Salvete! This is a little frustrating. I don't think that you're missing the big picture, but I think your download might be corrupted if you're not seeing anything at all on Links Koha ---> MARC DB. Out of curiousity, what version of MySQL are you running? Here are the MARC fields that I have linked. Item number is 952u itemtype 300f homebranch is 952b biblionumber 090c biblioitemnumber 090d Cheers, Brooke @ Hinsdale MA

I guess my more important question is whether these mappings are done in cgi-bin/koha/admin/koha I have tried the Links Koha---> Mapping DB page and each drop down menu is empty.

Thanks again,

Darla

Darla Grediagin wrote:

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Test Result # *itemnum* The field itemnum MUST be mapped # The corresponding subfield MUST be in with -1 (ignore) tab *itemtype NOT mapped* the biblioitems.itemtype field MUST : # be mapped to a MARC subfield, # the correspounding subfield MUST have authorised_value="itemtype" OK /branch table filled with at least 1 value/ *homebranch NOT mapped* the items.homebranch field MUST : # be mapped to a MARC subfield, # the correspounding subfield MUST have authorised value="branches" *holdingbranch NOT mapped* the items.holdingbranch field MUST : # be mapped to a MARC subfield, # the correspounding subfield MUST have authorised value="branches" *biblio and biblionumber* The biblio.biblionumber and biblioitems.biblioitemnumber fields MUST : # be mapped to a MARC subfield, # be in the SAME tag (for example : 090$a and 090$b) # be in tab -1 OK /no NULL value in frameworkcode/ *TOTAL* You have *5* error(s) in your MARC configuration. Please fix them before using koh

Here are the errors that I am getting when I run my MARC Check.

Questions that I have, 1. Where to I map the itemtype? I know that the item type is on the 000 line of the Marc record in spots 5 and 6. I just don't know where to input that information into Koha.

2. itemnum is on line 001 of my MARC record, again how do I map this?

3. homebranch and holdingbranch -- I don't understand the differences between these two parameters or again as before, how to map these.

4. biblio and biblionumber - I am not sure what these are and how they would be different from the item number.

Thank you for any assistance,

By the time I finish with this, I believe I was have the materials and ability to do some screen casting to build instructions on doing this with more ease and finesse than I have managed. If I build some things like this, is there a place to host them. I can host on my site so I guess more I am looking for the ability to provide links to these.

Darla

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