gmane.comp.misc.koha

Re: Classroom Checkouts

Lori Bowen Ayre — 2012-05-25T21:59:26

I'm sure we can come up with a better solution!  Let's continue to flesh
this out....

Do these students have only one teacher to worry about each year?  Or are
there several teachers that need to be associated with each student?

Would it help to add a field indicating their (expected) graduating year?
 Maybe to make some batch changes for example?

What's the name of the program that you use to generate the scannable
barcodes.

I'm copying this to a ByWater miracle worker...Ruth Bavousett, in case she
has brilliant ideas to make this easier for everyone!

Lori

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Re: Show us your OPACs

Rachel Hollis — 2012-05-25T20:31:07

Hi Paul, I really like your New Orders and Just Arrived dropdowns; what a fantastic service to your users!

Rachel Hollis, librarian
Stevens-Henager College, Boise & Nampa, Idaho USA
208-383-4540 x1814

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Hi Peter,

Check ours out
http://library.hauraki-dc.govt.nz/

Cheers
Paul Nielsen

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Re: Zebra database size

Viviane Ventura — 2012-05-25T19:43:30

In fact ...

The 37GB in / etc / Koha / zebradb temporary files might be a result of a
failure process.

Well, now everything works fine and I'm finally looking at the right path!
The index has 13GB now!

Thank you all for the tips!

2012/5/24 Viviane Ventura <vaventura1-/E1597aS9LRfJ/NunPodnw< at >public.gmane.org>

Re: Classroom Checkouts

Chris Nighswonger — 2012-05-25T18:37:39

We use Koha's patron card creator to create a patron card batch for each
class/grade and use a template generate scan sheets for each which contain
the student's name and barcode.

I'd imagine that the the patron search could  simplify the batch creation
for larger schools.

Kind Regards,
Chris

Re: Show us your OPACs

Rachel Hollis — 2012-05-25T17:59:20

Hi Paolo, I really like the QR codes you have associated with titles! Are they generated on-the-fly, as titles are cataloged/added?

Rachel Hollis, librarian
Stevens-Henager College, Boise & Nampa, Idaho USA

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Subject: Re: [Koha] Show us your OPACs

Hi Peter,
here is the link to the America University of Rome. I did that to satisfy the needs of stylesheet portal of the AUR.
What I did is to manipulate the original .css and adding somethings in OPAC sysprefs.

http://www.galileo.aur.it/

And here you'll see the wiki with a list of customized koha version http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Gallery_of_customized_OPACs

Best Regards,
Paolo.

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Re: Classroom Checkouts

Nora Blake — 2012-05-25T17:45:42

Hi Lori,

We don't do this exactly.  Instead we create these checkout sheets for each grade of the elementary school.  We store the grade level information in the sort 1 field, write a report to export the patron name, grade level and barcode number, run the spreadsheet through another program (not open source) that creates a scannable barcode image for each patron.  We then import the barcode images one by one into a word document where we group them by grade so that the librarians have a "scan sheet" for each grade.

Not easy at all!

We've tried convincing the staff at our elementary schools that they can just look the students up by name, but they're convince it takes too long and they just simple NEED to have these scan sheets (which systems like Winnebago created for them very easily).

If anyone can come up with a better solution, I would worship you forever.

Nora
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508-357-2121

kohacon railtravel

Colin Campbell — 2012-05-25T14:06:37

For anyone travelling by rail to kohacon national rail has a site which
should detail any scheduled disruptions (as Monday & Tuesday are public
holidays)
http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service_disruptions/seasonal/Jubilee_2012/index_custom.html

The London to Edinburgh east coast mainline appears to be disruption
free, west coast main line looks a bit more problematic

Cheers
Colin

Re: koha --> ldap: error

MJ Ray — 2012-05-25T13:32:24

Samuel desseaux <samuel.desseaux< at >ecp.fr>

I think it's more fundamental.  The XML cannot be understood (parsed).
You must not put curly quotes in XML.  Use straight quotes.

Also if you have any unusual characters in any values, you should
replace them with equivalent &#x00FF; type hex codes (00FF is y-umlaut).
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/latin_1_supplement.html might help.

xmllint --noout koha-conf.xml # will check that it is OK.

Hope that helps,

Re: Barcodes with leading zeros and spaces

Nora Blake — 2012-05-25T12:51:59

Hi Lori,

What about loading the barcodes without the space and leading zeros?  We do that with our libraries that use those Follett-type barcodes.

Nora
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Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 5:11 PM
To: Joel Harbottle
Cc: Koha List
Subject: Re: [Koha] Barcodes with leading zeros and spaces

Joel,

I think the problem for this library is that they have a prefix (e.g. p or sometimes P) and then a space and THEN leading zeros.  So, they want "p 000123" to be interpreted as "P123"

That seems like too much to ask!

