Hi, I have installed librarian after some difficulties (the instructions are quite good, but sometimes not easy for people like me, without experience in that kind of installations). Now it is working with some minor problems, I hope to be able to solve them with time. The program seems to be really useful, we find it a very good way to store, classify, share and find the documents we have. I have a question regarding the management of the database. When uploading files, I have to create categories to classify the PDFs. Is it possible to delete or edit a category? how? Thanks a lot Óscar

Hi, thanks for trying Librarian. I don't deny; it's not as easy to install as other software. You can always write me (or to this forum) with your 'minor problems. You can also subscribe into the Librarian mailing list. As to your question. It is possible to alter categories. Unfortunetly, I did not write any administration pages yet. So you'll have to do that either by clicking 'Edit' on every article you want to change, or by much quicker way. Via SQL commands. You have to start Command Prompt and go to mysql/bin directory. Login to your database, e.g. mysql -uusername -p databasename Than type for instance: UPDATE library SET category='newcategory' WHERE category='oldcategory'; martin

This should be a great help, so far it appears to be working except I haven't retrieved anything yet. Is there a reason for not retrieving extracts based on PMID? Thank you

There was a bug in version 1.1. You may want to fix it with patch, which you can find on: http://bioinformatics.org/librarian martin