Re: [Koha] Slowness & outages

2025-06-23 Thread Wagner, Alexander
Hi! > My library consortium is hosted by ByWater Solutions and during the last > seven days, several times Koha has been slow and then there's an outage > for thirty to sixty minutes then things are fine for a while, then > there's more slowness and outage. ByWater is addressing these issues, > bu

Re: [Koha] Removal of patron data obtained via LDAP

2024-07-23 Thread Wagner, Alexander
Hello! > But what happens if a patron is no more existing on the LDAP server To the best of my knowledge _nothing_. > and does not log into Koha anymore? Would behave like a locally added patron who does not visit the library any more. > As we understand the once fetched data > will just stay

Re: [Koha] Z39.50 targets page on the Wiki

2024-07-05 Thread Wagner, Alexander
Hi! > There has been a conversation on the ByWater Partners mailing list about > Z39.50 servers, so I thought I'd put out a reminder that there is a page > on the Koha Wiki at > > https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_Open_Z39.50_Sources There is actually a second page https://wiki.koha-co

Re: [Koha] User instance-koha already exists

2024-05-03 Thread Wagner, Alexander
Hi! > Koha v. 22.05.16 > > Removed an instance > $koha-remove instance > > Then I tried to create an instance with the same name > > $koha-create --create-db instance > > It displayed the following message "User instance-koha already exists" > > How can I resolve this? As I do this quite a b

Re: [Koha] how to avoid high cpu uses due to web crawlers

2024-01-10 Thread Wagner, Alexander
Hi! > I found that an IP 47.76.35.19 is hitting my opac continuously, due to > which CPU use is very high, and it makes the entire Koha opac and staff > client very slow. This does not look like a legit crawler. So most likely you can't tackle this guy with a robots.txt as most likely it will no

Re: [Koha] 22.11.xx vs 23.05.xx opinions

2023-11-08 Thread Wagner, Alexander
Hello! > Catalyst have written blog posts about these releases, which highlight > some of the key things in each release, which may be helpful: > > 22.11: https://www.catalyst.net.nz/blog/release-of-koha-2211 > 23.05: https://www.catalyst.net.nz/blog/koha-release-2305 Thank you for these pointer

Re: [Koha] email alert

2023-11-03 Thread Wagner, Alexander
Hi! > The Koha OPAC has RSS feeds (see the icon after the search results title - > "Your search returned XX results."). So patrons could use a feed reader and > subscribe to the RSS feeds. There may also be services available that let > patrons receive RSS feed changes as an email - I haven't look

Re: [Koha] Loan periods

2023-10-20 Thread Wagner, Alexander
Hi! >> Those would show once staff returns the items in the admin interface, right? > > Yes, you could use the checkin note configurable in the itemtype > administration page. With a little jQuery you could also do some time of > alert on the checkout page. Adding to notes.md ;) >>> Sometimes

Re: [Koha] Loan periods

2023-10-19 Thread Wagner, Alexander
Hi Katrin! > * You could use the "Item modifications by age" too to automatically > move them from a short term loan itemtype to a different item type using > some rules and the "age" of the items. > > * You could also use the course reserves module to give them a temporary > item type that is th

Re: [Koha] Loan periods

2023-10-12 Thread Wagner, Alexander
Hello Caroline! > Maybe someone else will have a genius idea, but I don't really see a way > around creating specific item types, or simplifying your rules. In a way they are a lot simpler than what Koha can actually do. The vast majority is just "4 weeks" :) > (A software change is always a go

[Koha] Loan periods

2023-10-12 Thread Wagner, Alexander
Hello! Being pretty new to Koha I still struggle to get a solution for our loan periods. I understand that Koha specifies loan periods based on `item types` and `patron types` and then calculates the loan period using the circulation matrix. I also believe I have an understanding of this matri

Re: [Koha] Hardware requirements

2023-09-11 Thread Wagner, Alexander
Hello! Many thanks for all your answers! :) It seems that Koha will be the first software where I actually need (quite a bit) less than before :) -- Kind regards, Alexander Wagner Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY Library and Documentation Building 01d Room OG1.444 Notkestr. 85 22607 Ha

[Koha] Hardware requirements

2023-08-28 Thread Wagner, Alexander
Hello! Currently, we migrate a few smaller libraries (say 50k titles, 5k patrons each) to Koha. At some point this will have to move from our pretty small dev box to a user facing production server. Could someone "in the know" give me some advice on the hardware requirements for Koha? Eg. CPU

[Koha] Publication charges: APCs, BPCs and all that

2023-06-20 Thread Wagner, Alexander
Hello! Besides our current migration to Koha I am also involved in a project on handling Article Processing Charges (https://www.opencost.de/en/). There it would be interesting to us to learn more how other libraries do it. So, if by chance you do handle publication charges (both closed as well