Hello. I contacted you a few months ago regarding a Koha installation I did for a small school. Everything is going well, we are now in production with only a few minor hicups. Great stuff, thanks for Koha - it is a great tool and it helps this little institution a lot. There is however one thing our librarian would like to be able to do: import files from Bookwhere (his favorite Z39.50 client) with new notices. I managed to import a Bookwhere-generated file via bulkmarcimport.pl but the web interface wouldn't work: I can load my file, find my records under "manage staged Marc import" but the "import into catalog" step always results in 0 records added - the records aren't in the database and the "Bib" cell stays empty. I don't get anything in the koha_error_log - I googled around, checked the bugzilla but nothing conclusive. Anyone has an idea what is going on - or where to start looking? Thanks a lot. By the way I am using koha 3.00.04_fixed. Best regards, Joel
Hi Joel, Just some troubleshooting thoughts. Have you tried looking at the bookwhere file using MarcEdit? I had a situation where a wrongly formatted record would cause the import to fail - and would identify the following record in the file as the culprit. Using MarcEdit you should be able to look at the first record in the file, and also to break out a subset of the records and see if they import. Maybe that will give you a clue as to where the problem is. Best, Doug From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Joel Cornuz Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 7:38 PM To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] marc import fails Hello. I contacted you a few months ago regarding a Koha installation I did for a small school. Everything is going well, we are now in production with only a few minor hicups. Great stuff, thanks for Koha - it is a great tool and it helps this little institution a lot. There is however one thing our librarian would like to be able to do: import files from Bookwhere (his favorite Z39.50 client) with new notices. I managed to import a Bookwhere-generated file via bulkmarcimport.pl<http://bulkmarcimport.pl> but the web interface wouldn't work: I can load my file, find my records under "manage staged Marc import" but the "import into catalog" step always results in 0 records added - the records aren't in the database and the "Bib" cell stays empty. I don't get anything in the koha_error_log - I googled around, checked the bugzilla but nothing conclusive. Anyone has an idea what is going on - or where to start looking? Thanks a lot. By the way I am using koha 3.00.04_fixed. Best regards, Joel
Hi there, Thanks for your help. As it happens, I tried getting a few records via Mercury (free XP Z39.50 client). I couldn't import them either. As stated, however, the Bookwhere files could be imported via bulkmarcimport.pl - but not by web interface... So I suspect the problem is with Koha or with my installation... Thanks for your help. I'll keep looking and would welcome other ideas ;-P Joel On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Doug Dearden <dearden@sarsf.org> wrote:
Hi Joel,
Just some troubleshooting thoughts. Have you tried looking at the bookwhere file using MarcEdit? I had a situation where a wrongly formatted record would cause the import to fail – and would identify the following record in the file as the culprit. Using MarcEdit you should be able to look at the first record in the file, and also to break out a subset of the records and see if they import. Maybe that will give you a clue as to where the problem is.
Best,
Doug
*From:* koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] *On Behalf Of *Joel Cornuz *Sent:* Tuesday, April 27, 2010 7:38 PM *To:* koha@lists.katipo.co.nz *Subject:* [Koha] marc import fails
Hello.
I contacted you a few months ago regarding a Koha installation I did for a small school. Everything is going well, we are now in production with only a few minor hicups. Great stuff, thanks for Koha - it is a great tool and it helps this little institution a lot.
There is however one thing our librarian would like to be able to do: import files from Bookwhere (his favorite Z39.50 client) with new notices.
I managed to import a Bookwhere-generated file via bulkmarcimport.pl but the web interface wouldn't work: I can load my file, find my records under "manage staged Marc import" but the "import into catalog" step always results in 0 records added - the records aren't in the database and the "Bib" cell stays empty.
I don't get anything in the koha_error_log - I googled around, checked the bugzilla but nothing conclusive. Anyone has an idea what is going on - or where to start looking? Thanks a lot.
By the way I am using koha 3.00.04_fixed.
Best regards,
Joel
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