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TimeFormat System Preference & Koha
Oh the Humanity! (Please don’t change the TimeFormat system preference in Koha) Background The system preference ‘TimeFormat’ was added to Koha in version 3.14. This had a side effect of changing the...
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Hiding the checkin column in Koha circulation
Today’s guest post is from John Andrews at the Washoe Library System. In previous version of Koha, we used the script from the Koha wiki to remove the “return” column to the right of the “Renew” column...
View ArticleReporting Software Errors in Koha to ByWater
Software errors in Koha must be handled slightly differently than other trouble tickets submitted to support… in some ways, the errors are easier to deal with, because they typically give a pointer to...
View ArticlePreparing Records for Koha Import
Hello everyone! I’d like to talk to you about a topic I tend to see a lot in the tickets I work on: preparing records for import. Many of our partners receive records from e-book vendors or other...
View ArticleUsing variables in Koha Reports
Today’s guest post comes from Christopher Brannon at Cooperative Information Network (CIN). Christopher asked us if there was a way to not have enter the date 2 times in a report like this one: SELECT...
View ArticleThe Magic of URL
In the spirit of Halloween, this will be a terrifying blog post with a treat at the end. The tame part Allow me to invite you into an eldrich realm of wizardry and arcana. A place where some of...
View ArticleClearing your brower’s cache after a Koha upgrade
You may have heard us say to clear your browser’s cache after each Koha upgrade or we may have asked you to clear the cache to resolve a Koha error and wondered why? Why do we always tell you to do...
View ArticleHow to Clear Your Brower’s Cache After Koha Upgrade
Yesterday Melissa told us why it’s important to clear your browser cache after a Koha upgrade. Today Aaron Sakovich, Internet and Technology Services manager at the Huntsville-Madison County Public...
View ArticleManipulating the Koha patron checkouts table
In Koha 3.16.03, the checkouts table was changed from a table where the data was loaded before displaying the checkout screen to an Ajax DataTable where the checkouts are loaded *after* the circulation...
View ArticleLosing Weight in Koha
The holidays are approaching, and it’s time to think about losing some weight. I’m talking about Koha, and specifically your Koha database. I’m going to talk briefly about why it’s important to keep...
View ArticleKoha 3.16 Checkout Performance Recently updated !
Today’s tutorial video is brought to us by Aaron Sakovich, Internet and Technology Services Manager at Huntsville-Madison County Public Library. Aaron shows us how the 3.16 checkout module is much more...
View ArticleCheckout in Koha 3.16
We posted a short while ago about how speedy the new checkout is in Koha 3.16 but there were still some questions about how the procedure of checking out has changed so I put together this handy video...
View ArticleTo hear the beeps or not?
As most if not all of you are aware Koha has a variety of sounds that are activated by different functions within Koha. There are chimes for holds and a pretty standard beep for checking out. Now with...
View ArticleUsing MarcEdit to Batch Modify Bib Records in Koha
Nick Clemens from the Quechee & Wilder Libraries (members of VOKAL) shared a great video with us on how he uses the MarcEdit Koha plugin to perform batch bibliographic record modifications and gave...
View ArticleRemove Parenthesis from Koha URLs with JQuery
Today’s guest post comes from Christopher Brannon at Cooperative Information Network (CIN). We were running into issues in which Koha’s subject links with parenthesis would have no results. Removing...
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Move Overdues to Top of Checkout Table
Today’s guest post is from George Williams at VALNet: I just posted some jQuery to the Koha wiki that moves overdue items to the top of the table when you’re checking things out to patrons and thought...
View ArticleWhy Koha needs the OPACBaseURL
I had an odd ticket cross my desk today. Once I had determined the cause of the problem, I was frankly surprised I had not seen this issue before. But still, it’s odd enough, and easy enough to fix,...
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How to prevent thrashing
Recently we had a library that was consistently thrashing (processes stacking up. i.e. opac-search, ysearch, opac-detail) at one point in the day, multiple days in a row. After a conference call with...
View ArticleUpdating Lost Statuses in Koha
There’s always something new to learn about Koha, and this week I learned about updating lost statuses. Depending on the way you edit an item to reflect a lost status, the item will/won’t be removed...
View ArticleHow Koha 3.18 Handles Lost Statuses
Back with the release of 3.12 I wrote this guide but there are new preferences now that mean I should update the process. One of the most common questions we still get about Koha is how lost statuses...
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