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RM update - May 2nd
by Brendan Gallagher 03 Mar '16

03 Mar '16

Hi All - It's been a little bit of time since I've posted. Sorry it's ended up being a long email. ( Easier to say most of this here instead of posting all this into an IRC meeting) ;) Currently the PQA is very low. I encourage all of you to review the needs sign-off page and test some of the wonderful code that many of us have written. Just to remind - the dashboard is a great place to start (everyone should have that one bookmarked - I hope I didn't date myself with that term). http://dashboard.koha-community.org/ - Also here is a link to the Bugzilla page that has the Needs Signoff queue - http://tinyurl.com/h3zdxec . Remember that Bugzilla is only the name of the tracker that we are using - it's not only bugs but also features and other coding needs for Koha. ;) Also a reminder for those that are newer to testing - try out the sandboxes - https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Sandboxes (please remember that you can also ask any of us for help). I know that there are a few things that I need to follow up on for some recent patches that have been pushed. I'm on them and tracking them. Thankfully no one is using Master in production :) As always if I have missed something or I have made a mistake - please let me know and I thank you all for the times you have pointed out a spot I missed (those curly brackets if you know what I mean) Somethings I'd like to concentrate on going forward. 1. Speed. two bugs in general - https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15350 https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15341 Any and all help is welcome here. Jonathan has been presenting thoughts and comments about this for awhile now - let's all help there. There are some others too and we should all think about this. I feel like we are loading too much with each page. Also dbix::class should be examined. 2. Elastic Search - https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=12478 Is the main bug where there are comments, code and thoughts. I think we need a sign-off on this and get this into QA with larger discussions happening. The Main goal for now is that it doesn't break anything with Zebra and we can push this in experimental. There are some good comments and questions on the bug. 3. Staying on top of PQA queue so our developers do not have to spend time rebasing code. I will hopefully maintain that. (sorry for those that have had to rebase so far) 4. Continue to encourage new signoff champions! This is on all of us to encourage and help those that want to do this and have time to do it. We can do it. 5. EDIfact code - needs a signoff. https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7736 and https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15630 great work by PTFS-europe and nice job by Kyle Hall on making it plugable so that it works around the standards. (Also I encourage PTFS-europe on submitting more of their code - they are sitting on a few gems right now that will be great for Koha - so if you see their code come it - let's test it). 6. Jenkins - I would like to see Jenkins pass as stable for Master in the near future. I will be spending sometime working on that. I know this turned into a long email. But let's do it! Cheers, Brendan -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brendan A. Gallagher ByWater Solutions CEO Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Installation, Data Migration, Training, Customization, Hosting and Complete Support Packages Headquarters: Santa Barbara, CA - Office: Redding, CT Phone # (888) 900-8944 http://bywatersolutions.com info(a)bywatersolutions.com

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koha opac users integrate with Active directory
by Thilanka Gunasena 02 Mar '16

02 Mar '16

Dear AAL, I need to integrate koha opac users with our Active Directory. Pls help me to do that. Regards, Thilanka Gunasena This message is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the original message and any copy of it from your computer system. You are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited unless proper authorization has been obtained for such action. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately. Although SLT attempts to sweep e-mail and attachments for viruses, it does not guarantee that both are virus-free and accepts no liability for any damage sustained as a result of viruses.

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MARC tags for following data
by Shiva Kumara 02 Mar '16

02 Mar '16

Hi all, We extracted bibliographic data into excel file from Libsys software. I could managed MARC tags for almost all the fields except following fields. Is it possible to add MARC tags for the following fields? If yes, which are the tags to be incorporated? If no, how would I migrate following details into koha? BUDGET ORDER_TYPE ORDER ORDER DATE AMOUNT (USD) AMOUNT_RS DISCOUNT AMOUNT_PAID EXCHANGE RATE INVOICE INVOICE_DATE ACCN_DATE Thank you very much in advance -- ***With Regards*** Shivakumara RM Digital Library Analyst Institute for Social and Economic Change Dr. VKRV Rao Road, Nagarabhavi, Bangalore - 560 072 <https://sites.google.com/site/shivakumararm/>

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Fwd: koha tag (a)
by Chris Cormack 02 Mar '16

