[Koha] How to configure sending email

2014-03-13 Thread magmatic
How can I configure Koha to send emails to patrons? Specifically, I want to specify which emails (checkout, overdue, etc) get sent. And if a patron doesn't want to receive emails, I want to, as the librarian, disable sending of email to that person. Thanks. -- Tim -- View this message in

Re: [Koha] How to configure sending email

2014-03-13 Thread magmatic
To answer my own question, the answer is to turn on the global setting EnhancedMessagingPreferences. -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/How-to-configure-sending-email-tp5791059p5791070.html Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

[Koha] Item search without searching for bib record id

2014-02-05 Thread magmatic
When we search for items, we often search for the bar code, but then some books show up that get matched on the biblio record, which is confusing. Is there a setting somewhere that we can set so that searches don't match on bib record number? Thanks -- Tim -- View this message in context:

[Koha] superlibrarian can't edit item types

2014-01-09 Thread magmatic
I went to change the image of an item type. When I selected a different image on the Modify item type page, and clicked Save changes, it takes me back to the Item types administration page, with no messages or error messages. But the images didn't change at all. I tried changing a description

Re: [Koha] superlibrarian can't edit item types

2014-01-09 Thread magmatic
/var/log/koha/library/intranet-error.log tells me: [Thu Jan 09 12:26:32 2014] [error] [client 192.168.10.120] [Thu Jan 9 12:26:32 2014] itemtypes.pl: DBD::mysql::st execute failed: called with 6 bind variables when 8 are needed at /usr/share/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/admin/itemtypes.pl line 151.,

Re: [Koha] re-importing books, duplicate barcodes

2014-01-09 Thread magmatic
Thanks for the link, Fabio. I tried making a barcode matching rule, but it doesn't seem to work, because when I tried staging Marc records for import, I got this: 5068 records in file 0 records not staged because of MARC error 5068 records staged 0 records with at least one match in catalog per

[Koha] re-importing books, duplicate barcodes

2014-01-08 Thread magmatic
I have imported a large pile of books already. Now I'm going to import another pile, except that there are lots of duplicate books. All books have barcodes in the marc file, so I want to test for duplicity on that field. If there is a duplicate, I want to update the existing book with new

[Koha] How to print checked out items and news from the quick slip

2013-12-12 Thread magmatic
I like that you can print news items and checked out items from the Print Slip feature. But I would like to print these things with a Quick Slip, the thing that gets printed when you just press Enter. I tried copying over the message body in Tools - Notices Slips, but it doesn't seem to work.

Re: [Koha] Importing books creates multiple items

2013-11-20 Thread magmatic
I think I've found the solution. In MarcEdit, when converting from csv to .mrk, I click Auto Generate because my headings are the fields. Then you can select all the 952 fields in that box on the right. Then right-click on them and select Join Items. I think that does it. -- Tim -- View

[Koha] Importing books creates multiple items

2013-11-18 Thread magmatic
I'm importing a csv file of books into Koha, using MarcEdit. The fields are: author, title, publisher, year, item type, barcode, and shelf location. It looks like I'm getting two items for every line in the file. One item contains the correct barcode, and the other item contains the correct

[Koha] Advice for manipulating the patron database with code

2013-10-30 Thread magmatic
We have a separate database of users that we want to sync (one way) with Koha. Since I have experience working with databases, I plan to add a column to the Koha MySQL patron table that I will use as a reference to the record in the other database. Then everyday I'm going to run a cron job that

Re: [Koha] Importing books from a csv file, including bar codes

2013-10-29 Thread magmatic
Thanks for the tip that 952$p is the barcode. But how can I edit this field in Koha once the book is in the system? This is what I did: - I went to the demo at http://intranet.bywatersolutions.com/cgi-bin/koha/mainpage.pl (username: bywater password: bywater) - I click Checkin - I enter the

[Koha] Importing books from a csv file, including bar codes

2013-10-24 Thread magmatic
I'm trying to import books into Koha. We have a few thousand books with bar code stickers stuck onto them and we don't want to change them. If I got a csv file with the authors, titles, and bar codes, how can I import this? I looked around at how to set the bar code of a book in Koha, but I