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Koha 3.20 beta released
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 14 May '15

14 May '15

A beta release of Koha 3.20 is now available for download. We encourage all users of Koha to consider downloading and testing the beta prior to its release later this month. Debian packages for this beta will be available soon on the unstable repository. Koha 3.20 is a major release, that comes with many new features. This beta preview is released for testing purposes. Its use on production sites is discouraged. Draft release notes and download links can be found below. Share and enjoy (and test)! Download: http://koha-community.org/download-koha/ Draft release notes: http://koha-community.org/koha-3-20-beta-released/ Thanks everyone! -- Tomás Cohen Arazi Prosecretaría de Informática Universidad Nacional de Córdoba ✆ +54 351 5353750 ext 13168 GPG: B76C 6E7C 2D80 551A C765 E225 0A27 2EA1 B2F3 C15F

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converting existing serial subscriptions from "no items" to "generate items"
by Giuseppe Angilella 14 May '15

14 May '15

Hi, whenever one creates a new subscription for a serial, Koha prompts whether you would like to "create an item record when receiving this serial", or not. Now, after some experience with my patrons, it seems that the best way of keeping track of serial loans is to have items for each serial issue. Therefore, I need to edit existing subscriptions, so that a new item record is created whenever a new serial issue is received. But how do I attach items to serial issues already recorded? (Do I need to delete them all, and start "receiving" existing issues as if they were new? I understand that unavoidably there might be some "manual" work to be done, but I would like to save as many as possible of the details already entered in the database.) Many thanks in advance and best regards, Giuseppe.

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SQL report: Digests in message preferences
by Chad Roseburg 13 May '15

13 May '15

Does anyone have a report showing barcodes of patrons who do not have the "Digests only?" option enabled. I see the transport types but am not sure how the digest option is stored. Thank you! -- Chad Roseburg Automation Dept. North Central Regional Library

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MARC modification templates
by Katelyn Browne 13 May '15

13 May '15

Hi all, I've just about got our MARC modification template set up, but I have one major issue I can't solve: moving and modifying item prices. Here's what I do with MARCedit: --move all of 852 (where our vendor puts items) to 952 --(do other stuff on other subfields) --move 952$9 to 952$g --remove "P" and "usd" from the price (which come as, for example, *P10.99usd* instead of *10.99*) --copy 952$g into 952$v I've attempted to reproduce these steps in our modification template, but 952$g and 952$v come up blank when I import the records. I suspect the problem is with the P/usd issue and requires some regular expressions (which are not my expertise). If you are good at RegEx, or you have addressed a similar problem, can you make some suggestions? Thanks! --Katelyn. Katelyn Browne High School Librarian & Technology Teacher Capital City Public Charter School 100 Peabody Street NW Washington, DC 20011 (202) 387-0309 x1745 kbrowne(a)ccpcs.org http://www.ccpcs.org/library/

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strange behavior with a public report
by Arturo Longoria 13 May '15

13 May '15

Hi all, I've come across strange behavior with a public report in Koha since our library was upgraded to 3.18. I'm not sure if it is a bug or if I am doing something incorrectly, and so I thought I'd ask for some input. I've created a custom SQL report that will output basic bibliographic data for titles that are included in a list ("virtual shelf"), and I have marked this report as public so that I can access its JSON output via /cgi-bin/koha/svc/report?id={report id}&sql_params={virtual shelf number} on the public side. The issue I'm having is that if I run this report within the staff client, it works perfectly. If I edit the list by adding/removing titles to it and then re-run the report in the staff client, everything is displayed as expected. But if I run the report on the public side to get the JSON output, the report will only show me bib. info for the titles that were originally saved in the list! That is, when I first create a list and access its JSON output, it works fine. But if I then edit the list by removing a title or adding a new title, the JSON output is not updated – it continues to show me the old contents of the list. If I run the report through the staff client, though, it does show me the updated contents of the list! The two outputs are different. Any ideas on what could be causing this? The report's settings have a cache expiry of 0 seconds (the default). I've tried setting different cache expiry periods to see if that is the issue, but that seems to do nothing. The SQL is a very simple select statement: SELECT biblionumber, author, title, seriestitle, copyrightdate, notes, abstract FROM virtualshelfcontents vsc LEFT JOIN biblio using (biblionumber) WHERE vsc.shelfnumber = <<Enter shelf number>> Arturo Longoria Texas State Law Library www.sll.texas.gov<http://www.sll.texas.gov/>

