[Koha] Editing a biblio record

[Jared Camins-Esakov]

Marty,

In that case, there's probably nothing in subfield 9. Could you change the
system preference to "allow," and see if that fixes your problem?

Regards,
Jared

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Marty <ontariowolf64 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thanks Jared,
>
> Thanks, I didn't know that, but for me clicking the 3 dots and then
> searching only results in "no results found" if I keep the search term
> that's automatically entered in "Main entry" or a 500 error if I leave it
> blank...
> Probably something else wacky in my database...
>
> Marty
>
>
>
> --- On *Fri, 11/26/10, Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins at cpbibliography.com>*wrote:
>
>
> From: Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins at cpbibliography.com>
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Editing a biblio record
> To: "Marty" <ontariowolf64 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "koha" <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>, "Paul" <paul.a at aandc.org>
> Received: Friday, November 26, 2010, 7:07 PM
>
> Marty and Paul,
>
> That seems a bit extreme. Very, even. I would suggest a better option would
> be to click the three dots next to your erroneous 700s, search for an
> authority (any authority... unfortunately you have to do a search before you
> can clear a link) and then click the "clear" hyperlink to remove the
> authority link. This will allow you to continue using authorities and remove
> the unwanted 700 fields. The reason you're unable to edit the 700$a is that
> you have BiblioAddsAuthorities set to "don't allow," but even if you set it
> to "allow," you'll still be unable to remove the data from subfield 700$9.
> See the manual for a little more information about this system preference:
> http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual/?ch=c19#AEN207
>
> Regards,
> Jared
>
> 2010/11/26 Marty <ontariowolf64 at yahoo.com>
>
> I suspect authority issues, (is the field grayed out?)
>
> You can edit all of your frameworks to "unlink" MARC fields to authority
> types, or if have acces to the database, you could execute:
>
> UPDATE marc_subfield_structure SET authtypecode = NULL WHERE authtype IS
> NOT NULL;
>
> A bit drastic but it will get rid of all links to authorities in the
> frameworks.
>
> (With thanks to Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel)
>
> --- On *Fri, 11/26/10, Paul <paul.a at aandc.org>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Paul <paul.a at aandc.org>
> Subject: [Koha] Editing a biblio record
> To: "koha" <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
> Received: Friday, November 26, 2010, 5:40 PM
>
>
> We are "experimenting" in preparation for importing some 16,000 *book*
> entries from Excel spreadsheets into Koha (Koha 3.00.06 on Ubuntu Server
> 10.10) using MarcEdit.
>
> I have run into a snag editing a MARC biblio record using
> <http://koha-admin/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/addbiblio.pl?biblionumber=xxx>.
>
> We unfortunately got the "Title" of the Author (Sir Max Aitken) (100$c)
> into 700$a as a co-author.
>
> I can add|correct 100$c without difficulty, but cannot in any way delete or
>
> modify 700$a - I can highlight it with the mouse, but the keyboard is
> totally unresponsive.
>
> Any suggestions warmly welcomed - thanks.
> Paul
>
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> Jared Camins-Esakov
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Jared Camins-Esakov
Freelance bibliographer, C & P Bibliography Services, LLC
(phone) +1 (917) 727-3445
(e-mail) jcamins at cpbibliography.com
(web) http://www.cpbibliography.com/
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