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2 Different Issues: Patron Card Number / Library of Congress Call Numbers
by Samuel Crawford 21 Feb '19

21 Feb '19

Hi, All! I deeply apologize for the length of this message... Here at Northern Marianas College (NMC), we are still currently using *Koha version 3.14.11.000* (*definitely* time for an upgrade, I know; we are aiming to do so within the next few months). Meanwhile, I now have two (2) separate Koha issues with which I need your advice / assistance. I'll try to describe each one as succinctly as possible; here we go: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Patron Card Number: In the past, when creating a new patron profile for non-students (i.e., Faculty, Staff, and/or Public Community Members), the "Card Number" field in the patron record has always been auto-generated (with a lengthy number) for us. In our case, we get something like "2132132132132198" -- easy enough. Yesterday, however, that card number (2132132132132198), or possibly the one generated after it -- 2132132132132199 -- seems to have been the very last number (i.e., non-student profile) that we are able to produce, at the moment. After successfully creating the "2132132132132198" for this person (one of our brand-new Library staff members), we tried creating another profile for our *other* brand-new Library staff member; his Card Number was auto-generated as 21321321321321*99,* but...it never took. No matter how many times we tried to create his new profile with this auto-generated number, we simply kept getting the same resulting message after clicking "Save": "This patron does not exist." Finally, I tried manually editing the number by one digit, changing the second digit ("1") to "2" (thus, making the Card Number 2*2*32132132132199); this WORKED. Still, we faced the exact same issue today when trying to create a profile for a new public community member / patron, and even replacing digits doesn't seem to help, at this point. I am sure this has *something* to do with the *16-digit character limit*, and I've been doing some reading in the message boards re: card number field length here <https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13178>, but I'm not sure whether or not I've found "the answer" to provide to our IT Department (who are graciously working to help me solve this problem, on the back-end). Koha was established and installed as our ILS by my predecessors (who are no longer here), so I don't know where this semi-obnoxious pattern of "213213213213..." came from, but I assume it was an arbitrary decision they made during set-up. I'd like to "re-set" this somehow (if possible), but I'm willing to do just about anything to resolve the issue, according to your recommendations. Can you help? 2. Library of Congress Call Numbers: Stranger still in our current "Koha crisis" is the fact that the Library of Congress Call Numbers (LCCN) are not currently visible in our OPAC (the front end) *or* the back end of our ILS. In both our OPAC and our administrative back end, Call Numbers are not present (as they once were) in the "Normal view" of our catalog records; they *are* still there in the "MARC view" and "ISBD view," but our users don't know to look there. This is a crucial issue that we need to resolve as soon as possible... I should mention that this issue could *potentially* be a result of the changes to our campus infrastructure: In late October 2018, Super Typhoon Yutu -- a category 5(+) storm -- struck and devastated the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). Our College suffered extensive damage, campus-wide, and the technical / technological infrastructure of our institution has largely had to be rebuilt completely, piece by piece. With that said, many re-connections, re-configurations, and other changes (re-wirings, "switch-arounds," "switch-backs," etc.) have occurred under IT in the process of recovery. Our Library's server, which powers Koha, just came back up and "on" a few weeks ago, and there have been myriad changes / adjustments to it as well as to the Library's network(s), which may be triggering this obscurity of data in Koha (i.e., item location / Library of Congress Call Numbers, in this case). Thoughts? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any advice, suggestions, and/or specific resources you can offer would be tremendously appreciated. I will be sharing ALL relevant information with our IT Department... Thanks, Koha Fam! Sincerely, Sam Crawford --------------------------------------------------------- *Samuel Judson Crawford*, M.M., M.L.I.S. Academic Librarian / Interim Director of Library Programs and Services Northern Marianas College P. O. Box 501250 Saipan, MP 96950 Phone | 670.237.6798 Fax | 670.234.0759 samuel.crawford(a)marianas.edu -- Start Smart. Start at NMC. Visit the Northern Marianas College website at www.marianas.edu. <http://www.marianas.edu> This message and any attachments may contain proprietary and, or confidential information. Any review, reliance or distribution by others or forwarding without express permission is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies.

