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KOHA 1.2.3
by Heather Waite 24 Aug '03

24 Aug '03

Hello, if someone could shed some light on the retrieval side of Koha, boolean operators etc. as mentioned below that would be great. I'm interested in knowing if Koha 1.2.3. has boolean operators or a search system by subject that is known to anyone. I have found that AND is the only operator that can be used to group subjects etc. Can anyone shed some light on this. I am only working voluntarily so haven't had a chance to go very far with this to date. Also, in Dewey classification, the Class and Subclass. How are people getting on with periodicals when there may be letters and numbers in the subclass. We can only use numbers/letters pertaining to each division respectively. We have struck a few problems, potentially bugs, but overall very happy with Koha and are hoping to upgrade to KOHA 2. whenever it is released. Does anyone know when Koha version 2 will be released. Thankyou Heather (Student librarian)

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Suggestions...
by Nicholas S. Rosasco 22 Aug '03

22 Aug '03

# From the Chris/Wolfgang exchanges: ---- > every developer including me dislikes documentation, but this gun > shoots backwards. using koha means understanding koha for people who > must operate it beyond the gui. this is a hard fact, like it or not. Noone disagrees that what you're looking for would be a good thing, but until somebody volunteers to do it and actually does it won't happen. Another hard fact. Since you seem to be quite disturbed by this state of affairs hoepfully you will be that volunteer. ---- I smell a request for both in-code and external documentation here.... If someone wants to drop coherent suggestions in my ear as to what would be handy to add at least as far as formal manual goes..., I can put 'em in my to do list behind the 'correcting-the-ugly spots in the manual for 2.0' and 'updating the FAQ' items. Nick

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Re: [Koha] koha still requiring constant login/authentification
by Owen Leonard 21 Aug '03

21 Aug '03

I wasn't paying very close attention to this thread because we haven't seen problems with cookies and can't get cookie-based authentication working in the 2.0.0-pre2-R2 intranet anyway. But today I realized that users of Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6 (Windows) are not retaining their home branch/printer settings. I've checked Explorer's security settings in both cases and confirmed that the browser *should* be accepting the cookies. And I've checked for the cookie in Explorer's cookies folder and found nothing. Could there be a problem with the way Koha sets cookies in general? Something quirky about how Internet Explorer treats the cookies Koha tries to set? I wonder if there's a tool for viewing current per-session cookies in Explorer? -- Owen ---- Nelsonville Public Library Koha 2.0.0-pre2-R2

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Greetings from a new Koha user
by Chris Smith 21 Aug '03

21 Aug '03

Hi, I just found Koha and am attempting to use it for something that's kinda-sorta a library. I have a large collection of educational science books, software, videos, and lab equipment that I frequently loan to parents who home-school children in my area. I'm trying to make Koha work to keep track of what I've got and who has the stuff at any given point. It looks great so far. Just wanted to introduce myself and let you know about a new place Koha is being used. In the future, I may have questions or even (gasp!) patches, but I need to figure out how this stuff works, first. -- www.designacourse.com The Easiest Way to Train Anyone... Anywhere. Chris Smith - Lead Software Developer/Technical Trainer MindIQ Corporation

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Re: [Koha] Problems entering a new record in 2.0.0pre2
by Chris Cormack 21 Aug '03

21 Aug '03

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:59:31AM +1100, Ben Hall said: > Home branch contains the value "MAIN" and Holding branch is null. I've > checked another record that was imported rather than entered anew and it has > both holdingbranch and homebranch set to "MAIN". Maybe this is my problem. > > Well I've just set the holdingbranch to "MAIN" and that has made item count > equal to 1. I now have a branch for the record appear as well. This is > good. But it still begs the question, why is the holdingbranch not > defaulting to the mainbranch value when new records are created? > Yep that sure sounds like a a bug. It should be setting the holdingbranch. Perhaps youd like to report that at http://bugs.koha.org and one of the developers will fix it for you. > Here's some more peculiarities. When I attempt to modify the Barcode > record, which I assume corresponds to the items table I get a homebranch > text box that is blank. And then when I try and modify the group record > (which I think corresponds to the biblioitems table) I get the following > error: > Can't locate C4/Acquisitions.pm in @INC (@INC contains: > /www/servers/koha/modules /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i686-linux > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at > /www/servers/koha/cgi-bin/updatebibitem.pl line 24. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at > /www/servers/koha/cgi-bin/updatebibitem.pl line 24. > > Crikey, maybe I've got some obsolete scripts floating around. I wonder if > this is the root cause of all my problems. > Hmm yeah looks like its trying to use an old module, it should be using C4::Biblio not C4::Acquisitions. Can you bug this too please? Thanks Chris

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RE: [Koha] Problems entering a new record in 2.0.0pre2
by Ben Hall 21 Aug '03

