[Koha] Importing books creates multiple items

[John Palmer]

I'm having a similar problem. I have 10 attributes per excel tuple. Two
attributes (the 100 and 245 fields) map correctly in the underlying MARC21
data, but each of the 952 field are imported as separate tuples instead of
all into the first tuple. Correspondingly, I get eight individual items
created, each only one of the 952 attributes.

I found that during mapping the excel data into the appropriate 952 fields,
MarcEdit 5.9 creates a separate 952 entry for each individual attribute.
These separate 952 items are apparently is imported as separate books
rather than a single book.

I speculate that creating a single 952 cell and populating the data with
the appropriate MARC data delimiters ($a, $b ...) would solve this problem,
but that seems suboptimal on a large scale import.


On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 8:13 AM, magmatic <magmatic at timkoop.com> wrote:

> I'm importing a csv file of books into Koha, using MarcEdit.  The fields
> are:
> author, title, publisher, year, item type, barcode, and shelf location.
>
> It looks like I'm getting two items for every line in the file.  One item
> contains the correct barcode, and the other item contains the correct shelf
> location.
>
> Anyone have any ideas where I'm going wrong?
>
> And this might be a related question: what is the difference between an
> authority record and a bib record?
>
> Thanks
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