Patrick Logan wrote:
I've been able to install version 1.90 of Koha, but after checking my MARC structure I received the following message from Koha:
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itemnum The field itemnum MUST be mapped
The correspounding subfield MUST be in with -1 (ignore) tab
the items.homebranch field MUST :
homebranch NOT mapped be mapped to a MARC subfield,
the correspounding subfield MUST have authorised value=branches
the items.holdingbranch field MUST :
holdingbranch NOT mapped be mapped to a MARC subfield,
the correspounding subfield MUST have authorised value=branches
TOTAL You have 3 error(s) in your MARC configuration. Please fix them before using koha
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That's a known "problem". The MARC21 parameter are filled, but some "links" or "mapping" are NOT done at the moment. And i'm not a librarian neither a MARC21 user and can't do them. The 1st person that does them can send me the right structure and it will be included in koha 1.9.1 How to solve this : In koha, you have 2 parallel "databases". The 1st being the marc one, the second being the non-marc. To be able to manage any flavour of MARC, we have a "generic" MARC structure. That stores juste fields-subfields and values. But the MARC-DB don't know what MEAN the fields-subfields. So you must "link" some marc subfields to "meaningful" fields from the non-MARC DB to ensure a good behaviour of koha. itemnum : it's a field in items table. It must be mapped to a MARC21 subfield (probably in 995 : the items subfield) and is managed internaly, so MUST be invisible (tab -1) homebranch and holdingbranch are in biblioitems table and must be mapped to something in MARC21 too. To map a field : * koha * Parameters * MARC tag structure and Links koha - MARC-DB When it's done "Checks MARC" will check your config and report problem. -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)