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Upgrade from Koha 3.04
by Greg Ashe 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '14

We have a Koha 3.04.01.000 running on Ubuntu 10.04. I would like to perform a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on a new computer, followed by a clean install of latest version of Koha. Is it possible to transfer the Koha database from old machine to the new machine in a simple manner (eg dump entire database from old and restore to new)? Thanks -- Gregory Ashe IT Manager Glenstal Abbey Murroe Co Limerick Tel +353 61 386443 Mob +353 87 2346850

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We should update Tiny used for Editing help! - Suggestion
by Mayank Srivastava 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '14

Hi everyone, Koha comes with an extensive help feature, where you can write/edit "Help" section for every page. The tool which is being used for editing help is *Tiny version 3.58* in *Koha 3.14*. I was thinking if we could upgrade this to the latest version of Tiny - 4.0 <http://www.tinymce.com/>, it would be great. This new version of tiny comes with a lot of cool features and it'll make easier for the users to edit the help etc. Views? Regards *Mayank Srivastava* Mob: +91 971 851 6955 New Delhi, India

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How to Fetch Active User details for operations in KOHA in a specific Module
by Arun Kumar 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '14

Hello, We are Using KOHA 3.12 version. We have been trying to make use of Active User details such as firstname, lastname, email address, etc. of the user who is currently operating the staff interface for user based operations : Sending mail alerts from the active user account which in default is KohaAdminEmailAddress, "Circulation" as well as "Acquisition" Alerts I have figured out so far that KOHA uses *"C4::Context->userenv{ }"* for finding flags on Active User which has a Dependency *"get_template_and_user" *from *Auth.pm* My question is how do use these functions to get specific details on email address, First name, of the ACTIVE USER to be fetched and values to be used for development purpose Any help will be Appreciated *Thanking You* Regards, ARUNKUMAR National Institute of Oceanography Dona-Paula, Goa, India

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Re: [Koha] Koha Digest, Vol 104, Issue 23
by Bhavesh Patel 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '14

