There is a system preference maxItemsinSearchResults, which is only
used in 2 places, both in C4::Search.
It's not referenced anywhere else and hence is not set.
But by not setting it, it means that in the staff client the counts of
items available at each branch behaves in an unexpected
OK, I sent a patch for this, hopefully it was intact, but I am setup to
enhance
if more is needed.
It seems to be working great--very seamless. Did you create the sounds
or did you find them somewhere?
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* you want to be or remain as assignee for a component
I'm happy to remain assigned to:
Browser compatibility
Online Public Access Catalog (patron-facing interface)
Templates
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On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Kyle Hall kyle.m.h...@gmail.com wrote:
Even better:
http://www.happyworm.com/jquery/jplayer/
jplayer is nice--works really well for what it does. But it requires
Flash, and I don't know that we want to push a proprietary plugin on
our users.
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I think this is not good idea.. librarians doesn't like sounds;)
we are using sound only for login page and member page
In other words, librarians don't like sounds...except when they do.
Anyway, any addition of sound cues will be controlled by a system
preference, so there's no need to worry
The Graphics::Magick perl module is now required for install in the
community 3.2 branch hosted by biblibre.
What is it used for?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527143
Hey, how come our Bugzilla doesn't look that nice?
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I searched Google and saw an IRC chat log that suggested trying to
telnet into the server. I did that (telnet z3950.loc.gov 7090)
Sorry if this sounds like a dumb question, but I don't know what your
setup is: Were you telnetting from the Koha server? The purpose of
trying the telnet is to see
Addendum: also install a robots.txt file at the following location
in the Koha source tree:
opac/htdocs/robots.txt
Isn't this already a part of a standard Koha installation, and even if
not, isn't this all that is required to ward off search engine
spiders?
Killing by default the ability
At the moment when you look at the contents of a list in the OPAC or
the staff client you don't see subtitles. In other places in Koha I've
seen this used to grab subtitles:
my $subtitle = C4::Biblio::get_koha_field_from_marc('bibliosubtitle',
'subtitle', $record, '');
Where $record is set by
Is it a performance worry or a security worry?
What I know is that the EXPR syntax sometimes leads to lines like this
in the error log:
EXPR:at pos 25: non-initialized variable loggedinusername
This happens when one of the variables being checked by the EXPR
doesn't exist. So in this case the
Re: Bug 2670 (http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2670)
Is it possible to set up guidelines under which EXPR is allowed? If we
can confirm that variables will be output under all circumstances
would an EXPR be allowed?
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Can you have more than one active root budget? If so, how does
aqbudgets.pl decide which to refer to?
If not, why was I allowed to create two active, overlapping root budgets?
Thanks,
Owen
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Maria Soledad Pera, William Lund, and Yiu-Kai Ng, A Sophisticated Library
Search Strategy Using Kolksonomies and Similarity Matches
http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~dennis/papers/EnLibS-Rev.pdf. Journal of the
In solving this problem, we propose an enhanced library system, which
allows partial,
which installation instructions ?
Sorry-- The Debian Lenny INSTALL file.
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1. Install didn't proceed correctly until I manually created the
koha-dev folder alongside the location of my git checkout.
2. I got several warnings about prerequisites missing after running
Makefile.PL. Does that mean that the installation instructions are
missing a step?
Oh, and another
I just tried my first Koha install on Debian: OSX + VirtualBox +
Debian + Koha dev install. I ran into a couple of problems I wanted to
ask about:
1. Install didn't proceed correctly until I manually created the
koha-dev folder alongside the location of my git checkout.
2. I got several warnings
Note that writing to one of the lists, petitioning for some LibLimer to
respond is not as effective at getting our attention as is writing us
directly as you have done in the past.
Better yet, you could grant Release Managers and Release Maintainers
direct access to edit the relevant areas of
download.koha.org is a site that LibLime created to provide a historical
archive of Koha releases done to date.
It is not a place where the Koha open source project can post its
latest releases?
If download.koha.org is historical, then where should Koha releases be posted?
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Secondly, why does it being on a LibLime server mean RMs cannot have
direct access at this time?
I don't have shell or ftp access to any other Koha company's server so
I'm not sure what you mean.
I have shell/ftp access to several other companies servers: Pair.com,
Dreamhost.com, etc. One of
I'm rewriting my dev_week reserves patch for koha3
Hooray! I've been coveting your dev_week holds enhancements for ages.
Expiration Date: An optional date after which the reserve would be
automatically canceled.
I second this one. Besides David's suggestion (which might require a
*global*
Any recommendations for an IRC client? I need to have our Help Desk
download it and a recommendation from a trusted source would be great.
There's always the web-based version:
http://koha.org/cgi-bin/irc.cgi
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Has anyone thought of adding some graphics to koha reports? We've been
playing (*) with Google Visualization API for creating charts. It has
some limitations due to its EULA (cannot be used offline) but
jqPlotcould be used instead (http://www.jqplot.com or plotkit).
I've played around a
In a .pl perl file, you can do:
warn var1: $var1;
Then view the page in a browser and check the ErrorLog to see the output.
...which is great if you're trying to debug something, not so great if
you're trying to output new information to the template.
Maybe it would be good to tell us what
Thanks for a reply however it didn't really help.
Actually I think Nicole's suggestion was exactly right, based on your
original question:
This is a very stupid question but how do i change the Item count in a
bibliographic record? i have two records of the same book and want to just
put 2
So if someone can help me out here that if not if someone
can tell who to contact that can help that would great as well.
http://koha.org/support/pay-for-support/
...Or contact a local Linux user group and you might find a good Perl
hacker you could hire.
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I’m wondering if this section is even needed.
I ran into the same problem, although I was just missing the template file.
