[Koha] Question about Koha Item types.

[Jesse Lambertson]

Thank you Katrin.

Your suggestion with the 942 does clear up what I was beginning to suspect.

And yes, definitely, these informational pieces between the 942 and the 952
must be IDENTICAL.
Experience has taught me this for sure.

Thank you much.

Jesse



On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 6:00 AM, Katrin Fischer <Katrin.Fischer.83 at web.de>
wrote:

> Hi Jesse,
>
> I don't quite understand what you are trying to do, but maybe I can
> still help out with some general information about the item types in
> 942$c and 952$y.
>
> The pull downs for both are populated from the list of item types
> configured in your Koha installation, independent from the values that
> might appear in your data. So in order for this to work correctly, your
> configured item type codes should match exactly the information in your
> imported records. Be careful: the spelling needs to be exactly the same
> (case-sensitive). It's also a good habit to have your item type codes be
> only alphanumerical, without spaces, underscores, hyphens or similar, as
> that might affect searching later.
>
> The item type codes from both fields are indexed together into the same
> index. I'd run a few tests with one or two manually added records -
> checking the advanced search and also the item type facet.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Katrin
>
> Am 17.09.2015 um 16:52 schrieb Jesse Lambertson:
> > Hello everyone.
> >
> > I am doing a bunch of record editing right now and I have a question
> about
> > the Koha item-types as defined in 942 Vs. 952.
> >
> > I know we can edit items and define holdings according to defined item
> > types in what is the 952 via the edit function.
> >
> > But if I have a bunch of records that were imported with $ y already
> coded
> > in 952 as a BOOK, for instance, or a VISUAL MATERIAL, it seems those are
> > NOT being listed and able to be added to search restrictions at the
> outset
> > (because I had not defined item-types before I started importing). But
> all
> > the ones I imported AFTER I defined item-types are (I think).
> >
> > My question is, if I edit the 942 in the cataloging module by choosing to
> > attach an item-type to records, will those then become part of an
> item-type
> > search capability? Or do I then need to ALSO edit the attached 952
> holding
> > fields too?
> >
> > In my mind, this seems redundant, but I do want to know.
> >
> > Curious.
> > No rush, but I want to make sure I am layering as much usability and
> nuance
> > into our catalogue as I am able.
> >
> > Thank you much.
> >
> > Jesse
> >
>
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