Inventory/Stocktaking Functions in Koha 3.02.06
Good afternoon, If anyone has used the Inventory/Stocktaking feature in Koha 3.02.06, I have a few questions: - First of all, I loaded a same sample of 52 item barcodes using MS Notepad. The load went fine, and the “Date Last Seen” updated to the current date. - However, all that happens is “Date Last Seen” is updated. If an item is not on the shelf, the tool does not indicate that an item is missing. Also, if an item is mishelved but its barcode is scanned, then the “Date Last Seen” is updated, but the tool does not indicate that the item is actually mishelved. To do both an inventory and a shelf-reading, I'm assuming it would be smarter to pull up a listing of items using call number range under “Select items you want to check” and manually check for items instead of loading a barcode file. Is this a correct assumption? - What does the item statuses feature do? Every time I try to limit a search by an item status I get no results. To my mind, this should limit search results to items of a certain status. - What do the “Inventory Date” and the “compare barcodes list to results” features at the bottom third of the page do? Thanks in advance for any and all advice. Darcy Gullacher Head Librarian Rocky Mountain College 4039 Brentwood Road N.W. Calgary, AB T2L 1L1 Phone: (403) 284-5100 ext. 244 Fax: (403) 220-9567 www.rockymountaincollege.ca "It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle." -- Ernest Hemingway
2011/5/3 Darcy Gullacher <dgullacher@rockymountaincollege.ca>:
Good afternoon,
If anyone has used the Inventory/Stocktaking feature in Koha 3.02.06, I have a few questions:
Hi Darcy Is the manual any help? http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual/?ch=x6513 I havent used the feature, so I cant be much more help than that I'm afraid. Hopefully someone else will be able to help Chris
Hi there, we are ploughing through a stocktake now using 3.2. I'll flicjk this to Larissa who is leading the process to explain what we are doing. Cheers Jo. On 3 May 2011 09:15, Chris Cormack <chris@bigballofwax.co.nz> wrote:
2011/5/3 Darcy Gullacher <dgullacher@rockymountaincollege.ca>:
Good afternoon,
If anyone has used the Inventory/Stocktaking feature in Koha 3.02.06, I have a few questions:
Hi Darcy
Is the manual any help? http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual/?ch=x6513
I havent used the feature, so I cant be much more help than that I'm afraid. Hopefully someone else will be able to help
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Hi Darcy We scan the barcodes into a notepad, saving every 1/2 hour to an hour (so the file isn't too big). Then put the file name into the barcode file (set inventory date if you want too, I just use the current date), scroll down to the bottom of the screen and click submit and it gives the items the last seen date that you have specified. It will tell you if any of the barcodes don't exist. It will also tell you if the book was out on issue, and returns it off the card and gives it the new last seen date. That is the only part I have used. Hope that helps. Cheers Larissa On 3/05/2011 10:09 a.m., Joann Ransom wrote:
Hi there,
we are ploughing through a stocktake now using 3.2. I'll flicjk this to Larissa who is leading the process to explain what we are doing.
Cheers Jo.
On 3 May 2011 09:15, Chris Cormack <chris@bigballofwax.co.nz <mailto:chris@bigballofwax.co.nz>> wrote:
2011/5/3 Darcy Gullacher <dgullacher@rockymountaincollege.ca <mailto:dgullacher@rockymountaincollege.ca>>: > Good afternoon, > > If anyone has used the Inventory/Stocktaking feature in Koha 3.02.06, I have > a few questions: > Hi Darcy
Is the manual any help? http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual/?ch=x6513
I havent used the feature, so I cant be much more help than that I'm afraid. Hopefully someone else will be able to help
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Larissa Dixon