Re: [Koha] KOHA Hold Settings & Costs

2012-07-31 Thread Bob Birchall
On 31/07/12 10:21, Josh Mikow wrote: Good Afternoon, I'm a tech person who is working with our church librarians to upgrade their software and they asked me a few things about KOHA that I'm not sure about. 1. Can we have an email sent whenever a hold is placed on a resource by a patron? This w

[Koha] zebra search failure and extended UTF-8 characters showing up as ?s and diamonds in opac

2012-07-31 Thread George Masters
We are having two different issues with our Koha system even after updating to the latest version 3.8.1: 1. Zebra searches fail. When turning off zebra we get an "as-marc" method error. Ideally, I would like to use zebra so that we can allow our MARC records to be accessed by other libraries.

Re: [Koha] SQL queries to delete records from the database?

2012-07-31 Thread Sonia P .
Hello everyone Re: my reindexing problems (the SQL query being just what I thought would help solving the problem). A big thank you to everyone around. I received some help (private messages) and I think the problem is solved now. My understanding of the problem is that the cron job was all me

Re: [Koha] Circulation Errors after Upgrade

2012-07-31 Thread Chris Cormack
On 31 July 2012 17:13, Josh Mikow wrote: > Thanks Chris! Glad to know I'm doing this the best/recommended way. i'm > refreshing my linux skills and also having to learn about library systems > and it takes me a bit. > Hmm that looks alright you could try a koha-rebuild-zebra -f to just see if t

[Koha] Fast Add framework not in search results

2012-07-31 Thread ShaneGreen
Hi, We've have nearly 500 books that aren't being found in a Z39 searches so they have entered them using Fast Add. None of them seem to be showing up in our OPAC search results. I've added Keyword to MARC mappings that match what's found for the default framework: title 245 1 P

[Koha] Issue to koha database and search

2012-07-31 Thread Diwaker Ghimire
Hello, We were using koha 3.02 version of koha earlier and was having problems with catalogue search. Koha was unable to search some records while other records were searches were fine. Tried to rebuild zebra but still the problem persisted. So we decided to upgrade to latest version of koha 3.8

Re: [Koha] Stable vs maintenance releases?

2012-07-31 Thread Chris Cormack
Cab, They are both stable branches and releases on both are maintenance releases each month. I prefer to think of them as stable and oldstable. With master bein development. 3.4.1 is pretty old I'd say the site needs an update. When we release a new feature release a x.x.0 release we don't kil

[Koha] Stable vs maintenance releases?

2012-07-31 Thread Cab Vinton
Can someone explain the difference between these two? http://download.koha-community.org/ lists these as 3.8.3 (stable) and 3.6.7 (maintenance) ... I would have thought that a maintenance release is done "on top of" a stable release, comprising minor bug fixes and the like. And how is it determi

Re: [Koha] New Authoritie - Problem when find possible dublicate

2012-07-31 Thread Robin Sheat
Op 31-07-12 17:30, anjoze schreef: > I with version *3.08.03.000* I have a error when I'm creating a new > Authoritie and koha finds a possible duplicate: This looks to be introduced by a patch for bug 8386. I'd recommend reporting a new bug on http://bugs.koha-community.org and noting there what

[Koha] New Authoritie - Problem when find possible dublicate

2012-07-31 Thread anjoze
I with version *3.08.03.000* I have a error when I'm creating a new Authoritie and koha finds a possible duplicate: Software error: Can't use string ("Lopes, Francisco Luiz duplicateauthvalue => $duplicateauthvalue,/ Ver: 3.08.03.000 /duplicateauthvalue => $duplicateauthvalue*->{authorized}->[0

[Koha] [KOHA] Zebra index DOM problem

2012-07-31 Thread kamild
Dear All, When update koha to 3.8.3 where zebra using DOM doesn't index biblios and authorities, but in previous version Koha everything is fine. Do I have to manually configure anything else? Regards, Michal -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/KOHA-Zebra-inde

Re: [Koha] Searching by Barcode

2012-07-31 Thread Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
Bharat, > When I try to search any multiple copy items with the same record but it > reflects all copies items along with required copy; means I do not need > other irrelevant copies of same record for catalogue. > > perhaps I misunderstood you, but normally you will have 1 (one) record with man

Re: [Koha] Searching by Barcode

2012-07-31 Thread Bharat Chaudhari
Dear Keri, Thanks for giving a prompt reply. But your answer is not enough to resolve what my issue is. My problem is: When I try to search any multiple copy items with the same record but it reflects all copies items along with required copy; means I do not need other irrelevant copies of same

Re: [Koha] Searching by Barcode

2012-07-31 Thread Kari Blomster
Does anybody shed the ligh on this. bz its very important. Fwdind from the other thread: "To search exact barcode like 1, you can use asterisk before and after the barcode what you want to search. eg. *1* or *100* like. It is giving exact search results in opac and intranet. Regards, Venkat" Ho

Re: [Koha] Quick question

2012-07-31 Thread Chris Cormack
Hi Clint, Been there ranted already. http://findingheroes.co.nz/2012/03/30/open-source-ils-much-bigger-than-you-think/ Hope this helps. Chris "clint.deckard" wrote: Kia ora, I am advocating for Koha and wish to point out that 'free' doesn't mean 'low quality' or 'cut down', could someone pl