[Koha] Authority Type Help in Koha

Nicole Engard nengard at gmail.com
Tue Dec 15 23:50:30 NZDT 2009


Thanks!!

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Laurence Lefaucheur
<laurence.lefaucheur at biblibre.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Nicole Engard a écrit :
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The Help file in Koha for Authority Types says the following:
>>
>> ***Authority types
>>
>> You can define as many Authority types as you want.
>>
>>     * with the MARC structure button, you can define the MARC
>> structure of a given authority type
>>     * The tag reported must contain a MARC tag number. Every subfield
>> in the selected tag will be copied to the "destination tag" in the
>> biblio. for example, in UNIMARC, the tag 200 ot personal authority
>> will be reported to 600, 700, 701, depending on what is cliqued in the
>> biblio MARC editor.
>>     * The summary contains an "ISBD" like description to explain how
>> the entry must be shown in the result list. The syntax is :
>>           o [xxxFFFSyyy] where are up to 3 digits BEFORE the field,
>> FFF the field number, S the subfield code, yyy up to 3 digits AFTER
>> the field.
>>           o things outside [] are kept as is (including HTML)
>>           o repeatable fields are managed.
>>
>>             IMPORTANT
>>
>>             In the biblio framework, the reported tag MUST contain a
>> $9 subfield, activated in the tab where the tag is, and hidden (hidden
>> maybe omitted, but the field has no reason to appear anywhere). The $9
>> subfield in the biblio will contain the Authority number (the internal
>> Koha number)***
>>
>>
>> My question is - what the heck is this talking about :) hehe - I don't
>> see anywhere where a summary is listed.  I'm wondering if this is for
>> an older version of Koha and I just never removed it from the Help.
>
> summary can be seen (and modified) in the authority types list and looks
> like :
> [215a][ -- 215y][ -- 215x][ -- 215z]
>
> It is the way the authority is displayed in authority list when
> searching in Authorities.
>
> ---
> Laurence Lefaucheur
>
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