IRC log for #koha, 2024-02-11

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Time	Nick	Message
06:53	tuxayo	Southpaw1496: https://koha-community.org/man[…]a-patron-category
06:55	tuxayo	IIUC, either you decide the duration of validity of a patron registration. Might be more used by a public library having new patrons all over the year
06:56	tuxayo	Or set a date at which all the patron of that category expire. A school/university library might make all the student cards expire a bit after the next end of school year. No matter when they enrolled
06:58	tuxayo	And there is no expiration in you library just put a very high number of months in the period.
06:59	tuxayo	I think all that is for when you don't fill the expiry date when creating a patron account.
07:00	tuxayo	I not sure what are the best practices of the cases I mentioned. That's just how I understand the documentation and interface.
07:02	tuxayo	A good first contribution if you can could be to elaborate a bit more the installer's text :) Since when installing, you don't have the rest of Koha's interface of course to see how stuff looks. And can't as easily jump to the documentation.
07:02	tuxayo	Feel free to as for guidance if you are interested ^^
08:19	Southpaw1496[m]	Here is a screenshot of the screen I'm seeing. [The documentation I found](https://koha-community.org/man[…]a-patron-category) says that "Enrollment period (in months) should be filled in if you have a limited enrollment period for your patrons (eg. Student cards expire after 9 months), otherwise, you can choose a date when the cards will expire (until date)".
08:19	Southpaw1496[m]	That implies that it is optional, which would make sense to me, but for some reason it is a mandatory field.
08:19	* Southpaw1496[m]	uploaded an image: (408KiB) < https://matrix.org/_matrix/med[…]44%E2%80%AFam.png >
09:43	Southpaw1496[m]	I have another question: I see there are lots of ways to import existing catalogues into Koha, but what about creating a new one of
09:48	Southpaw1496[m]	* new one with a lot of, * of books? Adding them one by one seems tedious if you have hundreds of books to do. Is there perhaps a way to input a list of ISBNs into the "New from Z39.50/SRU" flow?
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12:14	ashimema	People tend to use specialised tools outside of Koha to start that.
12:15	ashimema	Like marcedit.. from memory that'll take a list of isbns and z3959 targets and build a Marc file for you which you can then import in bulk
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