[Koha] Searching in Arabic

2015-11-10 Thread Jesse Lambertson
Good morning everyone (if it is morning when you are...) A while back, we figured out how to search and retrieve results in Arabic (much of our collection is in this language). I thank everyone who helped us get this done. But we have been searching "keyword" in Arabic for so long, we just reali

[Koha] "patron does not exist" error when adding new patron

2015-11-10 Thread wildness
Hey All, I inherited a system today for a library that's having a using adding new members. I'm assuming this is a database issue or configuration issue, but i'm not sure how to trouble shoot this. The issue: Via the web interface: When I go to patrons->add a new patron fill out the required

Re: [Koha] "patron does not exist" error when adding new patron

2015-11-10 Thread wildness
Additionally, I looked at the error logs and found a foreign key message from mysql: "Cannot add or update a child row: a foriegn key constraint fails" In the upper right hand corner it states that the library is not set. I can provide more info, screenshots etc, thanks! -- View this messa

[Koha] Check out more DVDs for "good behavior"

2015-11-10 Thread Christopher Davis
Dear Colleagues, Is there a way in which Koha can *automatically* increase the number of DVDs a patron is allowed to check out on their account based on their "good behavior" (e.g., their account carries no late fees, no lost item fees, no overdue items, etc.)? I know that Koha currently has a cr

Re: [Koha] "patron does not exist" error when adding new patron

2015-11-10 Thread Pedro Amorim
Hello wildness, Do you mind telling us what MySQL version you're using? 2015-11-07 1:27 GMT-01:00 wildness : > Additionally, I looked at the error logs and found a foreign key message > from > mysql: > "Cannot add or update a child row: a foriegn key constraint fails" > In the upper right h

Re: [Koha] Total number of Entries in Catalog

2015-11-10 Thread Katrin Fischer
Hi Balaji, one way to find out how many records are in your database is to add a new SQL report using something like: select count(*) from biblio That will give you the number of entries in your biblio table - so the number of bibliographic records in the database. Hope this helps, Katrin Am

Re: [Koha] export from 3.01 --> import to 3.20

2015-11-10 Thread Katrin Fischer
Hi Scott, hm, your item information does look alright to me. Did you make sure that the branchcode is exactly PINE in your new installation? I think that could be a possible reason for why your items haven't been added correctly. Hope this helps, Katrin Am 05.11.2015 um 16:09 schrieb Scott Owen

Re: [Koha] Searching in Arabic

2015-11-10 Thread David Cook
Hi Jesse: Can you elaborate on what you mean when you say that you're not getting any Arabic results for *title*, *author* or *series*? I look after a library with English, French, and Arabic records, and I'm seeing search results when I do title searches in Arabic. Are the records catalogue

Re: [Koha] "patron does not exist" error when adding new patron

2015-11-10 Thread Robin Sheat
wildness schreef op vr 06-11-2015 om 19:27 [-0700]: > In the upper right hand corner it states that the library is not set. Are you logging on with the database username and password? If so, you should avoid doing that. In newer Koha versions it will give you a big warning about it. Instead, use

Re: [Koha] Total number of Entries in Catalog

2015-11-10 Thread Balaji Ravichandran
Thank you...Will try it... On 11 November 2015 at 03:20, Katrin Fischer wrote: > Hi Balaji, > > one way to find out how many records are in your database is to add a > new SQL report using something like: > > select count(*) from biblio > > That will give you the number of entries in your biblio