[Koha] Record matching for biblios without ISBN or ISSN

[Ian Bays]

Hi.
The Control-number search term is set up in zebra as word or phrase.  
You can check what is found from the simple-search box by typing:

Control-number="123456"
and searching for that.
However if you use hyphens then that is treated as white space so if you 
have records with:
123-456
and one with
123-678
and one with
123
in the 001 tag then searching for 123 will find them all.
This might explain why they do not find a unique match.

It might be possible to change the zebra configuration or add an index 
to be more literal but that takes it to another level.
I hope that explains a bit.

Cheers.

On 31/10/2011 18:01, Elaine Bradtke wrote:
> 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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Ian Bays
Director of Projects
PTFS Europe
mobile: +44 (0) 7774995297
phone: +44 (0) 800 756 6803
skype: ian.bays
email: ian.bays at ptfs-europe.com