2010/10/9 Chris Hobbs<CHobbs@nhusd.k12.ca.us>:

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Is there a way for me to fix the Default item types for our biblios en masse? Our biblioitems records have the correct item type from our conversion, but every time we add a new item type it defaults to our '0' type (Art Print). There are 2 places where itemtype is set, either at biblioitems.itemype or items.itype There is a systempreference which controls which one is used.

I would recommend using the item level itemtypes. That is our setting, but I think I did a poor job of explaining our

On 10/10/10 2:54 PM, Chris Cormack wrote: problem. The real issue is that I didn't populate the 942c (or 942n) sub-fields when I imported our MARC records, so those are unset. If somebody edits an existing MARC record, 942c is defaulting to our itemtype 0, which is Art Print, unless the cataloger is paying attention and edits 942c in addition to whatever else she went in to edit. Later, when they go to add a new item of that biblio, the item-level itype becomes Art Print unless they notice and change it. Since we have no biblios with multiple item types associated with them (we create a different biblio for each media type of a title), I'd like to set the 942c sub-field based on an example item attached to that biblio. *If* there were an itemtype in the biblio table, the pseudo-SQL might look something like this: update biblio set itemtype=(select top 1 itype from items where items.biblionumber=biblio.biblionumber) Hopefully that helps explain what I'm after. Thanks for the help! Chris -- Chris Hobbs Director, Technology New Haven Unified School District -- This message was scanned by ESVA and is believed to be clean.