[Koha] Koha 22.05 packages are available 

[Mason James]

kia ora community,

the latest Koha 22.05 packages are available

an installation guide is below...
  https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_Debian


cheers, Mason


On 28/05/22 11:41 am, Fridolin SOMERS wrote:

Hello everyone 珞

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 22.05.00.

It is a major release, that comes with 6 new features, 239 enhancements, 360 
bugfixes 者

The full release notes are available here:
https://koha-community.org/koha-22-05-released/

Debian packages should be available soon 

It has been a great pleasure to be your captain for this 6 months journey.
Best regards 邏



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Re: [Koha] Does Koha support barcode scanners and more questions?

[Bruce A. Metcalf]

On 6/2/22 02:48, Karthick Babu Sai Sankar Gupta wrote:


1) Could this software be installed in a webspace and used or should this
be in a standalone (local) computer ?



Yes. I've been running Koha in a virtual server at a remote site since 
version 3.


If you do want to host it locally, I would recommend a single-purpose 
computer, so it isn't slowed by other programs. Some functions are a bit 
of a resource hog, though this is usually temporary.


I also recommend using Debian, not a derivative like Mint. It's possible 
to run it under different OS, but it's much simpler with pure Debian.


I'll have to leave the other questions to those with more knowledge in 
those topics.


Cheers,
/ Bruce /
Bruce A. Metcalf
Augustan Library

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Re: [Koha] Question about connect Azure AD and Colleague

[Scott Owen]

  I haven't used it in a while, but I believe Koha can still use LDAP
to authenticate.
https://openschoolsolutions.org/koha-ldap-setup/

The one drawback to this was always :
The students had to login to Koha "1 time" before the account became active.
Being a K-12 school districtthis was sometimes just 1 time too
many...and my staff never really bought into it.
(they wanted students to just show up with everything working...the 1 login
was a apparently just to much)
At the college level, that 1 time login might not be a big deal (?)


We use our SIS as our authoritative database, and do hourly SQL pulls to
add new students to our on prem AD.
Once they are in AD, the same scripts run GCDS and GAPS to create google
accounts etc...
IF we used LDAP this would provision their Koha account as well (the AD
sync that is).

On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 12:44 PM Denise Sandell 
wrote:

> Good morning,
> I am exploring the possibility of connecting Azure AD to Koha. Is this
> possible? Currently we export users and their information and import it
> into Koha. We would like this all to be part of our Azure AD experience.
> Secondly would we be able to  connect Colleague UI to Koha?
> Thank you
> Denise Sandell
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Re: [Koha] Question about connect Azure AD and Colleague

[Coehoorn, Joel]

We still have on-prem AD and use a different SIS. However, in some other
ways we are similar, and I believe what we are doing can work for you. And
that is:

1. Koha should get new users from the SIS, rather than AD. This is still a
manual process for us (download a csv report from our portal, upload to
koha), but it is idempotent (meaning librarians can do this as often as
they want without breaking things). The trick is writing the export report
to have student user accounts expire at the appropriate times at the end of
registered academic terms, and setting Koha's circulation rules to
understand how this should work for due dates near those expirations.
2. AD (whether Azure or on-prem) also depends on the SIS for new users, so
Koha users will always match AD users. The SIS becomes your source of truth
here.
3. Setup Koha to use SAML single sign on for authentication. We use a local
AD FS as the IdP, but Azure AD is not very different.

The result is Koha's user accounts are separate from AD but still always
match exactly, and when someone wants to log in to Koha it's checking AD
directly for the authentication via the SSO intermediary.

As for the Colleague<->Azure connection, that's kind of out of scope here,
but a quick google search indicates Colleague might also support SAML, such
that setting things up that way for one application gets you most of the
way there to making it work for the other, as well.

