[Koha] linking authorities to biblios

Jared Camins-Esakov jcamins at cpbibliography.com
Wed Nov 28 01:52:21 NZDT 2012


Haik,


> We are using the latest koha 3.8. After the successful installation we
> have imported both our catalog and authority records from the old ILS.
> Initially, authorities were not linked to the biblio records, but when we
> run link_bibs_to_authorities.pl, this problem was solved. So, in the
> *Used in* field it was written that the authority is used in 1 record.
> However, even after this when we try to search for a record using the
> *authority 400 $a* field instead of the author name, nothing is found.
>
> It is worth to mention that although both authority and biblio records are
> in Armenian, they are properly indexed.
>
> How can we handle this problem? Any ideas?
>

In Koha 3.8 there is no support for what you want to do. However, starting
in 3.10 that feature *is* available by turning on the syspref
"IncludeSeeFromInSearches."

Regards,
Jared

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Jared Camins-Esakov
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