Agreed. The first patch in for was because I came across a bug, a small annoyance, and I thought to myself, "Someone should fix that." Then a light bulb clicked. It's open source. I can fix that. If you document your experiences, please share the documentation with the community. Garry On Jun 21, 2009 6:18pm, Chris Cormack <chris@bigballofwax.co.nz> wrote:
2009/6/22 Nelson Fredsell nelson@cfce.org.za>:
Dear Garry and Chris,
Thank you both for taking the time to reply. I have learned to 1) check the
koha.org manual, 2) search previous postings to the newsgroup, and 3) search
koha.org and liblime.com for additional juicy bits of information on my
specific issues. *Then* I post to the newsgroup. I wish that the manual
(new and improved!) would be more of a wiki. Maybe there's plans for this
already, as processes do seem to improve all the time.
Having said this, Yes I did read the manual before posting, and No it did
not provide enough details about the Record Matching Rules. For example, In
my earlier posting the answer was "Nelson, you should use index
'Local-Number'." Do you know how many hours it took to elicit that one
index term!? So, then I experimented with Record Matching on 999c and it
worked great! (I learned more about MarcEdit in the process, too.) That is,
until I needed to batch change a local Koha tag (952c). So now it's back to
the newsgroup, collective hours of time, for another tiny piece of
information. There's got to be a more efficient way of moving forward.
The best way, is when you discover the answers to your questions,
write them up on the wiki (wiki.koha.org)
Add to the faq there, or start a new page. The more you write up, the
less others will have to ask the same questions.
If you write it up, then email the list with a link to your write up,
and email nicole and she may be able to add it to the manual for you.
Chris
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