<div><div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stephen Hedges</b> <<a href="mailto:st.hedges@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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On 9/11/06, Aren Olson <<a href="mailto:reacocard@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">reacocard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I am helping a public library switch to koha, and have a few problems that
<br>> have come up while importing the old data.
<br>><br>> First, on the "MARC Check" page, It says<br>><br>> item fieldsALL items fields MUST :<br>><br>> be mapped to the same tag,<br>> and they must all be in the 10 (items) tab<br>>
<br>> Item tagThere is more than 1 MARC tag related to items tab (10) : 852,952,<br>> This is correct, the previous ILS's MARC setup puts some item data on each<br>> tag. Is it safe to leave it like this?<br><br>
No, Koha will not work until you get the MARC check to return no errors.</blockquote></span></div><div><div><br>Then how am I to make it work? There is data on both tags. If I use this setup for import, then change it later, would that work?
<br></div></div><div><span class="q"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">[snip...]<br><br>> Thirdly, is there any way to have koha automatically create items from a
<br>> MARC import? The records import, but I have to manually create an item for<br>> each record before I can use it. This is impractical, since there are<br>> thousands of records.<br><br>I believe the best way to do this is still to use the
bulkmarcimport.pl script.<br><br>Stephen<br></blockquote></span></div><div></div><br>That's what I used. the records import fine, but no items are created.</div><div><span class="e" id="q_10daa2e1f9b7663a_5"><br clear="all">
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