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searching error after upgrading from 3.14.05 to 3.18.05.1
by Arayik Manukyan 13 May '15

13 May '15

Hi List, Our Koha 3.14.05 tarball installed on linux Ubuntu We have some problem, after upgrading to 3.18.05.1 When searching the catalogue we get Error: Can't call method "raw" on an undefined value at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Search.pm line 800. Please help as soon as possible. Thanks, Araik

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Question about author sorting
by Robin Sheat 13 May '15

13 May '15

As some of you know, I'm in the process of implementing Elasticsearch support into Koha. Katrin pointed out that there's a bit of an irregularity with the author sorting, but I'm not sure if it's wrong as such. So I'm after a bit of input into what actual people would expect or would like. Imagine you have a book, with multiple authors: Title of Book Andrews, A ; Matthews, M ; Zimmermann, Z You do a search for "title", sorted by author A->Z, and get results, with "Title of Book" at the top due to "Andrews, A." You then sort it by author Z->A, and get "Title of Book" at the top again, due to "Zimmerman, Z." There is clearly logic behind it doing this, but is it the right thing to do? If not, what do you think an appropriate alternative would be? -- Robin Sheat Catalyst IT Ltd. ✆ +64 4 803 2204 GPG: 5FA7 4B49 1E4D CAA4 4C38 8505 77F5 B724 F871 3BDF

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Hosting the Koha server in the cloud
by Cajetan Onyeneke 13 May '15

13 May '15

Please I have been looking for a way to host our koha server, running in local network, into our University server in the cloud. How can I achieve this? Regards, Cajetan Onyeneke Digital Librarian Imo State University, Owerri, Nigeria

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Re: [Koha] help to
by Paul A 12 May '15

12 May '15

At 07:11 PM 5/12/2015 +0100, Elaine Bradtke wrote: >Also make sure the field in each record contains the collection code >exactly as you have it in the LOC authorised value list, and the CCODE >authorised value list. It is case sensitive. And I would add that it is sensitive to blank spaces i.e. 'shelf1' /= 'shelf1 ' P. >On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Indranil Das Gupta <indradg(a)gmail.com> >wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Barbara Aristidou > > <barbara.aristidou(a)cut.ac.cy> wrote: > > > I would like to create new Shelving locations and collection codes in > > KOHA. I have tried to do so but unfortunately it was not possible. > > > > http://manual.koha-community.org/3.18/en/basicparams.html#authorizedvalues > > > > Shelving location is driven by LOC authorised value list, while > > Collection code is driven my CCODE authorised value list. > > > > In your case, you would need to add the values you want in each of > > these lists. To do that first select the category as LOC or CCODE by > > going to Home -> Administration -> Authorized values; and then adding > > the new authorized values for LOC and CCODE. > > > > For course for this to work the MARC21 framework you are using, must > > have the map 952$8 to CCODE and 952$c to LOC auth values. > > > > hope this helps. > > > > > > -- > > Indranil Das Gupta > > L2C2 Technologies > > > > Phone : +91-98300-20971 > > IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net > > Twitter : indradg > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > Please exchange editable Office documents only in ODF Format. No other > > format is acceptable. Support Open Standards. > > > > For a free editor supporting ODF, please visit LibreOffice - > > http://www.documentfoundation.org > > _______________________________________________ > > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > > > > > >-- >Elaine Bradtke >Data Wrangler >VWML >English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org >Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY >Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance and >Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me personally, send >an e-mail first. I work off site) >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Registered Company No. 297142 >Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" >--Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52) >_______________________________________________ >Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org >Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz >https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha --- Maritime heritage and history, preservation and conservation, research and education through the written word and the arts. <http://NavalMarineArchive.com> and <http://UltraMarine.ca>

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Deleting items...
by Layale Bassil 12 May '15

12 May '15

Hello, I would like to know how can I delete the items/holdings (keeping bib records) of a certain library in Koha 3.14? Is there any interface for it? Can you help write a script for it if need be? Thank you.

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