[Koha] A Problem

2011-06-23 Thread Haik Zargaryan
Dear Koha community I have recently started to examine Koha and immediatelly face a couple of problems.   Firstly, I try to place a hold on an item the Koha prevents me of ding it and displays a message, namely Cannot Place Hold Too Many Holds: Haik Zargarian has too many holds. No copies a

[Koha] Issues with Serials

2012-06-01 Thread Haik Zargaryan
Dear community, We are currently testing 3.06.04 to automate our library. Everything is still all right with one exception. Our catalog contains a large number of serial publications. The problem is that we are not sure how its MARC record should look like. With book everything is clear; you ha

[Koha] (no subject)

2012-06-04 Thread Haik Zargaryan
Dear community, I am writing you again for an advice regarding our serials catalog. One of our problems is to generate items for periodicals issues which themselves are holdings. Ian in his response to my first mail mentioned that issues have an option to generate items for themselves at the Su

[Koha] Item generation for Serial issues

2012-06-07 Thread Haik Zargaryan
Dear friends I am writing you again for an advice regarding our serials catalog. One of our problems is to generate items for periodicals issues which are holdings themselves. Ian in his response to my first mail mentioned that issues have an option to generate items for themselves at the Su

[Koha] problems with browsing

2012-06-14 Thread Haik Zargaryan
Dear friends, We have upgraded to koha 3.8 and are currently testing it. Till now everything has worked fine with one exception. When we import a MARC record in Armenian language and search for it, the record is normally retrieved. But when we try  to browse by author/subject/etc by clicking

[Koha] problem with fonts

2012-06-21 Thread Haik Zargaryan
Dear friends, I am writing you again due to our problems with fonts in koha 3.8. When we search for a book in the OPAC the search engine retrieves the record.  http://93.187.162.200/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=4 However, when we try to browse the catalog using the author's name as

[Koha] language change

2012-08-27 Thread Haik Zargaryan
Dear community, We have finished the translation of koha 3.8 into Armenian language so that the progress is marked as "Completed". We follow the instructions above to activate the new interfaces; http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_of_additional_languages_for_OPAC_and_INTRANET_staf

[Koha] (no subject)

2012-10-01 Thread Haik Zargaryan
Dear community, I want to use the *534* (Original Version Note) field in the Default MARC framework. Obviously, the framework already includes it, so I do not need to add it. But the problem is that when I am creating a new record the *534* field is not visible. Maybe I should somehow activate

[Koha] Changing the default tab in results page

2012-10-19 Thread Haik Zargaryan
Dear friends, When we search for a record in OPAC, koha by default displays the *Holdings* tab. Can I modify things in a way that instead of Holdings *Title notes* tab is displayed by default. I looked in "Global System Preferences" but was unable to find something. Any ideas? Thank you in adv

[Koha] (no subject)

2012-11-05 Thread Haik Zargaryan
Dear community, When I delete a record it is still shown in the catalog, although when I try to open it koha responses  that "The record you requested does not exist". How can simply eliminate the deleted record from the catalog (both OPAC and Intranet)?  Thanks in advance,  Haik. _

[Koha] authority export

2012-11-15 Thread Haik Zargaryan
Dear friends, I am trying to export authority records from our catalog. I have surfed the web but have not found any clear solution to this problem. Any suggestions? Regards, Haik. ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.

[Koha] patrons' export

2012-11-19 Thread Haik Zargaryan
Dear friends, We want to export our patron database, but there is obviously no standard tool for that function.  Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Haik. ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.

[Koha] language installation

2012-11-25 Thread Haik Zargaryan
Dear friends, We are installing the latest version of koha 3.8. We want to install language packs for Armenian language (translation is ready), so we are interested whether we should do any modification during the software installation process or all changes should be done afterwards - accordin

[Koha] (no subject)

2012-11-25 Thread Haik Zargaryan
Dear friends, We have installed the latest version of koha 3.8 and added packs for Armenian language. For the staff interface everything works well, but when we activate language for the OPAC, a strange error occurs. Below you can see the error text. -- Software error:

[Koha] linking authorities to biblios

2012-11-27 Thread Haik Zargaryan
Dear friends, We are using the latest koha 3.8. After the successful installation we have imported both our catalog and authority records from the old ILS. Initially, authorities were not linked to the biblio records, but when we run link_bibs_to_authorities.pl, this problem was solved. So, in

[Koha] (no subject)

2012-12-23 Thread Haik Zargaryan
Dear friends, We want to attach several URLs to the MARC record. Since the 856 $u field is repeatable, we have decided to clone the subfield several times. Yet, when we search for the record in the OPAC, only the first link is displayed in the results' page, meanwhile the other ones are not vis