21 Aug '03

Chris, Thanks for the quick response Chris. Yes, there is a value set for itemtype in biblioitems. Ben Hall -----Original Message----- From: Chris Cormack [mailto:chris@katipo.co.nz] Sent: Thursday, 21 August 2003 9:29 AM To: Ben Hall Cc: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Problems entering a new record in 2.0.0pre2 On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 09:18:08AM +1100, Ben Hall said: > Morning all, > > Ok, I've imported all my records from WINISIS and have now embarked on > entering some new acquisitions. I have acquisitions set to simple and MARC > support is switched off. When I enter a new record everything seems to work > ok. A biblio entry is made and a biblioitem soon follows. The problem > starts when I go and view the record using a catalogue search. When I view > the new record, item count is zero and the record has no branch. So maybe > there is not a record being saved to the items table. When I check the > items table a corresponding record is found with branch info and the like. > So why is no item being displayed? Does anyone know what is going on? Any > help would be greatly appreciated. > Morning Ben, Can you check something for me, is there an Itemtype set in the biblioitems table for the record? Chris -- Chris Cormack Programmer 027 4500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris(a)katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz

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Problems entering a new record in 2.0.0pre2
by Ben Hall 20 Aug '03

20 Aug '03

Morning all, Ok, I've imported all my records from WINISIS and have now embarked on entering some new acquisitions. I have acquisitions set to simple and MARC support is switched off. When I enter a new record everything seems to work ok. A biblio entry is made and a biblioitem soon follows. The problem starts when I go and view the record using a catalogue search. When I view the new record, item count is zero and the record has no branch. So maybe there is not a record being saved to the items table. When I check the items table a corresponding record is found with branch info and the like. So why is no item being displayed? Does anyone know what is going on? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Ben Hall Information Officer Forum Fisheries Agency PO Box 629 Honiara, Solomon Islands Tel: +(677) 21124 Fax: +(677) 23995 E-mail: ben.hall(a)ffa.int

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Simple acquisitions - can only search by ISBN?
by Dwiggins, David 20 Aug '03

20 Aug '03

We're just getting started with Koha, so I apologize if this is an obvious question... We installed Koha 1.23. We're using it to catalog our very disorganized collection of reference books. So far it seems to be working pretty well with one big exception. We're able to acquire one copy of a book using the Z39.50 search and then inserting the resulting record. If we have a second copy of that book, and the book has an ISBN number, we can go to the acquisition screen, enter the ISBN, and then add a second item record. But we have a some books that were published informally by small companies and don't have (valid -- or any) ISBN numbers. When we looked at the Koha documentation, it showed a "keyword" search option on the simple acquisition screen that would allow you to find the biblio record using a keyword. But this does not appear in our installation. Are we doing something wrong? Do we need to upgrade to one of the newer development versions? In a pinch, I could probably whip up a quickie script to do this. But since there appears to be a different way in the manual, I'm assuming someone has already solved this problem. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, David Dwiggins Systems Editor/Library Manager The Tennessean (615) 259-8332 ddwiggins(a)tennessean.com

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KOHA 1.2.3
by Heather Waite 20 Aug '03

20 Aug '03

Hello, I'm interested in knowing if KOHA has boolean operators or a search system by subject that is known to anyone. I have found that AND is the only operator that can be used to group subjects etc. Can anyone shed some light on this. I am only working voluntarily so haven't had a chance to go very far with this to date. Also, in Dewey classification, the Class and Subclass. How are people getting on with periodicals when there may be letters and numbers in the subclass. We can only use numbers/letters pertaining to each division respectively. We have struck a few problems, potentially bugs, but overall very happy with Koha and are hoping to upgrade to KOHA 2. whenever it is released. Thankyou Heather (Student librarian)

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Koha announcement
by Stephen Hedges 19 Aug '03

19 Aug '03

You've read about it in Library Journal (http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleId=CA… 85) -- now see the real thing! The Nelsonville Public Library is proud to announce the deployment of the MARC- compatible version of Koha, "the first open source integrated library system" (http://www.koha.org) Although we're still debugging some parts of the program (particularly some Internet Explorer 6 issues), you can see the OPAC at http://koha.athenscounty.lib.oh.us -- and of course, we'd be glad to demonstrate the staff interface to anyone who wants to stop by one of our libraries. While we will probably never be "finished" with tweaking Koha (and isn't that the whole point in using open source software?), we're pleased with the general performance and capabilities. For those with questions about the process of migrating to Koha, we hope to put up a wiki at some point in the not-too- distant future dealing with that subject. Meanwhile, you can help. If you're using a browser other than IE6 or the the old Netscape 4 and you see something that doesn't look right, please e-mail Owen at oleonard(a)athenscounty.lib.oh.us Stephen Hedges Director, Nelsonville Public Library 95 W. Washington St., Nels.,OH 45764 (740) 753-2118 fax (740) 753-3543

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