On 9/13/06, Stephen Hedges <st.hedges@gmail.com> wrote:

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I am helping a public library switch to koha, and have a few problems

On 9/11/06, Aren Olson <reacocard@gmail.com> wrote: that

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have come up while importing the old data.

First, on the "MARC Check" page, It says

item fieldsALL items fields MUST :

be mapped to the same tag, and they must all be in the 10 (items) tab

Item tagThere is more than 1 MARC tag related to items tab (10) : 852,952, This is correct, the previous ILS's MARC setup puts some item data on each tag. Is it safe to leave it like this?

No, Koha will not work until you get the MARC check to return no errors.

Then how am I to make it work? There is data on both tags. If I use this setup for import, then change it later, would that work? [snip...]

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Thirdly, is there any way to have koha automatically create items from a

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MARC import? The records import, but I have to manually create an item for each record before I can use it. This is impractical, since there are thousands of records.

I believe the best way to do this is still to use the bulkmarcimport.plscript.

Stephen

That's what I used. the records import fine, but no items are created. -- "Whoever said sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain." - K. Jackson Ubuntu Linux - www.ubuntu.com