Re: [Koha] Taking patron images out of db into a directory

2020-04-10 Thread Mark Tompsett
Greetings, I wrote: Mmmm... no. Owen replied: This kind of comment is completely counterproductive to meaningful cooperation. Please be constructive without being dismissive. If that had been all I wrote, then your comment would be valid in my mind. However, you didn't include the rest of

Re: [Koha] Koha Community Newsletter: March 2020

2020-04-10 Thread JESSE KAH
Dear Chad, KOHA Newsletter team, Good day! This is Jesse from Lemonjar Software Media Sdn. Bhd. As updated to Chad before we are also active in providing service for KOHA ILS in Malaysia. We have recently finish implemented at Taylor's University Malaysia. It's a challenging implementation

Re: [Koha] Taking patron images out of db into a directory

2020-04-10 Thread Eric Bégin
Mengu, We did something similar for one clients.  It's patrons pictures were on an external server using the borrowernumber as filename (they have  a unified id for all of their services) So their is definitively use cases for such a feature. In our case, we just "hacked" the picture URL with

Re: [Koha] Taking patron images out of db into a directory

2020-04-10 Thread Owen Leonard
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 3:50 PM Mark Tompsett wrote: > Mmmm... no. This kind of comment is completely counterproductive to meaningful cooperation. Please be constructive without being dismissive. -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries (740) 737-6006 https://www.myacpl.org _

Re: [Koha] Taking patron images out of db into a directory

2020-04-10 Thread Tomas Cohen Arazi
El jue., 9 abr. 2020 a las 11:41, Mengu Yazicioglu () escribió: > Hi all, > > We'd like to write a patch to move patron images out of db into a > directory in the server. > > By this change, we'd like to satisfy following. > > 1. The size of database backup will be decreased, by this way one may >

Re: [Koha] Taking patron images out of db into a directory

2020-04-10 Thread Katrin Fischer
Hi Mark and all, I kind of disagree with a few points. I see no harm in storing the patron images optionally outside of the database as suggested by Owen. I don't think the database is a good place to store files actually, storing them outside makes a lot of sense to me. Patron images are curren

Re: [Koha] Taking patron images out of db into a directory

2020-04-10 Thread Mark Tompsett
Greetings, We'd like to write a patch to move patron images out of db into a directory in the server. Mmmm... no. People doing backups might forget to supplement the default Koha backup with that specific directory, and come a system failure and a restore later... they discover the photos are

Re: [Koha] Taking patron images out of db into a directory

2020-04-10 Thread Owen Leonard
> We'd like to write a patch to move patron images out of db into a > directory in the server. I think this is a good idea. There's no reason not to offer it as a choice if it's possible to do both. I think an argument could be made that it shouldn't be a choice presented to the librarian and ther