[Koha] Simple manual cataloguing

[Fred King]

I came up with a couple of other ways, which may work in this situation: I'm 
working on a project for which I need only a few fields, and although I 
don't expect to need the others, I don't want to delete them. I went into 
the field setup page and changed the "managed in tab" setting to "ignore." 
Then since I only need one page to display most of the fields I'm using, I 
changed the ones I do need to tab 0, as suggested below. 

Before I started changing the tab to ignore, I tried going down to "display 
more constraints" and changing the value of "hidden" from 0 (or whatever 
else the default value was) to -6. This had the same effect on the add 
record screen, but the other way involved fewer keystrokes. 

Two questions: First, the documentation I've found seems to indicate that 
the data are not displayed. If you import a record and the field is hidden, 
will the field still be filled should the user want to use it later? Second, 
assuming that changing to "ignore" or to "-6" works, is one of the two 
methods preferable? (And if it's in the documentation, could someone point 
me to the right page?) :-) 

Cheers, 

Fred King
phred at philobiblios.net 

Nicole Engard writes: 

> Owen, 
> 
> That is a great idea that I never even thought of!!!! 
> 
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> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Owen Leonard <oleonard at myacpl.org> wrote:
>>> only way to do what I want is to produce a radically pruned framework,
>>> deleting all but the basic fields that I need.  However I then came across
>>> the guidance that it is not advisable to delete fields so I don't quite see
>>> how to come up with the final list of fields that I need.  I don't think I
>>> can expect my volunteers to wade through 9 tabs worth of fields.
>>
>> I'm not a cataloger, but I wonder if a solution would be to put the
>> 10-12 most important fields on the first tab and the "less important"
>> ones on other tabs. Then your volunteers could only concern themselves
>> with the first tab, but other fields could still be populated by
>> z39.50. 
>>
>>  -- Owen 
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