[Koha] koha authority plugin adding choose aside from related headings

[schnydszch]

In current iteration of Koha ILS, when authority plug-in is switch on in
Cataloging and catalogers can only choose from controlled
vocabularies/authorities/lists, the cataloger has to go through adding
authorities/subjects through this plug-in. The cataloger is shown the
authority plug-in search interface. When a user search for a particular term
through the authority plug-in search interface, he/she is presented with the
Topical term and all other related headings (Broader and Narrower heading
and used/for see from) with clickable links for the Broader and narrower
headings if only these headings were properly linked in the authorites. A
user has the option to choose the topical term or heading searched and can
also scroll down further for related headings (those in 15x) (see
screenshots) but can not choose outright the broader or narrower headings
referred to by the Main heading (55x) (see screenshot 1). 

authorities_choose.png
<http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/file/n5854045/authorities_choose.png>  
<http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/file/n5854045/authorities_plugin2.png> 

If the topical term (Main heading) is chosen or click by clicking the
'choose' link, the term is added in the cataloging (Add biblio) module.
While in order for the user to add the other narrower and broader headings,
the user must search again for the previous search query in the authority
plug-in and have to go to through the process of scrolling further for these
terms and choosing them again in the authority plug-in. This task of adding
authorities is tedious for the catalogers. I feel that this is not yet
doable in Koha default installation, but I'm posting here to confirm if this
really is the case. The ideal case here is to put a clickable 'choose'
beside the linked terms (55x $wg or $wh) and when these clickables are
clicked, these terms are put in a temporary table. A clickable 'Move to
Record' then will add these terms in the Cataloging - Add Biblio module. I
don't if this even doable in jquery, or if not it should be an enhancement
to Koha ILS.


go through the process of searching it again in the authority plug



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