Re: [Koha-devel] maxItemsinSearchResults

2010-05-11 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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 unexpecte

Re: [Koha-devel] Koha Sound Events

2010-02-19 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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? -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org ___

Re: [Koha-devel] Bug assignees - call for volunteers

2010-02-09 Thread Owen Leonard
> * 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 -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org __

Re: [Koha-devel] Koha Sound Events

2010-02-04 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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 worr

Re: [Koha-devel] Koha Sound Events

2010-02-04 Thread Owen Leonard
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Kyle Hall 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. -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens C

Re: [Koha-devel] IRC connection problems?

2010-01-28 Thread Owen Leonard
Join #koha on irc.freenode.net while we wait for the international connection to irc.katipo.co.nz to come back up. -- Owen ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel

Re: [Koha-devel] Graphics::Magick on Fedora

2010-01-22 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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? -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Librari

Re: [Koha-devel] Connection failed to z3950.loc.gov

2010-01-19 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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 se

Re: [Koha-devel] Web crawlers hammered our Koha multi server

2010-01-13 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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 abili

Re: [Koha-devel] koha 3.0.5 virtual keyboard

2010-01-10 Thread Owen Leonard
Did you create this code yourself or did you find instructions for it somewhere? -- Owen 2010/1/10 Zico : > Hi, i have added a virtual keyboard in my OPAC. I am providing you the code > with which i did it. The procedure i followed: > > I entered my given whole code in Opacheader field. But, th

Re: [Koha-devel] Paid Work - Koha 3.0 RC1

2010-01-07 Thread Owen Leonard
> I spent ages trying to install Koha 3.0 RC1  onto Debian 5 with little success Why would you pay someone to install an out-of-date version of Koha? Is it because of modifications you made? If so, why not pay someone to port those changes to the latest version? -- Owen -- Web Developer Athe

[Koha-devel] A question about subtitles and performance

2009-12-31 Thread Owen Leonard
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 d

Re: [Koha-devel] Use of TMPL_IF EXPR

2009-12-30 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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 th

[Koha-devel] Multiple root budgets?

2009-12-28 Thread Owen Leonard
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 -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org _

[Koha-devel] Use of TMPL_IF EXPR

2009-12-28 Thread Owen Leonard
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? -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries

Re: [Koha-devel] Improving Koha's OPAC Search

2009-12-18 Thread Owen Leonard
> Maria Soledad Pera, William Lund, and Yiu-Kai Ng, A Sophisticated Library > Search Strategy Using Kolksonomies and Similarity Matches > . Journal of the "In solving this problem, we propose an enhanced library system, which allows partial

Re: [Koha-devel] A couple of Debian install questions

2009-12-06 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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 anoth

Re: [Koha-devel] A couple of Debian install questions

2009-12-06 Thread Owen Leonard
> which installation instructions ? Sorry-- The Debian Lenny INSTALL file. -- Owen ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel

[Koha-devel] A couple of Debian install questions

2009-12-05 Thread Owen Leonard
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 a

Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] version 3.0.4 on download.koha.org

2009-10-27 Thread Owen Leonard
>> 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.

Re: [Koha-devel] version 3.0.4 on download.koha.org

2009-10-27 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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? -- Owen -- W

Re: [Koha-devel] version 3.0.4 on download.koha.org

2009-10-27 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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

Re: [Koha-devel] Rewriting the Dev_Week Reserves Updates

2009-09-18 Thread Owen Leonard
>  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*

Re: [Koha-devel] book bag

2009-09-03 Thread Owen Leonard
>  i want to add book bag to more search behind advanced search Can you give us more details about what you're trying to do? I don't understand your description. Also, email to the list in plain text would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries

Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] Reminder: Next IRC meeting: 2 September 2009 19:00 UTC+0

2009-09-02 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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 -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org

Re: [Koha-devel] Adding some visual sugar to reports

2009-07-27 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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 li

Re: [Koha-devel] how to print value of variable in perl file.

