Hi Peter, apart from Heather's excellent cataloguing advice - maybe this little plugin could be an option: *Bug 15933* <https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15933> - Add cataloguing plugin to search for existing publishers in other records It's not using authorities, but it might help to get a bit more control of the input on this field. Hope this helps, Katrin On 10.12.20 00:16, Peter Korsten wrote:
Hi,
The topic has been asked before, but not exactly in the specific circumstances that I'm facing.
My company (essentially, yours truly) is installing Koha for a customer, and migrating data. They insist on having fields 260$a and 260$b to be authority controlled. I solved that by modifying the BKS framework, setting 260$a to be a GEOGR_NAME and 260$b a CORPO_NAME. So far, so good.
The trouble starts when you try the little icon to look up an authority record. If I click on that icon for 260$b (name of the publisher) and choose an existing one, the value instead ends up in 260$a.
Now I don't think that this is a bug in Koha, but I do think that I'm not understanding this facility entirely, and the documentation doesn't seem to address this issue either. I'm aware that field 260 is supposed to contain transcribed data, and we've pointed this out to the customer, but this is what they want.
Could somebody please enlighten me, whether I've taken the correct approach?
Thanks,
- Peter _______________________________________________
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