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Salvete!<br>
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I love Koha so far. I am really grateful to the developers for this gift. It's really making a difference for the library. I was pleasantly surprised by how easy, quickly and smoothly the upgrade from 2.0rc3 to 2.0 went. I can't yet commit financial resources to the project, so I well understand that there are more important things for every one out in developer land to do. I also am not sure whether I'm noticing bugs, or asking for large or small features, so I'll put my requests here. I want to make it plain that my attitude here is very similar to the attitude I take towards Inter Library Loan. I will put my request out there in a bottle, and if someone picks it up and responds, stellar! I'm also aware that a lot of this is probably me setting stuff up wrong. If the fix can be posted, then great. I just need to be able to tell my tech guy (my fiance) what he needs to fix when he feels like it.<br>
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On items with multiple 856u fields, the URLs are running into each other and making a mockery of your lovely database. There is clearly a pipe in the display, so I'm not sure why this is happening. I can cut and paste the url into the address box at the top one at a time, but it's so sweet to be able to have patrons click on the url attached to the record and have it go straight to the address. What am I doing wrong? Here's an example<br>
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http://65.110.139.7/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bib=2174<br>
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On items with fictitious character subjects for characters with a first and last name, the comma that separates their name seems to be wreaking havoc with the subject headings. I could have sworn that this wasn't happening initially. This is important to me because it turns<br>
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Baggins, Frodo<br>
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Baggins<br>
Frodo<br>
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If I type Baggins, Frodo in the search box on the first page of the OPAC, it will find the right records. However, if I click on the subject link from the record itself, it seems to be searching for just Baggins or Frodo not Baggins, Frodo. So it doesn't link to anything. What am I doing wrong? You can see it at the same example:<br>
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http://65.110.139.7/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bib=2174<br>
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I am having issues with the subtitle field. I've noticed that in other Koha catalogues it will not display until you hit the records page, but I can't even manage to get it to do that. Under my Marc Links page, I have it linked to the 245b remainder of title field. For now, I am being naughty, and squishing the subtitle into the 245a title field for important subtitles. How do I get the subtitle to show with my record screen? I.E. this screen<br>
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http://65.110.139.7/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bib=4<br>
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I am having issues with the additional author field. Left Behind is co written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, for example. Theoretically, I ought to come up with every book they've written together even if I type Jenkins, Jerry in instead of LaHaye, Tim. Koha doesn't appear to search this field properly from a basic keyword search. However, clever programmers you are, if I enter Jenkins into the author field of an advanced search, it will in fact bring up the full list. I have the additional author field linked in Koha, so it does indeed appear on my records screen. I wish this was linked like the author field is, and would be searchable under a basic search. What am I doing wrong? Again the record is:<br>
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http://65.110.139.7/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bib=4<br>
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I know I am asking for blood on this one. But it would be fantastic if we could please have an author search from the MARC biblio management screen<br>
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http://65.110.139.7:8080/cgi-bin/koha/acqui.simple/addbooks.pl<br>
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This is useful for me because on older books where there is no ISBN and the title is strange, sometimes it takes me a while to find the record. I know that I have to type a "The" if the title starts with "The" on this screen, but every now and then, I forget the title proper and have to turn the breeding farm on its ear to find my record.<br>
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This is something I haven't even tried yet and have no clue where to start on. In Massachusetts, we fill out a form every year that's basically an inventory of our collections. I know that there's a shelf list function, and I see the stuff for inventory taking. I don't know how to use either. What I want to be able to generate is a raw number of records for a certain type of material. For instance, one of my item types is Adult Fiction. I now have all of my Adult Fiction in Koha. Rather than count each book by hand, I would like Koha to tell me how many Adult Fiction items are in the database. When I'm fully automated with Koha, I would like to be able to know how many of all of the item types I have in my library. In my dreams, I would love for Koha to be able to generate a report that tells me how much each item type circulates. (IE my fiction collection as a whole has circulated 13,000 times last year 4,800 of which were renewals.) In my wildest dreams, Koha would take that data and do nifty pie charts I could present to other librarians or officials. I definitely get the impression that I can at least get raw numbers. But how?<br>
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Thanks so much,<br>
Brooke @ Hinsdale MA<br>
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