Greetings- I am writing today to ask about the status of this bug/feature. To summarize the information below, this anomalous behavior causes libraries (esp. small, rural libraries, certain special libraries, and mobile libraries) to not be able to edit controlled headings in their bibliographic records in Koha. This represents a real problem for library staff who know little or nothing about authority control, and also special libraries that manage authorities in different ways. Can anyone in the community help? Thank you. Gary NM State Library ======================================================================== == Hi, On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Paul POULAIN <paul.poulain at free.fr <http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel> > wrote:

3 questions/problems/suggestions :

I'm still working on a response to these, but to add a fourth one, with recent work Koha 3 is now in a situation where authority records are now *required* -- this was not true prior to the second beta. In order for a cataloger to be able to add or edit a heading in the bib record without being *required* to open a popup window for each heading, BiblioAddsAuthorities must be turned on. However, I don't think turning BiblioAddsAuthorities on is suitable for every library. as automatically creating authority records is a good way to enshrine typos. I propose adding another syspref (perhaps called RequireAuthoritySearch) that controls whether a heading field is readonly or not in the bib editor. This would be orthogonal to the BibilioAddsAuthorities syspref. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Koha Application Developer LibLime galen.charlton at liblime.com <http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel> p: 1-888-564-2457 x709 ======================================================================== == BUG: 2494 Description: Opened: 2008-08-08 08:37 http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2495 The current set-up/definition in the bib frameworks in Koha of the subfield a of tags deemed under authority control prevent the user from being able to edit any typos etc. that exist in the contents of the $a of these tags directly via the editor. This is especially a problem where the library has not loaded any authorities and had them linked to bibs nor have the syspref BiblioAddsAuthorities turned on to create brief authorities. They have NO way of changing this info. Suggestion is to add a syspref that will allow users to edit the contents of the $a in these tags directly from the editor. Caveat to be clearly explained to customer for short term - In the case where a library has loaded authorities or created stubbies and have them linked to the tag, they can/will need be directed to make the changes in the authority record itself and have the changes reflect back into the bib otherwise they are in the position where they will delink the authority from the bib. I will be adding another open enhancement request to make it more efficient to access the edit authorities via the bib frameworks editor. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Gary L. Harris, M.L.S. M.A. Director, Technical Services Bureau New Mexico State Library 1209 Camino Carlos Rey Santa Fe, NM 87507 (505) 476-9730 gary.harris@state.nm.us http://www.nmstatelibrary.org "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." -- Buckminster Fuller Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including all attachments is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited unless specifically provided under the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this message. -- This email has been scanned by the Sybari - Antigen Email System.