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delete of default patrons
by Nadel Catura 09 Sep '09

09 Sep '09

We have a newly installed Koha in our system. For beginners, we chose to install also the sample patrons. UNfortunately, our librarians chose to encode the real users of our libraries. How can we delete the Patrons added during the installation? Thanks in advance for the help.

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Parent/ child accounts
by Cab Vinton 09 Sep '09

09 Sep '09

>From my brief testing with Koha 3.0, a parent who logs in does not have access to any associated child accounts. So, for a parent looking for a quick way to check what items his/ her family has checked out, s/he either has to check out all materials on one card, or check each account individually. Neither option is ideal. Are there workarounds for this? How big an enhancement would this be? I know privacy concerns would kick in at some point, particularly with teenagers, but for the younger set (elementary/ middle school years), I think some kind of "family administrator" account makes sense. Cheers, Cab Vinton, Director Sanbornton Public Library Sanbornton, NH

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Submission of Changes in Personal Details of Patrons
by Nadel Catura 09 Sep '09

09 Sep '09

Is there a way to disable this functionality? Our library does not want any changes on the personal details of the patrons. So as much as possible, we would want to disable this functionality. How can we do this? Thanks in advance!

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[Fwd: delete of default patrons]
by Nadel Catura 09 Sep '09

09 Sep '09

I have found way to do this. I run sql query that deletes the patrons in the borrower table, but exempted the Koha Admin patron. ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: delete of default patrons From: "Nadel Catura" <caturan(a)canlubang.dlsu.edu.ph> Date: Wed, September 9, 2009 12:51 pm To: Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz -------------------------------------------------------------------------- We have a newly installed Koha in our system. For beginners, we chose to install also the sample patrons. UNfortunately, our librarians chose to encode the real users of our libraries. How can we delete the Patrons added during the installation? Thanks in advance for the help.

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Help with searching from a Google Android phone
by Mark Osborne 09 Sep '09

09 Sep '09

Hello, I'm grappling with something exciting at the moment but would like some help from the Koha community. I have a brand new Google Android phone, which has on it an app called Barcode Scanner. It works by using the phone's camera as a barcode reader to scan an item's ISBN then search something like Amazon or Google Books to find a match (which you can obviously use to purchase the item). Think of seeing a good book your friend has, scanning the barcode and ordering a copy for yourself. Where Koha comes in is that it offers one the ability to enter a 'custom search' URL. So I started to think: what if I set this to be my library's OPAC and did an ISBN search of Koha? That would give me the ability to search my Koha using a smartphone barcode scanner. The problem is, I can't get any results returned. I've set the 'custom search' URL to be http://<library server>/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=%s (where %s is the ISBN returned by the barcode scanner.) The problem is that I can't get any results returned. The ISBN I'm using to test it is 9780143018674 but the page I end up on is 'No result found! No results match your search for 9780143018674.' Is there a special URL I should use to complete an ISBN search? Can anyone help me? Mark Osborne

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How to add new translation
by Elshan Axunzade 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

Hi all, i had translated opac version of Koha into Azerbaijanian, staff version i am keeping in Turkish, so i have 2 po file, i had replaced them into ../translator/po directory, dona chmod adn chown operations for them, then i did ./install-code az-AZ which gived me this result :   ./install-code.pl az-AZ az-AZ-i-staff-t-prog-v-3000000.po : intranet ../../koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/: Input must be a file or directory. (Symbolic links are not supported at the moment) Try `./tmpl_process3.pl --help for more information. az-AZ-i-opac-t-prog-v-3000000.po : opac ../../koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/prog/en/: Input must be a file or directory. (Symbolic links are not supported at the moment) Try `./tmpl_process3.pl --help for more information. tried tmpl_process3.pl --help , and tried any operations but i couldn understand what i must do to add language?  Iz it enought or i must do something with this po files ? and if yes what i must do with tmlp_process 3.pl Thanks in Advance  Elshan Akhundov

