External Integration

Integrating Other Software With Koha

Discovery Software

VuFind

VuFind is discovery software written by Vilanova University. It interacts with the ILS through a driver, which has its own configuration file. The Master branch contains Koha.php, which uses raw access to Koha's database table. The driver is bare bones, and there's a lot of data that shows as 'Unknown'. PTFS-Europe has also created a fork that uses ILSDI in the 'KohaRest' driver. See VuFind KohaRest

External notifications

i-tiva

Misspelled itva. From illion Digital Tech Solutions (formerly Talking Tech)

See syspref TalkingTechItivaPhoneNotification for very basic info

testing

To test the Koha part, in this case, the notification of a waiting hold.

• enable syspref TalkingTechItivaPhoneNotification
• Tools > Notices & slips => edit the one with code HOLD
• fill the "Phone ( Itiva )" notice
• enable phone notifications for a patron
• place a hold and check-in an item
• run ./misc/cronjobs/thirdparty/TalkingTech_itiva_outbound.pl --output=/tmp/itiva.csv --type=RESERVE
• the .csv should contain the data to be sent to i-tiva
• these instruction don't go further than that, feel free to complete

See also

• APIs and protocols supported by Koha: OAI-PMH
• REST api RFCs
• Using the Koha REST API