<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Vimal,<br><br>In customizing your framework, you would have encountered the list of MARC fields. (by clicking on 'Marc Structure' against your framework)<br><br>One of the columns in this table (between 'repeatable' and 'auth value') states whether the particular field is "Mandatory" or not. For e.g., 000 Leader is almost always mandatory<br><br>Unfortunately, this table cannot be 'sorted' by its columns, so there is no alternative but to run through several screens to find out which of the 900+ fields are currently mandatory. You can then edit the sub-fields and un-check that 'mandatory' option. Perhaps there's a simple database query that will give you the answer, but i don't have access to a database right now to send you one.<br><br>i have very little cataloging experience, but i would
caution you against arbitrary decisions on toggling a mandatory tag to make it optional.<br><br>Generally, for example, with the leader tag itself, Koha itself will generate a value for the tag while cataloging, if you click within the box or on the ellipsis next to one. But, clearly, this is just a set of defaults that does not necessarily make sense, so you may end up with a tag that has very little relevant information in it.<br><br>As a non-librarian that encountered cataloging when using Koha, i was mightily irritated to come up short against mandatory tags that i could not make sense of..<br><br>regards,<br>krishnan<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> vimal laxman <vimallaxman@gmail.com><br><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Joe Atzberger <ohiocore@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> koha@lists.katipo.co.nz<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, 29 December, 2008 12:09:27 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Koha] installation help for KOHA 3.0<br></font><br> Thanks Joe,<br> I made it at last.The problem was that the zebra daemon was not running.i folowe option 2 for running the zebra process as daemon.then i tried option 1 as indicted in the Installation document and the search engine worked.<br>
and about the barcode stuff i did the same way as you told me to .it had some problems initially like the items location was not defined and item type was not getting saved properly.after a few strugle i was able to Check out the book sucessfully.<br>
Now that i have to add some of the books manually because they are not available online.indoing that i have customized my framework to just a few key fields.but when i entered them manually and tried to save them the application gives an error saying "cannot be saved with Tag =''".it says i have left some of the subfilds empty but i made sure that i have entered the data for all the fields and subfields.<br>
<br>could sny one suggest me a way to enter this manually.<br><br>regards,<br>vimal<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Joe Atzberger <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:ohiocore@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:ohiocore@gmail.com">ohiocore@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Vimal --<div class="Ih2E3d"><br><br>On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 5:02 AM, vimal laxman <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:vimallaxman@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:vimallaxman@gmail.com">vimallaxman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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1.when i search for books through OPAC it says 'no results found'
in catalogue(i have a few books which i imported using Z39.50 search)and
error log says" biblio erro 109'.I know this is a basic issue but still
i could not find out a right solution.i followed all the instructions
that were give in the INSTALL.debian file.devolopers in the community
say it is a databse related issue.if so can you let me know how to check whether my
database is set to right encoding for Koha 3..0 to read.</blockquote></div><div><br>When you run rebuild_zebra you have to remember to set and export KOHA_CONF and PERL5LIB, but it sounds like you have done this. Then, check your zebra logs for additional information about the errno 109. <br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">2.I dont have a barcode reader with me here.i wish to do the 'Check
IN' and 'Check OUT' manually.one person suggested me that i map the
barcode field in Administration->Koha to MARC
Mapping->items->Barcode to a field of our choice .so i mapped it
to ISBN.and i tried to Check Out a particular Patron by manually
entering the ISBN number of a particular book that is available in the
database.It says 'Barcode not foud'.is it possible for us to do it
manually through keyboard withour using barcode reader ?.</blockquote></div><div><br>I have already responded in this thread why it would be a bad idea to try to use ISBN. Even if you don't have a barcode scanner, it will still be more reliable and easier for you to use a self-generated barcode manually than to use the ISBN. Even if you don't have a printer and you just use a typewriter or a pencil, it will be easier than trying to use the ISBN. If you use incremental barcodes, then instead of having to key in at least 10 digits, it would be as small a number of keystrokes as possible. <br>
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