2009-07-26 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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 w

Re: [Koha-devel] Staff client keyboard shortcuts

2009-07-16 Thread Owen Leonard
> Anyway, can Safari pass > http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/TS/html401/cp0101/0101-ACCESSKEY-BUTTON.html#test1 > or select entry "F" on > http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/tests/accesskey3.html Safari 4 for Windows can pass the accesskey test, and it can select entry "F" in that list *as long as the focus is on t

Re: [Koha-devel] Staff client keyboard shortcuts

2009-07-15 Thread Owen Leonard
> > not all keys or key combinations >> will be available (for instance, because of conflicts with built-in >> browser shortcuts). > > Why would accesskeys conflict with built-in browser shortcuts? I simply mean that we can't choose from the full array of possible keys because some keys will alrea

[Koha-devel] Staff client keyboard shortcuts

2009-07-14 Thread Owen Leonard
I'd like to start a discussion on how keyboard shortcuts are implemented in the staff client so that going forward developers can be working according to the same playbook. Right now there are two different kinds of keyboard shortcuts: - shortcuts via the accesskey attribute - shortcuts via a jQue

Re: [Koha-devel] ITEM Count

2009-07-06 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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

Re: [Koha-devel] updateitem.pl

2009-06-29 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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. -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens

Re: [Koha-devel] Fixes to opac-search.pl and opac-advsearch.tmpl

2009-04-27 Thread Owen Leonard
> for="mc-bks" title="Books, Pamphlets, Technical reports, Manuscripts, Legal > papers, Theses and dissertations"> src="/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/images/AF.gif" alt="Books" />Books > > I’m wondering if this section is even needed.   It hasn’t been visible > because the check for expanded options hasn

Re: [Koha-devel] Fwd: KohaCon 2009 Feedback and update!

2009-04-24 Thread Owen Leonard
https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/liblime.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=cFJWZm83SlZudDQ1bWI3Z2pBalJUWWc6MA When I follow that link I'm being asked to log in. Short answer: KohaCon09 was awesome. -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org __

Re: [Koha-devel] Hold slip/notice can't be printed

2009-04-07 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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? -- O

Re: [Koha-devel] Add Biblio slow

2009-03-31 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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

Re: [Koha-devel] 'OpacSuppression' syspref?

2009-03-27 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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

Re: [Koha-devel] a simple update-items.pl tool

2009-03-26 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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 descri

Re: [Koha-devel] a simple update-items.pl tool

2009-03-26 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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 sur

Re: [Koha-devel] a simple update-items.pl tool

2009-03-26 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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

Re: [Koha-devel] Date defaults in pendingreserves.pl (holds to pull report)

2009-03-20 Thread Owen Leonard
> However, the last bit of the below part of the script > -- the if !defined($startdate) piece -- seems to be implying that other > start and end dates could be provided. Of course: if the user can change dates in the Refine Results section then the script is set up to accept custom dates. At my l

Re: [Koha-devel] Change get_saved_reports order to alphabetical?

2009-03-11 Thread Owen Leonard
> In C4::Reports::Guided (Guided.pm), the subroutine get_saved_reports() > is sorting the saved reports list by date created.  Would there be any > interest in changing this to alphabetical by report name instead? This might a be a candidate for a javascript-based table sorter. The only caveat the

Re: [Koha-devel] items.notforloan and holds

2009-03-05 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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 th

[Koha-devel] items.notforloan and holds

2009-03-04 Thread Owen Leonard
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 th

Re: [Koha-devel] Clarify timeout syspref?

2009-02-24 Thread Owen Leonard
>> 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 diffe

Re: [Koha-devel] Clarify timeout syspref?

2009-02-24 Thread Owen Leonard
>> 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 versio

[Koha-devel] Holds queue report

2009-02-17 Thread Owen Leonard
Now that we're up and running on 3.0, we're discovering some aspects of the Holds Queue report that are not working for us: 1. Title. The list displays the title (245a) and only the title. No subtitle, no name of part/section of a work (245p), no number of part/section of a work (245n). This mak

Re: [Koha-devel] Frameworks

2009-02-02 Thread Owen Leonard
Jane, I hope you don't mind I'm CC'ing the devel list since you replied only to me and I'm not an expert on this: > So the framework is only used in staff mode > for creating/editing bibs? What about the connection (if any) to the > actual MARC standard? They keep making changes to that -- I jus

Re: [Koha-devel] Frameworks

2009-02-02 Thread Owen Leonard
> * 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 d

Re: [Koha-devel] Kudos.koha.org up and running!

