On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:59 AM, MJ Ray <m...@phonecoop.coop> wrote: > Elaine Bradtke <e...@efdss.org> >> It appears the header row is case sensitive. Once I converted the all >> caps to lower case it went right in. Would have been nice to know. . > > I think I wrote the header row support, or at least I've worked on it > at some point. > > The header row will be because the underlying database is > case-sensitive, which they tend to be. It's always been all lower > case in the sample file offered for download, isn't it?
Yes, indeed it is. Mine started out lower case, but our database software changed it to all caps while I was batch editing the data (sigh). > If we made it case-insensitive (which might not be straightforward), I > fear there would still be people who would replace underscores and > dashes with spaces and so on - so maybe it's better if we simply add a > warning that the header column names must be exactly what's in the > sample? A simple statement somewhere obvious (or in the manual?) - "headers must be lower case" would do it. > > Thanks, > -- > MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. > http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. > In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html > Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/ > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Elaine Bradtke Data Wrangler VWML English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me personally, send an e-mail first. I work off site) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Company No. 297142 Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52) _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