On Jun 9, 2014 1:41 AM, <koha-request(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> wrote: > Send Koha mailing list submissions to > koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > koha-request(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > > You can reach the person managing the list at > koha-owner(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Koha digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Why OPAC results from "Library Catalog", but not 'Title' or > 'Author'? (Joel Ewy) > 2. Re: Upgrade from source installation using repository > (Dibyendra Hyoju) > 3. Re: Upgrade from source installation using repository > (Mark Tompsett) > 4. Re: Going online / is there free solution for this, or with > shared host or how :( (Mason James) > 5. Connecting Library of Congress CLASSIFICATION WEB service to > KOHA (Mohammad Nashbat) > 6. Re: Upgrade from source installation using repository > (Mesfin Teshome) > 7. [koha]Request to add as KOHA PAID SUPPORT PROVIDER > (Dinesh Rathore) > 8. Re: US librarians seeking help with Koha APIs (Joann Ransom) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 19:09:16 -0500 > From: Joel Ewy <jcewy(a)swbell.net> > To: koha <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> > Subject: [Koha] Why OPAC results from "Library Catalog", but not > 'Title' or 'Author'? > Message-ID: <5393A9AC.9050000(a)swbell.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hey all, > > When I do a search in OPAC, (Koha 3.08) I can get results if I have > "Library Catalog" selected, but the same search returns no results if I > search on 'Title', 'Author', or any of the other options in the > pull-down. Does this mean Koha is finding the MARC record but not the > holdings? If I select one of the results from the "Library Catalog" > search, there is a tab at the bottom that says "Holdings (1)" and has > presumably correct data. Any big-picture information on the > relationship between the MARC records, the holdings data, and how Zebra > does its indexing would be most helpful. Thanks, > > Joel Ewy > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 07:48:18 +0545 > From: Dibyendra Hyoju <dibyendra(a)gmail.com> > To: Mesfin Teshome <mesfinatyh(a)yahoo.com> > Cc: "koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz" <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> > Subject: Re: [Koha] Upgrade from source installation using repository > Message-ID: > <CALzo1D=bYxTcphzoGi6RVfy88ySQG9c+_Wk= > 27ks3imT1EmdMg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > You can upgrade the Koha by following the instructions in > > http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_ubuntu_-_tarball#Upgrade_Instru… > . > > Dibyendra Hyoju > > > On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Mesfin Teshome <mesfinatyh(a)yahoo.com> > wrote: > > > Dear all, > > How do I upgrade from source installation using Koha repository or is > > my option to upgrade using tar file only? My installation is Koha 3.12 > > which was installed using the tar file. > > > > Regards, > > Mesfin > > _______________________________________________ > > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 23:06:23 -0400 > From: "Mark Tompsett" <mtompset(a)hotmail.com> > To: "Mesfin Teshome" <mesfinatyh(a)yahoo.com> > Cc: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > Subject: Re: [Koha] Upgrade from source installation using repository > Message-ID: <BLU172-DS1187D6B2941A7336910DF0C62E0(a)phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Greetings, > > On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Mesfin Teshome <mesfinatyh(a)yahoo.com> > wrote: > > How do I upgrade from source installation using Koha repository or is > > my option to upgrade using tar file only? My installation is Koha 3.12 > > which was installed using the tar file. > > I would recommend trying to move away from a tarball install, if you are > using a Debian-based OS (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc.) > > http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Moving_an_installation_from_a_regular_i… > > Packages really simplify the upgrading process drastically. > > GPML, > Mark Tompsett > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 17:44:40 +1200 > From: Mason James <mtj(a)kohaaloha.com> > To: miki-koha <2204986(a)gmail.com> > Cc: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > Subject: Re: [Koha] Going online / is there free solution for this, or > with shared host or how :( > Message-ID: <077880CE-C6D1-4E63-8F95-8F7A7B35E6C8(a)kohaaloha.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > > On 2014-06-8, at 6:10 AM, miki-koha wrote: > > > I have installed Koha, only to try it, but rather wanted to try it > online... > > But after all the effort find out that this is not simple, rather not > > possible... > > I dont see the why open source system cannot be modificated to work with > > shared hosts or anyhow? > > > > > So is there a solution? > > yes :) > > Koha works great for shared hosts where you are able to install or compile > your own software... > > > Many people use shared hosts from Linode or Digital Ocean, to run Koha > > https://www.digitalocean.com > https://www.linode.com/ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 06:08:50 +0000 > From: Mohammad Nashbat <MNashbat(a)alfaisal.edu> > To: "Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz" <Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> > Subject: [Koha] Connecting Library of Congress CLASSIFICATION WEB > service to KOHA > Message-ID: > < > BE37DB80D8D6C548A341B130786042DD14122082(a)AUSVMBX10VM2.alfaisal.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi everyone, > > Recently we subscribed to the Library of Congress CLASSIFICATION WEB > service, but we couldn't figure out how to connect it to KOHA to be able to > download the MARC records, if anyone knows about it, please help us to make > the proper settings for it. > > Also is this service different from connecting KOHA to the Library of > Congress free service using Z39.50? > > > Thanks & Best Regards, > > Mohammed Nashbat > Academic Resource Librarian > Alfaisal University > > > ________________________________ > > DISCLAIMER: This electronic mail transmission contains confidential > information intended only for the person(s) named. 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You should carry out your own > virus checks before opening the attachment. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 01:23:59 -0700 (PDT) > From: Mesfin Teshome <mesfinatyh(a)yahoo.com> > To: "koha@lists. katipo. co. nz" <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> > Subject: Re: [Koha] Upgrade from source installation using repository > Message-ID: > < > 1402215839.81193.YahooMailAndroidMobile(a)web126106.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Mark, > Thank you. I want to use packages but my current installation is from > tarball which was done since 3.0. I am now on 3.12. How do I switch to > package without losing my current installation and configuration > Mesfin > Free > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 20:32:32 +0530 > From: Dinesh Rathore <dineshrathore.hiet(a)gmail.com> > To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > Subject: [Koha] [koha]Request to add as KOHA PAID SUPPORT PROVIDER > Message-ID: > < > CACn-vGmaJDDuaGpuS_BNVoKqssPTM7LPVV8ZdBr-5t-Hu0_nrQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Dear community, > We request you to add our organization in the paid support list. > > *Company Name:* Jivesna tech pvt. ltd. > *Contact Person:* Utsav rai, vikrant malik > *Contact email:* *utsav(a)jivesna.com <utsav(a)jivesna.com>, > info(a)jivesna.com <info(a)jivesna.com>* > *Website:* www.jivesna.com < > http://http.jivesna.com/About-koha/what-is-koha/> > *Telephone:* +91-0120-4266526, +91-8860611657 > *Address:* A/209, Sector-17, Vashundhara, Ghaziabad (U.P.) 201012, India > *Short description of your services:* Our Koha support includes > > - Technical consulting and Solutions. > - User training at 3-levels (User, Librarian and Administrator). > - Solutions for Data Migration. > - Customization and Tweaking of the OPAC and Staff interfaces, Report > Generation(user specific development),Data visualization. > - Training for all major updates to Koha's functionality via > online,training or training in person. > - 24/7 monitoring of applications. > - Automation of DB Backup and Replication. > > > > -- > with regards > Utsav Rai. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 01:41:06 +0000 > From: Joann Ransom <JoannR(a)tetakere.org.nz> > To: James LaRue <jlarue(a)jlarue.com>, Joann Ransom > <JoannR(a)tetakere.org.nz>, Koha Devel > <koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org>, koha < > koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> > Subject: Re: [Koha] US librarians seeking help with Koha APIs > Message-ID: <o39qlp28v4hjw2lsn1jhr7gv.1402191506228(a)email.android.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi James > > Im not clever enough to answer your question but have forwarded it to the > Koha lists because you can't be the first to have hit this issue. Lets > cross fingers simeone can help! > > Cheers jo > > > > > Sent from Samsung tablet > > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: James LaRue <jlarue(a)jlarue.com> > Date: 08/06/2014 9:22 AM (GMT+12:00) > To: Joann Ransom <JoannR(a)tetakere.org.nz> > Subject: US librarians seeking help with Koha APIs > > > Hello Joann, > > I'm Jamie LaRue from Colorado, USA (formerly of Douglas County Libraries), > and Ross Balharrie recommended that I talk with you. > > Colorado is working on a statewide ebook content management platform. > That's well underway, but we've hit a snag in our attempts to integrate the > product with a Koha-based consortium. The administrator of that system > don't have a lot of experience with APIs. It's probably too late for us to > find a magic solution to accomplish this by the time our grant is up, but I > wonder if you might have some suggestions for programmers who do have that > expertise? This is the perfect prototype for an international cooperation, > and Koha is very definitely picking up speed here. > > I'd appreciate any leads you might provide. Thanks! > > -- > James LaRue, CEO > LaRue & Associates > 200 S Wilcox St #192 > Castle Rock CO 80104 > > Mobile: 720-530-4294 > Website: jlarue.com<http://jlarue.com> > Blog: jaslarue.blogspot.com<http://jaslarue.blogspot.com> > Twitter: @jlaslar > > ##################################################################################### > This e-mail message and any attached files may contain confidential > information, and > may be subject to legal professional privilege. If you are not the > intended recipient, > please delete. 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[koha]Request to add as KOHA PAID SUPPORT PROVIDER
by Dinesh Rathore 08 Jun '14

