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table systempreferences is not updated
by Eric G. Salayon 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

hi, here i am again, seeking for your help. im adding a system parameter in KOHA (V2.O), but after saving the record it doesn't appear (the record i've added)eventhough it confirmed it adds a new record. What i did was to browse the log file (koha-error_log), and found out that field 'explanation' was causing the error. i opened the table systempreferences and saw that there are only 2 fields: variable and value only. but when i checked the file systempreferences.pl, it was select few more fields like 'explanation', 'type', and 'option'. What are the data types of these fields? another is that the systempreferences.pl only displayed 3 fields to update namely variable, value and explanation, can i have your updated systempreferences.pl file... TIA! eric

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table systempreferences is not updated
by Eric G. Salayon 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

hi, here i am again, seeking for your help. im adding a system parameter in KOHA (V2.O), but after saving the record it doesn't appear (the record i've added)eventhough it confirmed it adds a new record. What i did was to browse the log file (koha-error_log), and found out that field 'explanation' was causing the error. i opened the table systempreferences and saw that there are only 2 fields: variable and value only. but when i checked the file systempreferences.pl, it was select few more fields like 'explanation', 'type', and 'option'. What are the data types of these fields? another is that the systempreferences.pl only displayed 3 fields to update namely variable, value and explanation, can i have your updated systempreferences.pl file... TIA! eric

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Re: [Koha] how to set system parameters
by M Brooke Helman 19 Jun '04

19 Jun '04

Salvete! how can i set up system parameters? what are the system parameters? any listing? ive read a manual saying add a system parameter 'dateformat' with a value of 'metric', but i want the MMDDYYYY format. can u gave me the value for that date format... TIA! With the explanation for that particular switch, I am led to believe that if one selects us instead of metric it would result in the format you wish. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. If I'm not, I shall clarify this in the Wiki. Also, I would like to thank the source of the nice compliment that I received yesterday. It made my day. Cheers, Brooke @ Hinsdale MA

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how to set system parameters
by Eric G. Salayon 19 Jun '04

19 Jun '04

hi, how can i set up system parameters? what are the system parameters? any listing? ive read a manual saying add a system parameter 'dateformat' with a value of 'metric', but i want the MMDDYYYY format. can u gave me the value for that date format... TIA! ERIC

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how to unintall koha v2
by Eric G. Salayon 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

how can i uninstall koha v2, id installed koha using installer.pl eric

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More bugs in non-MARC interface?
by Christian Hennecke 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

Folks, When I use the non-MARC interface to create new biblios, the dewey and subclass fields are not saved. Can anybody confirm this? Christian Hennecke

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Koha from scratch.
by Milton Calnek 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

Hello all, i'm would like to use koha to manage my personal library so that i might have something to demonstrate. i have managed to install koha and have successfully added a book. i can search for the title and find it (yea!!). i have all these books and i was hoping that i could build a list of isbn's and get a script from koha to do the real work of importing them into my library. my understanding is that the z39.50 protocol is supposed to do this/help with it. so, i'm looking for advice and or pointers on the best way to start from scratch. tia -- Milton Calnek milton(a)calnek.com Nerds are always getting in trouble. They say improper things for the same reason they dress unfashionably and have good ideas: convention has less hold over them. --Paul Graham on heresy. http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

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Re: [Koha] Koha from scratch
by Baljkas Family 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

Thursday, June 17, 2004 17:25 CDT Hi, Milton, Good for you setting up a home system! That is something I am hoping/waiting to do as well. As for your inquiry on using the ISBN list, yes, there was a message to the listserv (I am guessing) more than a year ago now where a fellow (a Calgarian, I think) had created a program script to connect to, IIRC LC's Z39.50 portal and run through an ISBN list to try to find books. Depending on how many books you have in your collection, and whether you really care how well catalogued they are vs. just figuring out the cyber stuff and trying to do cataloguing in as automated a process as possible (à la nerd factor), you may want to consider looking up the books INDIVIDUALLY (i.e. really from scratch!). I've just about given up trying to get this point across on the listserv or elsewhere, but there really is a reason that professional cataloguing isn't done from compiled lists using scripts. The first problem is what some cataloguers call false negatives: the book you are cataloguing is really there in the database you are connecting to, but the ISBN isn't encoded or isn't coded properly. Although this tends to happen less often nowadays, and especially with mass market materials, if you have older stuff or small press stuff -- i.e. without ISBNs -- it rapidly becomes an issue. The second problem, although not so much an issue with LC, is poor positives: you find a record, but it is not a very high quality one (rife with spelling errors, not in proper formats, not following standard description conventions, etc). This is much more of an issue if one uses NLC's AMICUS. Anyway, this is just something to think about. If you can't find the message about the Z39.50/ISBN search program in the Koha archives, give me a shout back off listserv. I know I saved the message from the fellow referenced above, but my home system has become unstable and I am having trouble finding things, else I would have checked for you right now. Best regards, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada Hello all, i'm would like to use koha to manage my personal library so that i might have something to demonstrate. i have managed to install koha and have successfully added a book. i can search for the title and find it (yea!!). i have all these books and i was hoping that i could build a list of isbn's and get a script from koha to do the real work of importing them into my library. my understanding is that the z39.50 protocol is supposed to do this/help with it. so, i'm looking for advice and or pointers on the best way to start from scratch. tia -- Milton Calnek milton(a)calnek.com Nerds are always getting in trouble. They say improper things for the same reason they dress unfashionably and have good ideas: convention has less hold over them. --Paul Graham on heresy. http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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Re: developers and manual (koha)
by Paul POULAIN 17 Jun '04

17 Jun '04

mreavey a écrit : > I'd like to install koha on my elementary school library system. > It's a small library, 10,000 titles. We are currently using Follett. > I'm pretty good at Linux. I've been running it at home for two years. > I'm fairly good at Latex and could produce a manual in a pdf > hyper-linked format. > I'd like to get working on this this summer, with a goal of having a > first draft completed by Sept. 2004. > Let me know what you think. You should subscribe koha & koha-dev, and plan this here. Other ppl may help you and give some advices/links. Anyway, it's an interesting proposition ;-) -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Moving
by Roger Horne 17 Jun '04

17 Jun '04

I rudely did not thank people for answering a question some time ago: so belated "thanks" ... At the moment I run Koha under Suse 9 on a machine at home, connecting to it from work via a VPN (with no users other than me). I now want to transfer it to a machine running Suse 9 or 9.1 at work which I can give othrs access to. Assuming that I have made no alterations to the Web pages, ie that all the files originally installed are in their original form, it would seem that it would be sensible to use the installer to set up the new system rather than simply copying the files (in case there is some parameter which differs in a minor way). But what is the best way to transfer the data? I do not have huge amounts, but it would be annoying to start again. Is Mysqldump the way to go? Roger -- Roger Horne 11 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, London WC2A 3QB, UK roger(a)hrothgar.co.uk http://www.hrothgar.co.uk/

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