[Koha] Import holds?

[Katrin Fischer]

Hi Mark,

holds information is stored differently in every ILS and at the moment 
there exists no generic tool to import holds into Koha. For a migration 
you could try to map the data you get out of Mandarin to the columns in 
Koha's reserves table and then use a script or SQL to fill it. It can be 
useful to place a few different holds in Koha first to see what data is 
required/set by Koha itself.

Hope this helps,

Katrin


On 11.08.2017 16:23, Mark Alexander wrote:
> Our little (24K items) library has successfully moved from Mandarin to
> Koha as of Tuesday.  I was able to import the catalog, patrons, and
> checkouts (issues) from Mandarin by writing scripts to convert
> Mandarin-generated data to Koha-compatible data.
>
> The one missing thing is holds (reserves).  I'm still looking for a
> way to generate a holds report in Mandarin, but assuming I can
> generate such a report, I don't see a way to import hold information
> into Koha.  I was able to use KOC files to import issues, but the KOC
> file format doesn't support holds.  I was wondering if there is some
> other way to import holds programmatically, or if anyone else has had
> to deal with this problem when migrating to Koha.
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