[Koha-devel] Re: how to automate adding of items.

[Alex King]

Thanks everyone who sent suggestions, there were some helpful 
suggestions which would have allowed me to automate the data entry.

In the end we decided to manually enter them, because there were so few 
records.

Cheers,

Alex

Paul POULAIN wrote:
> Alex King a écrit :
>>> Can anyone point me to any scripts I can start from or suggest 
>>> better ways to achieve what I'm trying to do?  My thinking is to 
>>> look at the cgi scripts and see what they are doing behind the 
>>> scenes and write non-interactive scripts that do the same thing.  My 
>>> guess is they probably call library routines in the "C4" directory, 
>>> and I could hook into the same library routines.
>
> All what you describe here is correct. And it's right, it's probably a 
> nightmare to automate this for 2000 records.
>
> Here comes my question : why can't you use 
> misc/migration_tools/bulkmarcimport.pl script that will copy the 
> records in the active DB. The library would just have to add manually 
> items hereafter if needed ?
> This is described on www.kohadocs.org >> migrating your datas to koha 2.2
>