[Koha] 505 Enhanced Contents Note

Mason James mtj at kohaaloha.com
Wed Nov 14 11:34:53 NZDT 2012


On 2012-11-14, at 11:32 AM, Jared Camins-Esakov wrote:

> Charles,
> 
> My library recently made the switch to Koha, and I am thus still getting
>> used to it. One major trouble I am having is with the 505 field if I want
>> to include an enhanced (as opposed to simply formatted) contents note to
>> allow patrons to access chapters of edited volumes by title/author searches
>> rather than just keywords. I am used to formatting them as a chain of $t
>> /$r within a single field, but since Koha has separate form fields for each
>> subfield, I feel a little out to sea on this one. Every variation I try
>> makes the display unusable and doesn't visually connect the $t subfield to
>> the appropriate $r subfield in the OPAC. Do I need to repeat the entire 505
>> tag for each individual entry? I saw in the list archive that there is a
>> bug-fix related to the 505 field, will this fix the problem, or is there
>> some aspect of formatting that I am missing? Any help would be very
>> appreciated.
>> 
> 
> Welcome. The fix for bug 6617 (
> http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6617 ) should do
> what you need.
> 
> Regards,
> Jared
> 

oops, ignore what i just said! :)


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