Vimal -- On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 5:02 AM, vimal laxman <vimallaxman@gmail.com> wrote:
1.when i search for books through OPAC it says 'no results found' in catalogue(i have a few books which i imported using Z39.50 search)and error log says" biblio erro 109'.I know this is a basic issue but still i could not find out a right solution.i followed all the instructions that were give in the INSTALL.debian file.devolopers in the community say it is a databse related issue.if so can you let me know how to check whether my database is set to right encoding for Koha 3.0 to read.
When you run rebuild_zebra you have to remember to set and export KOHA_CONF and PERL5LIB, but it sounds like you have done this. Then, check your zebra logs for additional information about the errno 109.
2.I dont have a barcode reader with me here.i wish to do the 'Check IN' and 'Check OUT' manually.one person suggested me that i map the barcode field in Administration->Koha to MARC Mapping->items->Barcode to a field of our choice .so i mapped it to ISBN.and i tried to Check Out a particular Patron by manually entering the ISBN number of a particular book that is available in the database.It says 'Barcode not foud'.is it possible for us to do it manually through keyboard withour using barcode reader ?.
I have already responded in this thread why it would be a bad idea to try to use ISBN. Even if you don't have a barcode scanner, it will still be more reliable and easier for you to use a self-generated barcode manually than to use the ISBN. Even if you don't have a printer and you just use a typewriter or a pencil, it will be easier than trying to use the ISBN. If you use incremental barcodes, then instead of having to key in at least 10 digits, it would be as small a number of keystrokes as possible.