[Koha] Re: inventory.pl not working for me

[Matthew Metzger]

When I search the OPAC, I get a column in the results that is titled 
"call number". However, the value of this is not always unique. Of 
course this is a different field than itemcallnumber, but perhaps one 
field could be copied to the other. I'm guessing that itemcallnumber 
must be unique in order for the reports to work properly and so copying 
one field to the other would not solve my problem. Could anyone confirm 
if this is true or not.

thanks,

Matthew Metzger



Matthew Metzger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I checked our database and itemcallnumber is set to NULL on all records. 
> Bad news for me. What needs to be done so that I can do inventory? I 
> assume that the itemcallnumber for each record has to be manually entered.
> 
> thanks for your time and help,
> 
> Matthew
> 
> 
> 
> Matthew Metzger wrote:
>> Hello Ryan,
>>
>> thanks for the helpful details. I will check later today if we are 
>> using the itemcallnumber field (I sure hope we are). I'm the tech guy, 
>> not the librarian.
>>
>> If the script is fully operable in cvs, does that mean that it will 
>> work properly in Koha 2.2.10 and 3.0 when they are released?
>>
>> thanks again for your time,
>>
>> Matthew Metzger
>>
>>
>>
>> Ryan Higgins wrote:
>>> Hi Matthew
>>>
>>> The version of this script in cvs is fully operable.  You should be 
>>> able to drop-in replace inventory.pl and inventory.tmpl from the 
>>> rel_2_2 branch.
>>> The LC sort and item count won't work unless you also update the 
>>> Biblio.pm module.  I would not recommend doing that unless you have 
>>> experience with merging in code changes.  (The report will work fine 
>>> without those, but it will sort alphanumerically).
>>>
>>> Note that this report relies fully on the itemcallnumber koha field.  
>>> So if you haven't been storing call numbers there, you'll not have 
>>> much luck with it.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
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>>> ----- "Matthew Metzger" 
>>> <news at metzger.cc> wrote:
>>> | Hello,
>>> | | sorry to deluge the list with so many posts. This is my time to work
>>> | on | our library system and I have to address a few different 
>>> things all at
>>> | | the same time.
>>> | | When I go to Accounts and Reports > Inventory/Stocktaking > | 
>>> inventory.pl, enter in some values, and then press the "Generate
>>> | Report" | button, I get nothing. My template of choice is NPL, but 
>>> I also tried
>>> | it | in the default template and it doesn't work there either.
>>> | | Here's my system stats:
>>> | | Koha version:      2.2.9
>>> | OS version (from 'uname -a'):     Linux ubuntu-server1 
>>> 2.6.15-28-powerpc
>>> | #1 | Thu May 10 09:50:21 UTC 2007 ppc GNU/Linux
>>> | Perl version:     5.008007
>>> | MySQL version:     mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.22, for 
>>> unknown-linux-gnu
>>> | | (powerpc) using readline 5.1
>>> | | thanks for your time and any help you can give me.
>>> | | -Matthew
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