for suggestions as to what might be causing this or how we might investigate further. Any help would be appreciated as this is having significant operational impact now. Thanks and Best Regards, Chris Brown

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Adding Quarantined Status to subfield 7
by Admire Mutsikiwa 12 Jun '21

12 Jun '21

Good day. In the COVID-19 environment, our checked-in items are to be quarantined for 3 days. I would like to have an SQL UPDATE statement that enables me to update subfied 7 on item check-in to quarantine (e.g number 4, for augment sake) on check-in and after three days, through a cronjob, change the status to 0 ( for available). Kind Regards,

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Serials, can't add sub ("vendor does not exist")
by Bales (US), Tasha R 12 Jun '21

12 Jun '21

Good afternoon, I find that I'm unable to associate a vendor with a new or existing subscription record. Although I am able to search for a vendor on the subscription edit form at serials/subscription-add.pl, saving the form results in "The vendor does not exist." I'm using Koha 20.11.02. Perhaps I am missing something obvious. I'm doing this: * Navigate to Home > Serials, and click "New subscription" * On the form: o Search for and select an active vendor record and then a bib record o Click "Next" * Receive error, "The vendor does not exist." I've verified the following: * Vendor exists and is active * Bib record for the serial exists * Also, "claim serial issue" notice exists (this was the only acq/serial thing I found that was obviously undefined) I've tried creating a new vendor, and also using different bibs, and making sure their 008's indicate they are continuing resources, just in case. . I don't see anything useful in /var/log/koha except a bunch of errors like this that seem to be complaining about collection codes when I look at the problem line in the indicated script: [2021/05/28 14:44:33] [WARN] Use of uninitialized value in string comparison (cmp) at /usr/share/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/serials/subscription-bib-search.pl line 221. Is there anything else I might want to examine that could be causing the problem? Thanks for your time. Tasha R. Bales | Business Support Team Information Services | Enterprise Services Enterprise Operations, Finance and Sustainability

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Copying Subfields from Field1 to Field2 [Was: Identifying Records with Non-Roman Characters]
by Charles Kelley 11 Jun '21

11 Jun '21

Hello, all! Earlier this week, I wrote about flipping the tags on old 245-246 pairs to make them in current 245-880 pairs, e.g., =245 10$aВеликая отецественная война 1941-1945 /$cВ. И. Чуйков =246 11$a Velikaia otechestvennaia voina 1941-1945 =245 10$a英汉常用物理学小词典 /$cYing Li, Lian Wei =246 11$aYing-Han changyong wulixue xiaocidian would become =242 14$aThe Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 /$cV. I. Chuikov. =245 10$6880-45$a Velikaia otechestvennaia voina 1941-1945 =880 10$6245-45/(N$aВеликая отецественная война 1941-1945 /$cВ. И. Чуйков =242 10$aEnglish-Chinese dictionary of commonly used words in physics /$cYing Li, Lian Wei =245 10$6880-45$aYing-Han changyong wulixue xiaocidian =880 10$6245-45/[dollar]1$a英汉常用物理学小词典 /$cYing Li, Lian Wei . respectively. With help from David Cook and a few tutorials online, we were able to accomplish, to our very great surprise. We now have another problem: copying the existing 242$c or new 880$c into the 245$c with the preceding slash. Does anyone have an idea how to do this? I have tried MarcEdit's swap field functionality, but I just cannot get it to work. It ends up replacing the 245 subfields altogether, leaving behind just the indicators and $c prefixed with a slash. The resulting 245 fields would end up =245 10$6880-45$a Velikaia otechestvennaia voina 1941-1945 /$cV. I. Chuikov. =245 10$6880-45$aYing-Han changyong wulixue xiaocidian /$cYing Li, Lian Wei . Does anyone have an idea? Many thanks for your help. -- 気を付けて。 /ki wo tukete/ = Take care. -- Charles. Charles Kelley, MLS PSC 704 Box 1029 APO AP 96338 Charles Kelley Tsukimino 1-Chome 5-2 Tsukimino Gaadenia #210 Yamato-shi, Kanagawa-ken 〒242-0002 JAPAN +1-301-741-7122 [US cell] +81-80-4356-2178 [JPN cell] mnogojazyk(a)aol.com [h] cmkelleymls(a)gmail.com [p] linkedin.com/in/cmkelleymls <http://www.linkedin.com/in/cmkelleymls> Meeting Your Information Needs. Virtually.

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