Good Day Frederic, Kindly tell me how do I disable the Authority? in Koha? Right now, if we try to create a new Marc Record, start from empty record, and go to the tag that have to put a Author Personal Name for example, it GREYS the box, and ONLY a popup window can be used to search for an already existing authority?? Can you tell me how I disable this popup window and simply make Koha understand simple text rather than Authority?? I hope I am making sense. Would you recommend that I re-install to keep with future changes?? Because it took me a long time to setup Koha, since I am a beginner and really worried that it would delay the project from going live even more. Someone today in IRC mentioned that I am using the old version of idzebra when I should be using idzebra-2.0, so I think tomorrow morning my time i will try that..and keep you guys on the loop. Please do remember me if you come across aything related to this, Thanks alot 2009/11/2 Frédéric DEMIANS <f.demians@tamil.fr>
Your Koha installation is messed up for whatever reason. I recommend you reinstalling everything. The best installation documentation, and most up-to-date, is INSTALL.debian-lenny. I've seen on IRC that you customized your template. Avoid that if you don't know how to track your modifications with a code version control program like git. Otherwise, you won't be able to upgrade to Koha newer version, which is very important for a software like Koha.
Another option is to disable completely authorities (in Framework), as suggested by Chris. Believe me, if your catalog is small, authority management is a nonsense. We have lot of small libraries using Koha without authorities for the sake of users!
Hope it helps.
-- Frédéric DEMIANS http://www.tamil.fr/u/fdemians.html