[Koha] Label question

[Chris Nighswonger]

Hi Chris,

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Chris Morrison <cmm1005 at gmail.com> wrote:
> After putting the issue on hold for a couple of months, we got back to it
> this week. I successfully upgraded to 3.00.05 today and ran the label
> generator again, and all the same problems I had before are still there.
> Here is the error message generated in the koha-error_log:
>
> label-print-pdf.pl: failed to parse label formatstring: Title at
> /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Labels.pm line 862., referer:

At the moment, the code which parses the format string is does not
normalize the case of the field names. Thus, 'Title' should be entered
as 'title'

This would be true of all field names, afaik.

Kind Regards,
Chris

> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Chris Nighswonger
> <cnighswonger at foundations.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> I'd like to see if these errors go away when you upgrade. 3.0.5 will be
>> released in a few days. It may be good to wait until then to upgrade. If
>> similar errors occur after the upgrade, send me a new log output, and I'll
>> look at it again.
>>
>> I still have not had time to send off the patch for the splitting issue,
>> but hope to next week sometime.
>>
>> Your tech guys are correct: Koha is not packaged (ie. rpm, deb, etc) atm.
>> However, they should be able to run 'perl Makefile.PL --prev-install-log
>> /path/to/koha-install-log' and then 'make upgrade' to get there.
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>> Chris
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Chris Morrison <cmm1005 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey Chris
>>>
>>> Our tech people were able to find several error reports that had been
>>> generated. I've attached them as it may be a bit much to list here. Beyond
>>> that, we are still working on upgrading (our guys were saying something
>>> about it not being packaged?!? I haven't looked at it myself yet).
>>>
>>> I also tried Agnes' solution, but alas, no luck there, either.
>>>
>>> As always, thanks again.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Chris Nighswonger
>>> <cnighswonger at foundations.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Chris
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Chris Morrison <cmm1005 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > 1. We are running 3.0.0, but just sent in a request to our IT team to
>>>> > upgrade to 3.0.4 today.
>>>>
>>>> Good idea.
>>>>
>>>> >
>>>> > 2. The spine labels are not splitting properly--half of the call
>>>> > numbers are
>>>> > not showing up. With reference to barcode labels, none of the
>>>> > bibliographic
>>>> > data is being displayed, despite being set to BARBIB and the
>>>> > datafields
>>>> > being set to "Title, Call Number, Barcode, Author."
>>>> >
>>>> > I have attached a PDF of our barcode generation (barcode[1].pdf). It
>>>> > should
>>>> > include the title, call number, barcode, and author, as mentioned
>>>> > above. You
>>>> > can see it does not. The second PDF attached (barcode[2].pdf) is the
>>>> > spine
>>>> > label generation from the same batch. You can see that it does not
>>>> > provide
>>>> > the entire call number. Here is a link to one of the items in our
>>>> > catalog
>>>> > that is part of that batch:
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > http://koha.lru.edu:8080/cgi-bin/koha/catalogue/detail.pl?biblionumber=7873
>>>> >
>>>> > In fact, to even get that much, I had to turn off the "Split Call
>>>> > Numbers"
>>>> > feater. :(
>>>> >
>>>> > 3. Will submit comment to bug 2500 soon
>>>>
>>>> Looking at your LCCN call number format: 'BV 4501.2 .L82 1991' it
>>>> appears your catalogers insert a space which the algorithm does not
>>>> anticipate between 'BV' and '4501.2.'
>>>>
>>>> The fix is trivial and I'll submit a patch for it in the next few days.
>>>>
>>>> >
>>>> > 4. We just submitted a request to our IT team for any error-logs.
>>>>
>>>> Great as it is not clear why the bibs are not printing correctly.
>>>>
>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks again for the help!
>>>> >
>>>> > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Chris Nighswonger
>>>> > <cnighswonger at foundations.edu> wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Please CC the list. tnx.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Chris Morrison <cmm1005 at gmail.com>
>>>> >> wrote:
>>>> >> > Koha 3.0, Zebra. It may also be worth noting that I created a
>>>> >> > separate
>>>> >> > layout/template for spine labels and included only the call number,
>>>> >> > and
>>>> >> > in
>>>> >> > that case, I get only a partial call number, although the full call
>>>> >> > number
>>>> >> > is listed correctly on the results and details page.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Are you running 3.0.4? or earlier?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Are the problems only with the call number splitting?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> If so, please submit samples of the call numbers that are failing to
>>>> >> split properly (include the numbering system you use ie. DDN LCCN
>>>> >> etc.)  as a comment on bug 2500
>>>> >> (http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2500)
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Are there any associated errors in koha-error_log?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Also, can you attach pdfs to  this thread showing the problems.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Kind Regards,
>>>> >> Chris
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Chris Nighswonger
>>>> >> > <cnighswonger at foundations.edu> wrote:
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >> Hi Chris
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >> 2009/11/20 Chris Morrison <cmm1005 at gmail.com>:
>>>> >> >> > I'm trying to print barcode labels and have a funny little
>>>> >> >> > problem: I
>>>> >> >> > can't
>>>> >> >> > get Koha to generate any bibliographic information on my
>>>> >> >> > label--just
>>>> >> >> > barcodes with the number. I even set the layout type to "biblio
>>>> >> >> > only"
>>>> >> >> > and
>>>> >> >> > just got a blank page!
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >> What version of Koha are you running?
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >> Is it zebra or nozebra?
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >> Kind Regards,
>>>> >> >> Chris
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>
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