[Koha] Creating additional superlibrarian

[Christos Hayward]

Thank you, John and Jonathan!

I may not have installed as I should have. I look forward to tackling it
with your installation guide soon!


Thanks and Best Regards,

On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 9:24 AM John Sterbenz <jsterben at umich.edu> wrote:

> Hello Christos!
>
> It sounds like you got as far as I got in 2015 when I was experimenting
> with Koha for the first time.
>
> Please do consider viewing my installation guide, found here (this is the
> same document as hosted on the koha-US website):
>
> bit.ly/201907kohainstall
>
> This should give you the information you need (the later pages in
> particular).  Do read it carefully--especially "What will I have when I'm
> done here", as this outlines how/why some of the configuration files are
> edited like they are.  The section regarding the Web Installer is NOT
> OS/Koha version specific and should work even if you're not using Ubuntu
> 18.04 / Koha 19.05.xx.
>
> The Web Installer will do a number of things for you when you run
> it--these are also outlined in this document, as well as several other
> things I've found useful to select/not select in running the Web Installer
> many many many times across different versions of both OS and Koha
> software.
>
> YES--you can use a barcode of "1" (you don't specify a barcode system and
> can basically enter anything you want into this field).  Setting up an
> initial "superlibrarian" for your system will take place as the last step
> of the Web Installer--you'll create an individual patron record, then staff
> login linked to that record for your system.  This staff login does not
> reference barcode number at all--it's just that barcode number is a
> required field and system access in Koha is linked directly to patron
> records (for me, this was a change over the way our Millennium server did
> things).  Since we don't have a circulating collection or patrons anymore,
> I just used sequential numbers for the 3 staff people that needed
> access--and as the system creator and manager, I am "1" in my system (and
> any system I create).
>
> Feel free to write me off-list if you'd like--I'm glad to be able to help
> if I can!
>
> John
>
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> On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 8:49 AM Christos Hayward <
> christos.hayward at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> How, with create_superlibrarian.pl or other tools, can I create a
>> superlibrarian that will be recognized by the webinstaller?
>>
>> Are --branchcode and --category code pulled from tables in MariaDB?
>>
>> Is a cardnumber of 1 permissible, or pulled from MariaDB, or something
>> else?
>>
>>
>> Many Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> Christos Hayward
>>
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