<div dir="ltr">I want to point you to the working manual: <a href="http://sites.google.com/a/liblime.com/koha-manual/">http://sites.google.com/a/liblime.com/koha-manual/</a><br><br>I don't know how to answer all of your questions, but as for the street type - this is because there is an authorized value you can assign to that to make it easier for people to add patrons.<br>
<br>As for missing fields, you can set up your own custom fields by going to the patron attribute types: <a href="http://sites.google.com/a/liblime.com/koha-manual/Home/Table-of-Contents/administration/Patrons---Circulation/patrons--circulation-patron-attribute-types">http://sites.google.com/a/liblime.com/koha-manual/Home/Table-of-Contents/administration/Patrons---Circulation/patrons--circulation-patron-attribute-types</a> <br>
<br clear="all"><br><br>---<br><br>Nicole C. Engard<br>Open Source Evangelist, LibLime<br>(888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714<br><a href="mailto:nce@liblime.com">nce@liblime.com</a><br>AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard<br><br><a href="http://liblime.com">http://liblime.com</a><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Bob Ewart <<a href="mailto:bob-ewart@earthlink.net">bob-ewart@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm in the process of converting our library from DBText to koha 3.00<br>
RC1 and have a couple of questions about the fields in the patron record.<br>
<br>
I see address, city and zipcode for the addresses, but no state or<br>
country fields. Being in south Florida, we do get a number of Canadians.<br>
<br>
I'm also curious about why street number and street type are separate<br>
fields.<br>
<br>
We also have a number of flags like 'mailing list' (which indicates<br>
whether or not the patron wants to get general mailings) which don't map<br>
to anything in the patron record.<br>
<br>
What format should the dates have? I don't have a sex or date-of-birth<br>
field (I'll probably use 1/1/1969 for date of birth which will make<br>
everyone 39 years old. They're all adults.)<br>
<br>
I see that the branch and category codes must be valid for importing<br>
patrons. Are there any other fields that are required or checked. I<br>
guess that cardnumber, zipcode and surname are required.<br>
<br>
Thanks for any suggestions.<br>
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Bob<br>
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