Forwarding to the list with Johns permission ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Brice <jbrice@ccfls.org> Date: 9 April 2011 01:11 Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Generating transactions To: Chris Cormack <chris@bigballofwax.co.nz> On 04/07/2011 04:56 PM, Chris Cormack wrote:

On 8 April 2011 01:17, Anne-Lena Westrum <anne-lena.westrum@kul.oslo.kommune.no>  wrote:

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Dearest Koha developers!

We have recently started a process of testing and evaluating Koha in the perspective of a fairly large public library, with a number of different branches and departments. This has proven to be a fairly timeconsuming task, as we - amongst other things - need to test all the modules and compare it to the functionality of our current ILS :)

After importing our records (Normarc), we need to do a demo of the different modules. Thus we are in desperate need of a script to generate users (approx 500.000) and transactions (3-4 millions) over a period of time (4-5 years).

We have had no luck searching for a script like this. Can someone help point us in the right direction?

Hi Anne-Lenna

Magnus our NORMARC export (he wrote all the NORMARC support for Koha and is from Norway also) is currently trying to sleep of a cold in Marseille. He has been there for the week with Koha developers from all around Europe working on a code sprint leading up to the release of Koha 3.4.0 on April 22 (which will have native NORMARC support).

I am sure he will answer when he wakes up :) As far as I know such a script does not exist. I would offer to write one, as it sounds like fun, but I am in the middle of release management work. I am sure however that one of the other developers could do this.

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Hi Anne-Lenna: Years ago we tried to write such a script but it was much more complicated than we expected.  For proof of concepts and demo purposes why not just load, from your current ILS, your transaction data into Koha?  You will have to learn how to do this anyway so why not work out the transaction transfer now. John Brice Executive Director Meadville Public Library