[Koha] Re: Inventory & items.itemcallnumber

[Matthew Metzger]

Joshua M. Ferraro wrote:
> Hiya Matthew,
> 
> See below:
> 
> ----- "Matthew Metzger" <news at metzger.cc> wrote:
>> First, thanks Joshua for the script. It seemed to work perfectly.
> Excellent, glad to hear it.
> 
>> I completed steps 1 and 3 from the directions you gave me. I am not sure 
>> how to map items.itemcallnumber and Ryan said that he might commit a 
>> plugin that would do just this, so I'd thought I'd wait on that.
> You can map items.itemcallnumber to a items tag/subfield from either the
> Links - Koha MARC DB section (easy) or the Bibliographic Framework section(hard)
> of the Admin module. Note that the plugin is something you can add later
> to the Bibliographic Framework, but you still have to set up the mapping
> or the itemcallnumber field won't show up in your items add/edit screen.
> 
>> I had assumed that once items.itemcallnumber had values, that I'd be 
>> able to get some type of result from the inventory.pl script. However, I 
>> still got nothing. I am also not able to get a result from the "Not seen 
>> since:" field. I thought that this would not depend at all on 
>> items.itemcallnumber so it might work. As it stands, I'm not able to get 
>> any result from any entry field using inventory.pl. Is this normal 
>> behavior for 2.2.9?
> It could very well be. There were quite a few updates that didn't make
> it into the release. Try grabbing the latest inventory script/template
> from CVS and replacing your current ones:
> 
> script:
> http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewvc/koha/reports/inventory.pl?view=log&root=koha&pathrev=rel_2_2
> 
> template:
> http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewvc/koha/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/npl/en/reports/inventory.tmpl?view=log&root=koha&pathrev=rel_2_2
> 
> Let us know how it goes.
> 
> Cheers,
> 

Hello,

I believe it is operational. It returns books now when both the "Item 
location" and "Not seen since" fields have values. None of the books 
have a seen value, but I think we can work with that. Our librarian will 
be scanning in each section to a saved text file and then we will use 
those to mark the books on the shelves as seen with the "use a barcode 
file" feature.

It will take her a while to get all of the books scanned to the text 
files, but it looks like everything will work now.

thanks so much for your help.

-Matthew