[Koha] Help needed finding info in non-indexed fields

[Tomas Cohen Arazi]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Elaine Bradtke <eb at efdss.org> wrote:
> If I had understood at the outset that 561 was not searchable by mere
> mortals, I wouldn't have put important information in there.  Live and
> learn.
> Now I'm trying to extract it, and put it somewhere else, specifically,
> in the item record, subfield 8.
> Before I do that, I need to know how to find the biblios with
> information in the 561 fields, and if possible, search by specific
> information in this field, so I can split them up into 'collections'
>
> Any help, in as plain, ordinary language as possible, would be most welcome.
>  Unfortunately my IT guru is up to his eyeballs in his day job, and I
> need to fix this problem before it gets any bigger.
> Thanks!

In '/etc/koha/zebradb/marc_defs/marc21/biblios/record.abs' add something like
melm 561$a      Ownership-Custodial-History

and to '/etc/koha/zebradb/biblios/etc/bib1.att', something like:

att 8040 Ownership-Custodial-History

Then rebuild your indexes.
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