Re: [Koha] Import holds?

2017-08-15 Thread Ian Bays
Just to add a +1 to your idea of doing it manually if you don't have many. Not only do you need to construct the holds but get them in the right order and handle copies that have been chosen to satisfy a hold but not picked up. On 15/08/2017 13:55, Mark Alexander wrote: Excerpts from Katrin F

Re: [Koha] Import holds?

2017-08-15 Thread Katrin Fischer
If you don't have a lot of holds reentering might be the best solution. Hope your migration goes well! Katrin On 15.08.2017 14:55, Mark Alexander wrote: Excerpts from Katrin Fischer's message of 2017-08-15 12:47:45 +0200: holds information is stored differently in every ILS and at the moment

Re: [Koha] Import holds?

2017-08-15 Thread Mark Alexander
Excerpts from Katrin Fischer's message of 2017-08-15 12:47:45 +0200: > holds information is stored differently in every ILS and at the moment > there exists no generic tool to import holds into Koha. For a migration > you could try to map the data you get out of Mandarin to the columns in > Koha

Re: [Koha] Import holds?

2017-08-15 Thread Katrin Fischer
Hi Mark, holds information is stored differently in every ILS and at the moment there exists no generic tool to import holds into Koha. For a migration you could try to map the data you get out of Mandarin to the columns in Koha's reserves table and then use a script or SQL to fill it. It can

[Koha] Import holds?

2017-08-11 Thread Mark Alexander
Our little (24K items) library has successfully moved from Mandarin to Koha as of Tuesday. I was able to import the catalog, patrons, and checkouts (issues) from Mandarin by writing scripts to convert Mandarin-generated data to Koha-compatible data. The one missing thing is holds (reserves). I'm