2009-01-27 Thread Owen Leonard
> I've changed the byline to 'A US-Based Koha Users & Developers > Group!' I think that sounds good, thanks Kyle. -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org ___ Koha-devel mailing list koha-de...@nongnu.org http:

Re: [Koha-devel] Kudos.koha.org up and running!

2009-01-26 Thread Owen Leonard
> My only query is the byline > > " The Official Koha Users & Developers Group! " Agreed. I think it's important not to claim anything official about it. That suggests that if someone started another group it wouldn't be "endorsed by the Koha Project." -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County P

Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] Adding to the circulation template

2009-01-21 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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. -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org ___

Re: [Koha-devel] Koha3 populate

2009-01-08 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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 -- Owen -- Web

Re: [Koha-devel] Koha3 populate

2009-01-05 Thread Owen Leonard
> Anyone have a script or SQL file(s) to populate a Koha 3 database > with data for testing and development? Isn't that an option offered during installation? -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org ___ Koha-dev

Re: [Koha-devel] CSS errors

2008-11-18 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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

Re: [Koha-devel] Tab stops in source code

2008-11-13 Thread Owen Leonard
>> 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). Bu

[Koha-devel] Patron record "contact note"

2008-10-30 Thread Owen Leonard
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 a

Re: [Koha-devel] availability of a reserved item

2008-10-29 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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 on

Re: [Koha-devel] availability of a reserved item

2008-10-29 Thread Owen Leonard
> I know our patrons are confused by "available". We've had more then one > patron come in to pick up an item that the OPAC said was available only to > discover that the book was on the hold shelf for another patron an they > could not take it out. How about something like "not currently on shelf"

Re: [Koha-devel] availability of a reserved item

2008-10-29 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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 ite

Re: [Koha-devel] Patron attributes tables

2008-10-23 Thread Owen Leonard
> Silly question: would it be OK if the code were not displayed on the > patron detail page, just the description? The trouble with that, from my point of view, is that "description" sounds like it should be explanatory rather than a short label. I'd prefer leaving things as they are (with non-edi

Re: [Koha-devel] Patron attributes tables

2008-10-21 Thread Owen Leonard
> I believe the user interface currently prevents one from > changing the code, but I did that mostly to avoid having to handle > several error reporting scenarios. Thanks for the explanation Galen. I wish the code could be edited, because it's acting as a label for data output on the patron detai

[Koha-devel] Patron attributes tables

2008-10-21 Thread Owen Leonard
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": borrower_attr

Re: [Koha-devel] in the Template for Cataloging HTML escaping title in the search results breaks search term highlighting

2008-10-14 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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?

Re: [Koha-devel] Problem in /koha/members/memberentry.pl?

2008-10-09 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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

Re: [Koha-devel] Base template language for 3.1 (was: Standardised US English Translation)

2008-08-27 Thread Owen Leonard
> Based on the conversation in April, I believe that we have a general > agreement that we'll adopt en_US and the ODLIS dictionary > (http://lu.com/odlis/index.cfm) as the base template language. This kind of issue came up for me again today when looking at the patron messaging settings (members/m

Re: [Koha-devel] Item type images in opac-user.tmpl

2008-08-25 Thread Owen Leonard
> Good point about noItemTypeImages. I think the original thought was that > if you have item-level_itypes ON, there are probably other authorised > values you're using to link to icons Does this: " alt="" title="" /> ...only pull images for item types? -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens Coun

[Koha-devel] Item type images in opac-user.tmpl

2008-08-25 Thread Owen Leonard
A recent change to opac-user.tmpl displays the item type image in place of the book cover if all enhanced content preferences are turned off: " alt="" title="" /> But further down in that template the item type image may be displayed again: " title="" alt="" /> Couple of questions: why should

Re: [Koha-devel] Call for volunteers - Koha Documentation Manager

2008-08-12 Thread Owen Leonard
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm throwing my hat into the ring since I've already done so much in this >> arena. Nicole gets my vote too. She's been doing a great job on the documentation for 3.0. -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org __

Re: [Koha-devel] Wiki instructions for dealing with 3.0.x

2008-08-12 Thread Owen Leonard
> I've added instructions to the wiki about handling the new branch:: > > http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:git_usage#create_a_branch_to_work_in Thanks Galen, that's a big help. If I'm making a correction to something that would apply to both 3.0.1 and 3.1, it that up to the maintai

Re: [Koha-devel] cat search result list in OPAC & staff

2008-08-05 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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 rea

