[Koha] Import Data from excel

[Andrew Buxton]

Hello Ankit

I don’t know if you’ve already had a better solution, but one route for the books data would be to create a text file that can be read by MARCmaker.  (See http://www.loc.gov/marc/makrbrkr.html for examples of what is required.)  We do this for our library catalogue which is in a SQL Server database.  I use the ColdFusion programming language but another route might be to read the Excel file into Access and write a report that creates the right text format.  Once you put it through MARCmaker you have a MARC file which can easily be read by Koha.

Andrew Buxton
IDS, Brighton, UK


From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Ankit Gupta
Sent: 12 November 2009 07:51
To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: [Koha] Import Data from excel

Hello

Can somebody guide me towards a beginner tutorial for importing books and patrons data from excel to Koha.

Regards
Ankit Gupta
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