Dear Colleagues, I am setting up a federated library system using koha where each of the libraries needs to have its own look and feel and also should be able to search its own collection and also be able to search the collection of the other libraries in the federation by the users choice. I have also integrated koha into a CMS "joomla" in order to handle non koha pages. In my koha set up I have created the different libraries as branches and activitated the IndependantBranches preference in koha. You can see this at http://koha.apkn.org (koha in Joomla) or http://koha.apkn.org:81 (Koha pure) or http://koha.apkn.org:81/cgi-bin/koha/opac-mainug.pl and http://koha.apkn.org:81/cgi-bin/koha/opac-mainke.pl (Independent libraries). However, I am not sure whether this is the right way to set up federated libraries using koha. Could someone kindly advise me about the right way to set up federated libraries using koha? Thanks Anselm
Anselm, nice work on Joomla integration! On the look & feel for each library I suggest you use the multi-opac feature in koha. With this feature you can assign different css files for each library. Also the search will be performed only on that library's items. You will need different sub-domains for each library. Here is an example: http://east.koha.dce.k12.wi.us/ http://weston.koha.dce.k12.wi.us/ Thanks, Savitra Sirohi Nucsoft OSS Labs http://www.osslabs.biz 2010/4/17 Anselm Olweny <aolweny@gmail.com>:
Dear Colleagues,
I am setting up a federated library system using koha where each of the libraries needs to have its own look and feel and also should be able to search its own collection and also be able to search the collection of the other libraries in the federation by the users choice. I have also integrated koha into a CMS "joomla" in order to handle non koha pages.
In my koha set up I have created the different libraries as branches and activitated the IndependantBranches preference in koha. You can see this at http://koha.apkn.org (koha in Joomla) or http://koha.apkn.org:81 (Koha pure) or http://koha.apkn.org:81/cgi-bin/koha/opac-mainug.pl and http://koha.apkn.org:81/cgi-bin/koha/opac-mainke.pl (Independent libraries).
However, I am not sure whether this is the right way to set up federated libraries using koha. Could someone kindly advise me about the right way to set up federated libraries using koha?
Thanks
Anselm
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Savitra, Can you speak a bit more about the multi-opac feature? This is not something I have documented. Do you have it documented somewhere? Would you like to write something up for the manual that I can share with everyone? Basically I have no idea how I would assign different css files to each library. Thanks Nicole C. Engard On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 3:54 AM, savitra sirohi <savitra.sirohi@osslabs.biz> wrote:
Anselm, nice work on Joomla integration!
On the look & feel for each library I suggest you use the multi-opac feature in koha. With this feature you can assign different css files for each library. Also the search will be performed only on that library's items.
You will need different sub-domains for each library.
Here is an example: http://east.koha.dce.k12.wi.us/ http://weston.koha.dce.k12.wi.us/
Thanks, Savitra Sirohi Nucsoft OSS Labs http://www.osslabs.biz
2010/4/17 Anselm Olweny <aolweny@gmail.com>:
Dear Colleagues,
I am setting up a federated library system using koha where each of the libraries needs to have its own look and feel and also should be able to search its own collection and also be able to search the collection of the other libraries in the federation by the users choice. I have also integrated koha into a CMS "joomla" in order to handle non koha pages.
In my koha set up I have created the different libraries as branches and activitated the IndependantBranches preference in koha. You can see this at http://koha.apkn.org (koha in Joomla) or http://koha.apkn.org:81 (Koha pure) or http://koha.apkn.org:81/cgi-bin/koha/opac-mainug.pl and http://koha.apkn.org:81/cgi-bin/koha/opac-mainke.pl (Independent libraries).
However, I am not sure whether this is the right way to set up federated libraries using koha. Could someone kindly advise me about the right way to set up federated libraries using koha?
Thanks
Anselm
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Thanks Savitra, Could you guide further about how to implement this? Anselm On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:54 AM, savitra sirohi <savitra.sirohi@osslabs.biz
wrote:
Anselm, nice work on Joomla integration!
