We have used the control number as our stable number. But as I understand it the 77X link is done with a title search. This works well for some things with unique titles, and is nearly useless for others. A proper link based on the search for the control number would bring about an exact match, in theory. The other problem with control numbers: They don't auto generate. Any numbers for new items that we create must be unique. So far the date, time and cataloguer's initials is the best option I can come up with (eg 201101311346EB for me, now) But it's easy to miss type something and it makes for a very long number. . . Elaine On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Linda Culberson <lculber@mdah.state.ms.us> wrote:
We have found that using the Control-number:##### to be extremely slow and undependable. In our case, at least, this is definitely not a workable "solution" and is barely a solution at all.
On 1:59 PM, Ian Bays wrote:
Hi Stefano, We have thought about this for some of our customer requirements but have (quickly) concluded that using the biblionumber (and biblioitemnumber) in koha is not the way to achieve this linking.
If you have a number that has significance to you and your data then put that into the 001 control number field (Marc21). You can link to that from 77x just as easily as with biblionumber.
If you try to use biblionumber for these links and you reload your data then all the numbers will be wrong.
The search for contents of the 001 field (say 12345) would be:
Control-number:12345
I hope this helps.
Ian On 26/01/2011 10:11, Stefano Bargioni wrote:
This is an autoreply :-) I wonder why nobody have had this problem before. How can be preserved internal links -contained in fields like 77x- without preserving the system number? I'll try to solve it hacking the code (C4::Biblio), but in my opinion Koha needs a way to do this, an option in bulkmarcimport for instance. Bye. Stefano
On Jan 20, 2011, at 11:27 , Stefano Bargioni wrote:
I'm trying to migrate about 140,000 records. Each of them has 001 with the original value. I copied it into 999c and 999d. Importing in Koha, 999c and 999d are replaced by a new (autoincremented) bibliotemnumber. How can I force Koha to assign bibliotemnumbers using 001 or 999c/d? Thank you. SB _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
_______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
-- Linda Culberson lculber@mdah.state.ms.us Archives and Records Services Division Ms. Dept. of Archives& History P. O. Box 571 Jackson, MS 39205-0571 Telephone: 601/576-6873 Facsimile: 601/576-6824
_______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
-- Elaine Bradtke Data Wrangler VWML English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 ext 36 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Company No. 297142 Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52)