[Koha] DBText conversion to Koha--Patrons

[Nicole Engard]

I want to point you to the working manual:
http://sites.google.com/a/liblime.com/koha-manual/

I don't know how to answer all of your questions, but as for the street type
- this is because there is an authorized value you can assign to that to
make it easier for people to add patrons.

As for missing fields, you can set up your own custom fields by going to the
patron attribute types:
http://sites.google.com/a/liblime.com/koha-manual/Home/Table-of-Contents/administration/Patrons---Circulation/patrons--circulation-patron-attribute-types



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Nicole C. Engard
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On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Bob Ewart <bob-ewart at earthlink.net> wrote:

> I'm in the process of converting our library from DBText to koha 3.00
> RC1 and have a couple of questions about the fields in the patron record.
>
> I see address, city and zipcode for the addresses, but no state or
> country fields.  Being in south Florida, we do get a number of Canadians.
>
> I'm also curious about why street number and street type are separate
> fields.
>
> We also have a number of flags like 'mailing list' (which indicates
> whether or not the patron wants to get general mailings) which don't map
> to anything in the patron record.
>
> What format should the dates have?  I don't have a sex or date-of-birth
> field (I'll probably use 1/1/1969 for date of birth which will make
> everyone 39 years old.  They're all adults.)
>
> I see that the branch and category codes must be valid for importing
> patrons.  Are there any other fields that are required or checked.  I
> guess that cardnumber, zipcode and surname are required.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
>
> --
> Bob
>
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