Hi Frans
I am writing from Munich (Germany) and joined the list yesterday in view of the task ahead - creating a new catalogue for our institute library. I have little experience and need all the help I can get. Luckily I am not alone in the endeavour: our IT team have set up the Linux server and I will be able to involve professional help when migrating our old Allegro-C records into Koha.
Still, some things I would like to do myself but progress instantly fell flat because I could not define patron categories in Koha version 16.05.03.000. I noticed that I am not alone in this predicament (Bugzilla Bug 17069), and read that a solution may be forthcoming after November. I wonder what I should do now. Should I just proceed as the database administrative user, or will that limit what I can do with the programme? Or is there a fix? Benjamin Rokseth proposed one (Bugzilla Bug 17069 Comment 1) but I am unable to replicate this. Did I miss any other easy solution?
First, welcome to Koha! On http://www.koha-de.org/wiki/Koha/Demo-Installationen I looked for a Koha demo installation running 16.05.03 - the one by Turo Technology is currently down, but I found one running 16.05.04 by Orex: http://intra1.orex.es/ (user name and password are both "admin") I was able to create a new patron category there without experiencing any problems. What are you exactly doing when you're trying to create one? What exactly does happen when it fails? Best wishes, Michael -- Geschäftsführer · Diplombibliothekar BBS, Informatiker eidg. Fachausweis Admin Kuhn GmbH · Pappelstrasse 20 · 4123 Allschwil · Schweiz T 0041 (0)61 261 55 61 · E mik@adminkuhn.ch · W www.adminkuhn.ch