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Mini Material Type Icon
by Caitlin Kleinpaste 18 Sep '15

18 Sep '15

Does anyone know how to change the mini material type icon? I'm using 3.20.03.000. When we imported, it seemed to randomly decide that some items are books and others are not, regardless of what they actually are. It's confusing to the patrons when a DVD is listed as "DVD" in location and "Book" in material type. I've looked through the marc records and done lots of googling but I can't seem to figure out what codes for this. 18. The Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring. <https://studycenter-staff.xenos.org/cgi-bin/koha/catalogue/detail.pl?biblio…>Material type: [image: book] BookPublisher: New Line Home Entertainment.Description: 2 DVDs. Holds <https://studycenter-staff.xenos.org/cgi-bin/koha/reserve/request.pl?biblion…> | Edit record <https://studycenter-staff.xenos.org/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/addbiblio.pl?b…> | Edit items <https://studycenter-staff.xenos.org/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/additem.pl?bib…> *1 item, 1 available:* - [image: DVD]Main Campus DVD [DVD 0213 <https://studycenter-staff.xenos.org/cgi-bin/koha/catalogue/search.pl?idx=ca…>] (1) DVD

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What to use, UNIMARC or MARC21 ?
by Curtis Rempel 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

Greetings, I’ve been exploring how to convert our aging church library system (running L4U, which is aimed at school libraries) to koha. So far I’ve got everything installed and running in a vm (so I can easily snapshot and revert when I mess it up) with the patron list imported after running the exported list from L4U through some scripts to fix up data and build a csv file. Next on the list is the catalog. L4U exports in MARC format which should be easy enough to import, however, during koha config, I had to choose between UNIMARC or MARC21. Full disclaimer: I’m a Linux guy, I wouldn’t know a UNIMARC or a MARC21 record if one fell out of the sky and knocked me out cold. :-) How would one know what to choose here? Would I somehow be able to determine what MARC flavour the L4U export is? Does it even matter? I’m sure I’ll come up with more questions but for now I’m going to forge ahead and try to import the catalog and see what happens. Thanks in advance! Curtis Rempel

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Search -- doing comparisons on acquisition date
by Barton Chittenden 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

I'm trying to figure out how to do date comparisons based on Acquisition date. The best information that I have is here: http://manual.koha-community.org/3.18/en/searchguide.html#searchguide-syntax Using the following pattern found in the documentation: su=supreme court and yr,st-numeric=>2000 I constructed the following search, which should have returned results: cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?idx=acqdate,st-date-normalized&q=>2015-08-01 I have bibs indexed that have acquisition dates greater than 2015-08-01, but this returned the followng: Results of search for 'acqdate,st-date-normalized: >2015-08-01' No results found! I believe that date comparisons should be possible using CCL, according to what I've been able to glean from indexdata I must be missing somthing here... Thanks, --Barton

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Problem with Barcode Generator
by akafortes 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

I have set the "autoBarcode" option in the "Cataloging preferences" to "incremental EAN-13 barcodes". In the corresponding UNIMARC subfield I'm using the "barcode.pl" Plugin. When I add an item, though, and I try to create a barcode, instead of a 13-digit number, I get a single number. So what I get for the barcode field is something like this: Item 1 Barcode=1 Item 2 Barcode=2 etc. Is there another setting I have to change in order t make it work correctly? -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Problem-with-Barcode-Generator-tp5852966.… Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Announcing Donor Tracking Plugin for Koha
by Bob Ewart 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

This plugin is used to track donor contributions and contacts. Knowing what a donor has given to and what his/her interests are is a big help in asking for future donations. Income is transferred from an accounting program such as QuickBooks as a spreadsheet. The accounting customer number is set to the Koha card number. This keeps both databases in sync. You can review a donor's past giving and comments about past contacts before meeting with that donor. Afterword you should add any significant points covered to help in future contacts. This can be important when other people will be making the next contact. There is a flexible report generation feature which is used for 'data mining'. You can search by amount, date, account number, patron category, branch... or any combination thereof. More information is at Donor Tracking Wiki <https://github.com/bob-ewart/Koha-plugin-DonorApp/wiki> The plugin is available at Donor Tracking github <https://github.com/bob-ewart/Koha-plugin-DonorApp> -- Bob Ewart Stonewall National Museum & Archives Fort Lauderdale, FL

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Wrong shortcuts in Koha menu "Cataloging"
by Michael Kuhn 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

