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Run batch_delete_records.pl on server?
by Bales (US), Tasha R 16 Feb '21

16 Feb '21

I'm new to Koha and am having issues with web timeouts when using "Batch record deletion", either when uploading a list, or when carrying out the actual deletion of records in a loaded list. When I realized 10K records might be too many, I decreased to less than 5K. In one test, about 1/3 of my records were deleted by the time the timeout occurred. I'm not positive if the delete job is still running in the background, despite the web timeout. I'd like to ask, couldn't the batch deletion be performed by FTP'ing my list to the server, and then running batch_delete_records.pl with parameters in order to circumvent the web interface entirely? Maybe at some point, I'll have time to figure this out on my own. Until then, if anyone has figured this out, please let me know. Certainly, I could perform this operation with SQL, but I'm not yet fluent or familiar enough with Koha to know how to make sure I do this correctly for items, bibs, holds. Thanks for your time, Tasha R. Bales

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Br Raphael
by library＠princeofpeaceabbey.org 15 Feb '21

15 Feb '21

I am Br Raphael of Prince of Peace Abbey. I have been learning Koha for the past year. I have become the librarian of the Abbey along with a few other jobs. The library has about 40K volumes. I also have four other libraries to merge into the main. I have to thank all who have helped in the past. Now my biggest problem is that the librarian before me, God rest his soul, did not attach Items to those 40K books. Beside doing it the hard way. That is one by one. I hope there is a faster way to do that. I am not a programmer so I need step by step instructions. I think I am doing good with me being 74 years of age. I might be the oldest librarian using Koha.

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Koha installation puzzles
by King, Fred 15 Feb '21

15 Feb '21

Esteemed colleagues, I'm running into some bumps while I'm setting up a Koha installation. I'm using: An Ubuntu server from Digital Ocean, 20.04. (In Toronto, if that makes any difference.) Koha 20.11x Using packages from mirrors.digitalocean.com While I'm installing koha-common, right before the end, this happens: The following plugins have been enabled: rabbitmq_stomp started 1 plugins [that's normal, but then nothing happens for a couple of minutes, and I get this:] Failed to enable unit: Unit /run/systemd/generator.late/koha-common.service is transient or generated. [then setup returns to normal] I've never seen this before, and I've done a LOT of Koha installations. Any ideas of what's happening? I also want to add Memcached. (If it matters, I've also installed plack.) The instructions at https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_ubuntu_-_packages say: If you want to use memcached: This may need to be installed first with: sudo apt-get install memcached Include --use-memcached [then the next line is:] sudo koha-create --create-db library Problem is, I can't figure where to include -use-memcached. All right, I have a bad case of Basement Brain. Could someone un-confuse me? And finally, when I try to install a language with Sudo koha-translate -install fr-FR for example, I get the warning connection to '__MEMCACHED_SERVERS___' failed and warnings that performance will suffer greatly. Then when I try to install another language such as es_ES, de_DE, or am_ETHI, I get a message that the language is not available. Later in the installation I get the option to use FR, so it seems to have been installed. The Memcached settings in /etc/koha/sites/library/koha-conf.xml appear to be correct. It's dinnertime here in North American Eastern Time, but I'll be back on Monday. Thanks to anyone who can point me in the right direction. Fred King, MSLS, AHIP Medical Librarian, MedStar Washington Hospital Center fred.king(a)medstar.net<mailto:fred.king@medstar.net> 202-877-6670 ORCID 0000-0001-5266-0279 MedStar Authors Catalog: http://medstarauthors.org The hardest job I ever had was that of door-to-door front door salesman. I'd knock on someone's front door and when they answered I'd say "Could I interest you in a-wait a minute, you already have one." --Bill Bailey ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MedStar Health is a not-for-profit, integrated healthcare delivery system, the largest in Maryland and the Washington, D.C., region. Nationally recognized for clinical quality in heart, orthopedics, cancer and GI. IMPORTANT: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is private, confidential, or protected by attorney-client or other privilege. If you received this e-mail in error, please delete it from your system without copying it and notify sender by reply e-mail, so that our records can be corrected... Thank you. Help conserve valuable resources - only print this email if necessary.