Joel Coehoorn
Director of Information Technology
York College of Nebraska


On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 11:44 AM Denise Sandell 
wrote:

> Good morning,
> I am exploring the possibility of connecting Azure AD to Koha. Is this
> possible? Currently we export users and their information and import it
> into Koha. We would like this all to be part of our Azure AD experience.
> Secondly would we be able to  connect Colleague UI to Koha?
> Thank you
> Denise Sandell
> denise.sand...@wilson.edu
>
>
> Click here if you want to book a meeting with me<
> https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/denisesand...@wilson.edu/bookings/
> >
>
>
> Denise Sandell
> Electronic Resources & Collections Librarian
> WILSON COLLEGE
> 1015 Philadelphia Ave.
> Chambersburg, PA 17201
> denise.sand...@wilson.edu
> o. 717-262-2724
> www.wilson.edu
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Re: [Koha] Arrangement of Fields on Items Form

[Caroline Cyr La Rose]

Hi,

It depends on your version of Koha, but in the most recent ones (at 
least back to 21.05 which is the one I use), you can drag and drop 
subfields to reorder them in the framework.



- Go to Administration > MARC bibliographic framework

- Edit the MARC structure for your framework

- Search for the item field (952 in MARC21, I'm not sure in UNIMARC... 
maybe 995 or something like that?)


- Edit the subfields

- Drag and drop the tabs at the top in the order you want

- Save

- Edit an item and confirm the fields are in the chosen order


I just tried it and was able to put $z above $x. It's pretty neat!

I hoe this helps,

Caroline

On 2022-06-02 12:00, Eric Phetteplace wrote:

Hi Naveen,

You could do this with JavaScript added to the IntranetUserJS system
preference, but as far as I know there's no other way. This line of
JavaScript, for instance, moves the "non-public note" field from the bottom
of the add/edit items form to the top:

$('#subfield952x').parent('li').prependTo('#cataloguing_additem_newitem ol')

If you want to change the order of many of these fields, it would be quite
a bit of customization.

Best,

ERIC PHETTEPLACE Systems Librarian, Libraries (he/him)

ephettepl...@cca.edu  | o 510.594.3660 (cca)

5212 Broadway | Oakland, CA | 94618

CCA is situated on the traditional unceded lands of the Ohlone peoples.

Black-owned bookstores in Oakland: Ashay by the Bay
, Marcus Books


:(){ :|: & };:


On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 11:36 PM Ms. Naveen Ali  wrote:


Dear All,

How is it possible to control arrangement of fields on Items form.
Which field will appear first and so on.

With best regards,

Naveen Ali

ITM-JE (EAKL)
Inst Representative for
HEC Digital Library Resources.
NEDUET, Karachi.


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Re: [Koha] Arrangement of Fields on Items Form

[Eric Phetteplace]

Hi Naveen,

You could do this with JavaScript added to the IntranetUserJS system
preference, but as far as I know there's no other way. This line of
JavaScript, for instance, moves the "non-public note" field from the bottom
of the add/edit items form to the top:

$('#subfield952x').parent('li').prependTo('#cataloguing_additem_newitem ol')

If you want to change the order of many of these fields, it would be quite
a bit of customization.

Best,

ERIC PHETTEPLACE Systems Librarian, Libraries (he/him)

ephettepl...@cca.edu | o 510.594.3660 (cca)

5212 Broadway | Oakland, CA | 94618

CCA is situated on the traditional unceded lands of the Ohlone peoples.

Black-owned bookstores in Oakland: Ashay by the Bay
, Marcus Books


:(){ :|: & };:


On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 11:36 PM Ms. Naveen Ali  wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> How is it possible to control arrangement of fields on Items form.
> Which field will appear first and so on.
>
> With best regards,
>
> Naveen Ali
>
> ITM-JE (EAKL)
> Inst Representative for
> HEC Digital Library Resources.
> NEDUET, Karachi.
>
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Re: [Koha] Does Koha support barcode scanners and more questions?

[Coehoorn, Joel]

Koha needs a linux-based server. For a very small library with a single
circulation desk and limited web presence, you could certainly install
Ubuntu Desktop at the circulation desk, setup the Koha installation there,
and use Chrome on the same machine. Typically, though, you want a dedicated
server somewhere.

