[Koha] Trying to use a template in Batch record modification

Alvaro Cornejo cornejo.alvaro at gmail.com
Tue Mar 19 07:22:40 NZDT 2019


Hi Michael

Another way would be to access mysql directly and do the replacement there.

You can build a report for records that are missing the "ger" and with that
build a replace query to add the "ger" in the location you need.

Regards,

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Le lun. 18 mars 2019 à 11:26, Michael Kuhn <mik at adminkuhn.ch> a écrit :

> Hi Alvaro
>
> You wrote:
>
>  > Have you tried manual edit of the field and see how it shows
>  > before/after the modification in opac/staff and mark view?
>
> Editing the record field manually is no problem (here from "ger" to
> "fre" in MARC 008,35-37). Before it looks like
>
> 800422s1978 sz a 1 ger
>
> And after the action like this:
>
> 800422s1978 sz a 1 fre
>
> MARC 008 definitely MUST have 40 characters (position 0-39) but as seen
> in the above example here only 23 characters are shown since the
> webbrowser collapses several blanks down to one blank, according to some
> weird HTML rule. So this is wrong in all the MARC views, OPAC or staff
> client, I think not only in the current but in all previous versions,
> thus kind of a bug.
>
> For this problem see https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp
> where they write:
>
> "If you write 10 spaces in your text, the browser will remove 9 of them.
> To add real spaces to your text, you can use the   character entity."
>
> But Koha doesn't add any   so the correct number of characters is
> destroyed in the webbroweser.
>
>  > Also in your regex, "ger" is case sensitive. Might you have "Ger"?
>  > Have you tried a case insensitive for regex "ger"?
>
> No, I always have "ger" since it is the correct MARC language code for
> German.
>
>  > How about changing a record with already with ger to any other
>  > language?
>
> I don't know exactly what you mean. Editing the record manually from
> "ger" to any other MARC language code is no problem. Using the MARC
> modification templates to change MARC 008,35-37 seems not possible since
> this feature seems only to be able to handle data fields but not the
> special structure of controlfields (or, however, I didn't find out how
> to achieve this - but anyway it is not what I want to do).
>
>
> In my case I just defined the following template action which I was able
> to save, but when applying it to an appropriate record, nothing happens
> and no new MARC 041$ager is added. Why does this not work?
>
> Add new field 041$a with value ger if 008 matches RegEx
> m/^...................................ger..$/
>
> Is there maybe another way to add MARC 041$ager to every record that has
> "ger" in MARC 008,35-37?
>
> Best wishes: Michael
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>
>
> > Le dim. 17 mars 2019 à 09:21, Michael Kuhn <mik at adminkuhn.ch
> > <mailto:mik at adminkuhn.ch>> a écrit :
> >
> >     Hi Jonathan
> >
> >     You wrote:
> >
> >       > For kidding I wanted to answer you that dots were missing.
> >       > But actually:
> >       > % echo '...................................'|wc -m # number of
> dots
> >     before ger
> >       > 36
> >       > % echo '190315b ||||| |||| 00| 0 '|wc -m # all chars before ger
> >       > 26
> >
> >     In fact the MARC view in the staff client and the OPAC do not show
> the
> >     correct content (as foudn in the database) of any field, if mor than
> >     one
> >     blnak does appear fllowing each other - instead the they will be
> >     automatically collapsed down by the webbrowser to just one. Even the
> >     MARC plain view in the OPAC behaves in this wrong way; and only (but
> >     most importantly) the actual catalogueing framework behaves
> correctly.
> >
> >     So the OPAC view etc will show something like the following, which
> >     according to the MARC 21 format can never be correct because MARC 008
> >     MUST contain 40 characters, but the OPAC view does only show 31 in
> this
> >     case:
> >
> >     190315b ||||| |||| 00| 0 ger d
> >
> >     However, of course I hope the Batch record modification will work on
> >     the
> >     actual data in the database which of course actually does contain
> >     exactly 40 characters: (I kept the tags to show where the data
> actually
> >     begins and ends, since blanks are hardly visible)
> >
> >     <controlfield tag="008">800422s1978    sz        a     1   ger
> >     </controlfield>
> >
> >       > Maybe there are too many?
> >
> >     No, I have counted them before, my regular expression looks like
> >
> >     m/^...................................ger..$/
> >
> >     According to the MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data controlfield
> 008
> >     contains 40 positions. In my regular expression
> >
> >     * positions 0-34 can contain any character (thus 35 dots)
> >
> >     * positions 35-37 must contain "ger" (thus the three characters
> "ger")
> >
> >     * positions 38-39 can contain any character (thus 2 dots).
> >
> >     All in all my expressions does contain 40 positions. So I guess it
> >     should work, but it doesn't. Is this maybe a bug?
> >
> >     Best wishes: Michael
> >     --
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> >
> >
> >
> >      > Le ven. 15 mars 2019 à 15:42, Michael Kuhn <mik at adminkuhn.ch
> >     <mailto:mik at adminkuhn.ch>> a écrit :
> >      >>
> >      >> Hi
> >      >>
> >      >> Currently some Koha newbies have forgotten to add the value
> "ger" in
> >      >> MARC 041$a when catalogueing, but they did add the correct value
> >     "ger"
> >      >> in MARC 008,35-37. However, this results in some missing entries
> >     in the
> >      >> language facet. The plain MARC view in the OPAC of such a record
> may
> >      >> look like this:
> >      >>
> >      >>    000 00216nam a22001097a 4500
> >      >>    999 _c470
> >      >>        _d470
> >      >>    003 OSt
> >      >>    005 20190315191317.0
> >      >>    008 190315b ||||| |||| 00| 0 ger d
> >      >>    040 _cOSt
> >      >>    245 _aTest
> >      >>    942 _2z
> >      >>        _cBK
> >      >>
> >      >> In fact it is missing
> >      >>
> >      >>    041 _ager
> >      >>
> >      >> Thus I tried using the MARC modification templates in Koha menu
> >     "Tools >
> >      >> Batch record modification", adding a template with the following
> >     action
> >      >> (as copied from the interface):
> >      >>
> >      >> Add new field 041$a with value ger if 008 matches RegEx
> >      >> m/^...................................ger..$/
> >      >>
> >      >> When I run this action over the given record, Koha tells me that
> the
> >      >> bibliographic record has successfully been modified - but in fact
> >      >> nothing has changed.
> >      >>
> >      >> Besides it is not possible to unload that record using "Data
> >     export",
> >      >> but it is there an can be searched via staff client and OPAC.
> >      >>
> >      >> What is wrong with my evil doing? Is it something with my regular
> >      >> expression?
> >      >>
> >      >> Best wishes: Michael
> >      >> --
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