Elaine, What about your 035 field? Is that filled in with a unique value in your target biblios? -Ian On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Elaine Bradtke <eb@efdss.org> wrote:
That complicates matters. I may have to rethink things. Thanks for the info. Elaine
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Ian Bays <ian.bays@ptfs-europe.com> wrote:
Hi. The Control-number search term is set up in zebra as word or phrase. You can check what is found from the simple-search box by typing:
Control-number="123456" and searching for that. However if you use hyphens then that is treated as white space so if you have records with: 123-456 and one with 123-678 and one with 123 in the 001 tag then searching for 123 will find them all. This might explain why they do not find a unique match.
It might be possible to change the zebra configuration or add an index to be more literal but that takes it to another level. I hope that explains a bit.
Cheers.
On 31/10/2011 18:01, Elaine Bradtke wrote:
I followed the example here (control number is what I want it to match on)
http://manual.koha-community.org/3.2/en/catadmin.html#recordmatchingrules
But now I don't get any matches at all. Our control numbers are a combination of letters and numbers with punctuation (sometimes dashes, sometimes full stops). There is no explanation of what offset, length and normalization mean so I am just blindly imitating what's there rather than making an informed choice. Does our punctuation require different settings? Elaine
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Ian Bays<ian.bays@ptfs-europe.com> wrote:
Hi Elaine,
Yes as long as your unique number is in the 001 you can set up a new match rule referring to "Control-number" and match on that. I use that
quite a
lot. I think I posted about it about a year ago. The Community documentation should be enough to get you going but do come back if you need more detail.
Cheers. Ian
On 31/10/2011 17:06, Elaine Bradtke wrote:
Ours is a rather quirky collection, I know. But an awful lot of it doesn't have an ISBN or ISSN (1364 biblios in a collection of 1664 fall into this category). I am working on a project to batch change all the biblios in a particular collection. Selecting them, downloading them, and editing the MARC records was easy. Now I would like to upload them and overwrite the old records. This only seems possible for the 300 biblios with an ISBN. We have unique internal control numbers (001). Is there any way I can match the records with this field instead? If not, what are my other options?
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