08 Jun '14

Dear community, We request you to add our organization in the paid support list. *Company Name:* Jivesna tech pvt. ltd. *Contact Person:* Utsav rai, vikrant malik *Contact email:* *utsav(a)jivesna.com <utsav(a)jivesna.com>, info(a)jivesna.com <info(a)jivesna.com>* *Website:* www.jivesna.com <http://http.jivesna.com/About-koha/what-is-koha/> *Telephone:* +91-0120-4266526, +91-8860611657 *Address:* A/209, Sector-17, Vashundhara, Ghaziabad (U.P.) 201012, India *Short description of your services:* Our Koha support includes - Technical consulting and Solutions. - User training at 3-levels (User, Librarian and Administrator). - Solutions for Data Migration. - Customization and Tweaking of the OPAC and Staff interfaces, Report Generation(user specific development),Data visualization. - Training for all major updates to Koha's functionality via online,training or training in person. - 24/7 monitoring of applications. - Automation of DB Backup and Replication. -- with regards Utsav Rai.

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Going online / is there free solution for this, or with shared host or how :(
by miki-koha 08 Jun '14

08 Jun '14

I have installed Koha, only to try it, but rather wanted to try it online... But after all the effort find out that this is not simple, rather not possible... I dont see the why open source system cannot be modificated to work with shared hosts or anyhow... So is there a solution? -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Going-online-is-there-free-solution-for-t… Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Why OPAC results from "Library Catalog", but not 'Title' or 'Author'?
by Joel Ewy 08 Jun '14

08 Jun '14

Hey all, When I do a search in OPAC, (Koha 3.08) I can get results if I have "Library Catalog" selected, but the same search returns no results if I search on 'Title', 'Author', or any of the other options in the pull-down. Does this mean Koha is finding the MARC record but not the holdings? If I select one of the results from the "Library Catalog" search, there is a tab at the bottom that says "Holdings (1)" and has presumably correct data. Any big-picture information on the relationship between the MARC records, the holdings data, and how Zebra does its indexing would be most helpful. Thanks, Joel Ewy

