[Koha] Editing a biblio record

[Paul]

Jared - thanks, that fixed it (but there was no authority found, therefore 
no hyperlink to remove.) I guess that we are on the "learning curve", and 
the solution to this glitch was not obvious to newcomers. Somehow I have a 
feeling that we'll have more questions ;=}

Best - Paul
"Tired old SysAdmin"

At 07:07 PM 11/26/2010 -0500, Jared Camins-Esakov wrote:
>Marty and Paul,
>
>That seems a bit extreme. Very, even. I would suggest a better option 
>would be to click the three dots next to your erroneous 700s, search for 
>an authority (any authority... unfortunately you have to do a search 
>before you can clear a link) and then click the "clear" hyperlink to 
>remove the authority link. This will allow you to continue using 
>authorities and remove the unwanted 700 fields. The reason you're unable 
>to edit the 700$a is that you have BiblioAddsAuthorities set to "don't 
>allow," but even if you set it to "allow," you'll still be unable to 
>remove the data from subfield 700$9. See the manual for a little more 
>information about this system preference:Â 
>http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual/?ch=c19#AEN207
>
>Regards,
>Jared
>
>2010/11/26 Marty <ontariowolf64 at yahoo.com>
>I suspect authority issues, (is the field grayed out?)
>You can edit all of your frameworks to "unlink" MARC fields to authority 
>types, or if have acces to the database, you could execute:
>
>UPDATE marc_subfield_structure SET authtypecode = NULL WHERE authtype IS 
>NOT NULL;
>
>A bit drastic but it will get rid of all links to authorities in the 
>frameworks.
>
>(With thanks to Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel)
>
>--- On Fri, 11/26/10, Paul <paul.a at aandc.org> wrote:
>>
>>From: Paul <paul.a at aandc.org>
>>Subject: [Koha] Editing a biblio record
>>To: "koha" <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
>>Received: Friday, November 26, 2010, 5:40 PM
>>
>>
>>We are "experimenting" in preparation for importing some 16,000 *book*
>>entries from Excel spreadsheets into Koha (Koha 3.00.06 on Ubuntu Server
>>10.10) using MarcEdit.
>>
>>I have run into a snag editing a MARC biblio record using
>><http://koha-admin/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/addbiblio.pl?biblionumber=xxx>.
>>We unfortunately got the "Title" of the Author (Sir Max Aitken) (100$c)
>>into 700$a as a co-author.
>>
>>I can add|correct 100$c without difficulty, but cannot in any way delete or
>>modify 700$a - I can highlight it with the mouse, but the keyboard is
>>totally unresponsive.
>>
>>Any suggestions warmly welcomed - thanks.
>>Paul
>>--
>Jared Camins-Esakov
>Freelance bibliographer, C & P Bibliography Services, LLC
>(phone) +1 (917) 727-3445
>(e-mail) jcamins at cpbibliography.com
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