[Koha] Importing MARC from the Command Line

[Fischer, Katrin]

Hi Nicole,

 

overlay is activated by default, you can deactivate it using one of the command line options. The documentation is a bit hidden at the bottom of the file:

 

http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=koha.git;a=blob;f=misc/stage_file.pl;h=4ce16b59e15d2ad493c527004280bb769d0c4ab0;hb=b46f0238f230b0d88d1e04cb4cec2aa825dd949d

--no-replace     

overlay action for record: default is to replace extant with the imported record.

 

Maybe do a quick test with a few records to check if it works as expected.

 

Katrin



 

From: Nicole Engard [mailto:nengard at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 3:12 PM
To: Fischer, Katrin
Cc: Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel; Koha
Subject: Re: [Koha] Importing MARC from the Command Line

 

 

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:12 AM, Fischer, Katrin <Katrin.Fischer at bsz-bw.de> wrote:


stage_file.pl let's you specify the matching rule you want to use:

--match <match_id>
use this option to match records
in the file with records already in
the database for future overlay.
If <match_id> isn't defined, a default
MARC21 ISBN & title match rule will be applied
for bib imports

 

Katrin,

That part I understood from the documentation, but what happens when a match is found? I want the record I'm importing to overlay the one on the system.  But the documentation implies that the matching one I'm importing will be ignored.

Nicole