[Koha] MARC Modification Templates & indicators

[Jonathan Druart]

Hi Eric,

I confirm that MARC modification templates do not deal with indicators so far.

Regards,
Jonathan

2016-08-30 1:19 GMT+01:00 Eric Phetteplace <ephetteplace at cca.edu>:
> Hi collective wisdom,
>
> We're trying to fix up an issue with our records by copying information
> from the 810 MARC field (series added entry) to 490 (series statement)
> using MARC Modification Templates. Our template currently is just one
> action that looks like this:
>
> Copy All field(s) 810 __ to field 490 __
>
> with no "if" condition or regex specified. The blank underlines represent
> the fact that we're copying all the subfields from one tag to the other
> without modification. But the problem is our cataloger wants to follow
> standards and make the 490 indicators "1_", that is: first indicator 1 for
> "series traced", second blank. Our 800 tags have first indicator set to "2"
> and there doesn't appear to be any way to change them via the templates.
>
> Am I missing something or do the MARC modification templates simply not
> interact with indicators? I know I can export the records and edit them
> with an external tool like MARCedit or a pymarc script but I wanted to try
> accomplishing this purely in Koha.
>
> Best,
> Eric Phetteplace
> Systems Librarian
> California College of the Arts
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