[Koha] Feature Request : Database Tables

[paul POULAIN]

Tom Albrecht a écrit:

> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure if this is the correct address for feature requests, but 
> here goes.  If I'm wrong, please let me know where I should send it.
>
> I've been testing Koha for our church library, and it looks like 
> exactly what we need.  However, I've noticed a database shortcoming 
> that if addressed would make things a lot easier for me.
>
> The database tables Biblio and Bibliosubject are linked with the 
> common field biblionumber, with a one-to-many relationship, allowing 
> multiple subjects for a particular title.  This is wonderful, but the 
> list of available subject strings are not stored anywhere, and are 
> entered manually.  My thought is that there should be another table, 
> say "subjects" that would contain two fields, a unique subject ID 
> number, and a subject string.  Then, replace the string "subject" in 
> bibliosubject with the id number.
>
> This has multiple advantages...
>
> 1)  It allows a universal subject name change to be easily 
> implemented. For example, currently, if I want to change all instances 
> of "FEMINIST THEOLOGY" with "FEMINIST DOCTRINE", I'd have to search 
> and replace through every "bibliosubject" record.  With the change, I 
> would only need to change one "subject" record.
>
> 2)  It allows for an exclusive list of subjects.  I would hate to 
> accidently misspell "Religien", and create a whole new field.  If the 
> "subject" table were exhaustive, only fields from that table would be 
> allowed to be use.
>
> Please let me know your thoughts!
>
> Tom Albrecht III 

This is already in the CVS tree (if you don't know : cvs is our tool for 
development). I think/hope it will be distributed in a future 1.4 version.
Not exactly what you ask for, but something like it...
--
Paul