Re: [Koha] Searching Authority Records by Authority Record Number
Hi, all! In a recent exchange, on 20 Nov 2019, at 11:05, Bob Birchall wrote: Search for authorities on any term. For any authority in the results list,
choose action 'edit'. On the editor page, in the URL, change the authority number (authid) to that of the record you wish to edit.
In a later exchange, on 20 Nov 2019, at 14:06, Heather Hernandez wrote: We're on 18.11, but if I just put an aut record number into the search box
with "Default," "contains" selected, my Koha returns just the aut record with that aut record number. (It does the same thing if I use the LCCN from the 010 field.) Interestingly enough, it works also in the Authority Search in the OPAC.
I'm afraid that neither technique worked. We use 3.20 from Josh Hertel's test (and training) package. We are building a proof-of-concept machine and this is what we could get up and running, at least well enough to make MARC records. We're now building a more recent version of Koha, either 18.11 or 19.05, on a Debian or Ubuntu server. Nonetheless, we are encountering the limitations of such an old version and I'm trying to clean up records before copying to the new machine. In any event, it looks like this is one of the limitations, and we'll have to clean up the authority records after the migration. I had hoped there was something analogous to searching sn:5946 for bibliographic records by biblionumber. If anyone knows a way of specifying the record number in authority record searches, we would greatly appreciated it. Thanks for everyone's help. -- -- Charles. Charles Kelley, MLS PSC 704 Box 1029 APO AP 96338 Charles Kelley 1-5-2 Tsukimino #210 Yamato-shi, Kanagawa-ken, 〒242-0002 JAPAN 1-301-741-7122 [US cell] 011-81-80-4714-5490 [JPN cell] mnogojazyk@aol.com [h] cmkelleymls@gmail.com [p] linkedin.com/in/cmkelleymls <http://www.linkedin.com/in/cmkelleymls> Meeting Your Information Needs. Virtually.
Works for me (in 18.11). I'm confident the ability to edit authorities was in Koha way before 3.20. When you say 'it didn't work', what happened? Bob On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 at 11:20, Charles Kelley <cmkelleymls@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, all!
In a recent exchange, on 20 Nov 2019, at 11:05, Bob Birchall wrote:
Search for authorities on any term. For any authority in the results list,
choose action 'edit'. On the editor page, in the URL, change the authority number (authid) to that of the record you wish to edit.
In a later exchange, on 20 Nov 2019, at 14:06, Heather Hernandez wrote:
We're on 18.11, but if I just put an aut record number into the search box
with "Default," "contains" selected, my Koha returns just the aut record with that aut record number. (It does the same thing if I use the LCCN from the 010 field.) Interestingly enough, it works also in the Authority Search in the OPAC.
I'm afraid that neither technique worked. We use 3.20 from Josh Hertel's test (and training) package. We are building a proof-of-concept machine and this is what we could get up and running, at least well enough to make MARC records. We're now building a more recent version of Koha, either 18.11 or 19.05, on a Debian or Ubuntu server.
Nonetheless, we are encountering the limitations of such an old version and I'm trying to clean up records before copying to the new machine. In any event, it looks like this is one of the limitations, and we'll have to clean up the authority records after the migration.
I had hoped there was something analogous to searching sn:5946 for bibliographic records by biblionumber. If anyone knows a way of specifying the record number in authority record searches, we would greatly appreciated it.
Thanks for everyone's help.
-- -- Charles.
Charles Kelley, MLS PSC 704 Box 1029 APO AP 96338
Charles Kelley 1-5-2 Tsukimino #210 Yamato-shi, Kanagawa-ken, 〒242-0002 JAPAN
1-301-741-7122 [US cell] 011-81-80-4714-5490 [JPN cell]
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Hello again! In our latest exchange, on 21 Nov 2019, at 12:41, Bob Birchall wrote: Works for me (in 18.11). I'm confident the ability to edit authorities was
in Koha way before 3.20.
When you say 'it didn't work', what happened?
When I search by "authid:279", "authid279", "#279", "sn:279", Koha reports "No reports found." I can, to my heart's content, search by name and find a number of authorities, select one, and edit it. I just cannot search by the authority record number. -- -- Charles. Charles Kelley, MLS PSC 704 Box 1029 APO AP 96338 Charles Kelley 1-5-2 Tsukimino #210 Yamato-shi, Kanagawa-ken, 〒242-0002 JAPAN 1-301-741-7122 [US cell] 011-81-80-4714-5490 [JPN cell] mnogojazyk@aol.com [h] cmkelleymls@gmail.com [p] linkedin.com/in/cmkelleymls <http://www.linkedin.com/in/cmkelleymls> Meeting Your Information Needs. Virtually.
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