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Suppression of display of In Process status in OPAC
by Peter Lau 21 Feb '19

21 Feb '19

How can I suppress display of those items with Withdrawn status equals to “In Process”? Thanks & regards, *Peter Lau* Librarian Tel: (852) 3977 9868 | Email: Peter.Lau(a)yccece.edu.hk | Fax: (852) 23384320 [image: https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1wiYZQsqhNTJZjyNbLJx-6ODZyoYE…] 2 Tin Wan Hill Road, Tin Wan, Aberdeen *YCCECE, Here We Grow Our Future | *www.yccece.edu.hk

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Re: [Koha] Item cannot be issued through 3M self-check - error message PREVISSUE
by Nick Clemens 21 Feb '19

21 Feb '19

Koha passes the 'PREVISSUE' as a flag that the checkout needs confirmation - for SIP machines this means the checkout fails I believe. You should only be seeing this message if the previous issues are being checked, if the pref is set to Do Not and the message is appearing there may be a bug. -Nick On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 9:37 AM Peter Lau <peter.lau(a)yccece.edu.hk> wrote: > Hi Nick, > > In fact, is the error message from Koha or 3M self-check? > > > *The error message is like “Item cannot be issued: PREVISSUE. Please > takethe item to the desk.” * > > Thanks and regards, > > *Peter Lau* > > Librarian > > Tel: (852) 3977 9868 | Email: peter.lau(a)yccece.edu.hk > <library(a)yccece.edu.hk> | Fax: (852) 23384320 > > > > 2 Tin Wan Hill Road, Tin Wan, Aberdeen > > *YCCECE, Here We Grow Our Future | *www.yccece.edu.hk > > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 8:49 PM Nick Clemens <nick(a)bywatersolutions.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Peter, >> >> The system preference CheckPrevCheckout will raise this flag during >> checkouts - if disabled patrons should be bale to check these items out >> with no confirmation needed >> Here is a link to the manual: >> https://koha-community.org/manual//18.11/en/html/systempreferences.html#che… >> -NIck >> >> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 8:25 PM Peter Lau <peter.lau(a)yccece.edu.hk> >> wrote: >> >>> I have found that if I have borrowed an item through counter or 3M >>> self-check, I cannot borrow it again with the 3M self-check although it >>> was >>> returned properly. >>> >>> >>> >>> The error message is like “Item cannot be issued: PREVISSUE. Please take >>> the item to the desk.” >>> >>> Thanks & regards, >>> >>> *Peter Lau* >>> >>> Librarian >>> >>> Tel: (852) 3977 9868 | Email: Peter.Lau(a)yccece.edu.hk | Fax: (852) >>> 23384320 >>> >>> [image: >>> >>> https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1wiYZQsqhNTJZjyNbLJx-6ODZyoYE… >>> ] >>> >>> 2 Tin Wan Hill Road, Tin Wan, Aberdeen >>> >>> *YCCECE, Here We Grow Our Future | *www.yccece.edu.hk >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org >>> Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz >>> https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha >>> >>

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Ebook display in the opac
by Katharina Klausner 20 Feb '19