[Koha] cloning 856 $u

2012-12-23 Thread Haik Zargaryan
Dear friends, We want to attach several URLs to the MARC record. Since the 856 $u field is repeatable, we have decided to clone the subfield several times. Yet, when we search for the record in the OPAC, only the first link is displayed in the results' page, meanwhile the other ones are not vis

[Koha] Problems with reseting the catalogue

2013-01-16 Thread Haik Zargaryan
Dear friends, we want to reset our catalogue, so we use ./bulkmarcimport.pl -d script to achieve this. Yet, there is a problem with MySQL database. The tables are constrained with some other tables. Interestingly, there are no hold orders on the records, so there is no reasons why the items shou

[Koha] problems with the patron card creation (non-latin characters)

2013-01-23 Thread Haik Zargaryan
Dear friends, I am trying to create cards for our patrons. Yet, when I export the batch instead of the 'names' and 'surnames' some strange characters are retrieved.  For example, Name: Ô±Õ¢Ö€Õ¡Õ°Õ¡Õ´ÕμÕ¡Õ¶ Ô¶Õ¾Õ¡Ö€Õ© ÕŽÕ¡Õ¦Õ£Õ¥Õ¶Õ« Maybe this is because the language is Armenian (a non

[Koha] problems with the holdings and mysql database

2013-01-26 Thread Haik Zargaryan
- Forwarded Message - From: Haik Zargaryan To: "hayk_zargar...@flib.sci.am" Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 10:55 PM Subject: Fw: problems with the holdings and mysql database - Forwarded Message ----- From: Haik Zargaryan To: "h...@flib.sci.am" Sen

[Koha] unrecognized Armenian and Russian letters

2013-02-03 Thread Haik Zargaryan
Dear friends, You may know, that when we search for a record in the OPAC, in the Results page  koha offers us some additional authors to refine our search. Here we have a bug for the names written in Armenian and Russian letters.  When I click on the author name new page is opened but no result

[Koha] linking authorities to biblios

2013-02-03 Thread Haik Zargaryan
Dear friends, We have recently upgraded to koha 3.10. After importing our catalog and authority records we have used link_bibs_to_authorities.pl script to link them. During the process I was frequently (once per 1000 record) seeing this error on the console. - Auth error: Query term include

Re: [Koha] linking authorities to biblios

2013-02-05 Thread Haik Zargaryan
e Landan J. From: Elaine Bradtke To: Haik Zargaryan Cc: "koha@lists.katipo.co.nz" Sent: Monday, February 4, 2013 10:46 PM Subject: Re: [Koha] linking authorities to biblios On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Haik Zargaryan wrote: Dear friends,

Re: [Koha] unrecognized Armenian and Russian letters

2013-02-05 Thread Haik Zargaryan
. From: Indranil Das Gupta To: Haik Zargaryan Cc: "koha@lists.katipo.co.nz" Sent: Monday, February 4, 2013 11:29 AM Subject: Re: [Koha] unrecognized Armenian and Russian letters Hi, On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Haik Zargaryan wrote: When I cl

[Koha] linking local book covers to external content

2013-12-05 Thread Haik Zargaryan
Dear community, We are uploading our book covers and we would like to link those bibliographic records to some external pages.  So, the user searches and finds the book in the catalog, opens the record, clicks on the cover image and an external link is opened (e-book of the record).  Any ideas

[Koha] local and Amazon cover images

2014-01-25 Thread Haik Zargaryan
Dear list, We have enables both local and Amazon cover images for our OPAC. Once koha finds an Amazon cover image for the given book, it displays both local and Amazon covers.  However, we want koha to a single cover images, preferably the local one.  Is there any way to handle this issue? Tha

[Koha] Linking the bibliographic record to Wikipedia

2014-02-08 Thread Haik Zargaryan
Dear list, I know that koha has a feature to link the biblio record to the authority record by creating a "magnifying glass" icon near the author name.  Once you click the icon, which is actually a link, the authority record is opened. Furthermore, you can link the authority record to Wikipedia

[Koha] problems with layout when changing the language

2014-02-15 Thread Haik Zargaryan
Dear list, We have translated koha into Armenian and installed it on our system.  However, when we are switching from English to Armenian, in the staff section strange layouts are used instead o the default ones.  For example, when I go to Home ›  Cataloging › Add MARC record, and change the lan

[Koha] sorting issues in Armenian catalogue

2014-07-29 Thread Haik Zargaryan
Dear List, We are using koha 3.14.  Our catalog mainly consists of Armenian language records.  When I search in the Armenian language records using a keyword and then sort the records in Title A-Z order, the search results are not sorted alphabetically.  I have found discussion on this issue an

[Koha] koha sorting issues

2014-08-23 Thread Haik Zargaryan
Dear list, I have previously written to the list about our issues with sorting search results in our non-latin character catalog. I have been advised to modify the sort-string-utf.chr file but it did not work. Now i am trying to achieve this by converting the character set and collation of the