A barcode scanner is just a fancy keyboard. Really. You scan a code, and it
"types" what it scanned into whatever textbox has the focus. Any software
system that supports keyboards supports barcode scanners.

Not exactly sure what you're asking here. We've used an iPad to do
inventory, but never to scan barcodes. Rather than a camera, we pair a
bluetooth barcode reader to the iPad. The scanners can be had from Amazon
for about $40.

Joel Coehoorn
Director of Information Technology
York College of Nebraska


On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 1:48 AM Karthick Babu Sai Sankar Gupta <
skarthickbab...@gmail.com> wrote:

>  Dear Community Support Team,
>
> I am very new and glad that such software exists and great people
> supporting it.
>
> I have following questions
>
> 1) Could this software be installed in a webspace and used or should this
> be in a standalone (local) computer ?
> 2) Could any barcode scanners be integrated with this software, to update
> whether it is loaned or returned or any specific way to scan the books ?
> 3) Is it possible to use a mobile camera to scan and update the software
> about the books?
>
> Thanks and looking forward to knowing the answers.
>
> regards,
> Karthick
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Re: [Koha] Problem in creating new authority types

[Ms. Naveen Ali]

Wishing you a good day,

I tried adding the Geographic Name authority to 260$a tag and CHRON_TERM 
authority to 260$b tag by adding the authorities in the respective thesaurus 
field in the bibliographic framework. 

Then I imported some data using the framework.

Records were created but it seems that authorities were not created.
Because when i try searching for entered authorities, the search does not 
return any result.

I have the global system parameters of 
AutoCreateAuthorities  = Generate
BiblioAddsAuthorities  = Add

The other authorities are working fine.

Do I have to do some more customization for GEOGR_NAME and CHRON_TERM 
authorities.


With thanks & best regards, 

Naveen Ali 

ITM-JE (EAKL) 
Inst Representative for 
HEC Digital Library Resources. 
NEDUET, Karachi. 


- Original Message -
From: "Indranil Das Gupta" 
To: "Ms. Naveen Ali" 
Cc: "koha" 
Sent: Monday, 30 May, 2022 12:50:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Koha] Problem in creating new authority types

Hi,

First (a request), try not to cross post, especially when the question does
not have a developer / coding related context.

Second, traditionally name and place of publication are *not* authority
controlled in MARC21. However, it may be your local decision.

That said, have you already explored and found that Koha's Authorised
values not doing what you want? Authorised values for 260$a and 260$ may be
a better fit and you will also benefit from automatic filtering of the
values as your cataloguers do their work.

However, if you still want to use MARC21 authority control for 260$a and
260$b, you really DO NOT need to create new authority types as mentioned in
the wiki page you have referred to.

The place of publication can work as a Geographic Name authority and the
publisher can work as a Corporate name authority as per Koha's standard
authority frameworks.

Stepping outside these perimeters will mean you will have to have to get
your hands dirty with CCL queries, debugging zebra indexes and Koha's
search internals.

All the best going ahead.

By the way, "Koha" is a proper noun and not and acronym, and thus it is
incorrect to uppercase it as KOHA :-)

Cheers
-idg




On Mon, 30 May, 2022, 12:51 pm Ms. Naveen Ali,  wrote:

> Dear All,
> I am trying to create new authority types in KOHA 21.11 on Ubuntu 20.04.
> I am following this documentation Create new authority type - Koha Wiki (
> https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Create_new_authority_type )
> In the section on Zebra,
>
>
> * I cannot understand how the att numbers are defined
> * I cannot follow the next two steps, which require record.abs file. I
> cannot find the file. Neither the one in biblios nor in authorities folder.
> I need to create two authorities, namely, publisher and place of
> publication to accommodate my existing data which I will be migrating to
> KOHA.
>
> Support will be greatly appreciated
>
>
> With best regards,
>
> Naveen Ali
>
> ITM-JE (EAKL)
> Inst Representative for
> HEC Digital Library Resources.
> NEDUET, Karachi.
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[Koha] Does Koha support barcode scanners and more questions?

