[Koha] installation help for KOHA 3.0

Wed Dec 31 19:08:24 NZDT 2008

hi all,
          Thank you Mr.krishnan for your valuable advice on customizig the
framework.
 iam trying to integerate SIP2 with my Koha installation .its giving the
follwing error *""MarkIssueReturned" is not exported by the C4::Circulation
module'*".i tried some of the patches suggested on the net but without
sucess.can anybody help me out.

regards,
vimal

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Krishnan M <kmlist at yahoo.in> wrote:

> Vimal,
>
> In customizing your framework, you would have encountered the list of MARC
> fields. (by clicking on 'Marc Structure' against your framework)
>
> One of the columns in this table (between 'repeatable' and 'auth value')
> states whether the particular field is "Mandatory" or not. For e.g., 000
> Leader is almost always mandatory
>
> Unfortunately, this table cannot be 'sorted' by its columns, so there is no
> alternative but to run through several screens to find out which of the 900+
> fields are currently mandatory. You can then edit the sub-fields and
> un-check that 'mandatory' option. Perhaps there's a simple database query
> that will give you the answer, but i don't have access to a database right
> now to send you one.
>
> i have very little cataloging experience, but i would caution you against
> arbitrary decisions on toggling a mandatory tag to make it optional.
>
> Generally, for example, with the leader tag itself, Koha itself will
> generate a value for the tag while cataloging, if you click within the box
> or on the ellipsis next to one. But, clearly, this is just a set of defaults
> that does not necessarily make sense, so you may end up with a tag that has
> very little relevant information in it.
>
> As a non-librarian that encountered cataloging when using Koha, i was
> mightily irritated to come up short against mandatory tags that i could not
> make sense of..
>
> regards,
> krishnan
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* vimal laxman <vimallaxman at gmail.com>
> *To:* Joe Atzberger <ohiocore at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> *Sent:* Monday, 29 December, 2008 12:09:27 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Koha] installation help for KOHA 3.0
>
>  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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