This module is a connector for OPAC module that provides connection to Koha ILS.

This connector was previously provided with OPAC module, but we decided to take it out from the OPAC module tree to put it in its own module.

To see how it works and how to use it, please read OPAC documentation and Koha connector documentation.

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Project page
http://drupal.org/sandbox/jajm/1833210
Git repository
git clone --recursive --branch 7.x-1.x http://git.drupal.org/sandbox/jajm/1833210.git
Drupal version
7

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nesta_ commented
Status: Needs review » Needs work

README.txt is missing, see the guidelines for in-project documentation.

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Julian Maurice commented
Status: Needs work » Needs review

Thanks for the review.
I just added the README.txt and checked one by one items of Ventral Project Application Checklist (http://ventral.org/pachecklist).

This should be ok now.

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nesta_ commented

:) thnx!

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bhosmer commented
Status: Needs review » Needs work

The module description is somewhat vague. Could you provide a bit more on your project page about what your module does and why users might want to use it?

Also, could you somehow set up a demo catalog to connect to so that the module could be tested?

I also wonder about the koha.conf file. Could this be stored using variable_set instead? It is a little cumbersome for a site builder to have to edit a configuration file located on the server in order to enable and set up this module.

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Julian Maurice commented

The module description is somewhat vague. Could you provide a bit more on your project page about what your module does and why users might want to use it?

I added a brief description of OPAC module on the project page, but I don't know how I could be more explicit. OPAC module has to deal with ILS of different types. For this purpose it needs connectors. This module is one connector, which allow OPAC to deal with Koha ILS. That's all users have to know about it (before downloading it). Documentation about what connectors do can be found in OPAC module documentation.
What do you want to see on this project page?

Also, could you somehow set up a demo catalog to connect to so that the module could be tested?

I'm afraid Koha connector cannot be really tested without admin access (to Drupal and to the server that host it) and I cannot provide you this access.
But you can test it by:

  1. setting up a local installation of Koha (http://koha-community.org/download-koha/) and enable ILS-DI (Admin » System preferences),
  2. install koha-restful (http://git.biblibre.com/?p=koha-restful;a=summary, follow installation instructions in README)
  3. install OPAC and Koha connector modules on a Drupal installation
  4. follow the OPAC quick start guide to set up the whole thing

Then you can test harvesting bibliographic and authority records from Koha (with drush commands), displaying items of bibliographic records, authenticate to Drupal and then look at your own holds and checkouts, place hold on bibliographic records, ...

I also wonder about the koha.conf file. Could this be stored using variable_set instead? It is a little cumbersome for a site builder to have to edit a configuration file located on the server in order to enable and set up this module.

How could the site builder edit the variable then?
For now, we want to keep the configuration in a file. This is a more convenient way to edit, share and compare configurations. Maybe in a future version OPAC module will allow connectors to declare configuration forms or something like that, but this is not planned yet.

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Julian Maurice commented
Status: Needs work » Needs review
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Tredok commented

Hello,

I'm testing koha_connector and opac module. When I tried to configure Content types from OPAC Servers, I have an error (cf. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tredok/8266103157). Idem whith "Wiew".

- Drupal 7
- opac modules : 7.x-1.x-dev
- koha_connector : via git
- Koha : 3.8.5

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Claire Hernandez commented

Could you give me the result of
$ git log -1
in opac and koha_connector please ?

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Tredok commented

I've used git locally to donwload modules in my hdd. Then, I've uploader them in my server (shared on OVH).
Are you still interresting ?

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Claire Hernandez commented

Tredok, koha_connector issue system => http://drupal.org/node/1868246

(This issue can become again a review issue.)

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Claire Hernandez commented

Dear reviewers, I need to translate the module, would you have best practices to share a po. I think a module to be translated need a full project, isn't it ?
The module goes in production for many customers in very few weeks and for me the priority increase but I don't really know how to use the input "priority", does it depends of the maintainers point of view ?

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bhosmer commented

You might want to check out this page: http://drupal.org/documentation/multilingual

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