02 Mar '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: TT Jose <tuithangdim(a)gmail.com> Date: 2 March 2016 at 15:09 Subject: koha tag (a) To: koha-owner(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Dear sir, This is sister Josephine who is serving as a library manager in Catholic Major Seminary, Myanmar. we have been installed Koha open source in 2012 through Mr. Arns Han. There is no problem by cataloging. The problem is I cannot make card creator and label making. Can you help me please! Thanks a lot all of good people. May the Good Lord bless you! Affectionately, Sister Josephine

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Koha 3.22.4 release
by Julian Maurice 02 Mar '16

02 Mar '16

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 3.22.4. This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes. The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-3-22-4-release/ -- Julian Maurice <julian.maurice(a)biblibre.com> BibLibre

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Koha 3.20.0 released
by Frédéric Demians 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

It is with great pleasure that we announce the release of Koha 3.20.9, a maintenance release of the Koha open source integrated library system. See the full release notes here: https://koha-community.org/koha-3-20-9-released/ Download: http://koha-community.org/download-koha/

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Re: [Koha] Koha Search Indexes
by David Cook 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

Hi Nicole, I keep meaning to look over and revise the search documentation, but I always seem preoccupied with other work. I'm not sure whether or not the list at http://manual.koha-community.org/3.24/en/kohasearchindexes.html is complete at a glance. To be honest, while I think it's a valuable list, I think it would be more valuable for end users to have a list of CCL qualifiers (and their corresponding registers). While an index may exist in Zebra, it's the CCL qualifier that the user needs to know in order to access it, and sometimes the qualifier is difference than the index name. There are 3 vital files for Zebra indexing and Koha searching: bib1.att biblio-zebra-indexdefs.xsl ccl.properties bib1.att defines which indexes may exist. Biblio-zebra-indexdefs.xsl decides what MARC data goes into which indexes. ccl.properties provides a query language for accessing those indexes through search queries. Paul asked about the suffixes :n, :p, :w, :u, and :s. These are called "registers". :n is numeric, :p is phrase, :w is word, :u is URL, and :s is sorting. Different types of CCL qualifiers allow us to access different types of registers. "st-numeric" provides access to the :n register. "st-phrase" and "phr" access :p. "st-word", "st-word-list", and "wrdl" access ":w", "st-urx" accesses :u, and generally we don't need to access :s when searching as that's a behind-the-scenes thing for Koha to worry about. Different registers have different normalization rules. If we look at biblio-zebra-indexdefs.xsl, we can see that MARC 245 is indexed into Title:w and Title:p. That means "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" would be indexed something like so: <title:w>Harry</title:w> <title:w>Potter</title:w> <title:w>Phllosopher's</title:w> <title:w>Stone</title:w> <title:p>Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone</title:p> So if we did a search like... "title,wrdl=Harry", we'd get a hit for that MARC record. If we did a search like 'title,phr="Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"', we'd get a hit for that MARC record. I'll draw your attention now to 952$u. It's indexed as uri:u (although it would also show up in the Any:w and Any:p keyword indexes). In order to access uri:u, we'd need to search for 'uri,st-urx="http://koha-community.org"'. The "st-urx" maps to the ":u", and we see "uri" in "ccl.properties" which maps to "uri" in bib1.att. If we tried to do a search for 'uri,wrdl="http://koha-community.org"', it would fail, because nothing is indexed in the "uri:w" index:register combo. I have to run to an appointment, but hopefully that helps a bit. One day, I'd like to write a program which parses ccl.properties to provide a list of qualifies that cross-references with biblio-zebra-indexdefs.xsl to see which registers are available for which qualifier/index pair. The register system is a bit complicated but it can be useful. I've recently started doing more with the ":u" register... David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007 > -----Original Message----- > Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 11:21:01 -0600 > From: Nicole Engard <nengard(a)gmail.com> > To: Paul A <paul.a(a)navalmarinearchive.com> > Cc: Koha <Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz>, koha-docs(a)lists.koha-community.org > Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha Search Indexes > Message-ID: > <CAC0K6VHYbER_h2B8pXmVRu8Q9=3rLVaqzOJb=SKiHPTMsYagfg@ > mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > I'd love if someone could help me there. > > Nicole > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Paul A <paul.a(a)navalmarinearchive.com> > wrote: > > > At 08:42 AM 2/1/2016 -0600, Nicole Engard wrote: > > > >> Hello all, > >> > >> I updated this page in the manual > >> http://manual.koha-community.org/3.24/en/kohasearchindexes.html > because > >> there were many indexes not listed in there. Would index experts please > >> take a look to make sure I caught all of the indexes? > >> > > > > Many thanks. Could you possible add an explanation of the suffixes :n, :p, > > :w, :u (URL?) and :s? > > > > Tnx and br -- Paul > > > > --- > > Maritime heritage and history, preservation and conservation, > > research and education through the written word and the arts. > > <http://NavalMarineArchive.com> and <http://UltraMarine.ca> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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Re: [Koha] Scientific articles about Koha (BWS Johnson)
by Stefano Bargioni 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

