[Koha] Import holds?

Katrin Fischer katrin.fischer.83 at web.de
Wed Aug 16 02:53:15 NZST 2017


If you don't have a lot of holds reentering might be the best solution. 
Hope your migration goes well!

Katrin


On 15.08.2017 14:55, Mark Alexander wrote:
> Excerpts from Katrin Fischer's message of 2017-08-15 12:47:45 +0200:
>> 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.
> Thank you.  That makes sense, and I was already thinking of doing
> something like this.  But there aren't a large number of holds, and it
> might be less time-consuming to enter them manually than to study the
> database tables and write the script.



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