[Koha] Mapping items -- Is it this hard for everyone or am I missing the big picture.

[Darla Grediagin]

I guess my more important question is whether these mappings are done in 
cgi-bin/koha/admin/koha  I have tried the Links Koha---> Mapping DB page 
and each drop down menu is empty.

Thanks again,

Darla

Darla Grediagin wrote:

>    Test      Result
> # *itemnum*     The field itemnum MUST be mapped
> # The corresponding subfield MUST be in with -1 (ignore) tab
> *itemtype NOT mapped*     the biblioitems.itemtype field MUST :
> # be mapped to a MARC subfield,
> # the correspounding subfield MUST have authorised_value="itemtype"
> OK     /branch table filled with at least 1 value/
> *homebranch NOT mapped*     the items.homebranch field MUST :
> # be mapped to a MARC subfield,
> # the correspounding subfield MUST have authorised value="branches"
> *holdingbranch NOT mapped*     the items.holdingbranch field MUST :
> # be mapped to a MARC subfield,
> # the correspounding subfield MUST have authorised value="branches"
> *biblio and biblionumber*     The biblio.biblionumber and 
> biblioitems.biblioitemnumber fields MUST :
> # be mapped to a MARC subfield,
> # be in the SAME tag (for example : 090$a and 090$b)
> # be in tab -1
> OK     /no NULL value in frameworkcode/
> *TOTAL*     You have *5* error(s) in your MARC configuration. Please 
> fix them before using koh
>
> Here are the errors that I am getting when I run my MARC Check.
>
> Questions that I have, 1.  Where to I map the itemtype?  I know that 
> the item type is on the 000 line of the Marc record in spots 5 and 6.  
> I just don't know where to input that information into Koha.
>
> 2. itemnum is on line 001 of my MARC record, again how do I map this?
>
> 3.  homebranch and holdingbranch -- I don't understand the differences 
> between these two parameters or again as before, how to map these.
>
> 4.  biblio and biblionumber - I am not sure what these are and how 
> they would be different from  the item number.
>
> Thank you for any assistance,
>
> By the time I finish with this, I believe I was have the materials and 
> ability to do some screen casting to build instructions on doing this 
> with more ease and finesse than I have managed.  If I build some 
> things like this, is there a place to host them.  I can host on my 
> site so I guess more I am looking for the ability to provide links to 
> these.
>
>
>
> Darla
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Darla Grediagin
District Librarian
Bering Strait School District
Unalakleet, Alaska
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