Hi Mark, holds information is stored differently in every ILS and at the moment there exists no generic tool to import holds into Koha. For a migration you could try to map the data you get out of Mandarin to the columns in Koha's reserves table and then use a script or SQL to fill it. It can be useful to place a few different holds in Koha first to see what data is required/set by Koha itself. Hope this helps, Katrin On 11.08.2017 16:23, Mark Alexander wrote:
Our little (24K items) library has successfully moved from Mandarin to Koha as of Tuesday. I was able to import the catalog, patrons, and checkouts (issues) from Mandarin by writing scripts to convert Mandarin-generated data to Koha-compatible data.
The one missing thing is holds (reserves). I'm still looking for a way to generate a holds report in Mandarin, but assuming I can generate such a report, I don't see a way to import hold information into Koha. I was able to use KOC files to import issues, but the KOC file format doesn't support holds. I was wondering if there is some other way to import holds programmatically, or if anyone else has had to deal with this problem when migrating to Koha. _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha