I came up with a couple of other ways, which may work in this situation: I'm working on a project for which I need only a few fields, and although I don't expect to need the others, I don't want to delete them. I went into the field setup page and changed the "managed in tab" setting to "ignore." Then since I only need one page to display most of the fields I'm using, I changed the ones I do need to tab 0, as suggested below. Before I started changing the tab to ignore, I tried going down to "display more constraints" and changing the value of "hidden" from 0 (or whatever else the default value was) to -6. This had the same effect on the add record screen, but the other way involved fewer keystrokes. Two questions: First, the documentation I've found seems to indicate that the data are not displayed. If you import a record and the field is hidden, will the field still be filled should the user want to use it later? Second, assuming that changing to "ignore" or to "-6" works, is one of the two methods preferable? (And if it's in the documentation, could someone point me to the right page?) :-) Cheers, Fred King phred@philobiblios.net Nicole Engard writes:
Owen,
That is a great idea that I never even thought of!!!!
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On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Owen Leonard <oleonard@myacpl.org> wrote:
only way to do what I want is to produce a radically pruned framework, deleting all but the basic fields that I need. However I then came across the guidance that it is not advisable to delete fields so I don't quite see how to come up with the final list of fields that I need. I don't think I can expect my volunteers to wade through 9 tabs worth of fields.
I'm not a cataloger, but I wonder if a solution would be to put the 10-12 most important fields on the first tab and the "less important" ones on other tabs. Then your volunteers could only concern themselves with the first tab, but other fields could still be populated by z39.50.
-- Owen
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