[Karthick Babu Sai Sankar Gupta]

 Dear Community Support Team,

I am very new and glad that such software exists and great people
supporting it.

I have following questions

1) Could this software be installed in a webspace and used or should this
be in a standalone (local) computer ?
2) Could any barcode scanners be integrated with this software, to update
whether it is loaned or returned or any specific way to scan the books ?
3) Is it possible to use a mobile camera to scan and update the software
about the books?

Thanks and looking forward to knowing the answers.

regards,
Karthick
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[Koha] Arrangement of Fields on Items Form

[Ms. Naveen Ali]

Dear All, 

How is it possible to control arrangement of fields on Items form. 
Which field will appear first and so on. 

With best regards, 

Naveen Ali 

ITM-JE (EAKL) 
Inst Representative for 
HEC Digital Library Resources. 
NEDUET, Karachi. 


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Re: [Koha] Question about creating libraries in Koha -- possible bug

[Fridolin SOMERS]

Hi,

You may think of creating a Docker container with Debian/Ubuntu and use 
packages.


Le 01/06/2022 à 05:59, Andy Boze a écrit :

Thanks, Jonathan and Fridolin.

We're not using a standard Debian environment. We use Amazon Linux and 
install Koha from the download page.


The JSON::Validator module we have installed is 4.13.

I think we can work around the problem. We can still create new branch 
libraries, even if we can't see the list, and they do show up elsewhere. 
If we need to edit the library info, we can just enter the URL for the 
form < .../cgi-bin/koha/admin/branches.pl?op=add_form=CODE > 
so this doesn't appear to be a big problem.


Andy

On 6/1/2022 3:00 AM, Jonathan Druart wrote:

Hi,

Have a look at bug 28800
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=28800
Short version: confirm that you are using JSON::Validator provided by 
our deb repo


Regards,
Jonathan

Le mer. 1 juin 2022 à 01:19, Andy Boze > a écrit :


    Thanks, Caroline. There's no indication on the Perl modules tab that
    any
    of them need to be updated, and it only shows that two are missing,
    PDF::FromHTML and Time::Fake, which don't seem likely to be 
causing the

    problem. I'm baffled at this point.

    Andy

    On 5/31/2022 3:56 PM, Caroline Cyr La Rose wrote:
 > Hi Andy,
 >
 > I had this problem recently with my development installation 
and it

 > turned out I was missing some perl modules or mine were an older
    version.
 >
 > Unfortunately, I can't remember exactly which one was the
    problem. You
 > can see the list of necessary modules in the Perl modules tab 
of the

 > About page and it will also tell you which ones are missing.
 >
 > I hope this helps...
 >
 > Caroline
 >
 > On 2022-05-31 15:12, Andy Boze wrote:
 >> I have three separate instances of Koha 20.11.04. In one of 
them I

 >> want to create a new library. When I go to
 >>
 >>  Home › Administration › Libraries
 >>
 >> I see no existing libraries listed in any of the three
    instances. If I
 >> click the "+New library" button, I get the form to fill out, and
    when
 >> I submit the form, I get an alert that the library has been
    created.
 >> The Libraries page still doesn't list any libraries. I can see 
that

 >> the new library has been added, since it is now an option when I
 >> create or edit a patron or if I set circulation and fines rules.
 >>
 >> I've tried a couple of the demo Koha systems at <
 >> https://koha-community.org/demo/ > and they show multiple
    libraries.
 >> Is there a setting that would prevent libraries from 
displaying or

 >> does this seem to be a bug?
 >>
 >> TIA,
 >>
 >> Andy
 >>
 > Caroline Cyr La Rose, M.L.I.S.
 > Librarian | Product Manager
 >
 > Phone: 1-833-465-4276, ext. 221
 > caroline.cyr-la-r...@inlibro.com
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