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cannot see items in holdings after entering new items in record
by Prawesh Shrestha 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

I was having problem with barcode printing. While adding new items in label, the items are displayed but cannot be added as there are no check box and add button. And when the records are viewed in normal preview, there are no items in holdings as they should be and in Item view, too, there are no items added. When "Edit Item" is clicked, the items added are present. However, adding items or editing is like before but shows not much of difference. When new item is added in that record, it shows the addition. When it is deleted, the other item is also deleted. I just can not figure out what is happening. With regards, -- Prawesh Shrestha Project Engineer --------------------------------------------- Young Innovations Pvt. Ltd. GPO 8976 EPC 241 Pulchowk, Lalitpur, Nepal Tel: +977-01 5009282 http://yipl.com.np info[at]yipl[dot]com[dot]np ----------------------------------------------------

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Shelf browsing not showing up after upgrade to koha_3_02_03
by Peter Huerter 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

Hi, We do not have call numbers assigned to our books, however shelf browsing was working for us pre koha_3_02_03. That is, only the "Browse Shelf" link would show up on the OPAC detail page in the callnumber column. We have only recently noticed that the "Browse Shelf" link is no longer showing up. We suspect the change in bahaviour happened when we upgraded. We have the "OPACShelfBrowser" global system preference set to "on". Here is a sample of our 952 fields: 952 _40 _xvg/vg _err _00 _912232 _bOPIACS _10 _d2011-02-24 _zHow admirals, scientists and politicians impeded the development of high technology in Canada's wartime navy. The reasons were diverse - the limited pre-war infrastructure, poor leadership, nav al conservatism, inadequate international technical liaison and the Admiralty's refusal to give reasonable assistance to the Canadian effort. _8navy_RCN _71 _cbox_rr_fl3 _g20.00 _yBK _aOPIACS As I recall setting 952$a, $b, and $c seemed to get the shelf browsing working (when it was working) even without call numbers. Has anyone had this problem? Are call numbers required for shelf browsing to work? Thanks, Pete. Volunteer with the ACS - http://aandc.org/ -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Shelf-browsing-not-showing-up-after-upgra… Sent from the Koha - Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Koha] Generate Barcodes in one shot from database & Koha enc
by Chris Cormack 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

If you use the patron import tool in koha, it will encrypt the passwords for you. Chris sheldon_tappin <thecarterii(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >Hi All, > > We're at the stage of generating bar-codes for our collection. I've >noticed that I can individually add bar-codes to the batch from the search >criteria provided. My aim is to grab all bar-codes from the database, order >them by item call number and add them to a batch to generate bar-code labels >for our books. > >Now, my question: can I add all barcodes in one go to batch to generate >bar-code labels. > >If the above-mentioned is yes, then how can I do this? > >Also, we would like to add patron information from a management system >database into koha, I've noticed that Koha ILS borrowers passwords are >encrypted, so... can anyone tell me what encryption is used to encrypt the >patrons' password field in the database. > >Thank you for the responses in advance, it's greatly appreciated. > > >Regards, >Sheldon > >-- >View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Generate-Barcodes-in-one-shot-from-databa… >Sent from the Koha - Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >_______________________________________________ >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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Re: [Koha] Cyrillic Character Search w/ Zebra
by igorm 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

Dear Sirs, Thanks for you help. I made all above changes to my KOHA system and russian search begin to work, but it returns all books in library. Please, help me to solve the problem with: "A little problem with rebuild... " May be I'm wrong rebuilding and what means proper exports in: Then rebuild_zebra.pl -z -a -b with the proper exports -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Cyrillic-Character-Search-w-Zebra-tp30484… Sent from the Koha - Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Koha] Why Koha?
by Scott Owen 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

We also tried both Evergreen and Koha. We are a k-12 school district in Michigan. The main factors in deciding on Koha were: 1. The ease of installation. 2. LDAP integration. 3. "true" web based system (no staff client necessary). 4. Friendly (easy to use) interface. 5. Price :-) 6. The Koha community seemed to be much "friendlier" than Evergreen. (Just my opinion.....I'm sure there a many very nice people in the Evergreen community as well....) Regarding #1 ... I'm no *nix power-user...but have used different flavors on/off for a number of years......after 3-4 attempts I was unable to get a "real" working Evergreen system. At the time the Perl dependancy chase for Evergreen was just to much of a pain.....I tapped out..... Koha....I ran our initial system (ver 2.2.9) on a windows XP virtual machine.....ran perfect for over a year as we "kicked the tires" of Koha. I now run the latest git version on Debian....works great. Good "how to's" and documentation..... Regarding #2...as a public school....LDAP integration was an absolute must. Koha current implementation works flawlessly and was a breeze to set up. -Scott Owen Alma Public Schools >>> Buster<storypage(a)gmail.com> 3/1/2011 9:17 AM >>> Hello, group. My system is currently evaluating both Koha and Evergreen as our open source alternatives. We are installing both on computers here in our library in order to test them out, visiting other libraries, reading this list as well as the one for Evergreen, and speaking to other librarians using one of these systems. It occurred to me that it might useful to know why other library system chose one system over the other. So, why did you choose Koha over Evergreen, and are you happy with your choice? Was it a difficult decision? I have to say that I'm presently more impressed with Koha, but haven't taken quite as close a look at Evergreen. I'm also very impressed with the knowledge and helpfulness of this community, a huge selling point for me personally. You may write to me off-list if you are more comfortable with that. Thanks in advance, --Jim Maroon storypage at gmail.com -- ================================================== "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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Why Koha?
by Buster 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