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Overdrive Integration
by Andrew Fuerste-Henry 07 Jun '14

07 Jun '14

Hi! We're just about to go live with Koha. We've got our Overdrive integration set up, but in the Overdrive search results page all of the titles come up with links that start with "http//" rather than http://. In the list archive I see a discussion from March 2014 of a bug arising from a change in Overdrive's APIs. Was that the same issue I'm seeing? Anything I can do about it from my end? Thanks, Andrew Fuerste-Henry Adult Services Librarian Carnegie-Stout Public Library 360 West 11th Street Dubuque, IA 52001 (563) 589-4225 This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. www.websense.com

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About example with the 952 field
by zolot 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

Hi All, In "Koha 3.14 Manual (en)" there is the "Tag 952 Subfield constraint" table (see section '4.1.4. Edit Framework Subfield' of the chapter '2. Administration'). Why exactly 952 ? Is it accident ? Maybe, this field randomly has been selected as an example of the ordinary field ? Or, maybe, this is more essential, the 952 field is a special field in the Koha system ? For instance, not for cataloging but for a management ctalogues. Regards, Gennady

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Request for Support to Integrate ElasticSearch into Koha
by Sebastian Hierl 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

Dear Colleagues, I recently sent this message to ByWater Solutions partner institutions, but I would like to expand my call and solicit your support for integrating ElasticSearch <http://www.elasticsearch.org/> into Koha. The goal is to add a new search engine next to the current Zebra search engine. This is a fundamental, strategic development that will ensure that Koha remains relevant in the coming years and that will benefit the entire Koha community. The current Zebra search engine works fine, but it is of a previous generation and has important limitations. In particular, it doesn't allow us to take full advantage of linked data. Koha currently links to Google Books and Scholar, Amazon, the Open Library, and WorlCat. This is wonderful, but automatic links to Google Books and Amazon are limited to recent publications with ISBN (in use only since the 1970s) and access to Google Scholar, the Open Library and WorldCat is limited to a title keyword search. With the proposed dependencies for implementing ElasticSearch <http://www.elasticsearch.org/>, we will expand these options and facilitate linking to most any repository by providing a MARC to RDF crosswalk and greater flexibility to ingest other metadata schemes. Providing libraries with the option to select ElasticSearch <http://www.elasticsearch.org/> as their preferred search engine instead of Zebra (it is important to stress that this would be a choice), would open the door to linking to the full content of Google Books and the Hathi Trust, the Digital Public Library and other repositories, or to controlled vocabularies, such as the Library of Congress Authorities <http://id.loc.gov/> or VIAF <http://viaf.org/>. Linking could be established on a number of criteria, including keywords, but also OCLC numbers and LCCN. In short, implementing Koha with ElasticSearch <http://www.elasticsearch.org/> would open the world of linked data and permit Koha to function in a manner more similar to current discovery tools. Today, to benefit from the flexibility that discovery tools provide, you would have to implement one in addition to Koha. That means contracting with another company or developing your own. Few of us will be able to afford that. With ElasticSearch <http://www.elasticsearch.org/>, the Koha community would be able to gradually develop Koha to fulfill the same purpose, with the added benefit that the current development of ElasticSearch <http://www.elasticsearch.org/> in Koha provides the option to browse the collection. In this manner, users would be able to perform powerful and fast keyword searches, as well as browse the collection by author, title, subject or call number, and link out to repositories for access to the full text or to controlled vocabularies. Currently we cannot browse the catalog in useful methods with Zebra. An additional benefit is that ElasticSearch <http://www.elasticsearch.org/> will improve speed, as you can cluster the search engine and actually control and configure the configuration files to use more system resources. The initial data is cross-walked from MARC to JSON, which is a lightweight metadata schema and which will greatly improve speed. Finally, ElasticSearch <http://www.elasticsearch.org/> is open source and, just like Koha, benefits from a dynamic community supporting its continued growth. To keep Koha relevant and to expand its functionality mattersto all of us and I would like to ask you to contribute to this development by contacting brendan(a)bywatersolutions.com or kathryn(a)catalyst.net.nz -- please also feel free to contact me. Best regards from Rome, Sebastian Hierl *Koha Gruppo Italiano <https://it-it.facebook.com/KohaGruppoItaliano>* -- Sebastian Hierl, Ph.D. Drue Heinz Librarian, Arthur & Janet C. Ross Library American Academy in Rome Via Angelo Masina 5 00153 Rome Italy T: +39 06 5846 417 F: +39 06 5810 788

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