[Koha] installation help for KOHA 3.0

[vimal laxman]

 Thanks Joe,
                    I made it at last.The problem was that the zebra daemon
was not running.i folowe option 2 for running the zebra process as
daemon.then i tried option 1 as indicted in the Installation document and
the search engine worked.
                    and about the barcode stuff i did the same way as you
told me to .it had some problems initially like the items location was not
defined and item type was not getting saved properly.after a few strugle i
was able to Check out the book sucessfully.
                   Now that i have to add some of the books manually because
they are not available online.indoing that i have customized my framework to
just a few key fields.but when i entered them manually and tried to save
them the application gives an error saying "cannot be saved with Tag =''".it
says i have left some of the subfilds empty but i made sure that i have
entered the data for all the fields and subfields.

could sny one suggest me a way to enter this manually.

regards,
vimal

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Joe Atzberger <ohiocore at gmail.com> wrote:

> Vimal --
>
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 5:02 AM, vimal laxman <vimallaxman at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 1.when i search for books through OPAC it says 'no results found' in
>> catalogue(i have a few books which i imported using Z39.50 search)and error
>> log says" biblio erro 109'.I know this is a basic issue but still i could
>> not find out  a right solution.i followed all the instructions that were
>> give in the INSTALL.debian file.devolopers in the community say it is a
>> databse related issue.if so can you let me know how to check whether my
>> database is set to  right encoding for Koha 3.0 to read.
>
>
> When you run rebuild_zebra you have to remember to set and export KOHA_CONF
> and PERL5LIB, but it sounds like you have done this.  Then, check your zebra
> logs for additional information about the errno 109.
>
>
>> 2.I dont have a barcode reader with me here.i wish to do the 'Check IN'
>> and 'Check OUT' manually.one person suggested me that i map the barcode
>> field in Administration->Koha to MARC Mapping->items->Barcode to a field of
>> our choice .so i mapped it to ISBN.and i tried to Check Out a particular
>> Patron by manually entering the ISBN number of a particular book that is
>> available in the database.It says 'Barcode not foud'.is it possible for us
>> to do it manually through keyboard withour using barcode reader ?.
>
>
> I have already responded in this thread why it would be a bad idea to try
> to use ISBN.  Even if you don't have a barcode scanner, it will still be
> more reliable and easier for you to use a self-generated barcode manually
> than to use the ISBN.  Even if you don't have a printer and you just use a
> typewriter or a pencil, it will be easier than trying to use the ISBN.  If
> you use incremental barcodes, then instead of having to key in at least 10
> digits, it would be as small a number of keystrokes as possible.
>
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