Re: [Koha] Making a field into a drop down menu

2020-10-05 Thread Katrin Fischer
Hi John, if the item type from the item or from the record is used is determined by the setting of the system preference item-level_itypes. Make sure the setting fits your setup. In a lot of libraries there might be branches using different item types (you can also think of them as loan types,

Re: [Koha] Making a field into a drop down menu

2020-10-05 Thread Katrin Fischer
Hi John, the configuration alone should be enough. Some things to check maybe: - if there are multiple frameworks installed, you will have to make the change for all of them. - if you have used SQL to change it, it might still cache the old value. A restart (Plack, Memcached) helps here. - Did

Re: [Koha] Making a field into a drop down menu

2020-10-05 Thread John Fawcett
thinking about this further the best solution might be to eliminate field 995 r from the items menu altogether. It is probably redundant in that 942 in the UNIMARC record already has this info. Not sure why an item would need to be different. John On 05/10/2020 16:49, John Fawcett wrote: > Hi

Re: [Koha] Making a field into a drop down menu

2020-10-05 Thread John Fawcett
Hi Caroline thanks for your answer. Yes I confirm that itemtypes is present in the table "authorized_value_categories". This value has is_system = 1. John On 05/10/2020 15:47, Caroline Cyr-La-Rose wrote: > Hi John, > > I looked in my db and noticed there was an entry "itemtypes" in the > table

Re: [Koha] Making a field into a drop down menu

2020-10-05 Thread Caroline Cyr-La-Rose
Hi John, I looked in my db and noticed there was an entry "itemtypes" in the table "authorised_value_categories". Do you also have this? I'm not sure how item types as authorised values are managed since it is not a real authorised value category. Caroline On 20-10-04 07 h 01, John

[Koha] Making a field into a drop down menu

2020-10-04 Thread John Fawcett
Hi first of all let me say I'm completely new to Koha and am taking a look at it potentially to use in a school library. So thanks to all the people that have contributed to making the software what it is today. It's been a bit of a learning curve. First off, I tried and abandoned the idea of