Koha 3 Development Updates

Last Updated on Friday, 30 January 2009 10:01 Written by Kyle Friday, 30 January 2009 07:45

It’s been awhile since I posted last so I thought I’d let everyone know what I’m doing development-wise involving Koha 3

We are about 5 weeks out from the point where we have to be ready to switch over from using the dev_week development version of Koha to 3 which is based on dev_week, but with many differences. To get ready, I’ve had to port a number of features from dev_week to Koha 3. These include:

• Porting my Reserves System updates from dev_week to Koha 3
• Porting my Rotating Collections system from dev_week to Koha 3
• Adding the ability to pay fines by an amount paid, rather than paying individual fines one at a time.
• Porting my ‘Fines On Return’ system where actual fines are not generated until an item is checked in. I think it’s a great system and our librarians definitely prefer it to Koha’s standard fines system.
• Porting my Clubs & Services feature from dev_week to Koha 3. This is the largest and complex addition to Koha I have made, and I’m done with the basic feature, but I haven’t sent a patch yet because I’d like to add some more bells & whisles to it first.

Hopefully I’ll have a public Git repository up soon so anyone can pull these updates from me instead of waiting for them to make it into Koha 3 proper.

In addition, I’ve set up a new website for KUDOS, the US based Koha Users & Developers Group. It’s located at kudos.koha.org.

Kyle

Koha Offline Circulation hits 1.x

Last Updated on Monday, 2 February 2009 06:28 Written by Kyle Wednesday, 24 September 2008 08:51

I believe the Koha Offline Circulation client has hit a milestone. Geauga County is now using the KOC program on their bookmobiles to avoid resorting to pen-and-paper. Thanks to them, KOC has a much expanded feature set, a Koha community endorsed file format, and the server-side scripts are included as part of the Koha 3.x distribution.

Go to the Koha Offline Circulation Home Page.

More LibKi Updates!

Last Updated on Friday, 30 January 2009 10:00 Written by Kyle Wednesday, 9 April 2008 08:23

I just completed the work necessary to run the LibKi client on Windows! The instructions are here. We are already running the LibKi kiosk software on about 10 Ubuntu thin clients, with around 50 to 75 unique user’s logging in each day.

The system has worked very well, the few issues we have are connected to the fact that I have customized our particular LibKi installation to integrate with the Koha ILS. By doing this, we are able to have a single username and password for each patron, for both Koha and LibKi. Those issues have been resolved, and we have not had any problems since.