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[Koha-bugs] [Bug 604] New: problems with completely new installation of Koha 2 |
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11 Sep 2003 16:33:24 -0000 |
http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=604
Summary: problems with completely new installation of Koha 2
Product: Koha
Version: 1.2.0
Platform: PC
OS/Version: Linux - Redhat
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: Installation
AssignedTo: address@hidden
ReportedBy: address@hidden
QAContact: address@hidden
I am an English barrister, not a librarian. I am a reasonable good amateur Perl
programmer. I want to use Koha for a small professional library - say 15K
pounds a year new/renewals. I have had a lot of problems installing. Can I
suggest you try installing from scratch with *no* available data and no MARC
etc and see what happens if you try to enter existing books, ie not new
purchases, manually? I found it extremely difficult. "Preferences" seems to be
case sensitive but accepts words in any case (and sometimes eg "Yes" where "1"
is the correct answer). So it took me a long time to get to simple biblio. At
first I tried entering one book in the basket for a publisher. I found it
impossible to enter the price. If I entered it under list price as 50 and then
clicked on >> the entry showed the price as 0.00. So I tried again and found I
had 2 entries for the same book at 0.00. So I deleted one and tried amending
the other. This time the budget price etc changed to 100 -- and I could not
persuade it to change. (ie type 50, go to next field and the 1st field is back
to 100.) Eventually I gave up. I have auto-generate-barcode set. But I can find
no trace anywhere of what the bar code has been set to (for either copy of the
same book which is now in the biblio). So I cannnot try circulating it. Surely
circulation should permit entering the title rather than the barcode (wherever
it is)? (Since this is for an internal library I want users to be able to
issue/reissue themselves: this has been discussed over the last few days on
address@hidden, eg:
>I think this comes down to an integrity issue within the organisation
>you are working for. I am hoping to have a new LMS soon and it will give
>me the option of doing exactly what you suggest. An OPAC so that a fee
>earner can see who an item is located to, this would enable them to
>contact that person ( it could be the person in the next office!). Issue
>and return facilities are also available at their desk tops which would
>enable both parties to reissue the item to the new person. This as far
>as I can see would save a lot of time and frustration. It does however,
>rely on a high level of trust and goodwill from all the people
>concerned.
-- no-one is likely to intend to cheat the system.)
Logging in after adding a few users under the opac caused problems since I had
not set any passwords: I do not think that I was asked to do so. So I had to
change the default to no authorisation. If I then searched for a book, eg
"long", a screen comes up with the two identical entries for a book by Longrigg
& Higgins, (c) 2003, "item count": 0, "location": blank. If I click on
"request", which is the only thing I can do, I get koha/opac-reserve.pl?bib=3
which asks something about "which item types are OK for you?" Neither I nor my
imaginary user knows what this means - there are none listed - I leave it
blank, and get the error message "you must select at least one item type". If I
try various other options (eg check request) I end up with opac-user.pl
displaying "you have no items on issue". Surely if "item" is essential, there
should be a default?
Summary: For a first time user with no existing electronic data Koha 2 is
unusable ...
Roger Horne
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