[Koha] Record matching for biblios without ISBN or ISSN

[Elaine Bradtke]

I followed the example here (control number is what I want it to match
on) http://manual.koha-community.org/3.2/en/catadmin.html#recordmatchingrules
But now I don't get any matches at all.
Our control numbers are a combination of letters and numbers with
punctuation (sometimes dashes, sometimes full stops).  There is no
explanation of what offset, length and normalization mean so I am just
blindly imitating what's there rather than making an informed choice.
Does our punctuation require different settings?
Elaine

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Ian Bays <ian.bays at ptfs-europe.com> wrote:
> Hi Elaine,
>
> Yes as long as your unique number is in the 001 you can set up a new match
> rule referring to "Control-number" and match on that.  I use that quite a
> lot.  I think I posted about it about a year ago.
> The Community documentation should be enough to get you going but do come
> back if you need more detail.
>
> Cheers.
> Ian
>
> On 31/10/2011 17:06, Elaine Bradtke wrote:
>>
>> Ours is a rather quirky collection, I know.  But an awful lot of it
>> doesn't have an ISBN or ISSN (1364 biblios in a collection of 1664
>> fall into this category). I am working on a project to batch change
>> all the biblios in a particular collection. Selecting them,
>> downloading them, and editing the MARC records was easy.  Now I would
>> like to upload them and overwrite the old records.  This only seems
>> possible for the 300 biblios with an ISBN.
>> We have unique internal control numbers (001).  Is there any way I can
>> match the records with this field instead?
>> If not, what are my other options?
>
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