Re: [Koha] Capturing a "consent" field for new patrons

2018-03-06 Thread Barton Chittenden
Chris, I would suggest using extended patron attributes for this. Start by making sure the ExtendedPatronAttribute syspref is enabled -- see https://koha-community.org/manual/18.05/en/html/02_administration.html#extendedpatronattributes Then set up Patron Attribute Types in administration:

[Koha] Capturing a "consent" field for new patrons

2018-03-06 Thread Chris Brown
Gentle Reader, We need to capture an email "consent" field when we add new patrons to Koha. Currently my solution is to have staff type "yes" or "no" into the borrowernotes field but what I would really like is to have "yes" and "no" radio buttons, or failing that a drop-down with "yes" and "no"

[Koha] Strange search results for authority searches

2018-03-06 Thread Indranil Das Gupta
Hi, On a 17.11.03, I'm seeing something odd on the OPAC's authority search. *any* search string seems to retrieve the entire set of authority records in the db so far. The error reminds me of the typical problem of all data being fetched when someone searches for non Latin scripts without

[Koha] Upcoming koha-US Meetings

2018-03-06 Thread koha-US Secretary
Apologies for late notice. Any and all with interest in Koha are welcome to attend the following meetings of the koha-US user group: *Board Meeting -* When: Wednesday, March 7th at 10:30 CST (time converter

Re: [Koha] (no subject)

2018-03-06 Thread Owen Leonard
> I suddenly getting this message when importing records "Connection failed > to Z3950.LOC.GOV." It's possible that something changed with your organization's firewall. Do Z39.50 searches of other institutions fail? It's also just as likely that the Library of Congress' Z39.50 server was down

Re: [Koha] Adding search options to drop-down menu

2018-03-06 Thread King, Fred
Zebra. Elastic is on my things-to-learn list. Fred King Medical Librarian, MedStar Washington Hospital Center fred.k...@medstar.net 202-877-6670 ORCID -0001-5266-0279 MedStar Authors Catalog: http://medstarauthors.org Sometimes I wake up from a dream and then go