[Koha] How to use Item callnumbers and Branch categories

[Giuseppe.Angilella at ct.infn.it]

Hi,

> My question is therefore, how should I link items.itemcallnumber so that 
> it is properly searched by the Catalogue Search pages?

this is a short followup to my problem above, which I think I solved as 
follows.

In brief, I added a new (unused) subfield to the MARC tag 952 (same as the 
other ones linked to items.*), say 952w, and linked it to 
items.itemcallnumber.

In detail (for future newbies, like I am presently!), from Koha's admin 
page, select:

1) Parameters

2) Biblio framework (MARC structure)

3) Move on to the MARC subfield structure admin for 952 (last of all; 952 
is reserved for items; each "biblioitem" can have several "items", e.g. 
several copies of a given book).

4) Add a new subfield 952w (say; 952w was unused), link it to 
items.itemcallnumber, and group it under Tab 10 (I also select 
"Mandatory", here.)

5) Edit any previously inserted item, by specifying its "call number")

6) Enter both barcode and call number every time you'll add new items in 
the future.

"MARC check" from the Parameters admin menu does not give any error 
message (yeah!), and indeed the Search page now lists both the holding 
branch and the call number (in parentheses) for each item found. (I can 
also search by call number, now.)

Whereas I am very happy about the solution above, I wonder whether you 
know any simpler way. I am aware that I had to add a new subfield to the 
MARC structure - something that should and indeed does make any newbie 
shiver! - but given all the constraints I met, I found no other way.

Please, advice.

Giuseppe.

P.S. I am using Koha 2.2.0 on RedHat 9.0 (running httpd-2.0.40-21). Still 
having problems with Z39.50 on RedHat 9.0, and with the access to Koha's 
scripts in general on Fedora Core 3. (I guess these are problems with 
apache's configuration, albeit standard, or with the system - not with 
Koha itself.) See my previous postings to this mailing list.