[Koha] New Koha install - legacy import question

[Katrin Fischer]

Hi,

you can't map one MARC field to another, so I am not sure what you are
trying to do. But I think this would be a new question, so better to
start a new thread :)

Katrin


On 24.07.21 17:35, Himanshu Aggarwal wrote:
> But can we map 852$j to 952$j?
>
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 9:01 PM Katrin Fischer
> <katrin.fischer.83 at web.de <mailto:katrin.fischer.83 at web.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Jon,
>
>     just confirming you are on the right path there. While changing
>     the item
>     mappings in Koha is possible, I'd always recommend against it. For
>     example you'd also have to change the indexing for Zebra/Elasticsearch
>     to match your new fields. Converting your data to 952 is the
>     better option.
>
>     Hope this helps,
>
>     Katrin
>
>     On 16.07.21 15:57, Jon Witts wrote:
>     > OK, so answering myself...
>     >
>     > I think I have got it to work now as best as I can... I imported
>     the MARC
>     > export from our legacy system into MARCEdit, had to then verify
>     it and
>     > remove invalid records. I could then use MARCEdit's switch
>     fields tool and
>     > replace subfields tools to create the required 952 items in the
>     MARC file
>     > ready for import into Koha...
>     >
>     > Looking pretty good at the minute; need to do some further
>     checks on the
>     > data, but it is certainly getting closer!
>     >
>     > Jon
>     > -----------------------------------------------------
>     >
>     > Jon Witts
>     > Director of Digital Strategy
>     > -----------------------------------------------------
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 at 09:06, Jon Witts
>     <jwitts at queenmargarets.com <mailto:jwitts at queenmargarets.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     >> Hi there,
>     >>
>     >> I am a new Koha user and have just set up and installed a new Koha
>     >> instance for our school library. We are running on a single
>     Ubuntu server
>     >> and I followed the Ubuntu/ Debian install documentation and
>     installed from
>     >> the packages.
>     >>
>     >> I am now trying to import our catalogue from our legacy system
>     (Softlink
>     >> Alice) and have run into some issues...
>     >>
>     >> In the MARC export from our legacy system the details for each
>     item are
>     >> stored in the 852 fields, specifically:
>     >> * 852,k = Item Library name / location
>     >> * 852,h = Item classification i.e. F for fiction or 242 for
>     non-fiction
>     >> Dewey code
>     >> * 852,i = Item suffix i.e. CAR for author Frank Carr
>     >> * 852,p = item barcode
>     >> * 852,t = item copy number
>     >>
>     >> I thought that I could use the "Koha to MARC Mapping" to edit
>     this, but
>     >> after adding the new mappings in I get an error in the "MARC
>     >> bibliographic framework test", specifically:
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> *ALL items fields MUST :be mapped to the same tag,and they must
>     all be in
>     >> the 10 (items) tab*
>     >>
>     >> On the "Koha to MARC Mapping" page it states "If you make any
>     change to
>     >> the mappings, you must ask your administrator to run
>     >> misc/batchRebuildBiblioTables.pl.", however when I run
>     >> the /usr/share/koha/bin/batchRebuildBiblioTables.pl script I
>     get the
>     >> following errors:
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> *unable to locate Koha configuration file koha-conf.xml at
>     >> /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Context.pm line 188.Use of uninitialized
>     value in
>     >> concatenation (.) or string at
>     /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Templates.pm line
>     >> 154.Use of uninitialized value $db_name in concatenation (.) or
>     string at
>     >> /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Database.pm line 91.Use of
>     uninitialized value
>     >> $db_host in concatenation (.) or string at
>     >> /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Database.pm line 91.Use of
>     uninitialized value
>     >> $db_name in concatenation (.) or string at
>     >> /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Database.pm line 91.Use of
>     uninitialized value
>     >> $db_host in concatenation (.) or string at
>     >> /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Database.pm line 91.Use of
>     uninitialized value in
>     >> concatenation (.) or string at
>     /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Auth_with_cas.pm <http://with_cas.pm> line
>     >> 42.Use of uninitialized value $db_name in concatenation (.) or
>     string at
>     >> /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Database.pm line 91.Use of
>     uninitialized value
>     >> $db_host in concatenation (.) or string at
>     >> /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Database.pm line 91.Use of
>     uninitialized value
>     >> $INC[-1] in string eq at /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Plugins.pm
>     line 37.*
>     >>
>     >> Am I going about this the wrong way? How should I be mapping
>     these 852
>     >> fields into the 952 / items fields in Koha?
>     >>
>     >> Many thanks,
>     >> Jon
>     >>
>     >> -----------------------------------------------------
>     >>
>     >> Jon Witts
>     >> Director of Digital Strategy
>     >> -----------------------------------------------------
>     >>
>     >>
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