Thx, Brooke. This is a useful resource, and I was not aware of it. Stefano > On 01 mar 2016, at 00:00, koha-request(a)lists.katipo.co.nz wrote: > > Salvete! > >> I'd like to gather bib references about scientific articles written about >> Koha, or works based on Koha. >> Code4lib has some of them: http://journal.code4lib.org/?s=koha >> Thx a lot. Stefano > > > > Thanks to Nicole's effort, a lot of stuff from 2013ish is over at Zotero. If we all chipped in a few hours when it were slow round the reference desk, that could be quite the little storehouse. > > > I can't plug KohaCon Nigeria enough. There were a number of extremely well thought out scholarly presentations citing even more good papers. > > Cheers, > Brooke

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Koha Community Newsletter: February 2016
by kohanews 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

Fellow Koha users: The Koha Community Newsletter for February 2016 is here: https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-february-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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Strange behavior after logging into the OPAC
by Tim McMahon 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

Koha 3.22.03 package install on Debian 8. The OPAC doesn't display the username when you are logged in. on the right side at the top it displays "Welcome, Search history [x] Log out". Then it displays "Hello, Click here if you're not" followed by the list of items I have checked out. It repeats everything in that block from Hello down for a total of 75 times. Here's what was recorded in the logs: [Mon Feb 29 11:03:21.755007 2016] [cgi:error] [pid 14261] [client 192.168.1.198:50204] AH01215: [Mon Feb 29 11:03:21 2016] opac-user.pl: CGI::param called in list context from package C4::Auth line 400, this can lead to vulnerabilities. See the warning in "Fetching the value or values of a single named parameter" at /usr/share/perl5/CGI.pm line 436., referer: http://opac.example.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-main.pl?logout.x=1 [Mon Feb 29 11:03:21.793550 2016] [cgi:error] [pid 14261] [client 192.168.1.198:50204] AH01215: [Mon Feb 29 11:03:21 2016] opac-user.pl: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Auth.pm line 506., referer: http://opac.example.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-main.pl?logout.x=1 [Mon Feb 29 11:03:21.849343 2016] [cgi:error] [pid 14261] [client 192.168.1.198:50204] AH01215: [Mon Feb 29 11:03:21 2016] opac-user.pl: CGI::param called in list context from package main line 387, this can lead to vulnerabilities. See the warning in "Fetching the value or values of a single named parameter" at /usr/share/perl5/CGI.pm line 436., referer: http://opac.example.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-main.pl?logout.x=1 When I try to place a hold from the OPAC I get: Confirm holds for: () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () () Along with other things that should be there. The errors from this are: [Mon Feb 29 11:43:33.198962 2016] [cgi:error] [pid 14901] [client 192.168.1.198:50439] AH01215: [Mon Feb 29 11:43:33 2016] opac-reserve.pl: CGI::param called in list context from package C4::Auth line 400, this can lead to vulnerabilities. See the warning in "Fetching the value or values of a single named parameter" at /usr/share/perl5/CGI.pm line 436., referer: http://opac.example.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=Apocalypse+Cow [Mon Feb 29 11:43:33.216618 2016] [cgi:error] [pid 14901] [client 192.168.1.198:50439] AH01215: [Mon Feb 29 11:43:33 2016] opac-reserve.pl: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Auth.pm line 506., referer: http://opac.example.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=Apocalypse+Cow -- Tim McMahon Technical Services West Liberty Public Library

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