On 11/09/2007, at 8:38 AM, roger@hrothgar.co.uk wrote:
I sent this some time ago but sent it from the wrong address so I don't think it arrived. Sorry if it appears twice.
On Saturday 01 September 2007 03:26, colmcd@optusnet.com.au wrote:
Secondly My librarian is very dissapointed with the package. She really lamented not sending for payed software due to numerous bugs in Koha (namely the reports DON't work at all and seem to be tailored to a particular librarys needs).
This last point is, I think, common with PD software. While commercial software may be designed from the start to suit every possible customer, PD software usually is developed from a program that was written for one particular person/company/institution.
Koha was designed for a particular library in New Zealand and this shows. eg C4/Search.pm contains 16 lines converting between "nz" and "new zealand" but nothing converting "uk" into "United Kingdom" or "PNG" into "Papua New Guinea".
The thing that causes me problems at the moment is that the original library seems to have had a need to catalogue mainly standard fiction books and the Marc fields that it was interested in do not include many that were vital in relation to other types of book. So the biblio tables only contains a limited amount of information:
[Big Snip] Hi Roger Those tables are a red herring really, its the marc_subfield_data which holds the complete data. And anything in there can be shown in the OPAC. So anything in the MARC can be shown in the opac. You just have to pass it through to the template. Chris -- Chris Cormack chris.cormack@liblime.com VP Research and Development www.liblime.com LibLime +64 21 542 131