RE: [Koha] A simple question about Class
Rachel: Thanks a lot for your information. I have the following puzzle to be solved.
In http://hlt.katipo.co.nz/, if you search by "Understanding your brain" by Title in the cataloge page. Then you click the TITLE Understanding your brain, You get the Class J612.82. How did J get into it? What did J represent and how can I input it into the Koha system?
As it's a non fiction book the class is the dewey number. You enter it either as part of acquisioning a book or if you've already got an entry, by clicking on the "modify" button in the group record - you get this page.
http://hlt.katipo.co.nz/cgi- bin/koha/modbibitem.pl?bibitem=93999&biblio=41244&submit.x= 41&submit.y =22
However, if I enter J612.82 as part of acquisioning a book, Koha doesn't take it. By I do can modify it to J612.82 or a123 as you showed me(for that thanks a lot). It seems in acquisionting page, the dewey number can not take anything with letters. It can only take numbers. That is the reason why I ask how did this J get into http://hlt.katipo.co.nz/ dewey part? Thanks again! Yaogeng
Hi
Thanks a lot for your information. I have the following puzzle to be solved.
In http://hlt.katipo.co.nz/, if you search by "Understanding your brain" by Title in the cataloge page. Then you click the TITLE Understanding your brain, You get the Class J612.82. How did J get into it? What did J represent and how can I input it into the Koha system?
As it's a non fiction book the class is the dewey number. You enter it either as part of acquisioning a book or if you've already got an entry, by clicking on the "modify" button in the group record - you get this page.
http://hlt.katipo.co.nz/cgi- bin/koha/modbibitem.pl?bibitem=93999&biblio=41244&submit.x= 41&submit.y =22
However, if I enter J612.82 as part of acquisioning a book, Koha doesn't take it. By I do can modify it to J612.82 or a123 as you showed me(for that thanks a lot). It seems in acquisionting page, the dewey number can not take anything with letters. It can only take numbers. That is the reason why I ask how did this J get into http://hlt.katipo.co.nz/ dewey part?
I suspect for HLT it actually came in with their big data import - but they may also use a different acquisitions module to you - they use the full acquisitions within the library, where as at the moment on the demo site I think it is the simple acquisitions that is running. However it sounds like you might have found a bug between the two systems - because I'd have thought you could enter in the same info in both. Cheers Rachel _____________________________________________________________ Rachel Hamilton-Williams Katipo Communications WEBMISTRESS ph 021 389 128 or +64 04 934 1285 mailto:rachel@katipo.co.nz PO Box 12487, Wellington http://www.katipo.co.nz New Zealand Koha Open Source Library System http://www.koha.org
# From a galaxy far away, the wise ones wrote: [--snip--]
It seems in acquisionting page, the dewey number can not take anything with letters. It can only take numbers. That is the reason why I ask how did this J get into http://hlt.katipo.co.nz/ dewey part?
I suspect for HLT it actually came in with their big data import - but they may also use a different acquisitions module to you - they use the full acquisitions within the library, where as at the moment on the demo site I think it is the simple acquisitions that is running.
However it sounds like you might have found a bug between the two systems - because I'd have thought you could enter in the same info in both.
I know it is bad manners to answer your own question - especially if you don't know the answer :) - but here goes attempt #1" " Subject: [Koha] Dewey entry Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 09:42:50 +1000 From: Roger Buck <rog@saas.nsw.edu.au> To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz I am in the process of migrating items from our current library system into koha and I have a question about Koha Dewey entries. When adding Dewey entry for new biblio I note two fields: "Dewey" and "Dewey Subclass" All our current entries follow this format: JSM 428.007 WEN JSM 362.2 TOP JSM 170 VER ...and so on... What is the correct way to enter above data into the Koha Dewey field(s)? ========================================== # From the example koha db tables for <biblioitems.dewey>: dewey double (8,6) default NULL I think this means that the dewey entry is restricted to being a numeric data type (double precision - up to 8 digits displayed, with up to 6 digits following the decimal point)? As far as I know, the Dewey numbers are "labels" - their value is not used for computation - so the dewey number could be entered as a "text" data type? I'd guess that simply changing the db entry to something like: dewey varchar (16) default NULL might cover most of your needs? I am just a newbie at this stuff and the above is all just guess-work - so make modifications at your own risk ;^) R.
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 09:07:14AM +1000, Roger Buck said:
From a galaxy far away, the wise ones wrote: [--snip--]
It seems in acquisionting page, the dewey number can not take anything with letters. It can only take numbers. That is the reason why I ask how did this J get into http://hlt.katipo.co.nz/ dewey part?
I suspect for HLT it actually came in with their big data import - but they may also use a different acquisitions module to you - they use the full acquisitions within the library, where as at the moment on the demo site I think it is the simple acquisitions that is running.
However it sounds like you might have found a bug between the two systems - because I'd have thought you could enter in the same info in both.
I know it is bad manners to answer your own question - especially if you don't know the answer :) - but here goes attempt #1"
Ok Here it gets tricky What you actually see as class on the screen on the item details page is an almagation of 3 fields. it goes classification,dewey,subclass Looking in the database for the above book it has classification=J dewey=612.82 subclass= Hence J612.82 So for something like J612.32aa You'd have classification=J dewey=612.32 subclass=aa In the biblioitems table. Having the dewey as a separate field allows for much faster dewey searches. But in an attempt to remove confusion (and in fact probably creating more) we have displayed these three fields as if they were one. I hope this makes some sense Chris
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