On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:25 AM, vimal laxman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vimallaxman@gmail.com">vimallaxman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
hi all,<br> i am a newbie to Koha and Mysql i have installed koha 3.0 sucessfully without any of the dependency issues.but still unable to perform som of the basic functionalitie like<br><br>1.Unable to search books using OPAC .it says No results found .does it have any thing to with my database and encoding(iam using mysql5).</blockquote>
<div><br>You probably have not built/rebuilt the index. This question is the single most frequently asked question on the Koha list. Use the "rebuild_zebra.pl -a -b -z" script.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2.there is a koha wiki page "<a href="http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=encodingscratchpad" target="_blank">http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=encodingscratchpad</a>" <br>which talks about <br><h2 style="font-weight: normal;">
<a name="11e5e048aa4c08bf_changing_default_character_sets_for_marc21_libraries_using_utf-8">"Changing Default Character Sets for MARC21 libraries using UTF-8"</a></h2>
<h2 style="font-weight: normal;"><a name="11e5e048aa4c08bf_changing_default_character_sets_for_marc21_libraries_using_utf-8"></a></h2>Is it necessary that i should so it since it is specified for an earlies version of koha i believe since the table name that are mentioned are not found in the Koha database</blockquote>
<div><br>It is very important to get encoding issues correct. But if you had a proper UTF-8 database setup before loading data you do not need to follow the additional steps in that section. That section is only useful for people who loaded UTF-8 data into a non-UTF8 (probably latin1) database. <br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">3.i created a patron and he is unable to place a hold on a book.the koha error log says .<br>
<br>Mon Dec 22 02:11:12 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /usr/share/koha/intranet/htdocs/intranet-tmpl/prog/img/toolbar-hold.gif, referer: <a href="http://127.0.0.1:8080/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/css/staff-global.css" target="_blank">http://127.0.0.1:8080/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/css/staff-global.css</a>.</blockquote>
<div><br>This error is not really related. It just says there is a missing gif image file referenced by CSS. Depending on the version of Koha, the holds problem may be related to the lack of itemtype data. <br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
4.I have added some books to the database .i tried to "checkout" one of them.i inititally changed the items.barcode field to refer to ISBN .and tried entering the ISBN number of a book in the check out field .but it returns "Barcod not found".</blockquote>
<div><br>It sounds like you are talking about having manipulated the frameworks. This is an erroneous way to proceed and will not provide a reliable system. Among other things, you would not be able to have more than 1 copy of a book and autobarcoding will break. Many publishers have mistakenly reused the same ISBN, so your database would be unable to accomodate both items. This kind of setup should be avoided. It is not worth trying to "save" printing barcodes in this way.<br>
<br>--Joe Atzberger<br></div></div>