I ended up just Googling for the template file and adding it to my directory
...which sounds very worrisome to me. What other files might be
missing? Doesn't this imply that the installation failed in some way?
--
We are hosting Koha successfully, but the add biblio screen
is really a big problem (accessed via the internet).
...
Is there anything to be done to circumvent this issue? The problem is not
Javascript related.
It is both Javascript-related and HTML-related. The default MARC
framework is very
It should at least specify the part about 942$n in MARC21. But then
that brings up a further question : why just 942$n in marc21?
I don't know if there's more history to it than this, but I know
Joshua created this feature up for us in dev_week. We needed a way to
hide a certain subset of our
the main use for the update-tool would be for Circulation - to allow
staff to bulk-update some boxes of items.
- setting all items to STACK or MENDING, or
- setting shelving location from '1st floor' to '3rd floor', etc
Having this tool would be invaluable to my library, and would make
WALDO is sponsoring development with LibLime for Bulk Status Changes and for
Global Changes.
Becky, does the spec for that match the description Mason gave? When I
hear bulk status changes I think of status changes by batch, like by
call number range or barcode range. I just want to make sure
The functionality required is the ability to collect a batch of barcodes of
items that are affected and the ability to change the status of collected
barcodes in one action. I looked back at Mason's description and believe
that he and WALDO are thinking alike.
I think the key is his
Trying to find out what the difference was between
$itm-{'notforloan'} and $itm-{'itemnotforloan'} I checked
GetItemsInfo() in Items.pm. GetItemsInfo() SELECTs both items.* and
items.notforloan as itemnotforloan.
So $itm-{'notforloan'} and $itm-{'itemnotforloan'} are the same thing?
When I
I've been trying to figure out why my patrons can't place holds on
on-order items (items.notforloan = -1) from the OPAC. If found this in
opac-reserve.pl (line 138):
if (!$itm-{'notforloan'} !($itm-{'itemnotforloan'} 0)){
$forloan=1;
}
Trying to find out what the
One problem is : as far as I can see, there's only one timeout, while
there probably should be 2 : one for opac, one for intranet.
Agreed on that point, FWIW.
At the same time perhaps also make it possible to log in as another user
in opac as in staff on the same computer?
What version are
What version are you using Axel? As far as I know this has been fixed in
3.0.
3.0.
I will check in on it once more.
It sounds from Chris's post that it's fixed for me because I've
always tested under the conditions he describes:
An easy way to do this presently is to setup a different
* Along with an accompanying policy it defines what fields/subfields
display in the OPAC and how they're labeled. Staff can always see all
MARC fields in edit mode, but display depends on the policies. Does the
framework control OPAC display in Koha?
Frameworks don't affect how data is
Would it be better to add code to Koha so that the list starts with
the current year, and gives the next five or ten years in the future?
More recent versions (commits?) correct this problem already.
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Yes, the installation usually offers that chance.
But in my case, for example, installing Koha3 I had to force some
installation steps manually and as a result the DB testing data weren't
correctly loaded.
It looks like there are lots of goodies in installer/data/mysql
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Try it! Do a catalogue search in the staff area and bring up
the Error Console window. You'll see what I am talking about.
When I look at the Error Console from the staff client search results
page I see a lot of warnings. Most if not all of them are warning of
non-standard declarations in the
And what about the templates? They are often mind-bending to edit, and I've
seen no tools to assist in comprehending their structure.
agreed...
The Perl scripts are mind-bending to me. I suspect it's whatever
you're most used to (I've spent WAY too much time in template world by
now). But I'd
My library is finally beginning the process of migrating from dev_week
to Koha 3. I've noticed something that didn't catch my eye when
working with the sample data. In 2.x, the alternate contact section of
the member record had a notes field, altnotes. In Koha 3 there is no
longer a notes field
Really? To me it's an issue of semantics -- what does 'available' mean
in this context? For instance, it's available for hold right? That is,
it's not lost, missing or withdrawn ...
I would expect the OPAC to list items as being on reserve. That's what
our dev_week installation shows for items
What about 'On shelf' instead of available? and 'On hold' if the item
is either on hold or 'waiting' (on the hold shelf)? Would that clear
up that distinction?
I'd be satisfied with on shelf. I don't think patrons need to see
waiting in the OPAC, because the waiting status is really only
I was looking at the new Additional attributes and identifiers
feature and have some questions about the table structure. I was
curious why Patron attribute type code is not editable. I see that
in the borrower_attribute_types table there is no unique numeric id,
just the code:
The cataloging page still suffers from this breakage.
I've just submitted a patch to correct that.
Perhaps these fields could be html escaped before the search term
highlighting is applied?
That seems like a real solution. Anyone care to bring their superior
skills to bear on this problem?
After reading the code, only one of the three e-mail adresses asked in
this form is saved :
elsif ($newdata{email} =~ /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/) {
$emailaddr = $newdata{email}
}
elsif ($newdata{emailpro} =~ /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/) {
$emailaddr = $newdata{emailpro}
}
elsif ($newdata{B_email}
Maybe the answer is to make the staff interface a bit like the social
networking websites do and have a first part of the display as public
profile and then an extra part that appears in the staff interface.
To preface: I think the advanced search interfaces are underdeveloped.
They've really
I think we really should stop hacking koha that much work only on
stabilizing things. And by stabilizing I mean stop adding anything new,
strictly, really strictly, just fix things that have to be fixed
For the most part, I agree. I think we've really strayed from the
timetable, and I
I see three different system prefs related to the number of search
results displayed on a page:
maxItemsInSearchResults: Specify the maximum number of items to
display for each result on a page of results
numSearchResults: Specify the maximum number of results to display on
a page of results
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