Lori


On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Joel Harbottle < Joel.Harbottle-PkbjNfx

Problem in connecting to z3950 server

sushant panigrahi — 2012-05-25T12:33:46

 Dear All


In the cataloguing when I click the "z39.50 Search" button a pop up window appears that says "Z39.50 Search Points" at the top  and has a few fields to fill out with search terms like "Title:" and "ISBN:"  and a few "Search targets" at the bottom, of which the LOC target is  checked. When I search anything, however, the search fails and we can tell  from the browser pop up window that the browser is looking at the local host  (127.0.1.1). After a short while a message appears that says: "Connection  failed to z3950.loc.gov"   Can anyone tell us what we need to do or point us to a page that can help us  to connect to z3950.loc.gov?  
Sushant

Re: Zebra database size

Jared Camins-Esakov — 2012-05-25T11:10:21

Viviane,

Now the size of /etc/koha/zebradb has 512kb! Well, im using koha and the

The Zebra database isn't store in /etc/koha/zebradb. That's just the
configuration files. The database itself will be somewhere in /var/lib

Regards,
Jared

koha --> ldap: error

Samuel desseaux — 2012-05-25T10:25:51

Hello,

I try to configure ldap but i don't succeed

Here's the error

Software error:

not well-formed (invalid token) at line 280, column 15, byte 11694 at 
/usr/lib/perl5/XML/Parser.pm line 187
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Output.pm 
line 31.
Compilation failed in require at 
/usr/share/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/mainpage.pl line 24.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at 
/usr/share/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/mainpage.pl line 24.


I think to a mapping's problem but i need your opinion.


My ldap's conf is the following

<ldapserver id=”ldapserver” listenref=”ldapserver”>
<hostname>xxxxx</hostname>
<base>ou=people,dc=ecp,dc=fr</base>
<user>xxxxx</user><!– DN, if not anonymous –>
<pass>xxxxx</pass><!– password, if not anonymous –>
<replicate>1</replicate> <!– add new users from LDAP to Koha database –>
<update>1</update> <!– update existing users in Koha database –>
<auth_by_bind>1</auth_by_bind> <!– set to 1 to authenticate by binding 
instead of password comp

Re: Zebra database size

Frédéric Demians — 2012-05-25T05:35:32

Le 24/05/2012 20:02, Viviane Ventura a écrit :

 > Now the size of /etc/koha/zebradb has 512kb! Well, im using koha and
 > the searches seems ok, but still, I feel like I'm doing something very
 > wrong...  Can the xpath reduce the zebra index so drastically?

No, there is something wrong somewhere. Check your figures. There should
be a ratio of 1:4 (or so) between without/with xpath support.

Kind regards,

Re: Barcodes with leading zeros and spaces

Joel Harbottle — 2012-05-24T21:10:41

Hi Lori,

Hmmm... That can become a tricky one.

I know on most barcode readers you can set them up so if there is a space in
the barcode as your suggesting, that it will drop the space when it scans
the barcode, so it will read it as P123, etc. for Koha. I use an Opticon
OPR-2001, Cino FuzzyScan F460/F680, and DataLogic scanners and they all have
this option that can be set.

I¹m not sure without looking, but you might also be able to tweak the
settings in Koha to configure it to understand these types of barcodes...

But I would suggest changing the scanner settings is the best way to get
around this problem.

Best Wishes,
Joel


From: Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.ayre-xeNClPxZI2dBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 14:11:17 -0700
To: Joel Harbottle <Joel.Harbottle-PkbjNfxxIATvnOemgxGiVw< at >public.gmane.org>
Cc: Koha List <koha-MiqU8s9CcdeGg0aVt5PjEHTaI6DYlTYJ< at >public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [Koha] Barcodes with leading zeros and spaces

Joel,

I think the problem for this library is that they have a

Re: Barcodes with leading zeros and spaces

Lori Bowen Ayre — 2012-05-24T21:11:17

Joel,

I think the problem for this library is that they have a prefix (e.g. p or
sometimes P) and then a space and THEN leading zeros.  So, they want "p
000123" to be interpreted as "P123"

That seems like too much to ask!

Lori


On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Joel Harbottle <
Joel.Harbottle-PkbjNfxxIATvnOemgxGiVw< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:

Re: Barcodes with leading zeros and spaces

Joel Harbottle — 2012-05-24T20:55:03

Hi Lori, 

We use uppercase letters in our barcodes, for example A70022330679B, and
have never had a problem with Koha and these type of Barcodes.

Our patrons records, in their barcode having the leading zeros, for example
008910067. We have also never had a problem with Koha and these Barcodes.

From my experience, they are both perfectly good to use with Koha.

Kindest Regards,
Joel

Classroom Checkouts

Lori Bowen Ayre — 2012-05-24T20:46:15

Anyone ever heard of "Classroom Checkouts?"  Evidently it is a feature of
Follett in which a patron record get labelled as a "teacher" and this
allows that teacher to be somehow related to his or her students.  The idea
is that when the students are going to the library, the library staff can
easily generate a list of barcodes associated with that teacher (in lieu of
library cards I guess....).

Anyone heard of such a thing or have a way to accomplish something similar
in Koha?

Lori

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Barcodes with leading zeros and spaces

Lori Bowen Ayre — 2012-05-24T20:38:41

Does anyone have any barcodes that use leading zeros and upper and lower
case letters?  I am working with a library who has barcodes that look like
"p 000123" which they need to have interpreted as "P123".

Any thoughts about how Koha would handle that?

Lori

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Receipt Printers

Lori Bowen Ayre — 2012-05-24T20:37:00

Anyone using either of the following receipt printers with Koha?

Epson TM-TGGV
WASP RP-300-H



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Re: Zebra database size

Viviane Ventura — 2012-05-24T18:02:34

OMG...

Now the size of /etc/koha/zebradb has 512kb! Well, im using koha and the
searches seems ok, but still, I feel like I'm doing something very wrong...

Can the xpath reduce the zebra index so drastically?

Thanks!!

2012/5/18 Mason James <mtj-4iU5jy444meB+jHODAdFcQ< at >public.gmane.org>

Re: Fwd: intranet site error

Owen Leonard — 2012-05-24T15:30:57

Does the error go away if you switch that preference to use the local files?

 -- Owen