[Koha] MARC record Importing problems with Academic Staff Demo

[Repke de Vries]

Hi all,

we are trying pre-evaluation of Koha functionalities by doing some   
tests with the LibLime demo installation at http://academic- 
staff.demo.kohalibrary.com/

and find that even though "Stage MARC records for Import"  works  
fine,  the next step "Manage Staged MARC records" consistently fails  
with
this message getting displayed "There are no records in this batch to  
import" and that's it: no further hints why.

Even records imported by someone a longer time ago [like batch  
number  33 ( http://academic-staff.demo.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/ 
tools/manage-marc-import.pl?offset=50 )]  and after exporting back to  
to MARC again, now fail to import with this same error message.

Anybody an idea what's going on ?  The demo server idea is  
problematic of-course with any global settings that people are  
changing all the time but wouldn't the Import at least always import  
any 2709 MARC record(s) ?

If there would be any demands on the MARC records - like Koha cannot  
import MARC holdings records or cannot import anything MARC related  
to serials information but only imports biblio records - where can we  
find the authoritative KOHA documentation on this ?
The excellent Koha 3 Manual Site  does not cover this aspect at any  
length and searching the mailing lists and other sources only gives  
bits and pieces or info / instructions that could be outdated.

Even if the advice is: "install your own Koha for testing" - any help  
appreciated !

Repke de Vries and team at the International Institute for Social  
History ( http://www.iisg.nl )