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Check-in Receipt
by Mubassir Ahsan 15 Feb '21

15 Feb '21

Is there any way to print check-in receipt in koha. *Best wishes.--------------------Md. Mubassir Ahsan* *Library In-Charge* Southeast University Phone: +8801916303060 Email: mahsandu(a)gmail.com Facebook: mmahsan <http://facebook.com/mmahsan> Skype: mahsandu Twitter: mahsandu

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Call for news - Newsletter February 2021
by Koha Newsletter 13 Feb '21

13 Feb '21

I'm collecting news for this month's newsletter. Send anything noteworthy to: kohanews (at) gmail (dot) com News criteria: -------------- * News items can be of any length. * 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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Reminder: Koha-US Acquisitions SIG meets Tuesday, February 16.
by Rhonda Kuiper 12 Feb '21

12 Feb '21

Hi All, Our next Koha-US Acquisitions SIG meeting is Tuesday, February 16 at 11:00 AM Central Time. Agenda: Andrew will take us through the function of Bug 8179 and we will sign off if we can. Also, If you have any topics you would like to discuss, please send them to me. I don't know how long the work on bug 8179 will take so we need some filler stuff if it is quick. Some suggestions: How to set up Acquisitions (vendors, baskets, etc.) How to download orders from a vendor site into Koha. How to update orders when you mess up. Let me know what you are interested in. Stay warm! Rhonda Kuiper

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"Item Due Reminder"
by Victor Barroso Oliveira 12 Feb '21

12 Feb '21

Good Morning, Koha is sending "Item Due Reminder (Digest)" messages. How to enable to send messages only through "Item Due Reminder" Thank you, Victor

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Publication date (yyyy-yyyy) advanced search option not working in my Koha instance
by Cindy Murdock Ames 12 Feb '21

12 Feb '21

Hi all, We recently upgraded to 20.05.08 from 19.11, and we've found that the advanced search option in the staff interface for publication date by year range isn't producing any results for us if we use it. Specifying it with y,st-year in the keyword search instead *does* produce results though. Does anyone have any ideas what might cause this? I've tested it on Bywater's demo, which is running 20.05.04, and it does work there, so I'm guessing it's some quirk specific to our system rather than an actual bug (unless it happened to be introduced between the .04 and .08 releases). Here's our server specs: Koha version: 20.05.08.000 OS version ('uname -a'): Linux ccflskoha.ccfls.org 4.15.0-135-generic #139-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 18 17:38:24 UTC 2021 x86_64 Perl interpreter: /usr/bin/perl Perl version: 5.026001 Perl @INC: /usr/share/koha/lib /usr/share/koha/installer /usr/share/koha/lib/installer /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.26.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.26.1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.26 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.26 /usr/share/perl/5.26 /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base /var/lib/koha/ccfls/plugins MySQL version: mysql Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.4.17-MariaDB, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.2 Apache version: Server version: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) PSGI: Plack (deployment) Memcached: Servers: 127.0.0.1:11211 | Namespace: koha_ccfls | Status: running. | Config read from: koha-conf.xml Zebra version: Zebra 2.0.59 (C) 1994-2014, Index Data Zebra is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. SHA1 ID: c00bfddbf0f3608340d61298acc61dafb167f9b2 Using ICU Date and time: 02/04/2021 11:16 Time zone: Used: America/New_York | Config: Undefined | Environment (TZ): Undefined Many thanks, Cindy ----------------------------------------------------------- Cindy Murdock Ames IT Services Director Meadville Public Library | CCFLS https://meadvillelibrary.org | https://ccfls.org

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Two problems with cover images: rotation and scaling
by André Hartmann 11 Feb '21

11 Feb '21

Hello, I have two problems with local cover images in our KOHA instance (18.05.14.000). They concern rotation and scaling of the images. 1. When uploading a local cover image which is in portrait mode (i.e. width is smaller than height), KOHA will display this image in the catalogue rotated 90°, i.e. in landscape mode... so you have to twist your neck to read it. Very inconvenient! Is there a way to avoid this? I scanned the system preferences but I could not find anything whose name suggests it has anything to do with that. When I upload images in landscape mode, they remain upright, so everything is fine. Images uploaded are jpg, size seems irrelevant. 1. The upladed images get scaled down, resolution is lost significantly. I am aware that KOHA displays images as thumbnails and when you click on them supposedly in full size. But even the full size view has lost resolution. When a cover image contains a photo of the table of contents from a book, this cannot be read anymore when viewed in KOHA... but the picture before upload is very clear. Is there a way to control the downsizing/scaling, that KOHA obviously applies here? Thanks in avdance, André Hartmann KOHA admin of the libraries of the Berlin astronomical observatories

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Display Koha version in staff interface
by Fridolin SOMERS 11 Feb '21

11 Feb '21

Hi, There is a discussion in : https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=27497 I propose that the community makes a vote : Would you like to see more prominently Koha version in staff interface ? Where ? - In lower right corner - In Header - Bellow "About Koha" big link - Other ... I'm OK if we change nothing in the end. I made a plugin that can be adapted : https://github.com/biblibre/koha-plugin-intranet-version-in-header Best regards -- Fridolin SOMERS <fridolin.somers(a)biblibre.com> Software and system maintainer 🦄 BibLibre, France

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