That's good info! If it's not on the wiki or on kohadocs someone should put it there! I don't recall having seen an explanation of the 'hidden' field before. Joshua M. Ferraro wrote:
im using koha 2.2.9 on mysql5 (suse10.1) Although some MARC aficionados will cringe, you can simply delete the fields you don't need from the default framework (gasp!). The only required fields in a record are those linked to biblionumber, biblioitemnumber, itemnumber, and itemtype. By default, those are set to 090$ 090$c, 952$u. You can delete all of the ones you don't need. Keep in mind that if you import records from another source via Z39.50, any fields not defined in the framework will be deleted from the MARC (a regrettable 'feature' of the current implementation of the frameworks ...).
Another alternative, is to set the 'hidden' field to the appropriate value to hide any given subfield from the cataloging client Note that hidden field is a coded field with multiple possible values. From the help file:
# hidden : allows you to select from 19 possible visibility conditions, 17 of which are implemented. They are the following:
( ! means 'not visible' or in the case of Collapsed 'not Collapsed')
-9 => Future use -8 => Flag -7 => OPAC !Intranet !Editor Collapsed -6 => OPAC Intranet !Editor !Collapsed -5 => OPAC Intranet !Editor Collapsed -4 => OPAC !Intranet !Editor !Collapsed -3 => OPAC !Intranet Editor Collapsed -2 => OPAC !Intranet Editor !Collapsed -1 => OPAC Intranet Editor Collapsed 0 => OPAC Intranet Editor !Collapsed 1 => !OPAC Intranet Editor Collapsed 2 => !OPAC !Intranet Editor !Collapsed 3 => !OPAC !Intranet Editor Collapsed 4 => !OPAC Intranet Editor !Collapsed 5 => !OPAC !Intranet !Editor Collapsed 6 => !OPAC Intranet !Editor !Collapsed 7 => !OPAC Intranet !Editor Collapsed 8 => !OPAC !Intranet !Editor !Collapsed 9 => Future use
Hope that helps.
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