Hi There are three shortcuts or hotkeys in the Koha staff client: * Alt + U = Check out * Alt + R = Check in * Alt + Q = Search the catalog As I understand these shortcuts should work all over the staff client, and mostly they do. In Koha 3.20 though when going to Koha menu "Cataloging" they don't work as expected. Here the mapping is: * Alt + U = Search the catalog * Alt + R = Cataloging search * Alt + Q = Check out Is this a bug or do I miss something? Kind regards, Michael

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Call for News: September Newsletter
by kohanews 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

Fellow Koha users ~ ** Please Note ** The cut-off date for news submissions is now the 26th of the month. I'm collecting news for the September newsletter. Send anything noteworthy to: k o h a news AT gmail dot com News criteria: --------------------------- ** For events **: - Please include dates for past events. If I can't find dates I may not add it. - Announcements for future events with dates T.B.A. are fine ...Eg., Kohacon - For past events -- **** one month back is the cut-off ***. * News items can be of any length. * Images are fine * Anything and everything Koha. * Submit by the 26th of the month. If you are working on an interesting project or development related to Koha, please let me know and I'll include it in the development section. -- Chad Roseburg Editor, Koha Newsletter

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Local Cover Image
by Esmael Wan 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

Hi, I tried to load local cover image to replace 'No cover image available' in OPAC display. The new cover is display but still the empty square box is display below the new local cover image. Pls help Esmael

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Re: [Koha] Koha Digest, Vol 119, Issue 23
by David Cook 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

Hi Pablo: While I agree that the 001 should be populated with a unique bibliographic control number, it's not the way that Koha is typically set up. In theory, it's configurable, but there are parts of Koha that expect the biblionumber to be in the 999$c field (e.g. MARC21slim2OPACResult.xsl). David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007 > -----Original Message----- > Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 20:07:13 -0300 > From: Pablo Bianchi <pablo.bianchi(a)gmail.com> > To: "Hernandez, Heather" <heather_hernandez(a)nps.gov> > Cc: Koha-org - List <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> > Subject: Re: [Koha] System generated field 001 control number > Message-ID: > <CAH2zftHB59j7eHtooxjUCcjjV2xxGVkxJf3Fm1xSjzPWX_dvTA@mail. > gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi Heather, > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Hernandez, Heather > <heather_hernandez(a)nps.gov> wrote: > > > Hi, Pablo-- > > > > I'm not really sure what you're asking--we use the 001 for a unique > > bibliographic control number, which for us is the OCLC record number. > > > > We wish to have 001 as unique bibliographic control number, but our library > have nothing to do with OCLC. > > Are you saying that you wish Koha could automatically generate a unique > > control number in the 001? > > > > Yes. > > > > Would you use this differently from the Koha record number in the 999 > > $c field? > > > > Yes. In fact we already have a control number on old records because they > come from a migration, and this numbers could overlap with biblionumber > (999$c). That's why bug 9921 is not useful for us. We need on 001 a unique > record number that is not equal neither with OCLC control number nor > Koha's biblionumber. > > Cheers, > Pablo >

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Koha 3.20.3 UTF-8 Problems
by Abdulsalam Yousef 14 Sep '15

14 Sep '15

Hello All, Koha 3.20.3 suffers from UTF-8 Problems in some pages such as, When trying to edit help in Arabic interface it shows garbage like this: Ù Ø±ØØ¨Ø§Ù‹ Ø¨ÙƒÙ Ù ÙŠ ÙƒÙiˆÙ‡Ø§ Ø¥Ø°Ø§ ÙƒØ§Ù†Øª Ù‡Ø°Ù‡ Ù‡ÙŠ Ø§Ù„Ù Ø±Ø© Ø§Ù„Ø£ÙˆÙ„Ù‰ Ø§Ù„Ø£Ø®Ø±Ù‰ Ø§Ù„Ù ÙˆØ¬ÙˆØ¯Ø© Ù ÙŠ Ø§Ù„Ø¥Ø¯Ø§Ø±Ø©. Although it shows help good in Arabic when reading help. Also when trying to import borrowers form tools > Import patrons Default values like (Salutation:, Surname, ...etc) looks like (ØªØÙØ©:) in Arabic interface, Although it's ok in Arabic interface columns.def file, Also the same thing when trying to build new Guided reports from Guided reports wizard. Thanks

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