2011/11/17 Amber Amland <library@mountainviewics.org>:
We just upgraded Koha, and in MARC the fields such as 650 a are locked, and it looks like you’re supposed to use authority search to fill them in. However, authority search doesn’t work, and I often have new names or subjects that wouldn’t be in there (I think). Does anyone know how to unlock those fields?
If by 'unlock' you mean 'unlink from authorities', then you have to edit your MARC frameworks. Read here for instructions http://manual.koha-community.org/3.6/en/catadmin.html#marcbibframeworks I recommend that you use authorities for that fields, and check what's going on with authorities indexing/search. Take into account that you need to first 'catalog' the authority you're about to use, and also that indexing cronjob must be set. And you need to wait at least one minute for it to actually do the indexing. Regards To+