Hi Charles, to my knowledge there is currently no way to avoid this renumbering. Koha will assign the authority record the PK from the auth_header table on importing, you can't keep your own numbers. I think this would be a useful switch - please consider filing an enhancement request on bugzilla if there isn't one yet. I wonder: why don't you move the whole database to the new server instead of exporting and importing data? Katrin On 18.01.21 10:59, Charles Kelley wrote:
Hello, everyone!
My library is migrating our Koha ILS to a new machine. We are now ready to upload the authority and bibliographic records. I tried a test upload of the authority records, but I was surprised and disappointed when in the upload of the authority records, the authority record number was changed. The change reflects the deletion of duplicate and merged authority records we have found in recent months.
Needless to say, this cannot stand because the bibliographic fields that are connected to a specific authority record through $9 subfield will end up connected with a different authority record.
Case in point: In the current database, I made a dummy author named Sam Loesser, and Koha automatically assigned him authority record #197. In the test database, Sam is assigned authority record #190 instead when the record is imported.
I have to admit I'm using the Import (Stage ... and Staged ...) Tools, not the Perl script. Maybe the Perl script has a switch to force such record assignment. I don't know; I'm just asking.
Is there a way to fix this, i.e., is there a way to force the authority record uploader to assign the authority record number that is in the 001 field of the incoming authority record?
Thanks for your help, everyone.