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Buggy OS Upgrade
by Bruce A. Metcalf 09 Apr '15

09 Apr '15

Greetings, Koha 3.18.5 installed using packages under Debian squeeze. This week we upgraded our distro from squeeze to wheezy. Now when we try to save a biblio found using Z39.50 search, we get this error message: Byte order is not compatible at /usr/lib/perl/5.14/Storable.pm line 416 at /usr/share/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/cataloguing/additem.pl line 401 Clearly, we muffed something in the upgrade, but I haven't a clue what. Any suggestions, or should I roll back to last week's backup?

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Public Printing
by Chad Roseburg 09 Apr '15

09 Apr '15

Do you have a good solution for printing from public computers? A hands-free print release station perhaps? We'd love to hear about it if you do! Thanks! -- Chad Roseburg Automation Dept. North Central Regional Library

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Tomas Needs A Laptop!
by Kyle Hall 09 Apr '15

09 Apr '15

As you all may know, our beloved Koha Release Manager unfortunately discovered that while he and his family were away, his home was broken into and his electronics were stolen, including his laptops. Let's see what we can do to help him replace his stolen electronics! Let's show everyone what the Koha community is all about! Thanks to everyone who's donated so far! Every bit counts! This is why I love being part of the Koha community so much! http://www.gofundme.com/TomasNeedsALaptop http://www.kylehall.info ByWater Solutions ( http://bywatersolutions.com ) Meadville Public Library ( http://www.meadvillelibrary.org ) Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org )

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Global bug squashing day 2015-04-13!
by Magnus Enger 09 Apr '15

09 Apr '15

Dear Community! Apologies for cross-posting... nah, not really. ;-) In the last community meeting it was decided that we should do a Global bug squashing day (GBSD) again, on Monday 2015-04-13: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/2015-04-13_Global_bug_squashing_day - 3.20 is due in the not too distant future, and we should make sure it has as few known bugs as possible - The QA team will have a QA sprint on the 17th (if I remember correctly), let's make sure they have a looong queue of signed off patches to work from! So grab your nearest dev install or sandbox and join the fun! Best regards, Magnus Enger PS And don't forget https://www.gofundme.com/TomasNeedsALaptop

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Koha-NA Users Group Meeting Reminder - Thrusday, April 8th, 1PM EDT
by Nick Clemens 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

Hi All, Tomorrow is the monthly meeting, please respond with any agenda items you may have. Link to meeting: kanren.zoom.us/j/423774872 To sign up for the KohaNA mailing list: http://lists.bywatersolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/kohana See you then, Nick -- Nick Clemens Quechee & Wilder Libraries Nick(a)quecheelibrary.org http://www.QuecheeLibrary.org Q (802) 295-1232 W (802) 295-6341

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Marc record manual entry 650 a locked
by ChristyThomas 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

Hi, I am trying to do manual entry of records for an elementary school library. The z39.50 does not find these books. I do find them on worldcat though, so I am trying to copy the information manually. Line 650 a is locked. When I try the icon to the right it opens another window. I try adding leopards (the topic) to any of those windows and it comes up not found. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Christy -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Marc-record-manual-entry-650-a-locked-tp5… Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Koha] 2 ways to mark an item "withdrawn"???
by Steven Nickerson 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

I’ve done some more troubleshooting on my own that I thought I’d share with everyone. Following process #1 below causes Koha to update the items.withdrawn field, but following process #2 below changes the following in the items.more_subfields_xml field instead: <leader> a </leader> <datafield tag="999" ind1=" " ind2=" "> <subfield code="0">1</subfield> Not sure if that’s intended to be the case or not? Does anyone else see behavior similar to what we’re seeing when marking the item “withdrawn” in the 2 different manners? Thanks! Steve _____ From: Steven Nickerson <snicker1(a)maine.rr.com <mailto:snicker1@maine.rr.com> > To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz <mailto:koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Sent: Friday, April 3, 2015 2:53 PM Subject: [Koha] 2 ways to mark an item "withdrawn"??? Hello everyone, I'm running a variety of Koha package versions on Debian, ranging from 3.16.2 to 3.18.5.1 and am hearing reports of issues with how items are marked as withdrawn. If you search in the staff client for an item and click on its title to go into the details you can mark an individual item 'withdrawn' in one of two ways: 1. Click on the "Edit" button along the top and select "Edit Items" in the pull-down. In the resulting window, click on the "Edit" link on the left-hand side of the item you want to withdraw. The first option reads "0 - withdrawn status" and in the pull-down I set it to "Withdrawn", and then click "Save changes" at the bottom. 2. The other way is to click on the "Items" tab on the left-hand side instead of the "Edit" button along the top. Selecting the "Items" tab gives you a list of your items and each item has a "Withdrawn?" line with a button that can be clicked to "Withdraw" it. So, now my question/issue.following the #1 process above doesn't seem to do anything at all to actually withdraw the item. It is still searchable in both Staff and OPAC clients and shows as "available" everywhere. I also checked in the database itself and the items.withdrawn field is not changed for the given item either. So what does marking the item status in this way actually do? Is this a "bug", and should it be updating the items.withdrawn field, perhaps? Following the #2 process above seems to have the expected results. Thanks in advance for anyone's thoughts! Steve _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org <http://koha-community.org/> Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz <mailto:Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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Koha web services API
by Hartman, David W. - Tech Library 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

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User acceptance testing
by Peacock, David 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

Hi Has anyone got any User acceptance testing scripts for Koha, that they would be prepared to share? Kind regards David David Peacock Information Collections & Services University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield. AL10 9AB Tel. 01707 284663 Email d.m.peacock(a)herts.ac.uk Information Hertfordshire Services and Solutions for the University

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adding patrons in a batch - getting errors
by ChristyThomas 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

Hi, We (my mom) are trying to add student patrons in batches. She made an excel file following the Koha instructions. She is getting errors. Do you have any suggestions or possibly do you have a template that you know works that you can send me. Here are her emails describing what happened: FIRST EMAIL: One attempt, nothing imported. Said something not expected format which almost certainly means phone numbers or dates. I'm going to have to play around a little to determine what is hanging it up... perhaps later tonight. SECOND EMAIL: I took it down to only names and the required codes and it still wouldn't load. The error messages are below. It appears it doesn't like my header row, which I copied from their instructions. Says it could not be parsed. I searched on that error message and I appear to be not the only one who has this problem, and they system does not think that it is a csv, but tab separated. I'm going to work on it tomorrow on a break and try a couple other ways to see if I can find a way for it to be a csv file that system recognizes. xoxo Mom Feedback: Parsing upload file Library1.csv Content-Disposition : form-data; name="uploadborrowers"; filename="Library1.csv" Content-Type : application/vnd.ms-excel headerrow : Error analysis: Header row could not be parsed Thanks, Christy -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/adding-patrons-in-a-batch-getting-errors-… Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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