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Koha 3.16.2: open external link in a separate window
by sebastian.krieg＠tuz-eisenach.de 31 Jul '14

31 Jul '14

Hello Koha, I life in Germany and use Koha 3.16.2 in my private home. I have to link some additional informations from a wiki in the biblioitems. In this case I use the field "URL", but the weblink in this field opens (in OPAC and Admin) in the same browser tab. Is there a possibility to open a external weblink in a biblioitem in a separate browser tab? Thanks for this usefull programm, Koha! Sebastian ___ mailto: sebastian.krieg(a)tuz-eisenach.de

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SIP2 AF field sent even if patron password is invalid
by Kyle Hall 31 Jul '14

31 Jul '14

I have an interesting SIP2 implementation issue. When authenticating through SIP2, if a valid patron id is passed in, but an *invalid* password is passed in, Koha's SIP2 server send back the AF ( screen message ) field even though the credentials are invalid. If a patron owes any fees, the server will send back the amount owed in an AF field. For instance, Overdrive will display this AF field even with an invalid password. Freegal does not ( but it may not display any AF field ). At least one SIP2 machine we tested against will also display the AF field when an invalid password is submitted. Is this a Koha issue, or a client side issue? The SIP2 protocol specification does not indicate that AF fields should be removed in the event of an invalid password. My guess is that some SIP2 server implementations may send back "Invalid password" messages which may be useful. Kyle 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 ) Mill Run Technology Solutions ( http://millruntech.com )

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sorting issues in Armenian catalogue
by Haik Zargaryan 31 Jul '14

31 Jul '14

Dear List, We are using koha 3.14. Our catalog mainly consists of Armenian language records. When I search in the Armenian language records using a keyword and then sort the records in Title A-Z order, the search results are not sorted alphabetically. I have found discussion on this issue and after going through it my understanding is that additional sorting rules can be defined in the file sort-string-utf.chr located in the /etc/koha/zebradb/lang_defs/en directory. Anyway, when I am adding the Armenian Unicode letters (marked in red and bold) to introduce correct sorting order: ----- lowercase {0-9}{a-y}üzæäøöåաբգդեզէըթժիլխծկհձղճմյնշոչպջռսվտրցուփքևօֆ uppercase {0-9}{A-Y}ÜZÆÄØÖÅԱԲԳԴԵԶԷԸԹԺԻԼԽԾԿՀՁՂՃՄՅՆՇՈՉՊՋՌՍՎՏՐՑՈՒՓՔԵՎՕՖ ----- the letters are not saved properly in the file, which is in ANSI encoding. Please advise me what should I do on the matters below. - In what encoding the Armenian letters or the sort-string-utf.chr file should be? - Am I adding the letters in the correct file and in the correct place, or should I create a new directory/file for the Armenian language? - Should the Zebra be re-indexed to implement the changes? Regards, Haik.

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Installation of Koha, DSpace and CMS in the same server
by DP Tripathi 31 Jul '14

31 Jul '14

Dear All, Now a days most of the queries are regarding installation of Koha, DSpace and CMS in the same server. Please download the PDF (link is given below) file which contains the detail about installation of Koha, DSpace 4.1 and CMS (Joomla/WordPress) in the same server. http://library.nitrkl.ac.in/kohadspacejoomla.pdf Hope this will be useful to all. Thanks with kind regards, -- ********************* D. P. Tripathi Assistant Librarian Biju Patnaik Central Library NIT Rourkela Odisha - 769008 www.librarianguide.in **********************

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Bibframe
by Elaine Bradtke 31 Jul '14

31 Jul '14

This is being touted as a replacement for MARC Something to keep our eyes on because it could have a major impact on Koha. http://www.loc.gov/bibframe/ -- 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)

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Comment Needed: Renewing of Lost items
by Kyle Hall 30 Jul '14

30 Jul '14

Attention Librarians! We need some input for dealing with Bug 9805 - Lost items are un-lost if returned, but not if renewed. http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=9805 The issue is that renewing a lost item does not mark it as found. I filed a patch to correct the issue, but there are concerns about patrons being able to 'un-lose' items by renewing from the OPAC. We have two proposed solutions solutions: 1) Prevent the renewing of lost items 2) Make renewing a lost item marking it as found controlled by a system preference I submitted a patch for the latter solution, but after some thought I and some other developers think the former solution would be best. What do you all think? Kyle 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 ) Mill Run Technology Solutions ( http://millruntech.com )

