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Unable to use zebra facets on OPAC in 16.11
by MAKAUTCL WB 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

Hi List, I'm facing a problem, I can't seem to get the facets showing in the search results. The only option I can do now is turn off zebra facets by setting <use_zebra_facets>0</use_zebra_facets>, in which case I get the facets from Koha. However, then I can't get any result in case I try to limit by availability. My system setup is as below: Debian 8.6 Koha 16.11 - deb package installation IndexData Zebra Package: libidzebra-2.0-0 Source: idzebra Version: 2.0.59-1 I read up https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11232 but that shows it as FIXED. So how do I troubleshoot this one? thanks in anticipation -Makaut

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"Item-level_itypes set but no itemtype set" leads to 'Can't locate object method "ymd"'
by King, Fred 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

Greetings to all, System: Koha 16.11.00, Ubuntu 14.04. When I rebuild zebra, I get a series of error messages "item-level_itypes set but no itemtype set for item (itemnumber) at /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Schema/Result/Item.pm line 698." I've looked up the corresponding biblio number and barcode for the items in an inventory report, but when I try to search for them I get the error message 'Can't locate object method "ymd" via package "dateonly" (perhaps you forgot to load "dateonly"?) at /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/DateUtils.pm line 225.' I get the same message whether I search for item number, biblio number, barcode, or title. Some of the items don't have barcodes-I don't know whether that's part of the problem. It looks as if part of the 'Can't locate object method "ymd"' problem is being fixed with Bug 17502, but I can't tell if it's just a date problem that I can fix easily since I can't call up the record to look at it. Same with item-level itemtype. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Does anyone know of a way to call up items that keep crashing Koha? Thanks, Fred King Medical Librarian, MedStar Washington Hospital Center fred.king(a)medstar.net<mailto:fred.king@medstar.net> 202-877-6670 ORCID 0000-0001-5266-0279 I have one of those metabolisms where I can eat whatever I want and my body converts it to energy and stores the excess as fat. --Randall Munroe, xkcd ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, orthopaedics, 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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Handling of TimeZones and different Calendars (Thailand Buddhist Calendar) on a single shared Koha server
by Alex Shepherd 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

Hi Guys, I’m hoping to host several independent libraries on a single VM. The libraries are all in Asia spread across Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Bangkok and the server is a VM hosted on Digital Ocean in Singapore. The library in Bangkok have used the Buddhist calendar for some (not all) of their dates like DoB and some other date fields in the Bibliographic and other records. This is causing an issue with the date calculations for patron age and no doubt it will cause other issues. So this raises several issues for me: 1) Is there a tidy or supported way for me to handle the Buddhist dates? 2) Does Koha have any way to define a timezone and locale on a library by library basis where there are multiple libraries on the one server? Regards Alex Shepherd

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Koha 16.05.07 release
by Mason James 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 16.05.07. This is a maintenance release and contains several bugfixes. The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-16-05-07-release/ Packages will be available soon. Happy new year! :0)

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Patron not shown
by ahmnas 02 Jan '17

02 Jan '17

hi my friends i have success to upgrade from koha 3.18 to koha 3.22.5 stable version so every things is ok but the problem in patrons (borrowers) when i finishing upgrade and login using user name and passwords it give me invalid user so i login with koha admin and when searching in patrons modules it not give me any thing and i check phpmyadmin to see borrowers table i found all borrowers data complete, so how solving patron i install using koha package Koha Version- 3.22.5 (Stable) Operating System- Ubuntu 12.04.5- 64 bit. Ahmad Nasser koha system administrator mobil: +201110136090 -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Patron-not-shown-tp5915236.html Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Koha 3.22.14 release
by Julian Maurice 02 Jan '17

02 Jan '17

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 3.22.14. This is a maintenance release and contains several bugfixes. The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-3-22-14-release/

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Koha Community Newsletter: December 2016
by kohanews 31 Dec '16

31 Dec '16

Fellow Koha users: The Koha Community Newsletter for December 2016 is here: https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-december-2016/ Many thanks to the folks who submitted articles and news to this month's newsletter. Please feel free to email me with any corrections or suggestions. Thanks! -- Chad Roseburg Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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Problems with migrating from Koha 16.05 to 16.11
by David Whelchel 30 Dec '16

