Thank you, John and Mark, that should be enough to get me started. Sean On 18 April 2018 at 14:07, John Sterbenz <jsterben@umich.edu> wrote:
The user manual used to have a great table listing all of the 952 fields, which ones were required (with a default installation and with the loading of defaults during the web installer) and which ones were required (for circulation). A quick search and I am unable to find that table in the 17.11 version of the manual found on the website under https://koha-community.org/documentation/.
I used it so much during my migration I made a separate copy of just those pages. I don't believe anything has changed here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B__rFSyBuUz1bHpZT25Sd1FKMVRlVXNOO FYxZG9uM2w0U2Vj/view?usp=sharing
Migrating from an Innovative server, I used MarcEdit to create 952 fields for my item records and then loaded bibs and items at the same time. This was a few years ago, but I recall the trickiest part for me was combining the call number information, previously in two separate subfields in the bib record, into a single subfield as required by the 952.
John
On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 7:46 AM, Mark Alexander <marka@pobox.com> wrote:
I have records that I have exported from SirsiDynix Symphony that I'm trying to import into a new instance of Koha. The bib records load, but
Excerpts from Sean Carte's message of 2018-04-18 10:44:45 +0200: the
items are not added. [...] 952
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This doesn't look quite right to me. According to the holdings table in the wiki:
https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Holdings_data_fields_(9xx)
952$a and 952$b should contain the branch codes for owning library and holding library, respectively. Your 952$a doesn't look like a branch code, and I don't see a 952$b.
When I imported our Mandarin catalog to Koha, my script set the following rather minimal holding fields, and that seemed to be enough:
942$c - item type 952$8 - collection code 952$a - owning library 952$b - holding library 952$c - location code 952$d - acquisition date 952$o - call number 952$p - barcode 952$v - price 952$y - item type
Note that you need to have previously set up the authorized values for collection codes and location codes for this to work. _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
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