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Comment on How to Read the Holdings Table by admin

admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:16:45 +0000

Wanted to point out for those not on NExpress: the Location column (A) is different for our consortium due to local request to see Home Location instead of Holding location. By default, Koha shows the holding location in this column.

Viva la FOSS.

Comment on Monk coming by smoreland

smoreland — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:38:39 +0000

Nortonville will house the West Wing. The complete Battlestar Galactica is also on its way to Atchison.

Comment on Known Issue: Return All feature by admin

admin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:30:08 +0000

I added a bug report for this today:

http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3345

-Liz Rea

Comment on New OPAC Videos by Roger Hiles

Roger Hiles — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:28:46 +0000

Both are very well done! I’d say take 2 sounds a bit more lively.

Thanks for sharing this!

Comment on Reminder: You don’t need to delete from KLC anymore! by Rhonda McReynolds

Rhonda McReynolds — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:00:31 +0000

YAHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Comment on Identifying Bounced Email Patrons by Diane Trinkle

Diane Trinkle — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:49:58 +0000

Awesome! I would like to see more reports for common functions. Sharon does a great job with narration, concise without being too techie. This allows us to learn at our leisure and is targeted to exactly what we need. Thanks.

Comment on Patron Training by NExpress Shared Catalog » Training Materials

NExpress Shared Catalog » Training Materials — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:02:29 +0000

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Comment on MySQL Statements – for Koha Explorers Group by Sharon

Sharon — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:21:47 +0000

Thank you for sharing – I will be working on our monthly suite of reports tomorrow (I hope). We just discovered YESTERDAY that renewals are counted separately from check outs, so all of our circulation stats have been incomplete. I’m fixing that mistake now.

Comment on MySQL Statements – for Koha Explorers Group by John Long

John Long — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:54:25 +0000

Ok it turns out that wasn’t very readable I had it broken up into sections, honest.

Comment on MySQL Statements – for Koha Explorers Group by John Long

John Long — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:53:26 +0000

I’ll go ahead and post a few of the reports I’ve written that we’ve found useful. I’m not sure how readable this will be but here goes.

Report #1
This report was written to generate a shelf check/call list for 7, 14, 21, and 28 day overdues every day it is clicked. It was actually one of the first reports I wrote so the code could be a bit messy. Of note is the Interval section where you choose what day you want overdues for.

Select items.itemcallnumber,biblio.title,issues.date_due,borrowers.firstname,borrowers.surname,borrowers.categorycode,borrowers.phone,borrowers.email FROM items
LEFT JOIN biblioitems on (items.biblioitemnumber=biblioitems.biblioitemnumber) LEFT JOIN biblio on (biblioitems.biblionumber=biblio.biblionumber)
LEFT JOIN issues on (items.itemnumber=issues.itemnumber)
LEFT JOIN borrowers on (issues.borrowernumber=borrowers.borrowernumber)
Where issues.date_due=DATE_SUB(curdate(), INTERVAL 7 DAY) AND issues.branchcode=’INDEPENDNC’

Report #2
This is a fairly simple report that when clicked generates a list of dvds added within the last two months. Again interval is where you adjust the time.

Select
biblio.title,
items.itemcallnumber,
items.dateaccessioned as ‘Date Entered’
from items
Left Join biblio on
(biblio.biblionumber=items.biblionumber)
Where
items.homebranch=’independnc’
and
items.itemcallnumber like ‘dvd %’
and items.dateaccessioned>DATE_SUB(curdate(), INTERVAL 2 MONTH)

Report #3
This report is used in weekly reports to give a total of the circulation and renewals in a week for a given month. Date format is used so I can group by week, it’s not the most elegant but it works.

select date_format(`datetime`,”%X-%V”) as ‘Week’, count(*) as ‘Checkouts and Renews’ from statistics where datetime like ‘2009-02%’ and branch=’Independnc’ and type in (‘issue’,'renew’) group by date_format(`datetime`,”%X-%V”)

Report #4
This is another weekly report to show the number of items entered in a week.

select date_format(`dateaccessioned`,”%X-%V”) as ‘Week’, count(*) as ‘# of items’ from items where dateaccessioned like ‘2009-02%’ and homebranch=’Independnc’ group by date_format(`dateaccessioned`,”%X-%V”)

One thing to note is on some of the more complex reports it gets kind of buggy I wrote a report to total up circ and renewals for a month grouped by day and you can view the report but you can’t go to the next page or download the report, I think the date format command is what causes this sort of thing though.