30 Dec '16

Hello All, I have been carefully and regularly updating the koha-common package version on Debian Wheezy 3.2.82-1 x86_64 (and its updates) since Koha version 3.14. Prior to that I ran Koha on the old Windows version (that is now thankfully dead). Now comes Version 16.11. Being an old hand but not being an active programmer, and having years of successful upgrades and builds for my and other libraries I thought, No Problem. Well not so!! I have tried a number of permutations to get this version of Koha built without success. 1) To try a test run I set up an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS system as recommend in the online documentation and selected the old stable option as I would need to migrate my database (in MySQL of course). No joy – received “koha-common : Depends: libgd-perl but it is not going to be installed” at the sudo apt-get install koha-common step. 2) Well, so maybe I should use a fresh install the stable version and see if I can still use MySQL – after all it is still supported in 14.04. But again problems. More dependencies: koha@koha314:~$ sudo apt-get install koha-common Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: koha-common : Depends: libarchive-extract-perl but it is not installable Depends: libgd-perl but it is not installable Depends: libpath-tiny-perl but it is not installable Depends: libsereal-decoder-perl but it is not installable Depends: libsereal-encoder-perl but it is not installable Depends: libwww-youtube-download-perl but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. Ok So maybe Ubuntu changes too fast for this version of Koha to keep up with. So I’ll try Debian with both 16.05 and 16.11. But again similar problems and not success. Where to now. Try the latest LTS versions of Ubuntu and Debian. Bumpkus – but at least I am persistent. So why this long ramble? First I believe that there need to be some effort in either making 16.11 work in the recommended Ubuntu and Debian releases as documented or put a real effort into updating the Koha code and dependent applications up to date so that a migration from 16.05 (or earlier versions) can be made seamlessly 50 16.11.x without our librarian non-programmers going crazy (and not all of them have tech support). Now put on your flame suits: I have been actively working in a university central computing center for more than 35 years. The discussion recently about mapping Koha library sites and whether the information and whether Marshall’s map program is open source or not started me to doubt the long term stability of the Koha-common project. I even broke my personal rule and commented to the thread (my commends received silence). In order for this effort to succeed problems like the inability to use the package upgrade from previous versions to the newest version without problem must be a priority. Koha is a fabulous application and community. I hate to tell you Chris, but proprietary software seldom has these problems; they depend on the stability of their product for their pay checks. Flame off: Oh Yeah – if anyone has a solution to an in place upgrade to that the Koha database can be carried forward please let all of us who are experiencing problem know. But I am still expecting crickets. Thanks --Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David L. Whelchel 725 SE Derby Street Pullman, WA 99163 whelchel(a)pullman.com<mailto:whelchel@pullman.com> http://www.dlwa.com

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Wide character error
by Abdulsalam Yousef 29 Dec '16

29 Dec '16

Hello all, We have an error appears during navigation through ( patron pages) in koha 16.11 for example when trying to enter a patron details page from koha staff client like ( http://domain_name:8080/cgi-bin/koha/members/moremember.pl?borrowernumber=2…) page, It gives us this error ( Wide character in subroutine entry at /usr/share/perl5/Digest/HMAC.pm line 63.) Also, The same error appears when trying to open OPAC (http://domain_name/cgi-bin/koha/opac-memberentry.pl) page. Thanks in advance Regards.

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Up-to-dateness of Koha database analysis by SchemaSpy
by Michael Kuhn 28 Dec '16

28 Dec '16

Hi It seems to me that http://schema.koha-community.org/ is not up to date (it shows the date of Mon Jan 11 08:19 NZDT 2016). For example Koha 16.11 has 70 fields in table "borrowers" but SchemaSpy still only shows 67 of them (like in Koha 16.05), missing the new fields "checkprevcheckout", "updated_on" and "lastseen". * http://schema.koha-community.org/tables/borrowers.html Would someone with the needed privileges please update this database description? Also in Koha menu "Tools > Import patrons" the help text "Field list" does miss some fields: the three mentioned above and also "privacy_guarantor_checkouts" (introduced in Koha 16.05 I guess). This leads me to another question: Is there any database description of older Koha versions (e. g. Koha 3.20, Koha 3.18) or will the database analysis by SchemaSpy always just overwrite and thus destroy all older status? Best wishes: Michael -- Geschäftsführer · Diplombibliothekar BBS, Informatiker eidg. Fachausweis Admin Kuhn GmbH · Pappelstrasse 20 · 4123 Allschwil · Schweiz T 0041 (0)61 261 55 61 · E mik(a)adminkuhn.ch · W www.adminkuhn.ch

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