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Problem with new functionnality Hard Due Dates
by Laquerre, Anthony 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Hi all, I would like to share our experience with 3.6 regarding this new functionality of Hard Due Date: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5548 Please let me know if I need to put this comment elsewhere.. I would like to see with you what kind of workaround I can use :-) Basically, globalduedate and ceilingduedate has been removed and automatically fill the circ. rule instead. Look's great at first but, our libraries are all "school type" and we were modifying the ceilingdue at least 3 times each year. We we putting the "End of session" as the max return date. You also need to know that most of the libraries have a lot for circ. rule. ( From 50 to up to 200 ). In the current state, we need to ask our librarians to manually update all the rules each time they want to specify a new ceiling due date. We can't only modify circ. rule so we need to redo them from scratch... So you can now see that this new feature is a big regression for us. Maybe not a regression, but error prone / time consuming problem. Is there any way to batch update an entire set of circ. rule to a new Hard due date ? Any other idea you can share to help us ? Thanks, Anthony

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Koha, Richa Srivastava has invited you to open a Gmail account
by Richa Srivastava 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

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Email notices not sent to all patrons
by Richa Srivastava 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Hi It seems like all the patrons are not sent overdue notices through email. I am concerned as at least patrons belonging to same category should be sent notices. -- Best wishes ऋचा Richa Srivastava

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Re: [Koha] Availability: No items available:
by Deepa Gajendra 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Hi, I am also facing the same problem in Koha. Getting the same error for - Availability: No items available. Please let me know what might be the error. Let me know if I am missing any tag? Thanks & Regards. Deepa Gajendra Senior Associate - Library Services Indegene Lifesystems Pvt. Ltd. Office: +91-80-40787777 Fax: +91-80-41267704 www.indegene.com<http://www.indegene.com/> [cid:image001.jpg@01CCDAC0.25C11A90] ________________________________ Disclaimer This email (including any attachments) contains information, which is confidential and may be subject to legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not use, distribute, or copy this email. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this. Any views expressed in this mail are not necessarily the views of INDEGENE. Thank you. P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

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integration of electronic content
by Lori Bowen Ayre 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Could anyone point me to a library catalog that does a great job integration e-content into their catalog? I am assuming this will mostly be e-books unless someone knows a library that has done a great job integrating databases as well (and could direct me to those libraries-this wouldn't be evident without an account but I'd still like to know if someone has done a good job of it so I can talk to them). Lori =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board & Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // Lori.Ayre(a)galecia.com Availability: http://tungle.me/lori.ayre <Lori.Ayre(a)galecia.com>Specializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID, filtering, workflow optimization, and materials handling =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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Patrons cannot place holds from OPAC
by Jim Maroon 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

When a patron tries to place a hold from the OPAC, they receive a message "Sorry, none of these items can be placed on hold." When staff tries to place a hold for the same, a message pops up "CANNOT PLACE HOLD Too many holds..." We can then click through, but not in the OPAC. When you check the holds for the patron, the record shows no holds. These are all items on which folks should be able to place holds. Is this one of those deals where we need to change our settings? If so, where and how? Thanks. Jim -- ================================================== "The man, who, by his own and his family's labour, can provide a sufficiency of food and raiment and a comfortable dwelling place, is not a poor man." --William Cobbett, *Cottage Economy*, 1826.

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accepting payments and credits for returned "lost" items
by Lori Bowen Ayre 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Can someone verify that this is true of Koha? Accept credit and debit card payments at accounts desks, self check-out stations, and through the public web interface. Payments should be visible in the patron account immediately, and related blocks should be removed immediately. Also, do you know if you can apply a credit to a patron account if they've been accessed a fine for a lost item and then it is returned? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board & Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // Lori.Ayre(a)galecia.com Availability: http://tungle.me/lori.ayre <Lori.Ayre(a)galecia.com>Specializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID, filtering, workflow optimization, and materials handling =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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Re: [Koha] 942n
by Hillyard, Cecil 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

Thanks all for the information. This gets us a little bit closer to what we need. ... I think. Thanks, __________________________ Cecil Hillyard Washoe County Library -Tel: 775-327-8338 or 7750-327-8339 fax: 775-327-8334 From: Joy Nelson [mailto:joy.nelson1@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 12:36 PM To: Hillyard, Cecil Subject: Re: [Koha] 942n Cecil the 942$n is used to suppress item records in Koha. There is a corresponding system preference that is selected to suppress these items. Here is the information from the manual. http://manual.koha-community.org/3.6/en/administration.html#catprefs ________________________________ From: "Hillyard, Cecil" <CHillyard(a)washoecounty.us> To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 12:57 PM Subject: [Koha] 942n Hello, What does the 942n do? Our acquisitions people are looking for a way to use Koha to track all parts of orders which include Shipping, processing, and other miscellaneous charges that cannot currently be tracked in Koha with the normal acquisitions procedure. They are looking at making bib records for processing, etc. but we DO NOT want these to display in the OPAC. Would making different frameworks that hide everything work? Which hide number would be best? I know it is not 0. __________________________ Cecil Hillyard Cataloger Washoe County Library Technical Services P.O. Box 2151 301 S. Center St. Reno, NV 89505 tel.: 775-327-8330 fax: 775-327-8334 www.washoecountylibrary.us _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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koha notices PREDUE and PREDUEDGST
by Chris Meech 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

Hi, Our circulation notices PREDUE Advance Notice of Item Due and PREDUEDGST Advance Notice of Item Due (Digest) are not working properly. They email out to the correct address and with the correct patron name but they do not complete other variable fields. Other notices work fine. In fact the PREDUE and PREDUEDGST have some of the same code as our ODUE notice that works. Does anyone have any suggestions why this might be the case? Below is an example of the partially complete email received by a patron. Dear Christopher MEECH According to our current records, you have item/s that will be due soon. If you wish to renew them please contact the following branch. <<branches.branchname>> <<branches.branchaddress1>> <<branches.branchaddress2>> <<branches.branchaddress3>> Phone: <<branches.branchphone>> Email: <<branches.branchemail>> The following item(s) is/are:- <item>"<<biblio.title>>" by <<biblio.author>>, <<items.itemcallnumber>>, Barcode: <<items.barcode>> You may renew online if you have registered a password with the library, and a renewal is available. Thank you for visiting <<branches.branchname>> Library Thanks for your help Chris Koha version: 3.04.04.000 Christopher Meech Reference Librarian Waitaki District Libraries P.O. Box 134,Oamaru 9444 62 Thames St, Oamaru 9400 cmeech(a)waitaki.govt.nz 03 433 0850

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942n
by Hillyard, Cecil 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

Hello, What does the 942n do? Our acquisitions people are looking for a way to use Koha to track all parts of orders which include Shipping, processing, and other miscellaneous charges that cannot currently be tracked in Koha with the normal acquisitions procedure. They are looking at making bib records for processing, etc. but we DO NOT want these to display in the OPAC. Would making different frameworks that hide everything work? Which hide number would be best? I know it is not 0. __________________________ Cecil Hillyard Cataloger Washoe County Library Technical Services P.O. Box 2151 301 S. Center St. Reno, NV 89505 tel.: 775-327-8330 fax: 775-327-8334 www.washoecountylibrary.us

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