Fwd: [Koha] MARC tag structure problem, Dewey problems & Possible to create items when importing MARC?

[Aren Olson]

On 9/13/06, Stephen Hedges <st.hedges at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/11/06, Aren Olson <reacocard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am helping a public library switch to koha, and have a few problems
> that
> > have come up while importing the old data.
> >
> > First, on the "MARC Check" page, It says
> >
> >  item fieldsALL items fields MUST :
> >
> > be mapped to the same tag,
> > and they must all be in the 10 (items) tab
> >
> > Item tagThere is more than 1 MARC tag related to items tab (10) :
> 852,952,
> > This is correct, the previous ILS's MARC setup puts some item data on
> each
> > tag. Is it safe to leave it like this?
>
> No, Koha will not work until you get the MARC check to return no errors.


Then how am I to make it work? There is data on both tags. If I use this
setup for import, then change it later, would that work?

[snip...]
>
> > Thirdly, is there any way to have koha automatically create items from a
>
> > MARC import? The records import, but I have to manually create an item
> for
> > each record before I can use it. This is impractical, since there are
> > thousands of records.
>
> I believe the best way to do this is still to use the bulkmarcimport.plscript.
>
> Stephen
>

That's what I used. the records import fine, but no items are created.


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