[Koha-devel] Questions from a small library ...

[Paul POULAIN]

Rachel Hamilton-Williams a écrit :

> Hi all,
>
> Some questions re enhancements from a small library, that I thought 
> might be worth sharing, to see if others have the same thougths - or 
> if it's just them....
>
> 1/. Auto Complete for Subjects
> So they are wondering wether they could start typing in a subject and 
> ones that match would come up in the list...

It's a HTML way of functionning problem. I think the project Owen 
pointed is nice. I've bookmarked it, i'll see what we can do with it later.

> 2/. Circulation - use titles as well as numbers?
> So for libraries that doen't really make a lot of use out of numbers 
> (ie don't have barcodes and barcode readers) could the input screen 
> that wants the barcode accept a title as well/instead?  Wouldn't work 
> on a bigger library where there is more than one copy of a book I 
> assume, but   would be useful for small ones possibly?

Same opinion as Stephen

> 3/. Does the new version have a location field for items - as well as 
> a branch?  I can't remember - I had a feeling it does (so location is 
> "shelf 5" or similar?)

Yes : in 2.2, the location is 3 levels : items.holdingbranch + 
items.location + items.itemcallnumber

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Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)