Re: [Koha-devel] Catalog searches working with Keyword search but not with Title and Author in Koha 3

2008-06-09 Thread Ricardo Dias Marques
Hi all, Following up to myself, just to keep (possible) interested readers updated: My problem was that searches were only working for "Keyword" searches, *but not* for "Title" or "Author" searches. I'm running the Koha 3 developer snapshot that was available on 28-May-2008. The Koha database ve

[Koha-devel] Web Archives (pipermail) for Koha.org mailing lists not appearing for June 2008

2008-06-09 Thread Ricardo Dias Marques
Hi list, I just noticed that the Web Archives (run by the software pipermail) for the Koha.org mailing lists are NOT appearing for the current month (June 2008). The problem does NOT happen with the Koha mailing list that is (still?) hosted in the lists.katipo.co.nz subdomain. You can check this

[Koha-devel] Correct size of UNIMARC Leader field (000 - Record Label): 24 or 25 characters?

2008-06-09 Thread Ricardo Dias Marques
Hi all, As I mentioned in previous posts, I'm running the Koha 3 developer snapshot that was available on 28-May-2008 in a Xen Virtual Machine running Linux (openSUSE 10.3). The Koha database version is 3.00.00.086. I'm using UNIMARC with Zebra disabled. I have inserted bibliographic records we

Re: [Koha-devel] Correct size of UNIMARC Leader field (000 - Record Label): 24 or 25 characters?

2008-06-09 Thread Galen Charlton
Hi, On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Ricardo Dias Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am I misinterpreting the UNIMARC spec? As with all formats based on ISO 2709, the correct leader length in UNIMARC is 24 bytes. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Koha Application Developer LibLime [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Koha-devel] Correct size of UNIMARC Leader field (000 - Record Label): 24 or 25 characters?

2008-06-09 Thread Ricardo Dias Marques
Hi Galen, On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Galen Charlton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As with all formats based on ISO 2709, the correct leader length in > UNIMARC is 24 bytes. Thanks for the feedback Galen. That seems to confirm that the change in this commit by Paul Poulain (committed on 2 Jul

[Koha-devel] RFCs for 3.2

2008-06-09 Thread Galen Charlton
Hi, While we work on bugfixing for 3.0, it is also time to give a concrete thought or two for the future. Today I will start sending LibLime's RFCs for new features for 3.2. I have created a page for the RFCs on the wiki: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:rfcs3.2 As many of the R

[Koha-devel] RFC 3.2 - system groups and extending independent branches

2008-06-09 Thread Galen Charlton
The independent branches feature in Koha 3.0 gives multi-branch or consortial users of Koha the ability to achieve some separation between branches. For example, with independent branches turned on, a staff user can circulate only within their own branch and only see orders and item records from th

[Koha-devel] RFC 3.2 - hourly circulation policies

2008-06-09 Thread Galen Charlton
Koha 3's circulation loans are currently measured only in units of days. However, because some libraries perform loans that are measured in minutes or hours, particularly for course reserves and short loans, LibLime proposes to add support for measuring loan periods in time intervals shorter than a

[Koha-devel] RFC 3.2 - email checkout slips

2008-06-09 Thread Galen Charlton
A LibLime customer wants to be able to send emails or SMS messages to a patron whenever the patron checks out or returns an item. The proposed feature would include the following elements * A patron will be able to control when and how to receive checkout and return alerts via the OPAC patro

[Koha-devel] RFC 3.2 - fine thresholds and automatic forgiving of fines

2008-06-09 Thread Galen Charlton
A LibLime customer would like the ability to periodically forgive patron fines if the patron's balance is less than a threshold set by the library. To meet this requirement, we propose to implement a batch job or tool. The job would take the following parameters: 1. branches, patron categories

[Koha-devel] RFC 3.2 - opening hours and term due dates

2008-06-09 Thread Galen Charlton
This RFC covers two distinct enhancements. The first, opening hours, would let the administrator specify what hours the library is open. This would affect several due times for hourly and overnight loans and fine calculations for hourly loans. Since some libraries stay open past midnight, the enha

[Koha-devel] RFC 3.2 - recall requests

2008-06-09 Thread Galen Charlton
Some libraries permit recalls, which are requests that one patron can make to retrieve an item that is currently on loan to another patron. A recall request will: 1. Shorten the loan period for the original borrower, although the borrower will always be able to keep the book for a specified lengt

[Koha-devel] RFC 3.2 - put item hold request flag in circulation policy matrix

2008-06-09 Thread Galen Charlton
At present, if a patron is allowed to place hold requests, they can request any item that is not on loan or doesn't have the binding, lost, or notforloan statuses set. However, some LibLime customers to need more precisely control which items are available for hold requests. For example, a library

[Koha-devel] RFC 3.2 - enhancements to notifications and messaging

2008-06-09 Thread Galen Charlton
Koha has mechanism to send messages to patrons and staff user that includes the ability to use message templates and send emails. LibLime proposes to enhance messaging by adding the following: * creating a messaging preferences tab in the OPAC so that patrons can control what types of messages the

Re: [Koha-devel] RFC 3.2 - system groups and extending independent branches

2008-06-09 Thread Galen Charlton
Hi, On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Frédéric DEMIANS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see 3 obvious levels, no more, in the vast majority of situations: > > 1. Koha -- global settings > 2. Library -- settings for each library > 3. Branch -- branches belong to one library inherit parameters from

Re: [Koha-devel] RFC 3.2 - hourly circulation policies

2008-06-09 Thread Jesse
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Galen Charlton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Koha 3's circulation loans are currently measured only in units of > days. However, because some libraries perform loans that are measured > in minutes or hours, particularly for course reserves and short loans, > LibLime

Re: [Koha-devel] RFC 3.2 - fine thresholds and automatic forgiving of fines

2008-06-09 Thread Jesse
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Galen Charlton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A LibLime customer would like the ability to periodically forgive > patron fines if the patron's balance is less than a threshold set by > the library. To meet this requirement, we propose to implement a batch > job or too

[Koha-devel] bulkmarcimport problem

2008-06-09 Thread David Schuster
I loaded several thousand records last night and today when I go to load some I am getting this error: .DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction at /sur/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2128, line 1. and continue to get this until I ctrl-c out of the e

Re: [Koha-devel] bulkmarcimport problem

2008-06-09 Thread José Miguel Parrella Romero
David Schuster escribió: > I loaded several thousand records last night and today when I go to load some > I am getting this error: > > .DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting > transaction at /sur/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2128, line 1. > and continue to