On the look & feel for each library I suggest you use the multi-opac feature in koha. With this feature you can assign different css files for each library. Also the search will be performed only on that library's items.
You will need different sub-domains for each library.
Here is an example: http://east.koha.dce.k12.wi.us/ http://weston.koha.dce.k12.wi.us/
Thanks, Savitra Sirohi Nucsoft OSS Labs http://www.osslabs.biz
Dear Colleagues,
I am setting up a federated library system using koha where each of the libraries needs to have its own look and feel and also should be able to search its own collection and also be able to search the collection of
other libraries in the federation by the users choice. I have also integrated koha into a CMS "joomla" in order to handle non koha pages.
In my koha set up I have created the different libraries as branches and activitated the IndependantBranches preference in koha. You can see this at http://koha.apkn.org (koha in Joomla) or http://koha.apkn.org:81 (Koha
or http://koha.apkn.org:81/cgi-bin/koha/opac-mainug.pl and http://koha.apkn.org:81/cgi-bin/koha/opac-mainke.pl (Independent
2010/4/17 Anselm Olweny <aolweny@gmail.com>: the pure) libraries).
However, I am not sure whether this is the right way to set up federated libraries using koha. Could someone kindly advise me about the right way
to
set up federated libraries using koha?
Thanks
Anselm
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Anselm/Nicole, In the default koha-httpd.conf file you should see these lines: # Repeat this virtualhost stanza changing the following environment vars to # create multiple OPAC interfaces with custom css and/or search limits: # SetEnv OPAC_CSS_OVERRIDE mystyle.css # SetEnv OPAC_SEARCH_LIMIT branch:CODE # SetEnv OPAC_LIMIT_OVERRIDE 1 So what you need to do is: Create a Apache2 virtual host for each sub-domain or library, e.g. library-1.yourkoha.org. In each Apache2 virtual host, repeat the stanza above, don't forget to remove the #. Create a css file for each branch and save in your /koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/prog/en/css/ folder. In the lines above replace "mystyle.css" with the name of the css file. Replace CODE with the branch code of the particular library. Thanks, Savitra Sirohi Nucsoft OSS Labs http://www.osslabs.biz On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Anselm Olweny <aolweny@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Savitra,
Could you guide further about how to implement this?
Anselm
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:54 AM, savitra sirohi <savitra.sirohi@osslabs.biz> wrote:
Anselm, nice work on Joomla integration!
On the look & feel for each library I suggest you use the multi-opac feature in koha. With this feature you can assign different css files for each library. Also the search will be performed only on that library's items.
You will need different sub-domains for each library.
Here is an example: http://east.koha.dce.k12.wi.us/ http://weston.koha.dce.k12.wi.us/
Thanks, Savitra Sirohi Nucsoft OSS Labs http://www.osslabs.biz
2010/4/17 Anselm Olweny <aolweny@gmail.com>:
Dear Colleagues,
I am setting up a federated library system using koha where each of the libraries needs to have its own look and feel and also should be able to search its own collection and also be able to search the collection of the other libraries in the federation by the users choice. I have also integrated koha into a CMS "joomla" in order to handle non koha pages.
In my koha set up I have created the different libraries as branches and activitated the IndependantBranches preference in koha. You can see this at http://koha.apkn.org (koha in Joomla) or http://koha.apkn.org:81 (Koha pure) or http://koha.apkn.org:81/cgi-bin/koha/opac-mainug.pl and http://koha.apkn.org:81/cgi-bin/koha/opac-mainke.pl (Independent libraries).
However, I am not sure whether this is the right way to set up federated libraries using koha. Could someone kindly advise me about the right way to set up federated libraries using koha?
Thanks
Anselm
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I do understand about this. Each file .CSS for each branch library. But how can we change header or footer for each branch library? Or all we can change is css? -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Koha-as-a-federated-library-tp3063502p5762... Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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