[Koha] Koha Export ISBN

Paul A paul.a at navalmarinearchive.com
Tue Apr 19 11:52:18 NZST 2016


At 05:16 PM 4/18/2016 -0400, Eric Bégin wrote:
>Daniel,
>
>Tomas's suggestion is good, but I would like to propose to switch its 
>SELECT for using ExtractValue(marcxml, 
>'//datafield[@tag="020"]/subfield[@code="a"]')
>
>The reason is that the isbn column in the database contains concatenated 
>ISBNs and the field length is limited, so the list of ISBNs could be truncated.

A good suggestion, but to be a tad pedantic, SchemaSpy has biblioitems.isbn 
as mediumtext, 16777215, [checkmark], null, ISBN (MARC21 020$a); I'm not 
sure how many you'd have to concatenate to truncate one and two thirds Mb ;=)

Best -- Paul



>The SELECT assume that you are using MARC21.
>
>In addition, you could also get invalid ISBN using the subfield z
>
>The final query would be :
>
>SELECT ExtractValue(marcxml, 
>'//datafield[@tag="020"]/subfield[@code="a"]') as ISBN FROM biblioitems 
>where ISBN <>""
>
>Note that some lines may content more than 1 ISBN.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Eric Bégin
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>
>
>
>On 2016-04-18 15:57, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote:
>>You should create a guided report for this. Do it at Reports > Create from
>>SQL, and paste this into the SQL field:
>>
>>SELECT title, author, isbn
>>
>>FROM biblio
>>
>>LEFT JOIN biblioitems
>>
>>ON (biblio.biblionumber=biblioitems.biblionumber)
>>
>>
>>Choose an apropriate name for the report.
>>
>>
>>
>>2016-04-18 16:39 GMT-03:00 Daniel Glendening <danieljglendening at gmail.com>:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>Running into something that seems like it should be simple,
>>>but I'm running in circles trying to figure it out -- is there
>>>a simple (or not simple) way to export a document
>>>containing titles, authors, and isbn numbers?
>>>
>>>In truth, all I really need are the isbns -- stocktaking and
>>>inventory exports don't seem to include isbn numbers
>>>as a field. I could make a "List" and export that as csv, but
>>>   I want ALL the isbns in my library, in which case it seems
>>>like i'd have to add all titlesmanually to a list.
>>>
>>>So, in short, my goal is: a document, preferably CSV,
>>>containing all isbns in my koha library of approx 3000 items.
>>>
>>>Any tips?
>>>
>>>Many thanks,
>>>Daniel
>>>
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