Hello I have loaded my marc records. I get no item count? my marc record input shows multiple 852 tags when there is more than one copy of a book. My marc tag check runs no errors. How is the number of individual items determined? I'm using Koha-2.0.0 on deb woody. tia re-v btw I do get a biblio number and the biblio number is unique to an individual title even with multiple copies of the individual title. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Friday, June 25, 2004 18:15 CDT Hi, Mike,
I have loaded my marc records. I get no item count?
That's bizarre.
my marc record input shows multiple 852 tags when there is more than one copy of a book. [...]
That makes sense. It is possible to use the 852 to append holdings for multiple copies whether within one library or lending institution or within a network of partnered institutions.
btw I do get a biblio number and the biblio number is unique to an individual title even with multiple copies of the individual title.
That would be because the system, as Chris C. explained to me more than once (thanks Chris :-) ) stores the information for the individual titles once; you don't need multiple copies of all that data, just a way of distinguishing the different copies from one and other for lending purposes. Hopefully, someone will get back to you on the question of item counting (I thought that this had come up before, though, and had been answered with a MySQL script posted by one of the programmers). This is important as administrators often put great stock in knowing the numbers of items in holdings (even and over above actual use of those items). Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.707 / Virus Database: 463 - Release Date: 15/06/2004
Hi Mike, Have you set up item types in system parameters? Do your marc records specify item types? If so you can map the tag and subfield with the item type codes in your marc records in the links section of parameters. Koha needs to have the item types specified in order to give an item count. If you can't map item types from your marc records you can automatically populate all your records with one item type (you will still need to set it up in system parameters). So for example, after setting up a 'AF' item type in parameters you can type (from mysql prompt):
use Koha; update biblioitems set itemtype='AF';
that will set all the itemtypes to AF and you should be good to go ... Let us know how it turns out. Joshua Quoting mike re-v <mrmrmr50@yahoo.com>:
Hello
I have loaded my marc records. I get no item count? my marc record input shows multiple 852 tags when there is more than one copy of a book. My marc tag check runs no errors. How is the number of individual items determined? I'm using Koha-2.0.0 on deb woody.
tia
re-v
btw I do get a biblio number and the biblio number is unique to an individual title even with multiple copies of the individual title.
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