[Koha] Authority Type Help in Koha

Laurence Lefaucheur laurence.lefaucheur at biblibre.com
Tue Dec 15 21:06:09 NZDT 2009


Hi,

Nicole Engard a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> The Help file in Koha for Authority Types says the following:
> 
> ***Authority types
> 
> You can define as many Authority types as you want.
> 
>     * with the MARC structure button, you can define the MARC
> structure of a given authority type
>     * The tag reported must contain a MARC tag number. Every subfield
> in the selected tag will be copied to the "destination tag" in the
> biblio. for example, in UNIMARC, the tag 200 ot personal authority
> will be reported to 600, 700, 701, depending on what is cliqued in the
> biblio MARC editor.
>     * The summary contains an "ISBD" like description to explain how
> the entry must be shown in the result list. The syntax is :
>           o [xxxFFFSyyy] where are up to 3 digits BEFORE the field,
> FFF the field number, S the subfield code, yyy up to 3 digits AFTER
> the field.
>           o things outside [] are kept as is (including HTML)
>           o repeatable fields are managed.
> 
>             IMPORTANT
> 
>             In the biblio framework, the reported tag MUST contain a
> $9 subfield, activated in the tab where the tag is, and hidden (hidden
> maybe omitted, but the field has no reason to appear anywhere). The $9
> subfield in the biblio will contain the Authority number (the internal
> Koha number)***
> 
> 
> My question is - what the heck is this talking about :) hehe - I don't
> see anywhere where a summary is listed.  I'm wondering if this is for
> an older version of Koha and I just never removed it from the Help.

summary can be seen (and modified) in the authority types list and looks 
like :
[215a][ -- 215y][ -- 215x][ -- 215z]

It is the way the authority is displayed in authority list when 
searching in Authorities.

---
Laurence Lefaucheur



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