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

[Elaine Bradtke]

Thank you for the hints, I think I'd better wait until my IT wizard
has a few minutes to look this over. Indexing the field may be the
best way to cope with this particular problem.
. . .so much to learn!
Elaine

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Tomas Cohen Arazi <tomascohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> To+
>



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