<FONT color=#6000bf>Please refer to my comment in blue<BR></FONT><BR><B><I>Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <div>On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 11:20:49PM -0600, Steven F. Baljkas wrote:<BR>> Moreover, even if you still want to do so, Carol, Koha doesn't -- <BR>> that is, at present, it CAN'T -- make use of the required $6 linking <BR>> subfield.*** I can't see how you would overcome that barrier without a <BR>> heavy investment in programming.<BR>Actually, Koha CAN make use of the $6 linking subfield in tag 880. It<BR>requires no programming, just about a minute of time setting up the<BR>framework. See here:<BR>http://koha.liblime.com/cgi-bin/koha/acqui.simple/addbiblio.pl<BR><BR>(tab 4)<BR><BR>To set up 880 $6 in your Koha system do the following:<BR><BR>Go the the Koha administration page:<BR><BR>/cgi-bin/koha/admin-home.pl<BR><BR>Click on 'Biblio
framework'<BR>Click on 'MARC structure' for the 'default framework'<BR>at the bottom of the page, click on 'Add New MARC Tag'<BR>Type in the number (880), Label for intranet and OPAC (ALTERNATE GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION), click on 'Repeatable' since 880 is repeatable.<BR>Click on 'Save Changes.<BR><BR>Now you've added tag 880 and you can add $6.<BR><BR>From the list, click on 'view subfields' for tag 880<BR>Click on 'Edit Subfields'<BR>put '6' in the Subfield and change 'managed in tab' to '4'.<BR>Click on Save Changes.<BR><BR>That's it, you're done!</div> <div> </div> <div><FONT color=#6000bf>i think the $6 linking field is different from a regular subfield a, b or c etc.</FONT></div><FONT color=#6000bf></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><FONT color=#6000bf>In MARC, all the information on the book will be stored in the native language in tag 880. Then they use $6 linking field to tie
880 to tag 100 for Name etc... so e.g. 880 $6100 a.... so this tag means information stored here is the author name (designated by code $6100) in e.g Chinese. $6 is not a regular subfield.... </FONT> <div><BR><BR>BTW: Steven, this is another example of you framing something in terms<BR>of what Koha is capable of doing, when in fact, it's merely a matter<BR>of not RTFM.<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR><BR>-- <BR>Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE<BR>President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support<BR>LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS<BR>jmf@liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS<BR></div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p>
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