[Koha] Automated Way to Construct Field 2 from Field 1

[Charles Kelley]

Hello, Ann!

    In our latest exchange, on 3 June 2021 at 8:06 [JST], I received from
you:

 Beginning Koha user – so haven’t approached the administrators.
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    So are we. Only a little over two years.


> I knew you could do this with MarcEdit – we use this extensively for
> post-processing.  But just wanted to signal that you can do this in Koha as
> well.
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> Koha templates are used for batch editing when you **don’t** want to
> extract to MarcEdit and re-load.
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> We use them extensively for batch modification both on import and export
> (we’re a vendor, supply catalogue records to libraries).
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> I get the impression that they’re not widely used – since I’ve been
> struggling to find a mentor for the Koha flavour of reg-ex  - in fact,
> searching for online info was how I found your query ;-)
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    Thanks on both counts.

    When we first began using Koha, a lot of people steered us to MarcEdit
for cataloging, especially for editing records in batches or in bulk.
MarcEdit is great in that respect. I had seen Koha templates on the Tools
page, but I was too busy with other duties to do anything further.

    Thanks again.

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