Re: [Koha-devel] opac logo image resize

2008-08-05 Thread Owen Leonard
> (owen) is there some style property to resize automatically the image ? > I've tried : >');height:50px;"> The logo is displayed using a CSS image replacement technique, so that the markup can be simply: Koha ...and the image display can be controlled entirely by the stylesheet. I agree tha

[Koha-devel] Adding to or Editing the Koha Wiki

2008-08-01 Thread Owen Leonard
For those of you who may be new to Koha, please note that the Koha Wiki is not editable by default. Because of wiki-spam problems in the past, users are required to register and log in to make changes. This is indcated on the Wiki home page by a message at the top, "Login from the link at the botto

Re: [Koha-devel] RFC 3.2 : Patron reading record management

2008-07-23 Thread Owen Leonard
This feature would be very much welcomed here. > - add a opac-emptyreadingrec.pl to remove the reading history. I would like patrons to be able to pick individual items from their reading history to delete rather than only being able to delete everything. -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens Count

Re: [Koha-devel] [corrected] Koha 3.0 Stable Release Plan

2008-06-04 Thread Owen Leonard
> I have avoided reporting bugs which I thought would either > necessarily be fixed as the particular part of the software became more > developed or would have too low a priority for being fixed unless I fixed > them myself. I agree that bugs are underreported, so I encourage everyone to report e

Re: [Koha-devel] Koha 3.0 Stable Release Plan

2008-05-22 Thread Owen Leonard
> Galen and I discussed the blocker, major, critical issues and concluded > we could address them with a concerted effort before Monday, June 16th. > I'd like to set that as the date for releasing 3.0-stableRC1, then do a string > freeze, to allow translators to wrap up any changes to translations,

Re: [Koha-devel] RFC: Feature to automatically email account details to patrons, upon account creation.

2008-05-14 Thread Owen Leonard
> Lloyd and I have been discussing a feature to automatically email > account details to patrons upon account creation. > The primary details are the user's userird and password. I think this is a great idea. > There may be a few sysprefs needed for this feature, but initially > just the one will

Re: [Koha-devel] IndependantBranches features...

2008-05-08 Thread Owen Leonard
> Only the home library can edit an item. I think the holding library > should be able to edit it as well. Just to be clear: are we talking about edits through additem.pl, or moredetail.pl? Lloyd, does that make a difference? -- Owen ___ Koha-devel

Re: [Koha-devel] "freezing" koha 3.0

2008-04-29 Thread Owen Leonard
> 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

Re: [Koha-devel] Vote NOW for the Koha Community Website Theme

2008-04-18 Thread Owen Leonard
Paul is right, I agree with those who say the current Koha.org design is preferable to the options we've been shown. > I'm sorry if my suggestion is out of place - but wouldn't it be best > if we just got a site up and running that was multi-lingual and then > worry about the design issues? I t

Re: [Koha-devel] Redundant max results system prefs?

2008-04-08 Thread Owen Leonard
> The first one is a bit missleading. It refers to the max number of > items to display per bib on the results page. Ah, that makes more sense now. Does hitting the limit cause the results page to display only the first X items per result, or is there an indication that there are more to see?

[Koha-devel] Redundant max results system prefs?

2008-04-08 Thread Owen Leonard
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 OPACn

Re: [Koha-devel] HTML-Template-Expr

2008-04-07 Thread Owen Leonard
> I was wondering if anyone has used HTML:Template-Expr with Koha? Koha 3 uses HTML::Template::Pro, which includes the features of HTML::Template::Expr. As a template designer I'm very happy to have that functionality available to me. It really helps avoid some really convoluted logic at times.

Re: [Koha-devel] Table sorting and articles

2008-04-02 Thread Owen Leonard
> One thing to keep in mind is that even if the catalog is in just one > language, say English or French, any tables derived from bibliographic > data may have to deal with a lot more than just the language of the > catalog Sure, and then there's the question of whether a predominantly-English

[Koha-devel] Table sorting and articles

2008-04-02 Thread Owen Leonard
I've been adding a javascript-based table sorter to many tables in the 3.0 staff client and OPAC. It's a jquery plugin (http://tablesorter.com), and allows one to set custom parsers for dealing with specialized kinds of data. I implemented a special parser for English-language articles, so that tit