[Koha] Creative re-purposing of major fields

[Ian Walls]

With a little modification, I've gotten the original patch to apply, and it
works for searching on the OPAC.  I think the next steps to get this
incorporated into Koha is to mimic the functionality on the staff side, and
add a system preference to control it.

It's on my list, but I'd happily pass it off to anyone else who wants to
tackle it :)


-Ian

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Owen Leonard <oleonard at myacpl.org> wrote:

> Also see that there are issues with the patch that require additional work.
>
>  -- Owen
>
>
>
> On Feb 15, 2011, at 8:56 AM, "Wagner, Jane" <jwagner at liblime.com> wrote:
>
> > "Shelving location is not available for advanced search."
> >
> > See a patch I submitted a year ago:
> >
> > http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4329
> >
> > I don't think it's been incorporated into head yet.
> >
> > Jane Wagner
> > Senior Project Manager
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> > Content Management and Library Solutions
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> > jwagner at liblime.com
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz
> > [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of hansbkk at gmail.com
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 8:42 AM
> > To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> > Subject: Re: [Koha] Creative re-purposing of major fields
> >
> > Sorry to be talking to myself here, but in doing some more extensive
> > googling, I came across this:
> >
> http://library-matters.blogspot.com/2009/03/dont-be-afraid-of-using-lots-o
> > f-item.html
> >
> > Thanks Joann!
> >
> > And this:
> >
> http://koha.org/documentation/manual/3.0/cataloging/item-fields-data-migra
> > tion
> >
> > These answered some of my questions - summarizing for future googlers
> > (list members please correct me if this is wrong)
> >
> > ----------------------
> > Administrator can set an option to allow using either Collection or
> > Item type for the OPAC's Advanced search, but not both (enhancement
> > request! 8-)
> >
> > Item type does determine circulation rules in effect for an item, but
> > its usage doesn't need to be limited to this function - can have 50
> > item types covered by four rules.
> >
> > Shelving location is not available for advanced search.
> >
> > ----------------------
> > The question remains on whether the Collection and/or Shelving
> > location can be assigned to items completely independently of Home
> > branch - I realize the latter especially is "supposed to be"
> > subsidiary to Branch, but since I don't need to use it for that
> > function, and it displays in the OPAC, can I use it for something like
> > Age appropriateness across locations?
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 6:30 PM,  <hansbkk at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I'm currently using Koha to catalog a collection of mostly non-book
> > resources
> >> at my school, many of which are stored on physical DVDs and/or online
> > available
> >> for download.
> >>
> >> I'm thinking of re-purposing some of Koha's major data fields where
> > their usual
> >> meaning isn't all that relevant to this project. For example, I plan to
> > create
> >> my call numbers so they are sufficient to identify the physical location
> > within
> >> a given branch.  This will free up "Collection" and "Shelf Location" for
> > other,
> >> more relevant classifications.
> >>
> >> Before I start mapping this out, I first want to get feedback that I'm
> > not way
> >> off-track thinking this way. First question:
> >>
> >> I believe that the original intention was a hierarchy for physical
> > location:
> >>  Home branch -->  Collection --> Shelving location --> Call number
> >>
> >> If I re-purpose these fields so that e.g. Collection is used for
> > distinguishing
> >> between "Disc-Data" vs "Disc-Video" vs "Disc-Mixed", is their any
> > remnant of the
> >> above original hierarchy that will cause trouble? Is Collection
> > completely
> >> independent of Branch in the database and UI design, or is there some
> >> enforcement of one Collection being "contained" within a Branch?
> >>
> >> Same question of course with Shelving location relative to both
> > Collection and
> >> Branch - say I used this field to map to "Age Appropriateness"
> > (Adult-only,
> >> Young adult, Juvenile, Early learners). Note that the Age factor is a
> > biblio
> >> level one, while many biblios will have both a Data and a Video disc - a
> > member
> >> may want to borrow only one or both.
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