[Koha-devel] Re: enquiry

[Rachel Hamilton-Williams]

Hi

I'm really not the best person to answer these questions but I'll do my best - 
and if you take a look at the manual for 1.2 then you should find a fair bit of 
information  there.  Basically the big change in 2.0 is that MARC has been 
added - all the other bits of Koha should be about the same.


> madam,
>        we are not clear with all entries in system parameters such as
> fine type(in user category)etc....

Do you wish to use fines?

I am not sure that there is a proper setup page for fines, although there is a 
fine table, and koha does know about fines.

When you set up a new sort of user, you can say if they get fines or not - but 
looking at the administration options I think you might need to set your types 
of fines manually.

Fines for HLT are a calculation based on 

borrower type x book type x length of time overdue

I'm pretty sure that there isn't a simple way to setup fines, but I'm ccing 
this to the developer list in case I'm wrong.

> we also wanted to know if the s/w provide an automatic fine calculation
> mechanism rather than doing it manually.

Yes - if the correct variables are entered into the fine table.  FOR EXAMPLE

Borrower type = child
Fine value = $1
Interval = 7 days

So they would get charged a fine of $1 for each 7 day period that they have a 
book overdue - so after 14 days they would have a fine of $2

OR if you charge a daily rate
Borrower type = child
Fine value = $.10
Interval = 1 days

So after 14 days the fine would be $1.40

> and how do you change the password settings for the administrator
> interface(using httpd authentication)???

Yes I think so 

> could you help????Hope you don't mind us frequently asking questions...

I'm not the best person to answer some of these questions - I'm not a technical 
person - but they are good questions.

If you join the koha developers mailing list then you get access to the people 
who *really* know how it works 

Cheers
Rachel



> sincerely
> seema.s
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 02:02, Rachel Hamilton-Williams wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > > 
> > > sir,
> > >     i had installed koha2.0rc3,but then i couldn't get the manual of the
> > > same.So wanted to know if there's a manual for the version released.
> > 
> > I don't think there is a specific manual for each release candidate - and I'm
> > sorry I don't know where the general 2.0 manual is at either - presumably
> > waiting until there is a final version.
> > 
> > IF you have a specific question then feel free to ask on the koha list, or
> > you're welcome to join the developers list, or if you'd like to talk to "real
> > people" then we have an IRC channel - irc.katipo.co.nz:6667 #koha
> > 
> > Hope one of those helps
> > 
> > cheers
> > Rachel
> > _____________________________________________________________
> > 
> > Rachel Hamilton-Williams             Katipo Communications            
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> > mailto:rachel at katipo.co.nz           PO Box 12487, Wellington
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> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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Rachel Hamilton-Williams             Katipo Communications            
WEBMISTRESS                          ph  021 389 128 or +64 04 934 1285 
mailto:rachel at katipo.co.nz           PO Box 12487, Wellington
http://www.katipo.co.nz              New Zealand
Koha Open Source Library System
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