Re: [Koha] Please Help: Authority Search - Not returning Result. Zebra Index Picks up 4 Authority Records
Good Day Frederic, Kindly tell me how do I disable the Authority? in Koha? Right now, if we try to create a new Marc Record, start from empty record, and go to the tag that have to put a Author Personal Name for example, it GREYS the box, and ONLY a popup window can be used to search for an already existing authority?? Can you tell me how I disable this popup window and simply make Koha understand simple text rather than Authority?? I hope I am making sense. Would you recommend that I re-install to keep with future changes?? Because it took me a long time to setup Koha, since I am a beginner and really worried that it would delay the project from going live even more. Someone today in IRC mentioned that I am using the old version of idzebra when I should be using idzebra-2.0, so I think tomorrow morning my time i will try that..and keep you guys on the loop. Please do remember me if you come across aything related to this, Thanks alot 2009/11/2 Frédéric DEMIANS <f.demians@tamil.fr>
Your Koha installation is messed up for whatever reason. I recommend you reinstalling everything. The best installation documentation, and most up-to-date, is INSTALL.debian-lenny. I've seen on IRC that you customized your template. Avoid that if you don't know how to track your modifications with a code version control program like git. Otherwise, you won't be able to upgrade to Koha newer version, which is very important for a software like Koha.
Another option is to disable completely authorities (in Framework), as suggested by Chris. Believe me, if your catalog is small, authority management is a nonsense. We have lot of small libraries using Koha without authorities for the sake of users!
Hope it helps.
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Hi Susan Susan Mustafa schrieb:
Kindly tell me how do I disable the Authority? in Koha?
Go to Koha Administration->MARC Framework and select "MARC structure" for the framework you are using. There search the tag you have problems with (e.g. 100), select "subfields", click on "Edit Subfields", select the subfield (usually "a"), select "display more constraints" and at the bottom you will see "Other Options" with "Thesaurus: PERSO_NAME". Change that to blank using the pull-down-menu and you should be happy :-) You have to do that for every framework and for every field wich might use authority control (there are quite a few). Or you can start over installing koha and deselect in the web-installer authority-control. (I'm not quite sure, but I think the easiest way to do that consists in dropping your database in mysql and recreating it manually - but I have never tried that!). Greetings Beda
this sounds WAY too much like a question i am facing right now we are adding books to the library, and have got past the books that have MARC records already available. which means that we are starting to write our own records (help!!) the problem is we can't write an author name into it (100a) i am trying to figure it out, but i am right now without a clue. can someone a. talk me through it b. send me a link that will talk me through it thank you all Suchetha On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Beda Szukics <beda@muri-gries.ch> wrote:
Hi Susan
Susan Mustafa schrieb:
Kindly tell me how do I disable the Authority? in Koha?
Go to Koha Administration->MARC Framework and select "MARC structure" for the framework you are using.
There search the tag you have problems with (e.g. 100), select "subfields", click on "Edit Subfields", select the subfield (usually "a"), select "display more constraints" and at the bottom you will see "Other Options" with "Thesaurus: PERSO_NAME". Change that to blank using the pull-down-menu and you should be happy :-)
You have to do that for every framework and for every field wich might use authority control (there are quite a few).
Or you can start over installing koha and deselect in the web-installer authority-control. (I'm not quite sure, but I think the easiest way to do that consists in dropping your database in mysql and recreating it manually - but I have never tried that!).
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Hi, Quoting from a few of Nicole's previous posts on exactly this subject: "To add to Ben's answer - if you don't want to use authorities - you don't have to - see this FAQ: http://koha.org/documentation/faq/why-cant-i-enter-a-value-in-the-100-field Nicole " ----- Original Message ----- From: "Suchetha Wijenayake" <suchetha@gmail.com> To: "Beda Szukics" <beda@muri-gries.ch> Cc: <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:27 AM Subject: Re: [Koha] Please Help: Authority Search - Not returning Result.Zebra Index Picks up 4 Authority Records
this sounds WAY too much like a question i am facing right now
we are adding books to the library, and have got past the books that have MARC records already available.
which means that we are starting to write our own records (help!!)
the problem is we can't write an author name into it (100a)
Thank you very much. that did the trick Suchetha On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Ian Bays <ian.bays@ptfs-europe.com> wrote:
Hi, Quoting from a few of Nicole's previous posts on exactly this subject:
"To add to Ben's answer - if you don't want to use authorities - you don't have to - see this FAQ:
http://koha.org/documentation/faq/why-cant-i-enter-a-value-in-the-100-field
Nicole " ----- Original Message ----- From: "Suchetha Wijenayake" <suchetha@gmail.com> To: "Beda Szukics" <beda@muri-gries.ch> Cc: <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:27 AM Subject: Re: [Koha] Please Help: Authority Search - Not returning Result.Zebra Index Picks up 4 Authority Records
this sounds WAY too much like a question i am facing right now
we are adding books to the library, and have got past the books that have MARC records already available.
which means that we are starting to write our own records (help!!)
the problem is we can't write an author name into it (100a)
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