Re: [Koha] Koha: staff client searching by card number

2011-04-07 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Galen Charlton wrote: > Hi, > > On Apr 6, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Owen Leonard wrote: > > Are you talking about circulation? If by "swiping" you mean > > "scanning," then of course that should work. That's what we do every > > day. In circulation I don't find that enteri

Re: [Koha] Koha: staff client searching by card number

2011-04-06 Thread Saumendra Swain
ay, April 07, 2011 2:01 AM Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha: staff client searching by card number +1 I think the radio button would be a great idea. For us the "search patrons" by cardnumber is problematic unless the number is really high. I found in my testing, that even with names it

Re: [Koha] Koha: staff client searching by card number

2011-04-06 Thread Bob Ewart
On 04/06/2011 09:44 PM, Chris Nighswonger wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Galen Charlton > wrote: > > Hi, > > On Apr 6, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Chris Nighswonger wrote: > > Perhaps a simple radio button setup with "exact" and "like" > options in the

Re: [Koha] Koha: staff client searching by card number

2011-04-06 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Galen Charlton wrote: > Hi, > > On Apr 6, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Chris Nighswonger wrote: > > Perhaps a simple radio button setup with "exact" and "like" options in > the patron search interface would allow both types of searches without the > inconvenience of having t

Re: [Koha] Koha: staff client searching by card number

2011-04-06 Thread Linda Culberson
+1 I think the radio button would be a great idea. For us the "search patrons" by cardnumber is problematic unless the number is really high. I found in my testing, that even with names it would be extremely helpful to have the ability to specify exact. From my very selfish perspective,

Re: [Koha] Koha: staff client searching by card number

2011-04-06 Thread Galen Charlton
Hi, On Apr 6, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Chris Nighswonger wrote: > Perhaps a simple radio button setup with "exact" and "like" options in the > patron search interface would allow both types of searches without the > inconvenience of having to select one *or* the other via a syspref. Indeed. B

Re: [Koha] Koha: staff client searching by card number

2011-04-06 Thread Galen Charlton
Hi, On Apr 6, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Owen Leonard wrote: > Are you talking about circulation? If by "swiping" you mean > "scanning," then of course that should work. That's what we do every > day. In circulation I don't find that entering "643" pulls up "1643" > at all. Two different searches are bein

Re: [Koha] Koha: staff client searching by card number

2011-04-06 Thread Owen Leonard
> So basically, for us, searching by cardnumber doesn't really seem to > work, and so our checkout procedure will have to be reworked. We had > been swiping the patron's card and then the item's barcode.  This won't > work in Koha, apparently. Are you talking about circulation? If by "swiping" you

Re: [Koha] Koha: staff client searching by card number

2011-04-06 Thread Linda Culberson
ilto:koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Linda Culberson >> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 5:18 PM >> To: koha >> Subject: [Koha] Koha: staff client searching by card number >> >> Everyone, >> Another newbie question: Is there a way in the staff client to

Re: [Koha] Koha: staff client searching by card number

2011-04-06 Thread Tim McMahon
l Message- > From: koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz > [mailto:koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Linda Culberson > Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 5:18 PM > To: koha > Subject: [Koha] Koha: staff client searching by card number > > Everyone, > Another newbie question: Is t

Re: [Koha] Koha: staff client searching by card number

2011-04-06 Thread Linda Culberson
> From: koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz [koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz] On > Behalf Of Linda Culberson [lcul...@mdah.state.ms.us] > Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 2:18 PM > To: koha > Subject: [Koha] Koha: staff client searching by card number > > Everyone, >

Re: [Koha] Koha: staff client searching by card number

2011-04-06 Thread Hal Bright
searching by card number Everyone, Another newbie question: Is there a way in the staff client to search by the exact card number? It seems to be using wild cards before and after. For example, a search for "643" pulls up 1643", "36431" and everything else that conta

Re: [Koha] Koha: staff client searching by card number

2011-04-06 Thread James Ghiorzi
searching by card number Everyone, Another newbie question: Is there a way in the staff client to search by the exact card number? It seems to be using wild cards before and after. For example, a search for "643" pulls up 1643", "36431" and everything else that contains &

[Koha] Koha: staff client searching by card number

2011-04-05 Thread Linda Culberson
Everyone, Another newbie question: Is there a way in the staff client to search by the exact card number? It seems to be using wild cards before and after. For example, a search for "643" pulls up 1643", "36431" and everything else that contains "643" with 643 in the list. We want it to pul