[Koha] Searching Authority Records by Authority Record Number

[Bob Birchall]

Works for me (in 18.11). I'm confident the ability to edit authorities was
in Koha way before 3.20.
When you say 'it didn't work', what happened?
Bob


On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 at 11:20, Charles Kelley <cmkelleymls at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, all!
>
>     In a recent exchange, on 20 Nov 2019, at 11:05, Bob Birchall wrote:
>
> Search for authorities on any term. For any authority in the results list,
> > choose action 'edit'. On the editor page, in the URL, change the
> authority
> > number (authid) to that of the record you wish to edit.
>
>
>     In a later exchange, on 20 Nov 2019, at 14:06, Heather Hernandez wrote:
>
> We're on 18.11, but if I just put an aut record number into the search box
> > with "Default," "contains" selected, my Koha returns just the aut record
> > with that aut record number. (It does the same thing if I use the LCCN
> from
> > the 010 field.)  Interestingly enough, it works also in the Authority
> > Search in the OPAC.
>
>
>     I'm afraid that neither technique worked. We use 3.20 from Josh
> Hertel's test (and training) package. We are building a proof-of-concept
> machine and this is what we could get up and running, at least well enough
> to make MARC records. We're now building a more recent version of Koha,
> either 18.11 or 19.05, on a Debian or Ubuntu server.
>
>     Nonetheless, we are encountering the limitations of such an old version
> and I'm trying to clean up records before copying to the new machine. In
> any event, it looks like this is one of the limitations, and we'll have to
> clean up the authority records after the migration.
>
>     I had hoped there was something analogous to searching sn:5946 for
> bibliographic records by biblionumber. If anyone knows a way of specifying
> the record number in authority record searches, we would greatly
> appreciated it.
>
>     Thanks for everyone's help.
>
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