Haik, I think you are trying to make one 856 do more than it was intended to do. The Library of Congress MARC guidelines say this about $u subfields: "*Subfield $u (URI) repeatability.* Subfield $u may be repeated only if both a URN and a URL or more than one URN are recorded. Field 856 is repeated if more than one URL needs to be recorded. Some institutions may wish to record a persistent name (URN) as well as a resolvable HTTP URL in field 856." <http://www.loc.gov/marc/856guide.html#subfield_$u> So, unless you are using a different form of MARC (and I realize that this is an international list, so this may be the case) you should not put more than one URL per 856 instance. You can have a second $u field only if there is a URN in that field. Since most URNs are not "clickable", it makes sense that OPACs generally display only the first $u, which contains the URL. In short, multiple URLs would require multiple 856 fields. The usual construction of an 856 field that links to the resource itself is: =856 40$3[materials specified - optional]$u[url]$y[link text -optional]$z[public note - optional] In practice, most records have either a $y or a $z, though you can have both of those in one 856. Both $y and $z show up in Koha as link text. The only required subfield in an 856 is the $u. You need not have any other text, and if you don't put in a $y or $z, Koha will supply a default link text. An example of a typical 856 would be: =856 40$3Ebrary$uhttp://ebrary.com/somebook$yAn online ebook. Click here for access. It sounds as if you may have constructed your 856 fields this way: =85640$[URL1]$y[Link text 1]$uURL2$y[Link text 2]$uURL3$y[Link text 3] You need to edit these to change them into multiple 856 fields, each with only one $u and one $y: =856 40$u[URL1]$y[Link text1] =856 40$u[URL2]$y[Link text2] etc. Hope this helps. -- Stacy Pober Information Alchemist Manhattan College Library Riverdale, NY 10471 stacy.pober@manhattan.edu
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 21:59:41 -0800 (PST) From: Haik Zargaryan <haikzargaryan@yahoo.com> To: "koha@lists.katipo.co.nz" <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: [Koha] cloning 856 $u Message-ID: <1356328781.45563.YahooMailNeo@web163803.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Dear friends,
We want to attach several URLs to the MARC record. Since the 856 $u field is repeatable, we have decided to clone the?subfield?several times. Yet, when we search for the record in the OPAC, only the first link is displayed in the results' page, meanwhile the other ones are not visible at all.?
We have a similar problem with the 856 $y field as well. All subfields are?concatenated in one field and are displayed as a one text.?
We want to have all links?each?one?with its appropriate text value, and of course, displayed separately. Is it possible?
Thank you in advance, Haik.