[Koha] Authority controlled fields for publisher

[Katrin Fischer]

Hi Peter,

apart from Heather's excellent cataloguing advice - maybe this little
plugin could be an option:

*Bug 15933*
<https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15933> - Add
cataloguing plugin to search for existing publishers in other records

It's not using authorities, but it might help to get a bit more control
of the input on this field.

Hope this helps,

Katrin

On 10.12.20 00:16, Peter Korsten wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The topic has been asked before, but not exactly in the specific
> circumstances that I'm facing.
>
> My company (essentially, yours truly) is installing Koha for a customer,
> and migrating data. They insist on having fields 260$a and 260$b to be
> authority controlled. I solved that by modifying the BKS framework, setting
> 260$a to be a GEOGR_NAME and 260$b a CORPO_NAME. So far, so good.
>
> The trouble starts when you try the little icon to look up an authority
> record. If I click on that icon for 260$b (name of the publisher) and
> choose an existing one, the value instead ends up in 260$a.
>
> Now I don't think that this is a bug in Koha, but I do think that I'm not
> understanding this facility entirely, and the documentation doesn't seem to
> address this issue either. I'm aware that field 260 is supposed to contain
> transcribed data, and we've pointed this out to the customer, but this is
> what they want.
>
> Could somebody please enlighten me, whether I've taken the correct approach?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Peter
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