Hello, group. My system is currently evaluating both Koha and Evergreen as our open source alternatives. We are installing both on computers here in our library in order to test them out, visiting other libraries, reading this list as well as the one for Evergreen, and speaking to other librarians using one of these systems. It occurred to me that it might useful to know why other library system chose one system over the other. So, why did you choose Koha over Evergreen, and are you happy with your choice? Was it a difficult decision? I have to say that I'm presently more impressed with Koha, but haven't taken quite as close a look at Evergreen. I'm also very impressed with the knowledge and helpfulness of this community, a huge selling point for me personally. You may write to me off-list if you are more comfortable with that. Thanks in advance, --Jim Maroon storypage at gmail.com -- ================================================== "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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library "categories" (=groups)?
by hansbkk＠gmail.com 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

>From the web installer's Step 3 screen: A few sample libraries, and library categories, including examples of the hardcoded types, CU, IS, PE. (sample_libraries) I've looked through the table structures immediately following the install, and although I do find the sample libraries, I don't see any such categories. Any clarification as to what "library categories" are would be appreciated; I'm guessing the term's been replaced with library "groups". If so, there aren't any sample groups imported during the install, and if all this is true I'd suggest this install screen text be corrected. Moving on to documentation issues, the section on libraries and groups here http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual/?ch=x3670#AEN3676 isn't clear on what the "properties" type of group could be used for. My understanding from googling is that there isn't any such use coded in Koha itself, but (I'm speculating here) it should be possible to use them as SELECT criteria for custom reports. If the above is true, perhaps a statement similar to the preceding sentence would be worth adding to the docs. I realize this is an outdated site, but this particular page does have some useful information that isn't in the official one: http://koha.org/documentation/manual/3.2/administration/basic-parameters/li… Please let me know if there is a more suitable location/method for posting these types of suggestion.

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Koha Documentation Reminder
by Nicole Engard 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

Hello all, Just a friendly reminder that the Koha manuals (3.2 and 3.4) are open source just like Koha! You can download the code from git (http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=kohadocs.git;a=summary) and contribute at any time. We are still in need of more translations (and a complete French translation). The 3.2 manual is available in English and Spanish and partially in French (http://koha-community.org/documentation/) The 3.4 manual is a work in progress (as is 3.4). If you have a patch for any of the manuals, or want to submit a translated version, simply subscribe to the Koha Docs (https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-docs) list and send your patches there. If you'd like to start a new translation, contact me first and I'll set you up with a folder and English file (that you can translate from) for your language. Thanks a bunch! Nicole C. Engard Koha Documentation Manager PS. I do have an Arabic translation of the 3.2 manual, but I think we had some issues with getting the characters to print right to the web, so you can find that manual in git, but not on the Koha site yet.

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Suppress biblios
by Vitor Fernandes 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

Hi there. After some research, I saw that I can suppress biblios to show on OPAC by set OPACSuppression to "hide" and having at least one biblio record with the field 942$n with the value 1. I'm using UNIMARC which doesn't have the field 942$n, so i've created it with the default value 0. Then I've created one biblio record, where the field 942$n was changed to 1. The cronjob to rebuild zebra is working fine, so after its run I've done the search for the biblio record. As expected the biblio record shows in the intranet, but when I've tried in the OPAC the search simply didn't work for any word... I've read that the Zebra must do suppress index, but how I can activate it? I'm doing something wrong? For example UNIMARC field for suppress can be another field than 942$n? Regards. Vitor Fernandes

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KOHA OPAC PPT
by Ashok Gangurde 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

Dear All Anyone having PPT on koha OPAC? How to use opac, from user oriented, It is very useful to all new users Kindly mail me * I am using Koha version: 3.00.06.010 I did a bulk data uplod in koha but some title shows that no *item available * ** *How i resolve this problem* ** *for example* ** 42. Fully Refrigerated LPG Carriers <http://192.168.0.9:8080/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=958>by Harris Syd <http://192.168.0.9:8080/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=au:Harris%20Syd> Publication: London Witherby & CO. Ltd. 2004 . 314 Date:2004 Availability: No items available: Actions: Save to Lists<http://192.168.0.9:8080/cgi-bin/koha/opac-addbybiblionumber.pl?biblionumber…> Add to Cart<http://192.168.0.9:8080/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?&limit=mc-itype,phr:BOO…> Thanking you Ashok G

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