20 Feb '19

Hi all, I'm trying to make our e-book display nicer in the catalog following these guidelines: https://bywatersolutions.com/education/koha-electronic-resources While the report works after some changes, the JS doesn't do anything. Can anybody tell me if the source code is correct? I'd be also happy about any other ideas on how to highlight ebook records in the opac. $(document).ready(function() { $.getJSON("https://YOUR.KOHA.SERVER.DOMAIN.NAME/cgi-bin/koha/svc/report?id=YOUR_REPORT…", function(data) { for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) { var URL = data[i][0]; $("#userresults table td a[href^='" + URL + "']").each(function(index) { var link = $(this); var parent = link.parent(); var grandparent = parent.parent(); link.text('Available Online'); link.addClass('ebook'); parent.children('.label').hide(); grandparent.children('.availability').hide(); grandparent.children('.actions-menu').hide(); grandparent.children('#location').hide(); }); } }); }); Cheers Katharina -- Katharina Klausner Head of the Library / Leiterin der Bibliothek Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut) Am Mühlenberg 1 D-14476 Potsdam Tel.: +49 331 567-7400 E-Mail: katharina.klausner(a)aei.mpg.de <mailto:katharina.klausner@aei.mpg.de>

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Koha enquiry for a new library
by Sumayya lib 20 Feb '19

20 Feb '19

Hi All, Our library doesn’t have a library system yet. We are new branch campus in Qatar and we are investigating about various possibilities for managing our physical collection which includes Koha. Even though I heard a lot of positive feedback about Koha in general, I would like to hear from you the personal experience of setting up and using Koha. 1. Does your library had any other library system before implementing Koha? If not, how easy/complicated to use this for a new library? 2. What things should I be considered before start using Koha? Any other recommendation/suggestions are welcome! Thanks & Regards, *Sumayya Ansar*

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Delete no item from koha
by Arshad Iqbal 19 Feb '19

19 Feb '19

*Hi to all* *currently facing a problem. I am working on koha 18.11.02. And** in my koha there are a lot of record entry in which there are no item** added. And I want to remove all of them in one go because there are a lot** of such entries in my database where no item is added in my framework** records. So anyone suggest me in this regard is helpful to me.* * Thanks in advance,* -- Best Regards *Muhammad Arshad Iqbal* *Assistant Librarian* *NUST Central Library * *National University of Science and Technology (NUST)* *Sector H-12, Islamabad, Pakistan* *Tel. Office:051-90851087* *Cell no.+923444900809*

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Regarding koha offline circulation - windows
by Suresh Kumar Tejomurtula 19 Feb '19

19 Feb '19

Hi, IAM using koha 17.11 on Ubuntu 16.04. When I ran cronjob of running offline db(create_koc_db.pl), IAM getting error that I do not have sqlite Perl module installed and I will not be able to install it as IAM unable to connect my server to internet. Now is there any way with which I can create a db file from my koha database without having to install any extra modules/softwares. Regards Suresh

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CSV files are actually semi-colon separated
by Chris Brown 19 Feb '19

19 Feb '19

Gentle Reader, If I run a report then download the result as a CSV file, I actually get a file that uses semi-colons as the delimiter (so for example it won't open properly in Excel). Is this intended behaviour or a bug? Is there a way to change the delimiter? (I am using Koha 17.11) Thanks, Chris Brown

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Item cannot be issued through 3M self-check - error message PREVISSUE
by Peter Lau 19 Feb '19

19 Feb '19

I have found that if I have borrowed an item through counter or 3M self-check, I cannot borrow it again with the 3M self-check although it was returned properly. The error message is like “Item cannot be issued: PREVISSUE. Please take the item to the desk.” Thanks & regards, *Peter Lau* Librarian Tel: (852) 3977 9868 | Email: Peter.Lau(a)yccece.edu.hk | Fax: (852) 23384320 [image: https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1wiYZQsqhNTJZjyNbLJx-6ODZyoYE…] 2 Tin Wan Hill Road, Tin Wan, Aberdeen *YCCECE, Here We Grow Our Future | *www.yccece.edu.hk

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Contribute with plugin for frameworks
by Italo Brasileiro 18 Feb '19

18 Feb '19

Hello everyone, Can anyone tell me the procedure to contribute with plugins for frameworks in Koha? I recently developed a plugin for autocompletion of the Cutter field, using the author's name and/or title, using the Cutter-Sanborn table. How is the procedure to submit this plugin for evaluation and, if possible, include later in Koha? Thanks! -- Ítalo Barbosa Brasileiro

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