[Koha] Importing records preserving the system number

[Linda Culberson]

  We have found that using the Control-number:##### to be extremely slow 
and undependable. In our case, at least, this is definitely not a 
workable "solution" and is barely a solution at all.

On 1:59 PM, Ian Bays wrote:
> Hi Stefano,
> We have thought about this for some of our customer requirements but 
> have (quickly) concluded that using the biblionumber (and 
> biblioitemnumber) in koha is not the way to achieve this linking.
>
> If you have a number that has significance to you and your data then 
> put that into the 001 control number field (Marc21).  You can link to 
> that from 77x just as easily as with biblionumber.
>
> If you try to use biblionumber for these links and you reload your 
> data then all the numbers will be wrong.
>
> The search for contents of the 001 field (say 12345) would be:
>
> Control-number:12345
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Ian
> On 26/01/2011 10:11, Stefano Bargioni wrote:
>> This is an autoreply :-)
>> I wonder why nobody have had this problem before. How can be 
>> preserved internal links -contained in fields like 77x- without 
>> preserving the system number?
>> I'll try to solve it hacking the code (C4::Biblio), but in my opinion 
>> Koha needs a way to do this, an option in bulkmarcimport for instance.
>> Bye. Stefano
>>
>> On Jan 20, 2011, at 11:27 , Stefano Bargioni wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to migrate about 140,000 records. Each of them has 001 
>>> with the original value. I copied it into 999c and 999d.
>>> Importing in Koha, 999c and 999d are replaced by a new 
>>> (autoincremented) bibliotemnumber.
>>> How can I force Koha to assign bibliotemnumbers using 001 or 999c/d?
>>> Thank you. SB
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Linda Culberson			lculber at mdah.state.ms.us
Archives and Records Services Division
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