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Re: [Koha] Report help
by Elaine Bradtke 30 Jul '14

30 Jul '14

I rewrote the report to make it user friendly to my colleagues who aren't familiar with Roman numerals. . . little tweaks like this I can do. It's the syntax and commands that I don't know how to use properly that's the real problem. SELECT CASE SUBSTR(ExtractValue(m.marcxml,'//controlfield[@tag="008"]'),8,2) WHEN '15' THEN '16th' WHEN '16' THEN '17th' WHEN '17' THEN '18th' WHEN '18' THEN '19th' WHEN '19' THEN '20th' WHEN '20' THEN '21st' ElSE 'Unknown' END AS Century, count(DISTINCT biblionumber) AS bibs FROM biblioitems m GROUP BY century On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:08 PM, BWS Johnson <abesottedphoenix(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Salve! > > Way late response since I can't check my personal email at work. > > > >Ahrgh > >not enough sleep last night > >1900s=20th century. . > > > > Even if it's by Century, the initial ones had > > > >>>> WHEN '18' THEN 'XVIII' > >>>> WHEN '17' THEN 'XVII' > > So either way, it's flubbed, since that ought be XIX and XVIII > respectively. > > > Cheers, > Brooke > > -- 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)

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Re: [Koha] Subject: SIP2 AF field sent even if patron password is invalid
by BRANNON, CHRISTOPHER 30 Jul '14

30 Jul '14

I have an interesting SIP2 implementation issue. When authenticating through SIP2, if a valid patron id is passed in, but an *invalid* password is passed in, Koha's SIP2 server send back the AF ( screen message ) field even though the credentials are invalid. If a patron owes any fees, the server will send back the amount owed in an AF field. For instance, Overdrive will display this AF field even with an invalid password. Freegal does not ( but it may not display any AF field ). At least one SIP2 machine we tested against will also display the AF field when an invalid password is submitted. Is this a Koha issue, or a client side issue? The SIP2 protocol specification does not indicate that AF fields should be removed in the event of an invalid password. My guess is that some SIP2 server implementations may send back "Invalid password" messages which may be useful. Kyle Kyle, I filed a bug back in April related to this issue. It hasn't been touched yet. http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=12126 Christopher

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Patron Statistical Records..
by Jerwyn Fernandez 30 Jul '14

30 Jul '14

Good day!.. The idea is to generate a statistical record/report who visited the library on a specific time and date. Basically there is a RFID reader at the entrance of the library or a barcode reader, before library patron enters the library it is a must for them to scan their ID. I have heard some library have done this, integrated with our KOHA system, please instruct me how am I going to implement it to our library. Thank you and best regards, -- *BE AMAZING. BE SOUTHVILLE.* Jerwyn G. Fernadez, RL Basic Education Librarian Southville International School and Colleges Tel: 825-6374 loc.117/146 *Like us https://www.facebook.com/sisc.monarchs <https://www.facebook.com/sisc.monarchs>* *Follow us https://twitter.com/SISCMonarchs <https://twitter.com/SISCMonarchs>* * www.southville.edu.ph <http://www.southville.edu.ph/>* * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEeXh3JyXRg <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEeXh3JyXRg>* *http://library.southville.edu.ph* <http://library.southville.edu.ph>

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[off-topic] Free Linux course
by Robin Sheat 30 Jul '14

30 Jul '14

I've heard of quite a few people who would like to do more with Koha, but get stuck due to unfamiliarity with Linux. The Linux Foundation is doing a free course that starts in a few days time, called Intro to Linux. Normally this course costs US$2,400. It might be the bit of a jump you need to let you get more out of it. A bit of a description: http://lifehacker.com/learn-linux-with-this-free-edx-course-from-the-linux-… Installing a Linux distribution on your computer: https://training.linuxfoundation.org/images/pdfs/Preparing_Your_Computer_fo… The course itself: https://www.edx.org/course/linuxfoundationx/linuxfoundationx-lfs101x-introd… (note: there's also a US$250 option if you want an actual certificate out of it for professional development reasons or whatever.) -- Robin Sheat Catalyst IT Ltd. ✆ +64 4 803 2204 GPG: 5FA7 4B49 1E4D CAA4 4C38 8505 77F5 B724 F871 3BDF

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