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Re: [Koha] Add item: production mode - trapped fatal error
by Doug Dearden 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

This link might help. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.misc.koha/15716 Doug >>> yared berhanu <yared_berhanu(a)yahoo.com> 9/8/2009 5:25:47 AM >>> Greetings, I'm from Hawassa University a place 271Km from capital city Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Currently we are moving to use Koha for our Library. I had upgraded from 2.2 to 3.0 on Ubuntu 8.04 and I was successful using the manuals for installation and upgrading from Koha-duke site. But when the librarians are adding items in to the database, it will show us "production mode - trapped fatal error" . the error in koha log file states that " [Tue Sep 08 15:59:07 2009] [error] [client ...] [Tue Sep 8 15:59:07 2009] additem.pl: Can't call method "append_fields" on an undefined value at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/MARC/File/SAX.pm line 92. at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/XML/LibXML/SAX.pm line 73, referer: http://lis.hu.edu.et:8080/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/additem.pl?biblionumber=… "[Tue Sep 08 15:59:07 2009] [error] [client ...] [Tue Sep 8 15:59:07 2009] additem.pl: at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/MARC/File/XML.pm line 445, referer: http://lis.hu.edu.et:8080/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/additem.pl?biblionumber=… please any help!!

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windows install fail... not sure of next steps.
by Joy Payton 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

Hi Friends, I'm migrating an old clunky Access DB of bibliographic records to something more platform and software-independent, a web-based open-source solution. I started with Greenstone, which seems ok for static data, but it's really a chore to get new records in the system (especially for non-techies, which most of my sisters -- I'm a nun working on a convent library -- definitely aren't). I've heard that Koha is better, but I can*not* get the darn thing to install. I'm trying to install on a vista system. I installed Apache HTTP Server 2.0.63, MySQL Server 4.1 and Active Perl 5.10.1 build 1006 with the configurations suggested by the Koha wiki KohaWinInstallation. But I'm a total newbie with all three of these pre-requisite programs so I've no real way to see if I installed them well. I DID make sure to change the Perl path name to usr. When I try to install Koha 2.2.9 (or 2.2.8), by double-clicking install.pl, I get a quick flash of a console, too fast to read, and then nothing. Nada. A very patient use of hitting PrtSc finally got me a screenshot of what my error message is: c:\usr\bin\perl.exe is the window name, and it reports: "Use of uninitialized value $env{"home"} in concatenation (.) or string at Install line 122. Um, okay. Not sure what that means for me. Any tips out there for someone starting from scratch? Much obliged. Sr. Joy Payton, aci

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MARCOrgCode
by Nadel Catura 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

Is MARCOrgCode required in the system? Unfortunately, when I visited the site: http://www.loc.gov/marc/organizations/org-search.php it did not give any result on our Library. How can we have our own MARCOrgCode? Is there any registration needed to have our own value of MARCOrgCode? Please Help.

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Add item: production mode - trapped fatal error
by yared berhanu 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

Greetings, I'm from Hawassa University a place 271Km from capital city Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Currently we are moving to use Koha for our Library. I had upgraded from 2.2 to 3.0 on Ubuntu 8.04 and I was successful using the manuals for installation and upgrading from Koha-duke site. But when the librarians are adding items in to the database, it will show us "production mode - trapped fatal error" . the error in koha log file states that " [Tue Sep 08 15:59:07 2009] [error] [client ...] [Tue Sep 8 15:59:07 2009] additem.pl: Can't call method "append_fields" on an undefined value at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/MARC/File/SAX.pm line 92. at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/XML/LibXML/SAX.pm line 73, referer: http://lis.hu.edu.et:8080/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/additem.pl?biblionumber=… "[Tue Sep 08 15:59:07 2009] [error] [client ...] [Tue Sep 8 15:59:07 2009] additem.pl: at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/MARC/File/XML.pm line 445, referer: http://lis.hu.edu.et:8080/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/additem.pl?biblionumber=… please any help!!

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