Hi Katrin, Hope I find you well. You are a life-saver! I used sort1 field and use the bsort1 authorised value categories to create the Grade categories. Thank you very much. My only small problem is to change the label "Sort 1" on the patron entry page to "Grade" so as to make the system more user friendly at the expense of upgrades, of course! Otherwise your solution worked perfectly well for me. Kind Regards, Admire Mutsikiwa (Mr) ICT Manager Libraries University of Zimbabwe Tel:+263-4-303276 Mob:+263771117777 “It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.” Josiah Charles Stamp -----Original Message----- From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of koha-request@lists.katipo.co.nz Sent: Monday, 20 June 2016 2:00 AM To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Koha Digest, Vol 128, Issue 34 Send Koha mailing list submissions to koha@lists.katipo.co.nz To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to koha-request@lists.katipo.co.nz You can reach the person managing the list at koha-owner@lists.katipo.co.nz When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Koha digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Howdy! (Katrin Fischer) 2. Re: Due Date (Katrin Fischer) 3. Fwd: Re: Printing Additional Patron attribute on Patron Card Layout (Katrin Fischer) 4. Re: Finding patron's previous card number? (Katrin Fischer) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 12:38:06 +0200 From: Katrin Fischer <Katrin.Fischer.83@web.de> To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Howdy! Message-ID: <5766760E.5090702@web.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Welcome Sam! :) It's always great to learn about Koha libraries all over the world. If you want to, you can add yourself to the Koha user's list on the wiki: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_Users_Worldwide Katrin Am 16.06.2016 um 05:15 schrieb Samuel Crawford:
Greetings, Koha Family!
My name is Sam Crawford. I am the Academic Librarian (and currently Acting Director of Library Programs and Services) at Northern Marianas College in the U.S. territory of Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI).
I'm fairly new to this profession and to Koha, and I find myself feeling occasionally daunted, not so much by the "How do I...?" questions, but more by the "Should I...?" questions. I long for guidance on general upkeep / maintenance (i.e., "Make sure you're doing 'x' every week") -- a check-list, of sorts, to make sure I'm taking care of this baby the way I should be. A list of suggested reports to create and/or run, to ensure the data is squeaky clean, would be ideal.
At any rate, I'm looking forward to learning more about Koha, how to maximize its use, and how to make it better, with the help of this community and its various interest groups. This email is a first step in that direction, so if you have any "I-wish-I'd-known-'x'-when-I-first-started-using-Koha"-type of advice, I'm all ears!
Thanks, all!
Until next time,
Sam
--------------------------------------------------------- *Samuel Judson Crawford*, M.M., M.L.I.S. Academic Librarian / Acting 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@marianas.edu
------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 12:38:18 +0200 From: Katrin Fischer <Katrin.Fischer.83@web.de> To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Due Date Message-ID: <5766761A.8030000@web.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hi, some things to check here: - Circulation conditions: check the rule that applies from the 'all libraries' page and the more specific rule for the library. What is the loan period set to? Has a hard due date been set? - Patron account expiry: is it possible the patron account is about to expire? Hope this helps, Katrin Am 15.06.2016 um 10:31 schrieb Chrispin Simasiku Sitali:
Hello everyone,
I have a problem of checkouts being a day only. For any material regardless of circulation and fine rule (14 days 28 days etc) the due date is one day or 24 hours only. I recently upgraded to Koha 16.05 from 3.22. Koha is running on Ubuntu 14.04 and was installed using instructions from:
https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_ubuntu_-_packages
I upgraded using:
apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get install koha-common
All checkouts are becoming overdue by next day.
Please help
Sitali Chrispin Simasiku
------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 12:47:42 +0200 From: Katrin Fischer <Katrin.Fischer.83@web.de> To: "koha@lists.katipo.co.nz" <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: [Koha] Fwd: Re: Printing Additional Patron attribute on Patron Card Layout Message-ID: <5766784E.6090906@web.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hi Admire, from looking at the patron card help page, I think it's not possible to print additional patron attributes at the moment. Maybe a workaround could be to use one of the statistic fields on the patron record for storing the information about the grade instead. Those fields can be turned into pull downs using the bsort1 and bsort2 authorised value categories. Hope this helps, Katrin Am 16.06.2016 um 11:16 schrieb Admire Mutsikiwa:
Hi
I am working on deploying Koha for a local Primary School. I have created a layout for the printing of patron ID card. There is need for me to print the grade the pupil is in e.g. Grade 7B on the Patron ID Card. I intent to capture the grade the pupil is in using the extended attributes, instance using the field pupil_class.
I will also appreciate it if you can point to me how I can make the extended attribute pupil_class be populated from a drop down list, may be through use of some customized authorized values.
Kind Regards,
Admire Mutsikiwa (Mr)
ICT Manager
Libraries
University of Zimbabwe
Tel:+263-4-303276
Mob:+263771117777
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------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 12:50:58 +0200 From: Katrin Fischer <Katrin.Fischer.83@web.de> To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Finding patron's previous card number? Message-ID: <57667912.7010104@web.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Am 17.06.2016 um 20:59 schrieb Owen Leonard:
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall@gmail.com> wrote:
Would it be worth developing a feature to store previous card numbers in a new table? Or would having them in the logs be sufficient?
Or perhaps start with the improvement to the logs and then build a widget to pull the right data from the log to show on the patron detail page?
-- Owen
+1 for that suggestion. Maybe an idea for a workaround: Create a repeatable extended patron attribute for storing previous cardnumbers. This will require manually filling out the field the same time the cardnumber is changed, but maybe would be easier to handle than using one of the notes fields. Katrin ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ------------------------------ End of Koha Digest, Vol 128, Issue 34 *************************************